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Israel at the Cusp of a Bleak Era
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, must be channeling the spirit of Houdini as he continues to plot his escape from one of the most...
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Analysis of the 2019 Bolivia Election: No Evidence of Irregular Trends or Fraud
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Disclosure: In December 2019, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) contracted with the authors to see if the numerical and statistical results of CEPR’s...
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Immunity for Killings by Immigration Police
Photograph Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection – Public Domain The American immigration police state continues to grow more tyrannical with each passing day. The latest example involves the U.S....
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If Bernie Sanders Is Unelectable, Then What The Hell Are The Rest Of You?
Photograph Source: Phil Roeder – CC BY 2.0 The New York Times complained in a recent column that Bernie Sanders has not expanded the democratic party in the primaries so far. Apparently the paper...
View ArticleNo Thinking Please, We’re Red-Baiting
The red-baiting of Bernie Sanders is in full swing. From Democrats. Yes, the silly season is upon us as Senator Sanders was roundly condemned because he believes literacy campaigns are good things. I...
View ArticleForever-Chemicals Tap Water
Throughout the history of Western Civilization there are times, but only on rare occasions, when people en masse feel compelled to run into the streets, similar to the storming of the Bastille 1789,...
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Carolina and Super Tuesday on My Mind
The fifth of a periodic series on the early primaries and caucuses, this was written before the vote in South Carolina. The other pieces can be found here. Tom Steyer on the campaign trail. Photo by...
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The So-Called Party of the People: From Nevada to South Carolina
President Obama: Meeting with Democratic Blue Dog Coalition. State Dining Room. Photograph Source: White House (Pete Souza) – Public Domain My thesis on the Democratic Party’s corporate-imperialist...
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The Space Force Becomes a Weapons System, Arms Companies Profit
Photograph Source: United States Space Force – Public Domain As the world gets used to what the US military calls “Full Spectrum Dominance,” the complex uplinks/downlinks, spurious RADAR returns, cyber...
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Bloomberg: What Is He Good For?
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair After winning big in Nevada and withstanding the efforts of Democratic “moderates” to throw him off track at last Tuesday’s South Carolina “debate,” Bernie Sanders is now...
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Roaming Charges: Knives Out
Abbey TV, Mojave Desert. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. + In response to criticism from Democratic Party centrists that Sanders didn’t do enough to help Hillary in 2016, the Sandernistas are touting the...
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Witnessing the Hell a Migrant Can Face
Photograph Source: Raimond Spekking – CC BY-SA 4.0 At Obock, Djibouti, 2,000 migrants gather each day along the waters of the Gulf of Aden; they look for boats to get them to Yemen. Over the past two...
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Bernie Sanders and the Socialism Question
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Wherever Bernie Sanders’ campaign goes from here, the left critique of establishment politics is getting empirical backing through popular support for his candidacy. The...
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Capitán Capital
Capitán Capital Look at you, there in the road watching the clouds amass and blacken Where’ll you go Once everything’s flooded? The Erie Canal And the St. Lawrence Seaway will merge Who knows Will you...
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Science and the Turf Wars of Consciousness
“The glitter is in everything.” – An old friend from way back when Who’s to say what consciousness is? Nobody knows. Only a few good wo/men seem to give a shit at any given moment. The poet T.S. Eliot...
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Cult-Like Ignorance is Death: Trump and the Coronavirus
Trump’s lies, his disparagement of science and scientists, his claim that non-political civil servants are part of the deep state, his lack of credibility, his penchant for political opportunism over...
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District 15 | Stop Neighborhood Oil Drilling
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View ArticleFighting Modi with a Poem
Some poems capture the tyranny of the time. Sab Yaad Rakha Jaiga (All you do will be remembered), an Urdu/Hindi poem protesting the viciousness that the Modi Hindutva has unleashed in various parts of...
View ArticleEmbarrassing Moments from Trump’s Visit to India
Donald Trump abroad never ceases to entertain with his ignorance and misstatements. As India’s leaders learned from Trump’s previous visits to Saudi Arabia and China, all it takes is pomp and...
View ArticleA Bourgeois Hero Would Be Something To See!
Progress is reaction. Civilization is its discontents. – Peter Lamborn Wilson, The New Nihilism …as Nietzsche said somewhere, one cannot understand disease unless one has been sick…this is the...
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