Stones from the Creek

  On Wednesday the commercial press was full of alarm over this country’s dependence on China for strategically-important minerals, especial...

  I have been seeing comments from people who aren’t upset about ICE kidnappings and detentions because the people seized: Criticized Isra...

  This is how impunity works.   In 2001 the US began incarcerating hundreds of accused terrorists at Guantanamo.  Why in Cuba, which wasn...

  Tropical Storm Sara didn't get much attention in the United States. It was a weather story, with headlines like "Storm Weakens,...

  I have been avoiding the election postmortems. I don't think the handwringing and the fingerpointing are going to help us organize aga...

  We have all been trained to use the phrase “the Economy” without a great deal of thought, often capitalized as if it were a person… or per...

Monopoly capitalism monopolizes all wealth.  It bogarts the air, the land, and the water.  It bogarts our labor and the things we produce.  ...