A new year is upon us, but I find myself regularly wondering which century we're in.

It was December 21st, on the Solstice in 2015 that a profound act of collective solidarity took place on the Kenya-Somalia border.  If you're looking for the conscience of humanity you might not find it in the White House, but you will find it on a bus in Kenya.

The last time a leaderless movement against plutocracy arose in France was 1848.  It swept across Europe and ultimately left it radically transformed, with global repercussions.

In an age of Camp Fires and Paradise lost, let's remember Tvindkraft, the first industrial-scale windmill.

The US is an extremely divided society.  One of its many divisions is that between landlords and renters.

We have seen the future of a world run by real estate speculators, property developers and transnational corporations -- it is the apocalypse.

When daily life in a nation is best described as a constant series of predictable and preventable catastrophes that just keep on happening anyway, this nation is, by definition, a failed state.

One hundred years ago this week, the "Great War" ended.  Every corner of the world is still living with the fallout.  Happy Veterans Day, or Armistice Day, depending.

Among the latest marginalized groups to be targeted by the Trump administration is the trans community.

It's well-known among those who follow the international press that the far right is growing in Europe.  What's less well-known, for some reason, is that the left is growing, too.  And nowhere is that more evident than in England.