March 9, 2017 By Michael Drohan Review of book “Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War” by Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami, Pluto Press, 2016 Robin Yassin-Kassab is a British based journalist […]
March 9, 2017 By Michael Drohan In the present political turmoil in the US, epithets such as “paranoid,” “psychopath,” and “fascist” are bandied about as descriptions of the political actors within the […]
February 1, 2017 By Michael Drohan The problem of nuclear weapons and their abolition has received new urgency with the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States. On December […]
By Michael Drohan Fidel Castro was one of the most extraordinary and charismatic leaders and politicians of the 20th century. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that he shook the […]
September 1, 2016 By Michael Drohan I can feel those blues coming on, even though it is still three months until the election. While one cannot preclude any kind of unforeseen circumstance […]
September 1, 2016 By Michael Drohan During the weekend of July 31 to August 1, Pittsburgh was host to a Palestinian activist named Iyad Burnat, his wife Tasaheel and their young son. […]
July 1, 2016 By Michael Drohan Historian Robert O. Paxton wrote a book in 2005 entitled The Anatomy of Fascism which defines fascism as follows: “Fascism may, be defined as a form […]
July 1, 2016 By Michael Drohan On May 27, 2016, President Obama visited Japan and the city of Hiroshima more than seventy decades after the United States dropped the 10,000 pound atomic […]
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