The Purpose of Demonizing Putin
People enjoy fantasizing that a war is a duel between great leaders. This requires demonizing one and glorifying another.
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But How Do You Use Nonviolence Against a Nuke?
Dan Zak’s “Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age” is a wonderful book inspired by even more wonderful activism.
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When Charlottesville Was Nuked
A few excerpts from a government-commissioned fictional account of what life in Charlottesville, Virginia would like like during a nuclear war…
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Of Veterans and Black Mirror Roaches
I think the closest equivalents to the stick with the green light are passports and telephones. Give every American a passport automatically and free.
Read MoreAll Governments Lie, the Movie
All Governments Lie is a film that should be shown in cities, homes, and classrooms across the United States.
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Michael Moore Owes Me $4.99
Michael Moore’s “Trumpland” is a textbook illustration of how the mindset of voting for “the lesser evil” just results in self-delusion—and ever more evil.
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Disobey or Die
The problem we have to solve is, as Howard Zinn told us, not too much civil disobedience, but too much civil obedience.
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Public vs. Media on War
Despite the media’s best efforts to delude the masses, most Americans still think US foreign policy and its endless wars make the country less safe.
Read MoreThe U.S. National Bird Is Now a Drone
The film National Bird about the US’s use of drone warfare presents the kind of raw truth you won’t get from the mainstream news outlets.
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Of All the Opinions I’ve Heard on Syria
The impulse to pick a side in the ongoing conflict in Syria obfuscates the responsibility of all parties to crimes against humanity.
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