No. 87-6, December 2023
Index
- 'This Is a Very Dangerous Time': An interview with activist and commentator Phyllis Bennis.
- BLAST FROM THE PAST. (arab-Israeli conflict)
- Breaking's Storied Road to the OLYMPICS From the South Bronx to the Summer Olympics, this urban dance style finally gets its due. (break dancing)
- CONSTITUTION IN THE CROSSHAIRS: The Far Right's Plan for a New Confederacy The rightwing subversion of U.S. democracy is closer than you think.
- Don't Blame the Squad; End the Killing: Please, don't send more of my tax dollars for death. (American military assistance in the Israel-Hamas war)
- DON'T OPPOSE TRUMP'S RIGHT TO RUN.
- ENVIRONMENTALISTS! THE "WAR ON DRUGS" IS PREVENTING CLIMATE JUSTICE.
- FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023.
- FIXING OUR BROKEN SYSTEM OF LONG-TERM CARE.
- Forging a New Path as Partners with Latin America: A group of U.S. lawmakers recently visited South America with a fresh perspective on U.S. foreign policy in the region.
- GETTING BEYOND 'US VERSUS THEM'. (polarization and the Israel-Hamas war)
- HOW THINGS WORK: CONGRESS'S REVOLVING DOOR. (speaker of the house Mike Johnson) (Texas governor Greg Abbott pushes for school privatization)
- I Protest This Bloodshed. (Israel-Hamas war)
- Last Year, Americans Were Battered by News Abuse: How critical news stories were compromised by lies, misdirection, and propaganda in the service of elite interests. (BOOK EXCERPT)
- LETTERS.
- My Son Throws a Blanket Over My Daughter.
- NO COMMENT. (two librarians in Kansas were fired for diversity issues) (new Kansas law on birth certificates) (Iowa's new law on student records)
- ORGANIZE OR DIE: Unions must use their current momentum to propel new organizing.
- OUR VIEW OF AN EYE FOR AN EYE: Bombs and missiles are not the only tools to confront evil and violence in our world.
- RAISING OUR VOICES FOR PEACE IN THE HALLS OF POWER. (ON THE LINE)
- SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED. (labor strikes of health care workers in the United States today)
- STATEMENT-MAKING IN AN AGE OF STATEMENT-MAKING. (organizations releasing statements in the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war)
- THE WAR ON GAZA: HOW A COLONIAL MENTALITY ASSURES WESTERN FAILURE.
- THERE MUST BE A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA. (EDITOR'S NOTE)
- Truth Should Not Be a Casualty of War: Instead of questioning the news from Gaza, international media should be free to report it for themselves.
- WHAT MAGA REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS WANT. (SMOKING GUN)
- Why Are We Still Here? AND HOW WILL WE SURVIVE? Finding answers in the third-oldest city on Earth. (Matera, Italy)
- WHY THE POLITICS OF THE SPORTS WORLD HAS BEEN A HOT MESS.