View from Death Row: The Disproportionate Blues
We African Americans have often been told that times have changed. We are tired of pretending.
Plague Journal #14: The Fusion Centers Are Probably Working Overtime
It’s not just that we have no idea what their work really is, we also don’t have a clue about how much it costs.
RT #295: 16 Mind-Blowing Facts About the Police
Also: Naomi Karavani dives into the many examples of police departments breaking the rules to crush dissent from the Black Lives Matter crowd.
FOH 68: In memory of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor
Discussion by three vets of 'warrior cops,' military mobilization and rising military and veteran dissent.
Who Should Decide When and How Schools Reopen?
Here's a hint: Not politicians, district officials, bean counters or the president.
Covid-19 May Be Accelerating a Genocide of Brazil’s Indigenous People
It is even more difficult to pin down data on infections and deaths in their communities than it is for the general Brazilian population.
A Breathless Moment in America
A man killed with his face pressed to the ground may yet shift the earth under our feet.
Vaccine at ‘Warp Speed’: When Profits and Politics Drive Science
Speculative bets with taxpayer money are being made on unproven technologies in the early stages of testing.
Plague Journal #13: Trump Plutocrats and Plunderers Confront ‘Black Lives Matter’
If he is unable to bring about civil strife as an electoral tactic, the future of organized, effective opposition is far from clear.
Kevin Cooper: Those Eyes
In the history of racist violence against Blacks, something remained the same in those oppressors, across time and place.
Plague Journal #12: This Year the ‘Tea’ Becomes ‘We’
George Floyd cannot and will not be forgotten!
A Speech to the Class of 2020: You Didn’t Deserve This
How the roof fell in, a graduation speech for an age of collapse
Nomi Prins: A Rendezvous With Destiny? Comparing the 1930s to This Crisis
Economic crashes, then and now
Danny Sjursen: The End of Warfare As We Know It?
The future of forever war, American-style
Andrea Mazzarino: Who Is ‘Essential’ to Our Covid-19 World
A military spouse’s perspective on fighting this pandemic