Podcast: Eros and Psyche revisited

Bill Weinberg Erratum The current edition of Till We Have Faces without the original illustrations appears to be from HarperCollins, not Macmillan. Bill Weinberg African roots of Psyche myth The…

Iran & Minneapolis: fearful symmetry

…“crown prince” Reza Pahlavi to install himself as leader. In Episode 313 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg urges that explicit mutual support between the anti-authoritarian struggles in the US…

Bedfellows get stranger in war on ISIS

Bill Weinberg Did Turkey bomb Kobani? Kurdish news agency Rudaw reported Nov. 30 that the Turkish military actually bombed Kobani, injuring several of thw town’s defenders as well as civilians. “Under…

Trump’s phone call: the view from Ukraine

Bill Weinberg ‘Witness intimidation’ via Twitter Trump notoriously dissed Marie Yovanovitch via Twitter during her Congressional testimony about the “smear campaign” that the president’s allies successfully used to oust her…

Global day of ‘Rage for Aleppo’

Bill Weinberg Aleppo hospital bombed yet again At least two barrel bombs hit the largest hospital in the rebel-held area of Aleppo on Oct. 1. The facility, known as M10, was…

Lines drawn in Andean crisis

Bill Weinberg Latin American Anti-Militarist Declaration We do not need another war. We are conscientious objectors and anti-militarists from Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, and all of Latin America and the Caribbean,…

Congress mulls “Plan Mexico”

Bill Weinberg Police chief assassinated in Baja California José Juan Soriano Pereira, police sub-chief in the border town of Tecate, Baja California, was assassinated in a pre-dawn attack at his…