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The Debate Question That Really Mattered
Democratic National Committee Secretary Alice Travis Germond opens the roll call of the states during the third day of the 2008 convention. Photograph Source: Qqqqqq – CC BY-SA 3.0 The last question...
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Encountering Malcolm X
Still from ‘Who Killed Malcolm X?” (Netflix). Watching the six-part documentary “Who Killed Malcolm X?” on Netflix stirred up powerful memories of how important he was to my political evolution. While...
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Bernie Should Own the Socialist Label
Photograph Source: Michael Vadon – CC BY 2.0 Bernie Sanders is currently the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination. He and everyone else knows exactly how the Republicans will attack...
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A Trump Sentence Commutation Attorneys Generals Liked
Photograph Source: Barron Mickey – CC By-SA 4.0 The year was 2008. Hundreds of ICE officers swooped down on Agriprocessors, the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse located in Postville, Iowa, in the...
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‘The Donald Trump I know’: Abbas’ UN Speech and the Breakdown of Palestinian...
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain A precious moment has been squandered, as Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, had the chance to right a historical wrong, by reinstating...
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Extensive Chemical Safety Fraud Uncovered at German Testing Laboratory
Monkey subject at LPT Hamburg. Photo: Cruelty Free International and SOKO Tierschutz. The case of an animal rights activist who infiltrated an independent German chemical testing laboratory has...
View ArticleMore Real-Time Reflections from Your Friendly South Loop Marxist
Sunday 2/16 Monday, 2/17 Nina Simone 1968: “Ain’t got no class, ain’t got no culture, ain’t got no faith, ain’t got no water, ain’t got no money, ain’t got no country…ain’t got no God.” Stirring the...
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Roaming Charges: Billion Dollar Babies
Walls (sea) and Bridges (Astoria). Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. + Michael Bloomberg is, of course, the perfect person to lead a party which has been the driving political force behind the neoliberal...
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Bloomberg is a Climate Change Con Man
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair It’s an open secret in environmental circles that Michael Bloomberg is a climate change con man, and organizations like the Sierra Club that take hundreds of millions in...
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Election Con 2020: Exposing Trump’s Deception on the Opioid Epidemic
Photograph Source: frankieleon – CC BY 2.0. Modified by Nathaniel St. Clair. Donald Trump has long presented himself as an advocate for the disadvantaged, and this narrative continues to play into his...
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Dresden 75
When the English music historian Charles Burney arrived in Dresden in 1772, he found mostly ruins. This most beautiful of northern cities had not yet recovered from the ravages of the Seven Years War,...
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The Young Lords: Luchadores Para La Gente
The Young Lords were a somewhat unique political formation. Their primarily Puerto Rican membership focused their organizing on the neighborhoods they lived in. Despite the Marxist foundations of their...
View ArticleIs It as Impossible to Build Jerusalem as It is to Escape Babylon?
(Part One of Three) An interview with Peter Harrison by GYRUS. Peter Harrison’s book The Freedom of Things: An Ethnology of Control is a challenging education in the anthropology of political...
View ArticleWhat Tomorrow May Bring: Politics of the People
With two narrow popular vote wins behind him and national poll leads in the double-digit leads and growing, Nevada is Bernie Sanders’s first decisive victory. He will now be taking this momentum to...
View ArticleBloomberg Has Spent Enough to Give a Nickel to Every Person Whose Life He’s...
A review of Michael Bloomberg’s political career should not be limited, I think, to the fact that he has the debating skills of a baked potato. Nor does it matter much that he focuses his sales pitch...
View ArticlePublic Lands “Collaboration” is Lousy Management
Collaboration is a process of playing two sides off against each other in order to create enough guilt in one or all parties that a compromise is reached. The primary problem is that it is specifically...
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Trojan Horse Timber Sales on the Bitterroot
The slopes of Rye Creek had been logged by Darby Lumber before the Valley Complex fires broke out. Photo: George Wuerthner. The proposed Darby Lumber Timber Sale Phase Two on the Bitterroot National...
View ArticleThe Priorities of General Motors: Ditching Holden
It seemed to be a case of grand misrepresentation. Holden cars, those great Australian acquisitions, along with home, lawnmower and nuclear family, gave the impression of indigenous pride, the home...
View ArticleAs the Primary Race Heats Up, Candidates Forget Principled Campaign Finance...
At this time last year, newly declared Democratic primary candidates were racing to outdo each other with escalating promises to shun big money support. Contenders vowed not to take corporate PAC...
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Burning the Future: the Growing Anger of Young Australians
Photograph Source: Helitak430 – CC BY-SA 4.0 Growing up in a small town in Tasmania, Australia, not far from the coast, every summer we would spend seemingly endless carefree days at the beach –...
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