Privileging White Skin: Monetizing the Class Struggle with Chelsea Handler
My wife and I watched a new Netflix documentary, “Hello, Privilege. It’s Me, Chelsea” on a day Pres. Trump retweeted words that his ouster via impeachment would spur a civil war. In her 64-minute...
View Article4 Gorillas to Save the Earth
The Greta/AOC generation is marching for our place on this planet. We can all turn off lights, get off plastic, go vegan, ride bikes, sail the Atlantic, demand eco-straws, solarize our homes. But four...
View Article“Zone Defense:” a New Way To Stop ATV’s in Wilderness Areas
In 2002, a new method of organizing was used by 20 organizations in a rural area of southwest Oregon to successfully confront an ATV threat in an area where no national, regional or local group had...
View ArticleImpeaching the Symptom, Not the Disease
I feel like I’m watching a sitcom called “America.” Next episode: Will they impeach the president? Stay tuned! “Impeachment is therefore imperative, not only to protect the integrity of next year’s...
View ArticleWall Street is Killing Local Newspapers
Though lacking the size and prestige of The New York Times or The Washington Post, The Storm Lake Times is arguably just as important. Two years ago, the small, bi-weekly Iowa paper (circulation:...
View ArticleThe Obstructionist Senate
Americans are disgusted that Washington has become dysfunctional, even as Americans struggle with ever greater challenges — from stagnant wages and growing inequality to catastrophic climate change to...
View ArticleMy Patients Deserve Medicare for All
When I signed my letter of intent to medical school, I signed up to work with patients, not insurance companies. I wanted to be part of a team of nurses, doctors, pharmacists, and respiratory...
View ArticleThe Obscured Horror Show
Karl Marx used a metaphor about a camera obscura to describe the contortions in the interpretations of ideology, and it’s also an interesting metaphor to think about how information is delivered to us...
View ArticleGeoengineering is a Scam
“We are engineers. We don’t talk about politics.” I heard that phrase many times from my professors at the University of New Mexico School of Engineering. Throughout my engineering education, politics...
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Alliance for the Wild Rockies to Trump: Stop Killing Bull Trout
Bull Trout. Image: USFWS. Bull trout are an iconic Montana native fish that have existed in our rivers, streams, and lakes for more than 10,000 years. But due to habitat destruction, interbreeding...
View ArticleSecurocratic War, Securocratic Borders Securocratic Emissions
Globally, human societies are veering towards the precipice of a cascading extinction event that is traceable to 20th century wars and to accelerated dangers following the end of the Cold War. This...
View ArticleWhy Does Trump Keep Doing This?
Does Trump understand democracy? I’m really asking. His approach to politics is combative — kill-or-be-killed. If you hit him, he will hit you back harder, no matter what the rules of the game are....
View ArticleOur Global Gas Chamber
One of the great (mostly) untold stories of the Age Of Oil is the array of toxic chemicals in hydrocarbon exhaust and the accumulation of exhaust-borne particulates in the bloodstream and brain. We are...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Phone Around
When the squalid, absurd and occasionally hilarious accounts are compiled by a sober mind, the Trump administration will stand out as much gargoyle with more than a touch of paranoia. But there will be...
View ArticleWhy Arms Races Never End: Hypersonic Weapons and National (In)security
Hypersonic weapons close in on their targets at a minimum speed of Mach 5, five times the speed of sound or 3,836.4 miles an hour. They are among the latest entrants in an arms competition that has...
View ArticleThe United States of Bribery and Sanctioning
The USBS. Not very long ago, I was saying to an ardent, proudly feminist democrat that they should be careful what they wish for in their assuming that replacing Trump with Pence would be an...
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The Lies of Capitalism
Neoliberals love to quote the World Bank’s rosy statistics about capitalism lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty. Unfortunately, those statistics are skewed and manipulated to the point of...
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Trump’s Trade War With China: Is It About to End?
Container ship, Columbia River. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The latest de-escalation of the trade war with China — with exemptions from some tariffs on both sides — has left markets uncertain as to...
View ArticleThe Myth of the Scandal-Free Presidency
scan·dal /ˈskandl/ noun an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage. It was to be expected. The miserableness of Trump and his overt racism, nationalism,...
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The Politics of Trolling
Back in the mid-90s, when the Internet was first taking off, spurred by AOL’s making the web available to the masses, it was easy to become a cyber-utopian. Manuel Castells, a Spanish sociologist,...
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