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3 weeks ago | 
juancole.com | Frida Berrigan |Juan Cole
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Recently, I’ve been turning off my iPhone — all the way off! — for 10 to 30 minutes at a time. I leave it somewhere in the house, while I try to live IRL (“in real life”), washing dishes, hanging up laundry, or even going for a walk, phoneless.
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Mar 11, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky |Frida Berrigan |Binoy Kampmark |Sumanta Banerjee
“Flights to Guantánamo Bay have begun. The worst of the worst have no place in our homeland.”With those words the U.S. government announced the fate awaiting “criminal aliens” in its custody.
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Mar 10, 2025 | 
juancole.com | Frida Berrigan |Juan Cole
( Tomdispatch.com ) – “It is pretty wild how you can make someone mad by just holding a sign,” my 18-year-old Ro told me, as an irate driver peeled out of the intersection, shaking both his middle fingers at us but managing not to hit us. Phew! Ro was right. It didn’t take much to turn a perpetually busy intersection in New London, Connecticut, into a discussion forum on presidential overreach, cruelty, and immigration politics — with all the excesses, including those fingers, of the Age of Trump.
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Mar 9, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Dan Corjescu |Frida Berrigan |Phil Pasquini |Bharat Dogra
Civitas is an ancient Roman concept which recognizes that a political entity and its citizens are not simply a collection of individuals governed by the rule of law and taken care of administratively but a “community of destiny” that must be held together by a shared ethos and communal practices. The Romans believed that the long term success of any political community depended on its ability to sustain and develop its own particular set of political beliefs.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
commondreams.org | Frida Berrigan
My inbox is full of lament (and encouragement). My Instagram feed is full of anger and “the arc of the moral universe bends slow but…”My Facebook brims with exhortations to focus on the positive, on what we can control, on the next fight. I live in a poor Democratic stronghold in southeastern Connecticut. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris won our state by more than 200,000 votes. Our seven paltry electoral votes went blue. Here, Jill Stein got a lot more votes than Robert F.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Mohd Khan |Michael Albert |Frida Berrigan
There is something enormously satisfying about seeing those in the war racket worry that their assumptions on conflict have been upended. There they were, happily funding, planning and preparing to battle against threats imagined or otherwise, and there comes Donald Trump, malice and petulance combined, to pull the rug from under them again.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Mohd Khan |Michael Albert |Frida Berrigan |Abayomi Azikiwe
Whom did the US elect? The Republican ticket for the recent election featured Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. Yet, November’s events painted a different picture, spotlighting another figure influencing the nation’s destiny: Elon Musk. Known as the tech mogul behind Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX, Musk has ventured into politics, becoming a key figure shaping government appointments and strategies for the next U.S. administration.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Michael Albert |Frida Berrigan |Abayomi Azikiwe |Patrick Martin
How does one take seriously having a vaccine denier in charge of public health? How about having the world’s richest corporate owner in charge of cutting regulatory agencies? Or having the other foxes in the henhouse, much less Oval office-ing the degenerate ringmaster himself? I would guess all who read this article feel outrage and horror, but also more than a little scared. Do you go to bed at night or get up in the morning with thoughts, fears, and dread that you want to jettison?
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Saurav Sarkar |Suresh Nellikode |Frida Berrigan |Vidyadhar Date
Bikram Singh is running out of time on his post-study work visa in Canada. Singh is one of about 70,000 migrants who were sold on the Canadian dream of eventually making the country their home but now face an uncertain future with their work permits set to expire by December 2024. They came from places like India, China, and the Philippines, and sold their land and belongings in their home countries, took out loans, or made other enormous commitments to get themselves to Canada.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Frida Berrigan |Abayomi Azikiwe |Patrick Martin |Ranjan Solomon
My inbox is full of lament (and encouragement). My Instagram feed is full of anger and “the arc of the moral universe bends slow but…”My Facebook brims with exhortations to focus on the positive, on what we can control, on the next fight. I live in a poor Democratic stronghold in southeastern Connecticut. Kamala Harris won our state by more than 200,000 votes. Our seven paltry electoral votes went blue. Here, Jill Stein got a lot more votes than Robert F.
