Sunday Roundup
This was a week of expansion and contraction. Equal rights were allowed to continue expanding in Arizona, where Governor Jan Brewer vetoed an anti-gay bill masquerading as a "religious freedom" bill,...
View ArticleThe NSA, Planned Parenthood and Your Right to Privacy
Not a week seems to go by without more revelations about how the NSA (or recently the UK's GCHQ) monitors our electronic communications. Who knew that all the time I waste watching old movie clips on...
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Venezuelan Barrio Organization Calls for Peace
With few exceptions, most international media coverage of the recent protests in Venezuela gives little sense of the response from the popular social movement actors who support the Maduro government...
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Putin's 'Holy Russia' Goes to War
What do you get when you combine ultra-nationalist religious and political conservatism along with homophobia and sexism? Some might say you get the Tea Party in the United States, but today that is...
View ArticleWall Street's Tea Party
Governor Jan Brewer's veto of a bill that would have allowed discrimination against gays on religious grounds is only the latest example of the tension between the corporate and fundamentalist right....
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Lowry/Katrina Clash Over Arizona and Army and Ask: Bidding or Shooting War...
By: Mark Green LISTEN HERE: The top editors at National Review and Nation debate the economics and morality of a) Arizona 1062, b) modern Pentagon budget and c) Kiev after Sochi. Looking 'into his...
View ArticleGoing for Term Four, Jerry Brown Gets It In Gear
"If you had asked me 40 years ago -- when I first ran for governor -- what I would be doing in 2014, I could never have guessed. Nor could anyone else. Yet, by the grace of God and habits of...
View ArticleUkraine: Putin, Pride and Ports
The de facto expropriation of Crimea by Russia raises serious questions about the perceived legitimacy of the new government in Kiev, ethnicity in Ukraine, Russian history, Russian pride, and Russia's...
View ArticleCostly Driving Time Warp at the U.S. Department of Transportation
Co-authored with Tony Dutzik, Senior Analyst with Frontier Group The U.S. Department of Transportation seems to be stuck in a bizarre time warp. For nine years in a row Americans have decreased their...
View ArticleHeard the One About Obama Denouncing a Breach of International Law?
International law is suddenly very popular in Washington. President Obama responded to Russian military intervention in the Crimea by accusing Russia of a "breach of international law." Secretary of...
View ArticleRights Only for the Right People
All those rights Americans cherish, those fundamental human and political freedoms protected by the U.S. Constitution, Republicans contend those aren’t really inalienable rights or anything solid or...
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What Happened to War and the Imperial Drive to Organize the Planet?
Missing in Action Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com There is, it seems, something new under the sun. Geopolitically speaking, when it comes to war and the imperial principle, we may be in uncharted...
View ArticleA City Unites to Demand Better from Its Largest Employer
Everyone - and I mean everyone - in Pittsburgh knows the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). The health system is the city's and the commonwealth's largest private employer, its hospitals...
View ArticleUkraine and the Dawn of Post-American Europe
Few should be surprised by Putin's behavior in Ukraine. After all, protecting Russian-speaking communities abroad is part of official Russian strategic doctrine. Defending vital military facilities...
View ArticleNetanyahu at the Whlte House
While not exactly friends, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama are no strangers either. They speak regularly; They know each other's positions on most issues; And...
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Knocking on a Thousand Doors to Become Established in the Establishment
Saatvik Ahluwalia is a 24 year-old Indian-American just a few years out of college. He happens to live in Lexington, Massachusetts, one of the oldest of WASP habitats, legendary for the battles that...
View ArticleThe Troubles in Ukraine and the World: Circa When?
"...are calling for deep personnel cuts to the Army, Navy, and Air Force in order to pay for new high-tech weaponry and missile defenses that are cornerstones of (the president's) plan to 'transform...
View ArticleStand Your Ground's Woman Problem: Laws Expanding Self-Defense Raise...
In 2012 editorial, father-and-son Florida politicians Don and Matt Gaetz called criticism of the state's controversial Stand Your Ground law "anti-woman." "Consider," they gravely intoned, "an elderly...
View ArticleThe Future of Democracy
A recent essay in The Economist examines what's gone wrong with democracy. The last quarter of the twentieth century was a heyday for democracy as new democracies were created in Africa and Asia, and...
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