Deirdre Griswold

Who’s really behind Trump, besides Trump

The Republican National Convention produced as many flat-out lies as there are flies on a dung heap. Quite a few…

July 25, 2016

Ranks of Labour Party swell in rebuff to immigrant bashing

Since the right-wing of Britain’s Conservative Party, together with the even further right United Kingdom Independence Party, initiated a referendum…

July 14, 2016

Cox assassination reveals Britain’s right wing

June 20 -- The shocking assassination of Jo Cox, a Labor Party Member of Parliament in Britain, is clearly linked…

June 21, 2016

China, U.S. and global warming: ‘Carbon pricing’ vs. a planned economy

Environmentalists in capitalist countries are in a quandary over what to do about global warming. Even some of those most…

May 22, 2016

MAY DAY 2016: IMMIGRANT AND BLACK LIVES MATTER!

The two most militant movements currently powering struggles for progressive change in the United States provided leadership and activists to…

May 4, 2016

Corte obstruye justicia en caso de Gurley

Por un breve tiempo, el pasado mes de febrero existía la esperanza de que al fin las vidas negras importaran,…

May 3, 2016

Jobs, globalization and election promises

The question of what has happened to jobs in the United States is of course of the utmost concern to…

May 2, 2016

Court obstructs justice in Akai Gurley case

For a brief time last February, there was hope that, at last, Black lives do matter, when a jury convicted…

May 1, 2016

What can be done about rising sea levels

It has been more than a third of a century since climate scientists in both the United States and Britain…

April 12, 2016

China, U.S. and global warming, part 3: Coal miners in crisis

In this series, we’ve compared the response to global warming by the Chinese and U.S. governments. With roughly one-fifth of…

March 21, 2016