The Laws of Tyrants in Honduras
Honduras, also known as the original “Banana Republic,” had been governed by military regimes that obtained power by means of coup d’Etats since the 1950s. Social unrest became rampant and a...
The Dire Threat of Nuclear War With Russia Today
In late January 1995 Russian early-warning radars detected a single rocket launch off the northwestern coast of Norway. The location of its launch coupled with its trajectory appeared to resemble...
Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Worker? Walmart’s Anti-Union Video
Walmart really hates unions. That news doesn’t come as a surprise—the US-based retailing giant has been engaging in unionbusting tactics for years, including when presidential candidate Hillary...
Review – Mad Max: Fury Road
There is a scene in the 1993 German war film “Stalingrad” where a bronzed platoon of elite storm troopers victorious from the lightening battles in the West and North Africa confront their dead...
Review: Nymphomaniac The Director’s Cut
How do you distil 50 years of life into just 5 hours? What unique qualities of the human condition are worth filming and preserving for eternity? How do we select the stories that define our...
Daredevil’s Claire Temple: A Superhero for Women of Color
The latest installment of Marvel’s superhero Avengers movies released this past weekend, and with it, the latest round of the ‘is this movie a feminist movie?’ debate started up. It’s a...
Reign: Your New Favourite Guilty Pleasure
Despite sliding ratings, the CW’s Reign has become guilty pleasure viewing across the US, where the fantasy programme only loosely based on the life of Mary, Queen of Scots is riveting in its...
Strongman Stability: The Post-Arab Spring Midde East
In September 2013 I wrote a rather odd editorial which posited that the Hamas group in Gaza may actually prove to be a force for stability for Israel. Immediately after publication I suspected there...
Boy Meets Girl: A Giant Step for Transgender Representation
The words ‘transgender character’ and ‘comedy’ in the same sentence are enough to make most trans people twitch. Comedies typically use transgender characters as the butts of jokes and...
The Bizarre Crop of 2016 Republican Presidential Candidates
Thanks to the eternal recirculation of the election cycle in the United States, the 2016 presidential election has already been simmering for at least eight months, with potential candidates shifting...