The Poverty Line is Too Damn Low
Earlier this month, the Trump administration announced that it is seeking public comment on producing “additional measures of poverty.” While the request has received little to no attention in the...
View ArticleSouth Carolina Primary: What Does It Mean?
What are the political ‘takeaways’ from Saturday’s South Carolina primary? In just few words: not many. None that change the fundamental dynamics that have in play throughout the primaries in general...
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Environmental Collusion is Corruption
Timber mill, Roseburg, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. When I was a kid growing up in a coal mining community and regularly visiting the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois, my heroes were...
View ArticleIndigenous Rights Are Human Rights! RCMP Out of Wet’suwet’en!
In the dark early morning on February 6, 2020, the RCMP violently raided Wet’suwet’en territory in Northern British Columbia, Canada. “They’re invading our people again, starting in the wee hours of...
View ArticleThe Viral Blame Game: Xenophobia, Attribution and Coronavirus
Moralising the way diseases and viruses are transferred is a very human, and particularly nasty trait. “We don’t need this kind of riff-raff on our shores,” screamed The New York Times in 1892 in...
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Toxic Agriculture and the Gates Foundation
Chemical fertilizer plant, San Joaquin Valley. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was launched in 2000 and has $46.8 billion in assets (December 2018). It is the largest...
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Noah, New and Improved: the Endangered Species Act Under Trump
Bald Eagle, Driscoll Slough, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. So now the Trump administration has got a stranglehold on the Endangered Species Act and is going to “modernize” extinction and “update”...
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Remembering the Heroism of Activist Berta Cáceres Four Years After Her...
Photograph Source: Chixoy – CC BY-SA 3.0 On July 15, 2013, the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), led by Berta Cáceres Flores, went to protest the construction...
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Saying Government-Funded Healthcare’s Too Costly is Nuts…Unless You Think the...
Photograph Source: Molly Adams – CC BY 2.0 The new corporate media and conservative Democratic argument against front-runner Bernie Sanders’ eminently logical proposal for creating a single-payer...
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Iran’s Coronavirus Outbreak Bizarrely Resembles the Black Death
Photograph Source: CDC/Dr. Fred Murphy – Public Domain When the very first coronavirus reports emerged, I had a suspicion that Iran would be a target of the world’s anger. The spread of Covid-19 to the...
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Venezuela Embassy Protectors on Trial
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair US Government Suppresses Information on Illegal Regime Change Activities Judicial proceedings are taking place in DC federal court where the judge has ruled inadmissible...
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Billionaire Power and Politics
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair I watched the last two Democratic presidential debates with heavy heart. Not a single question about the engulfing catastrophe of climate change. The warming waters of...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Upends Political Landscape and Global Economy
We knew the Democratic primary campaign was going to be exciting and sure enough, it is. Bernie Sanders is now the front-runner and, despite all efforts by the establishment Democrats to derail his...
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Researchers Are Substantially Undercounting Gene-Editing Errors
CRISPR Enzyme on DNA (Photo: MIT News). The standard gene-editing tool, CRISPR-Cas9, frequently produces a type of DNA mutation that ordinary genetic analysis misses, claims new research published in...
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Water is a Privilege Not a Right: Bleeding the Deschutes River
Dip-netting for salmon from tribal fishing platforms, Deschutes River. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The Deschutes River was once one of the gems of the West. Due to numerous springs, its flow was nearly...
View ArticleIf Sanders is Robbed of the Nomination, It’s Time for the VotePact Strategy
Right now, the entire Democratic Party apparatus and allied corporate media are working to ensure that Sen. Bernie Sanders does not get the Democratic nomination even if he gets a plurality of...
View ArticleWhy the US Would be Better Off With Fewer Billionaires
When folks say that billionaires shouldn’t exist, it’s nothing personal. Some billionaires are nice enough. Some spend generously on philanthropy. That all sounds great. But we don’t need more...
View ArticleBloomberg & Occupy Wall Street
It is strange, to say the least, that Michael Bloomberg’s role in shutting down Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has been overlooked so far during his presidential campaign. While his “stop-and-frisk” racist...
View ArticleMaking America Unsafe Again
Donald Trump is all about boundaries. At a personal level, he doesn’t like touching strangers for fear of infection. Politically, he makes no long-lasting close alliances. And geopolitically, he...
View ArticleDo Stockholders Look Forward to a Decade of Very Low Returns?
In spite of completely missing the crash of the stock bubble in 2000-2002 and the housing bubble in 2007-2010, people tend to think that the big actors in the stock market have great insight into the...
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