On today's program, we'll listen to Noam Chomsky's 1985 lecture, 'Lessons of the Vietnam War' in response to Ken Burns' absurd documentary and criminal attempt…
Left-wing politics
We are sorry that we have not posted anything from Samos over these past few weeks. The mood for writing has not been there. In…
#1-Food shopping at a big, chaotic, outdoor Latin market is a real adventure. Contrary to what these places look like- blind alleys, weird sights and…
"The course of recent events has made it apparent we need to go outside of the Democratic Party to effect real change," Dr. Jill Stein…
At Wednesday night’s Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton attacked Bernie Sanders for praising Fidel Castro in the 1980s, as well as for standing with Central American governments and rebel…
Bernie Sanders’ common sense proposals for dealing with universal health care, college tuition, restoring the infrastructure, confronting poverty and more have encountered predictable scorn from…
With Hillary Clinton ramping up her attacks on Bernie Sanders as a budget-buster—in the February 11 debate, she claimed his proposals would increase the size of…
The ultimate triumph of the political right in the 1980s was that its actions eventually forced the left to sell its soul for power – but…
For a moment this summer, it appeared that Greece had cornered its creditors. In a hotly contested vote in which their European neighbors openly intervened,…
Over the year, I realized that the term ‘left’ is not exclusive to a political ideology, but a mode of thinking championed mostly by self-tailored…
A Google search for the phrase "soul of the Democratic Party" yields thousands of hits, because the struggle for that soul has been a perennial…
Science and politics don't always mix. One is inherently subjective, what someone believes is best for society, both socially and economically. The other is about…