Empire Burlesque 1.0

The massive, mad destruction being inflicted across Ukraine brings to mind this passage from Italo Calvino, which I'd quoted in an artic...

I’m surprised more attention hasn't been paid to the virulently anti-Soviet nature of Putin’s speech justifying his attack on Ukraine. ...

  Sitting here in my 8th day of isolation with symptoms barely abated, let me say that "living with Covid" in the sense now being ...

I was among the million people who marched through London on February 15, 2003, to protest the imminent invasion of Iraq. I don't think...

Americans showed their remarkable collective wisdom once again last week, when a shocking act of violence was met with a steady calm across...

For years, I have been writing about the American use of chemical weapons in the savage assault on the Iraqi city of Fallujah in late 200...

One of the most important stories of the day continues to be almost universally ignored, both by the corporate media and most 'progres...