Clik here to view.
Wilderness Preservation is Our Best Protection Against Wildfires
Garfield Peak from Skel Point, Crater Lake. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. In recent weeks, misinformed Douglas County, Oregon politicians have expressed opposition to the 500,000 acre Crater Lake...
View ArticleTrump Betrays His Promise to Protect and Fight for American Workers
Campaigning for the presidency in 2016, Donald Trump promised that, if he was elected, “American worker[s] will finally have a president who will protect them and fight for them.” Has he kept this...
View ArticleThe NYT’s Analysis of Democratic Tax Plans: a Really Big Number Orgy
I have often gone after the media on printing large numbers that are meaningless to almost all their readers. The point is that when you throw out numbers in the millions, billions, and trillions,...
View ArticleJulian Assange Against the Imperium
The second day of extradition hearings against Julian Assange and by virtue of that, WikiLeaks, saw Mark Summers QC deliver a formidable serve for the defence at Woolwich Crown Court. “It’s difficult...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Return to Bahrain: Nine Years After the Uprisings, the Nation’s Human Rights...
Photograph Source: Sean Carberry – CC BY-SA 3.0 It’s been nine years since Bahrain’s February 2011 uprising. Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in cities and towns across the country to protest...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jammu and Kashmir Cannot be Reduced to Rubble
The areas shown in green are the two Pakistani-controlled areas: Gilgit–Baltistan in the north and Azad Kashmir in the south. The area shown in orange is the Indian-controlled state of Jammu and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bernie Finally Puts a Number on Cutting Military Spending
Anti-war protest in Washington, D.C., March 20, 2010. Photograph Source: Rrenner – CC BY-SA 3.0 Bernie Sanders’ campaign has published a fact sheet on how everything he proposes can be paid for. On...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How We Stay Blind to the Story of Power
Artwork by Nick Roney If one thing drives me to write, especially these posts, it is the urgent need for us to start understanding power. Power is the force that shapes almost everything about our...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Trump in Modi’s India
Badge worn by supporters of Jamia protesters. Photo: Kenneth Surin. I’ve been in New Delhi for over a week, attending a conference organized by the Muslim-majority Jamia Millia Islamia University....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bloomberg’s Game
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair There are two things I feel compelled to say about Mike Bloomberg and his candidacy. Thing One: Thank you, Mike! In a few weeks, Mike Bloomberg—along with the Democratic...
View ArticleHow Netflix And “Manning Marable” Killed Malcolm X (The Third Time)
At the outset, it is impossible to deny the vital role that the volume A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marrable’s Malcolm X (2012, Black Classics Press), edited by Drs. Jared Ball and Todd...
View ArticleThe Beef with Kobe
Great teams have great benches. So strong was the musical squad assembled for Kobe Bryant’s send-off at Los Angeles’s Staples Center on Monday, that even Hall of Famer Jennifer Lopez didn’t rate any...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spies, Lies and Videotapes
Still from The Bureau (Canal +). A while back, I noticed a brief reference in the N.Y. Times to a French spy thriller titled “The Bureau” that sounded intriguing. The Times reviewer described it as “a...
View ArticleSocialism Without Anti-Imperialism: A Different Flavor of Tyranny
Well dearest motherfuckers, socialism is back and it only took about a century, or at least so it appears. Nearly half the country has polled as being down with Debs. In spite of the worst efforts of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Every white American should—but won’t—read Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. DiAngelo runs workshops on race and racism in American society. The...
View ArticleThe Modi/Trump Anti-Muslim Alliance
If he was envious it didn’t show. Envy would have been unseemly given the joyfulness of the occasion. It happened when the trump took advantage of a 36-hour gap in his busy White House schedule to...
View ArticleWhy We Sued Trump’s BLM Over Its Sagebrush-Juniper Burning Project in Montana
It’s no secret that Trump has no respect for and continually attacks, the judicial system. As the old saying goes, “the fish rots from the head” and the rot has now reached the Bureau of Land...
View ArticleDon’t Depend on FEMA to Save Us From Global-Warming’s Armageddon
Americans noticing the increasingly intense natural disasters in this country—extreme heat waves, forest fires, hurricanes, tornados, floods, water shortages, volcanoes, and earthquakes—have to be...
View ArticleStop Calling Harmful Bigotry “Religious Freedom”
The Supreme Court is considering a case, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, that once again pits LGBTQ rights against so-called religious liberty. In this case, one of the plaintiffs, Catholic Social...
View ArticleReflections on “Black Excellence”
Black History Month came and went with little celebration due to coverage of the impeachment trial and 2020 presidential primaries. As disappointing as this has been, it did have one surprising...
View Article