American Fuhrer—Corrupt Rampage Against Americans
Delusionary, dictatorial Donald Trump is drunk on power. Trump’s monarchical and lawless actions are a clear and present subversion of our Republic and its Constitution. As soon as the impeachment...
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Masterfully Baiting the Reds for a Dick’s Re-Election
Photograph Source: Fibonacci Blue – CC BY 2.0 If we define “Russian” during this latest Red Scare as being opposed to war, and not supporting an oligarchy or its neoliberal agenda, then ‘guilty as...
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To Save Our Climate We Need Taller Trees Not Taller Wooden Buildings
Old-growth Sitka Spruce forest, Blind Slough, Knappa, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. To many of us working at the intersection of forest conservation and climate stability recent opinions and news...
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The Economics of Democratic Socialism
Photograph Source: Fibonacci Blue – CC BY 2.0 The fact that capitalism is authoritarian is nothing really new and the fact that it needs to be replaced by democratic socialism is also nothing new. What...
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Primary Notes from a Shit-Hole Superpower: Crashing the Party from the Top Down
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair 12 noon: Just to be clear, the Dem establishment will gladly enable a second fascistic and ecocidal Trump term before it will get behind a progressive Dem/Sanders...
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What Might Happen If We Thought of Other Animals as People?
The Aybi (Buluwai), Garbil (Yidiny), or White Ibis (English) © Colin Bushell Photography. (In memory of Lilly) The common condition of humans and animals is not animality but humanity. – Eduardo...
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The Real Modi: Do the Killings of Muslim’s Represent India’s Kristallnacht?
Photograph Source: Ankur Jyoti Dewri – CC BY-SA 4.0 On 9 to 10 November 1938 the German government encouraged its supporters to burn down synagogues and smash up Jewish homes, shops, businesses,...
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Bernie and the Biotariat
Photograph Source: Becker1999 – CC BY 2.0 It is useful to remember that revolution is clearly sanctioned in the United States in one of the nation’s foundational documents, the Declaration of...
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Sanders Surrogate Cornel West vs. Bloomberg Co-Chair Bobby Rush, Former Black...
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View ArticleYet Another Mass Shooter Was a Military Veteran
Thursday yet another mass shooting was committed by a military veteran, this one in Milwaukee. Virtually all military veterans are not mass shooters. Many peace activists are veterans. Many everything...
View ArticleHonesty Isn’t Just a Campaign Attribute, It’s a Prerequisite for Change
Last week, after Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ victory in the Nevada caucus, long time human rights activist Brian Concannon wrote: The Democratic candidates missed the opportunity last week in...
View ArticleProblems with Bible Classes
Here in Appalachia’s Bible Belt, conservatives in the Legislature want to force all West Virginia public high schools to teach Bible classes, as occurs in several other Republican-controlled states. I...
View ArticleLiberals Explain Things to Me … My Soul Rebels
…that awareness of a ubiquitous, arbitrary death—which descends like a medieval plague on the just and the unjust alike, without warning or reason—is, I think, central to our experience of the 20th...
View ArticleKaia Rolle, Handcuffed and Arrested at 6: How Many More, and for How Long...
While fretting over refugee children in freezing tents along Turkey’s border, or Nargis Fazili’s family fleeing Afghanistan across Asia to Europe, or lone migrant children caged in U.S. detention...
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A World No Longer Shaped by Atlantic Powers
53rd Munich Security Conference 2017 – Public Domain The annual Munich Security Conference that took place February 14-16 this year turned out to be an iconic event, drawing comparison with the one...
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Relationships are Not the Monopoly of the State and Its Appendages
Photograph Source: irumge – CC BY 2.0 Human for those who labor under the delusion that the curtailment of civil liberties in Kashmir and persecution of minorities in Delhi are “internal” matters:...
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Mixed Returns for the Huawei Bashing Tour
Photograph Source: Huawei – CC BY 2.0 The US imperium is rattled, so much so it’s letting everyone else know about it. Move over the trade war with its bitchy insistence on redressing imbalances,...
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The Call for an Extinction Rebellion
Mexican Wolf. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. In the age of coming climate apocalypse, the narcissistic self-regard of humans in their exploitive relationship with the natural world is so disgusting, so...
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Why Do Cars Kill More People in Unequal Nations?
Photograph Source: wordjunky – CC BY 2.0 Do you know someone who’s died in a car crash? If you live in the United States, the odds say you probably do. We’ve been averaging over 40,000 deaths a year...
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They Have the Watches, We Have the Time; US and Iran Hardliners Still Want War
Photograph Source: Michael Kumm – CC BY 2.0 When I was in Afghanistan, I often heard a Pashtun saying attributed to the Afghan Taliban strategy for war with the United States: “They have the watches,...
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