-
English in the Trenches
The sergeant assured us we were able to monitor even the most littlest movements of the enemy with our hi-tech surveillance equipment day and night. “The most littlest?” hissed one of the younger soldiers, a perpetual graduate student of Literature in civilian life. “Did he say the ‘most littlest?’” “Yes, he did,” I said. “He […]
-
Veterans Force NY County Sheriff to Take Down Israeli Flag
The flag of Israel represents the greatest human rights disaster in modern history, yet has flown proudly at the Broome County Correctional Facility by order of Sheriff Akshar. His dedication to Trump’s unconstitutional actions has also made Broome County one of the leading penal camps for immigrants in New York State. For over 600 days the Israeli flag […]
-
Celebrating Nicaragua’s Gains and Feeling Anguish for Gaza
1999: Hurricane Mitch Aftermath The image is forever seared in my mind: Francisco was two years old, his thin legs and swollen feet were covered in sores. Straw blond hair stuck to his head as he listlessly nursed from his teenage mother’s breast. He weighed 13 ½ pounds. It was the summer of 1999, and […]
-
Reclaiming the Sacred in a World of Disparity
In every season of abundance—when music pours through nightclubs, when diamonds clink in champagne flutes, when the glitter of modern life dazzles like divine light—there exists a parallel world. A world not less real, but far less seen. As capitalist empires grow ever more intoxicating, the dispossessed groan beneath their glitter. We live in a […]
-
The Titan Submersible Investigation Report
A reckless enterprise bordering on criminal stupidity, the story of the Titan’s crushing demise as it descended to the ocean floor is one with many historical echoes. The Report of Investigation (ROI) by the US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation into the events of June 2023 that led to the deaths of five people […]
-
Eighty years after the U.S. Bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki Are We on the Verge of Another Nuclear War?
Eighty years ago, the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are now nine nuclear-armed nations, many in military confrontation with one another. It is quite remarkable that there has not been another nuclear war. How can this be explained? Some say the absence of another nuclear war proves […]
-
Economic Terror and the Turbochuggf*ck in Texas
I don’t know what word in the English language—I can’t find one—that applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life … so they can put a few more dollars into highly overstuffed pockets. The word ‘evil’ doesn’t begin to approach it. —Noam Chomsky Unlike other historical periods of […]
-
The Rabbi and the Robdozers – Heavy Machinery and Patriotic Demolition in the Service of Genocide
Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv is a well-respected holy man in Israel with some devoted followers. He is a dayan, a judge in the rabbinical courts of Tel Aviv, dispensing wisdom in matters of religion and Jewish law. He’s also a reservist in the Sayeret Givati brigade of the IDF and is currently serving in Gaza. There, […]
-
Adjusting the Temperature: Climate Change and International Law
Before the clenching constipation of reluctant and cloddish policy makers, climate change advocates have found courts surprisingly amenable to their concerns. Bodies of environmental law in national courts and international tribunals are now burgeoning on the obligations of states to address ecological harms and the effects of greenhouse gas emissions. As is often the case, […]
-
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What follows is a revised and updated version of an essay from my 2020 book, Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies. “The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint…But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and […]
English
Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish