Pete Seeger Was A Movement Musician
May 1, 2019
Who was Pete Seeger? Some reflections on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Pete's birth.
If I Had A Hacker
April 18, 2019
After Julian Assange's arrest and the resulting explosion of the internet last weekend, I attempt to pick up some of the pieces.
How Do You Strangle A Corporation?
April 11, 2019
In this week's missive we explore the question: how do you strangle a corporation, when it doesn't have a neck?
Before the Flood
April 4, 2019
I am, it might reasonably be said, a climate refugee – though a very comfortable one. Escaping the forest fires to run a little cafe in Denmark is hardly a sacrifice. But if the cafe might be a good retirement plan for me, it won't be for my children – far too soon, the whole country in which Cafe Hellebaek is located will likely be underwater.
To Brexit or Not to Brexit?
March 29, 2019
The main problem with the question of Leave or Remain is that it's not the question most people in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland are really interested in. It's just a very fraught proxy for the real question.
Blowing the Whistle in 1943
March 14, 2019
In 1943, Georg Duckwitz blew the whistle on Nazi plans to deport and kill Denmark's Jews. In 2010, Chelsea Manning was arrested for blowing the whistle on US war crimes. Now she's back behind bars.
The Venezuela Deception
March 8, 2019
The US, the UK and other colonial powers have a long history of conducting exactly the kinds of crimes against humanity that they are currently carrying out on the Venezuelan people, in yet another naked effort to sabotage and then overthrow another popular Latin American democracy.
The Bombs, Smokescreens and Fig Leaves of Progressive Zionism
February 28, 2019
Multiple scandals ostensibly about anti-Semitism are featuring prominently in the news in the US, England and France. But are any of them actually about anti-Semitism? This week I explore the deliberate confusion of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism -- and that especially troublesome and peculiar phenomenon known as Progressive Zionism.
