Month: September 2026

Donald Trump is remaking the U.S. military command. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has blocked the promotions of seven U.S. Army officers selected for major general. Two are Black. Two are women. The New York […]

In the mid-1960s, Harvard researchers experimented with wearable radio tracking devices for people caught in the criminal “justice” system. These were very early prototypes of what would become the ankle monitor. In the early 1970s, […]

Jazz musician Cassandra Wilson died at her home in Jackson, Mississippi, on Sept. 1. She was 70. She was born in Jackson on Dec. 4, 1955, 10 weeks after an all-white jury 115 miles north […]

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum stated on Sept. 7 that Mexican territory “is not and will never be a colony or protectorate of any foreign country,” after U.S. President Donald Trump posted an image featuring a […]

Fifty years ago, on Sept. 9, 1976, Mao Zedong died in Beijing at the age of 82. Mao had led the Chinese Communist Party through decades of revolutionary struggle and headed the 1949 revolution that […]

The Dutch National Bank announced Sept. 2 that it had shifted more than a quarter of the gold it held in New York and Ottawa to London between March and August 2026, mostly by selling […]

Sept. 5, 2026 While listening to a May 2, 2026, NPR interview with Cuban American musician Arturo Sandoval, I was reminded of the late Marxist scholar Michael Parenti’s classic text, “Inventing Reality: The Politics of […]