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IssueVol. 087 Issue 002 (April 1 2023)
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Paid articleEditor's Note
EDITOR’S NOTE THE FOOLISH BUSINESS OF WAR Six months after the city of Izium, in northeastern Ukraine, was liberated from Russian invaders, life remains a living hell for those who survived....
Paid articleComment
Chomsky, Noam
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock has recently been set to ninety seconds to midnight, the closest it has come to termination. The analysts who set the clock cited the two most...
Paid articleFurther Comment
price, David
FURTHER COMMENT by DAVID PRICE AMERICA’S SURVEILLANCE STATE: EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, ALL AT ONCE T he rapid growth of surveillance in the United States brings new threats to our independence,...
Paid articleNo Comment
NO COMMENT Proud Boy A Republican member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission has bragged about the party’s success in reducing the vote in “overwhelming Black and Hispanic areas.” Robert...
Paid articleSmoking Gun
SMOKING GUN U.S. MILITARY SPENDING, BY THE NUMBERS As the planet hurtles headlong into climate chaos and millions of people’s basic needs go unmet, there is one sector of the U.S. economy that...
Paid articleLetters
LETTERS Voting While Rural Many responses to the February/March issue were about John Nichols’s “Further Comment: The Price of Ignoring Rural Vot­ers.” Here is a sampling: John, I’m as...
Paid articleBlast from the Past
BLAST FROM THE PAST Take the Profit Out of War BY ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE La Follette’s Magazine, February 1915 I t is repugnant to every moral sense that governments should even indirectly...
Paid articleRetrospective
JULY 1916 Who Wants War? The gentlemen who want war with Mexico are a very powerful lot. They own most of the United States and a good slice of Mexico. They are our Captains of Industry, our...
Paid articleOn the Line
Baker, Hank
ON THE LINE by HANK BAKER DOWN AND OUT IN MOLDOVA Moldova, one of Europe’s poorest countries, is surrounded on three sides by Ukraine. Russia’s most recent invasion of Ukraine a year ago has...
Paid articleMiddle America
Conniff, Ruth
MIDDLE AMERICA by RUTH CONNIFF WISCONSIN’S HIGH-STAKES SUPREME COURT RACE O n the last Saturday in February, just after a win­ter storm dumped freez­ing rain, snow, and ice across the Midwest,...
Paid articleSmart Ass Cripple
Ervin, Mike
SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN PLEASE DON’T MENTION MICROTRANSIT D oor-to-door public trans­portation: Just imagine what that would be like, if you dare. Instead of trudging to a nearby bus...
Paid articleWork Won't Love You Back
Jaffe, Sarah
WORK WON’T LOVE YOU BACK by SARAH JAFFE WE WERE WARNED I t was the workers’ nightmare come true. The Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, on February...
Paid articleFirst Things First
LUEDERS, BILL
FIRST THINGS FIRST by BILL LUEDERS LIES, DAMN LIES, AND SOCIAL MEDIA E arlier this year, on the floor of the U.S. House of Rep­resentatives, Congressman Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, accused...
Paid articleThe Lingering Effects of Iraq War Lies
Zunes, Stephen
DB FEDERICO GAMBARINI/PICTURE-ALLIANCE/DPA/AP IMAGES The cumulative cost of the war for American tax­payers will end up at well over $3 trillion, adding to the national debt and giving...
Paid articleWill We Always Be This Way?
Kelly, Kathy
Will We Always Be This Way? Those who have an insatiable appetite for war seldom heed the wreckage they have left behind. BY KATHY KELLY wenty years ago, in Baghdad, I shared quarters...
Paid articlePACT Act Problems
Early, Suzanne Gordon and Steve
BY SUZANNE GORDON AND STEVE EARLY hen President Joe Biden braved Republican jeers and boos to deliver his State of the Union address in February, one of the few lines that received bipartisan...
Paid articleMission Not Accomplished
Krakow, Carly A.
Mission Not Accomplished Iraqi victims of war toxins deserve justice. BY CARLY A. KRAKOW n February 7, just a month before the twentieth anniversary of the U.S. invasion and occupation...
Paid articleKissinger’s Culpability
Cords, Sarah
Kissinger’s Culpability At 100, more than a half-century of blood is on the elder statesman’s hands. BY SARAH CORDS enry Kissinger is still alive and still in possession of the Nobel...
Paid articleKissinger’s Legacy in Latin America
Stockwell, Norman
Kissinger’s Legacy in Latin America Eight years of policy have left generations of damage. BY NORMAN STOCKWELL enry Kissinger is thought of mostly in relation to his role in the wars in...
Paid article‘F’ Stands for Failure
Meyer, Alfred
On a broader scale, the F-35 is a U.S.-led interna­tional effort with sixteen other nations taking part in the design, manufacture, and use of the aircraft. The intent is to tie our allies into...
Paid articleOne Question
ONE QUESTION MIKE BRAND Adjunct professor of genocide studies and human rights at the University of Connecticut Imagine how you would improve our country. Universal health care, free...
Paid articleYearning to Breathe Free
Deslandes, Ann Louise
Yearning to Breathe Free A new U.S. immigration policy is leaving thousands of asylum seekers stranded on a path fraught with danger. BY ANN LOUISE DESLANDES I n the center of the...
Paid articleLifting Workers Out of Poverty
Johnson, Sharon
Lifting Workers Out of Poverty Ten years in, the movement to raise the minimum wage is gaining momentum across the country. BY SHARON JOHNSON K imberly Baker did everything right. She was at...
Paid articleFirst-Person Singular
Evans, Jodie
We’ll Stop When Wars Do As the perpetual war machine churns on, CODEPINK won’t stop fighting for an ‘economy of peace.’ Jodie Evans is co-founder of CODEPINK and the after-school writing...
Paid articleWhere Climate Action Has Gone Mainstream
NICHOLS, JOHN
INTERVIEW Where Climate Action Has Gone Mainstream An interview with Katrín Jakobsdóttir, prime minister of Iceland. BY JOHN NICHOLS W hen Katrín Jakobsdóttir became prime minister of...
Paid articleBook Excerpt
Crawford, Neta C.
The Deep Cycle and Climate Change as an Existential Threat How the Pentagon became the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter and why it’s not too late to break the link between national...
Paid articleBook Reviews
Confronting the Grim Truths of War BY ERIK GUNN By all rights, I should have grown up well versed in the work of seminal anti-war activist Staughton Lynd. At my Quaker high school in the...
Paid articleHemming and Hawing
Farsad, Negin
HEMMING AND HAWING by NEGIN FARSAD CAUGHT BETWEEN ‘OZEMPIC FACE’ AND A HARD PLACE I ’m not exactly sure what women are supposed to be doing right now. I’m not even exactly sure if we (I’m a...
Paid articleFor Gogol
Melnyczuk, Askold
POEM by TARAS SHEVCHENKO | Translated by Askold Melnyczuk For Gogol In the hive, words on words. One chokes the heart, The other tears it apart, A third weeps softly And God hasn’t...
Paid articleVox Populist
Hightower, Jim
VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER IS YOUR LUSH LAWN KILLING MOTHER NATURE? G rowing up, I learned a lot of valuable lessons from the example set by my Ol’ Texas Daddy: a strong com­mitment to the...
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