Kobi Azoulay

Kobi Azoulay
View In: Kobi AzoulayUS military soldiers from the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force pose with a Nazi SS flag in Afghanistan in 2010.As the US spends more on military than the next 10 countries combined, with 700+ foreign military bases, the domestic political winds are beginnin...

Kobi Azoulay
View In: Kobi AzoulayTurn on cable news in America and you’re sure to hear politicians talk about the importance of countering China or Russia, portraying them in a disproportionately negative light and highlighting the importance of “Great Power competition.”In some ways it makes sense: these are three of only five countrie...

Kobi Azoulay
View In: Kobi AzoulayThroughout my life, it has never made sense to me that 1% of the population is allowed to have extreme wealth while 40% of Americans are one emergency away from poverty. It’s even worse on a global scale, with just 8 men having as much wealth as 3.6 billion people.This is the continued legacy of capitalis...

Kobi Azoulay
View In: Kobi AzoulayThe devil is in the details of the over 5,500 page bill that members of Congress were given just hours to read before the vote (Photo from Creative Commons).COVID-19 is ravaging American society. While over 300,000 people have died from the virus, with an additional 9/11 death toll added almost everyda...

Kobi Azoulay
View In: Kobi AzoulayIn a country where you choose between dozens of different brands of toilet paper and toothpaste, how does it make any sense to only have two choices of political party?It is a fundamentally undemocratic contradiction from a country that portrays itself as “the greatest country in the history of the world.”Rathe...

Kobi Azoulay
View In: Kobi AzoulayProtestors gather at a Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis (Photo by Andy Witchger).At some point in our lives, most of us have heard a variation of the phrase “I’m not racist, in fact I think we need to be colorblind when it comes to race!”On the surface-level, this sounds innocent. After all...