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Does Cuba Have a Future?

Right after delivering this year’s State of the Union address, President Joe Biden briefly encountered his former Senate colleague, Bob Menendez. The Democratic senator from New Jersey, well-known for his hawkish views on Cuba, was never a fan of the Obama administration’s vaunted opening to the island a decade ago. He continues to stand in… Continue reading Does Cuba Have a Future?

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Spying vs. Spying

This weekend, I went on a walk on a paved road that soon turned to dirt. The further into farmland it went, the muddier and more difficult to traverse the road became. The map function on my phone, connected by invisible strands to a satellite way above my head, continued to show me these roads,… Continue reading Spying vs. Spying

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Battling a Mining Giant on Two Continents

Lynas bills itself as the only significant producer of separated rare earth oxides outside of China. It mines these minerals at Mt. Weld in Western Australia. From there, it sends the material to a secondary processing facility in Malaysia where it separates and processes the ore. According to its own promotional materials, Lynas is “designed… Continue reading Battling a Mining Giant on Two Continents

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Maybe the World Isn’t Falling Apart?

The international community is not in great shape. The war in Ukraine pits two entirely different conceptions of the global order: authoritarian Russia and its supporters versus the more-or-less democratic world. This war is currently mired in a stalemate that could, nevertheless, escalate into a nuclear conflict very rapidly. At the same time, the United… Continue reading Maybe the World Isn’t Falling Apart?

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Israel’s Strange Ambivalence on Ukraine

There are currently only two Jewish heads of state in the world. The first, not surprisingly, leads Israel. The second is Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine. They don’t get along. Religious affiliation by itself does not determine political or military alliances. Plenty of wars have pitted Christians against Christians and Moslems against Moslems. But… Continue reading Israel’s Strange Ambivalence on Ukraine

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From the Unsustainable Here to the Sustainable There

In 1972, the Club of Rome released a report called The Limits to Growth that laid out the damage to the planet and to human beings of unrestrained increases in economic production and population. It was a straightforward extrapolation from then-current trends that took into account limited resources like water, fertile soil, and fossil fuels.… Continue reading From the Unsustainable Here to the Sustainable There

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The Rise of Self-Hating Politicians

Some politicians just hate politics. They get into the game in order to disrupt it. They have such a visceral hatred of governance that, like suicide bombers, they’ve smuggled themselves into government in order to blow it up from within. Much of the coverage of the multiple attempts to elect Kevin McCarthy as House speaker… Continue reading The Rise of Self-Hating Politicians

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The Future of Korean Democracy

The German government recently arrested 25 members of a conspiratorial right-wing group plotting to overthrow the government. One of those arrested was a member of a defunct German royal family that the group hoped to install as Germany’s new leader. In the United States, the Republican Party did well enough in the mid-term elections to… Continue reading The Future of Korean Democracy

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The Far Right Is Crazy – Like a Fox

Arizona is ground zero for the wackiest theories and craziest political candidates. Exhibit A: Kari Lake, the Republican who ran for governor in the recent midterm elections. Though she lost in November, she’s still campaigning — on social media, in the courts, and in her own beclouded imagination. She refuses to accept that Katie Hobbs,… Continue reading The Far Right Is Crazy – Like a Fox

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The Crypto-Populist Pyramid Scam

It should be obvious to pretty much everyone at this point that anything crypto is an old-fashioned grift, a scam, a Ponzi scheme. Those who got in on the ground floor of crypto-currencies and NFTs and the like—and then left when the going was good—have made out like bandits. The rest of us are left… Continue reading The Crypto-Populist Pyramid Scam

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The Latest Content

Articles

  • Does Cuba Have a Future?
  • Spying vs. Spying
  • Battling a Mining Giant on Two Continents
  • Maybe the World Isn’t Falling Apart?
  • Israel’s Strange Ambivalence on Ukraine
  • From the Unsustainable Here to the Sustainable There
  • The Rise of Self-Hating Politicians
  • The Future of Korean Democracy
  • The Far Right Is Crazy – Like a Fox
  • The Crypto-Populist Pyramid Scam
  • Changing My Mind on Ukraine
  • What Climate Debt Does the North Owe the South
  • No Time for a Ceasefire in Ukraine
  • Will Democracies Be Polarized Out of Existence?
  • The Future of China’s Green Revolution
  • Is Ukraine Going Too Far?
  • Iran: A Winter-Spring Anti-Romance
  • So, What About Those Other Wars?
  • Fascism: Hello, Goodbye
  • United in Climate Suffering, Divided in Climate Solutions

Events

  • Right Across the World: Italy, Sweden, Brazil, November 30, 2022
  • Tyrants on Twitter, September 6, 2022
  • The Future of the Korean Peninsula: Current Conflict, Future Peace, September 12, 2022
  • The Global Far Right’s Assault on Democracy
  • Clowntime

Interviews

Tyrants on Twitter, Cambridge Forum, September 6, 2022

Splinterlands’ Climate Dystopia, Chris Hedges, July 7, 2022

Is Putin Writing the Far Right’s Epitaph, Burt Cohen, March 25, 2022

Ukraine Crisis, Parallax Views, March 9, 2022

National Security or Climate Change Multiplier, Extinction Rebellion Radio, March 8, 2022

How the Left Fights the New Global Right, Van Jackson, January 8, 2022

The International Far Right, Truthout, November 20, 2021

Global Right’s Bizarre Obsession with Pedophilia, Burt Cohen, August 4, 2021

Clowntime, Chris Bangert-Drowns, WPFW, July 19, 2021

COVID-19 and Authoritarianism, Burt Cohen, July 29, 2020

The Feasibility of Detente between the US and DPRK, NKNews, May 19, 2020

The Future of Capitalism after COVID-19, WPKN, May 17, 2020

Coronavirus and the Global Economy, Truthout, April 9, 2020

Pandemic Politics, Foreign Exchanges, March 25, 2020

Globalization and the Pandemic, Parallax Views, March 20, 2020

Highlighted Articles

  • What’s Up with the Herd? FPIF
  • Death and the Economy: A Dialogue, FPIF
  • COVID-19 and the Global Economy, Inference
  • Revisiting the Goldilocks Apocalypse, TomDispatch
  • A Global Green New Deal Could Defeat the Far Right—And Save the Planet, Newsweek
  • The Widening Rift Between the US and China, The Nation
  • Between Rocks and a Hard Place, Foreign Policy
  • Deserts vs. Development in China, Global Post
  • Infantilizing North Korea, Hankyoreh
  • Jeju Island: Paradise with a Dark Side, Washington Post
  • Waiting for the Curtain, Washingtonian
  • My Backlogged Pages, New York Times
  • Starting Where North Korea Is, 38North
  • Will Facebook Remake the World? Harvard International Review
  • Are We All North Koreans Now? TomDispatch
  • Bringing a Living Wage to the Farm, Alternet
  • Writers from the Other Asia, The Nation
  • The Forgotten Lessons of Helsinki, World Policy Journal
  • The Politics of Dog, American Prospect
  • Containment Lite: U.S. Policy toward Russia and Its Neighbors, FPIF
  • The Costs and Dangers of NATO Expansion, FPIF
  • The Selling of the Russian President, 1993, Z Magazine
  • The Age of Diminished Expectations (Review), Commonweal
  • Poland’s Solidarity: Who Is in Charge? Z Magazine
  • Corruptions of Empire (Review), Philadelphia City Paper

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