Now Can We Celebrate Some Dangerous Black People?
Another Black History Month comes and another Black History Month goes. The 29 dreary days of the year when we reduce the history of the people who built this country beneath the weight of the whip to...
View ArticleIs the Creator Interfering in the 2020 Elections?
The creator, noted grantor of our rights to be free from government abuse in the Declaration of Independence, appears to be interfering in the 2020 election! What?!? Where can your author get that...
View ArticleGive the U.S.A. its Proper Name
Let’s call this country, the U.S.A., for what it really is, the United States of Apartheid. I was reminded of this recently in a story about McFarland a farming town south of Delano. The people of...
View ArticleVenezuela Responds With Principled Conviction to the US Desperate Attempts at...
The continued effort to overthrow President Maduro does not seem to produce the intended results for the perpetrators, but rather sends signals of desperation. The regime change plotters may be wishing...
View ArticleThe Meaning of Super Tuesday
A gush of corporate relief fills the airwaves as Super Tuesday becomes history. A progressive wave was not electorally visible as the Democratic status quo consolidated itself behind Joe Biden and won...
View ArticleThe Neoliberal Bumbler-in-Chief
Listening to Joe Biden on the campaign trail is about as painful as listening to Trump. The gaffes just keep on coming! Running for the senate or the presidency? Joe Biden can’t seem to get it right...
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The Long Roots of Our Russophobia
For the last five years, the American media has been filled with scurrilous articles demonizing Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin has been accused of every crime imaginable, from shooting down...
View ArticlePardon Me, Donald
Here’s the truth of it: I’d like a presidential pardon. Really, I would. And I think I deserve it more than Michael Milken or Rod Blagojevich or — because it’s obviously heading our way — Roger Stone...
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Industrial Forestry Threatens to Blitz the Lolo
Clearcuts in Montana. Photo: George Wuerthner. The Forest Service is once again demonstrating its Industrial Forestry bias with its proposal to treat 3,790 acres by Cruzane Mountain in the Lolo...
View ArticleUnbalanced Support for America’s Lands and Wildlife
My reasons for writing are twofold. First, because I read Rick Meis on collaboration, Mike Garrity on money losing timber sales and George Wuerthner’s, “’Extremists,’ not collaborators, have kept...
View ArticleBernie vs. Biden: When Will Unions Show Solidarity With Sanders?
In May 1976, a small group of Vermonters gathered in a church basement in Montpelier, the state’s capital, to learn about union organizing. At a day-long training session, the United Electrical Workers...
View ArticleNo, Mr. President, the Forever War in Afghanistan is Not Ending
Don’t fall for the hype. That is the one lesson that we all should have learned about President Donald Trump. He’s a salesman, not a statesman. He offers up fantasies, not facts. The most recent...
View ArticleEnding the Myth That Trump is Ending the Wars
There was this moment during the State of the Union Address that I can’t stop thinking about. When President Trump spoke to army wife Amy Wiliams during his speech and told her he’d arranged her...
View ArticleThe Brooklyn Yeshiva Anthem Protest: Why It’s Not Antisemitic
“An anti-Semite used to be a person who disliked Jews. Now it is a person who Jews dislike.” – Hajo Meyer, Jewish German-born Dutch physicist and Auschwitz survivor. “Antisemitism is a trick we always...
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Inside Right Wing Extremism: an Undercover Cyber-Agent Report
Some might be old enough to remember the start of the Internet with only .mil and .edu. It was the pre-WWW and pre-Dot-Com age time defined by a black screen and green or amber characters. In this era,...
View ArticleDemocraticide
Natural disasters come barreling out of nowhere, unforeseen. Before they occur, cataclysms and catastrophic events of the physical world–tidal wave, earthquake, wildfire, eruption–are inconceivable....
View ArticleWill COVID-19 Finally Bring Down Trump’s Virtual Presidency?
The “pussy grab video” didn’t do it. The Stormy Daniels’s revelations didn’t do it. The Mueller investigation didn’t do it. The impeachment trial didn’t do it. The cruel handling of children and the...
View ArticleThe Democrats’ Durable Dichotomy
It was a big day for Joe Biden, and a disappointment for Bernie Sanders. Mike Bloomberg got a sweeping win in American Samoa as a return on his massive spending. He’s cut his losses and endorsed Joe....
View ArticleWhy Mike Pence is the Worst Person to Lead the COVID-19 Response
A year after Trump took office, Saturday Night Live did a sketch called “What Even Matters Anymore?” Game show host Jessica Chastain read a list of outrageous things Trump has done and asked, “Does it...
View ArticleA Simple Prescription for a Longer Life: Economic Equality
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control released some welcome news recently: Americans are living a tiny bit longer. In 2018, U.S. life expectancy inched up about a month, from 78.6 to 78.7 years. The...
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