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COVID-19 Reveals Trump’s Planned Obsolescence
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair As COVID-19 begins its inevitable “community transmission” phase around the United States, the purveyors of the conventional wisdom are largely focused on President...
View ArticleComing Out in Middle Age
Back in the mid ’80s, when I was a teenager trying to figure out my sexuality, I remember hearing stories about gay men and lesbians who didn’t come out of the closet until their 40s or 50s, often...
View ArticleCrises 4
Keynote address to the annual General Assembly of Indivisible San Francisco, 2/25/20. I’m told that when facing an existential crisis the first step is to admit it, and the second step is to deal with...
View ArticleSyria Debacles Epitomize Perpetual Perfidy of U.S. Foreign Policy
Turkey is ratcheting up its invasion of Syria and trying to drag NATO into Erdogan’s personal rehabilitation scheme. Threats and counter-threats are flying as thickly as the bombs and bullets. It...
View ArticleDaring to Kiss: Coronavirus and the Butterfly Effect
At some point, it seemed like a slow burner, gathering attention with each press release from the World Health Organisation. When talking about a threat, language is everything. With more cases of...
View ArticleTrump’s Second Term? Not Worth Freaking Out About.
You’ve heard it so often that you may well believe it’s true: Trump’s second term would be a disaster. For the Democratic Party. For the United States. For democracy itself. “The reelection of Donald...
View ArticleSuper Tuesday?
The DNC is nothing if not predictable. The crumbs to the working poor that would be a Sander’s presidency was more than they could abide as the machinations of the last few days illustrated. The...
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All the Devastating Epidemics That Coronavirus is Distracting Us From
Photograph Source: Stiller Beobachter – CC BY 2.0 Almost every day the BBC’s One-minute World News provides the latest death tally from coronavirus. The short news wrap-up typically covers about three...
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Apprentices to Nowhere: From Impoverished Graduate Students to Impoverished...
Photograph Source: Glenn Beltz – CC BY 2.0 Why have 233 graduate teaching assistants gone on strike at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC)? Why did University of California (UC) President...
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The Tyranny of the Consciousness-Raisers: Leninism, Anarchism and Jesus
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The bourgeoisie came to power because it was the class of the developing economy. The proletariat will never come to embody power unless it becomes the class of...
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Bernie Sanders Lost Minnesota Because He Fought For Racial Justice
Drawing By Nathaniel St. Clair Other than the refreshingly Bernie agnostic Jeffrey St. Clair, I don’t remember a single left commentator admitting that Bernie Sanders really wasn’t doing better in 2020...
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Yes, Trump Should Talk with the Taliban
Map of the War in Afghanistan (2015–19) – Source: Ali Zifan – CC BY 2.0 On March 3, US president Donald Trump spoke (via telephone) with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, chief of the Taliban’s Doha...
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Roaming Charges: Super Tuesday at Manzanar
Watchtower, Manzanar. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. My plan to spend Super Tuesday scaling the eastern flank of Mt. Whitney until my knees or lungs gave out was foiled by the closure of the Whitney Portal...
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Russian Meddling Again
Photograph Source: thierry ehrmann – CC BY 2.0 Joe Biden is not the only bad idea, way past its “best if sold by” date, that the Clintonites who call the shots for the Democratic Party have...
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The Super Tuesday Sting
This is the sixth of a periodic series on the early primaries and caucuses. The other pieces can be found here. Joe and Jill Biden on the campaign trail. Photo by Matthew Stevenson. The fix on Super...
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Cancer in US Navy Nuclear Powered Ships
USS Ronald Reagan, Kitty Hawk and Abraham Lincoln. Photo: U.S. Navy photo by Chief Photographer’s Mate Todd P. Cichonowicz. Here is a good one. In 2011, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald...
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They Rule: No Easter Bernie
Photograph Source: Mike Mozart – CC BY 2.0 A Witch Out of Dickens Former MSNBC (MSDNC) talk show host Chris Matthews’ execution by the Bernie Sanders campaign today was quick and painless. A guillotine...
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The Neoliberal Plague
Cover of the first edition of The Plague – Public Domain For those who aren’t familiar with Albert Camus’ The Plague, disparate lives are brought together during a plague that sweeps through an...
View ArticleIndustrialized Misery
Industrialized Misery It’s funny but There is no sound or rational Argument From environmentalists or those Who claim to love animals… For not becoming vegan. (Shock horror.) It’s funny but There are...
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Patterns of Occupied Palestine and Kashmir: Part 4 of Uncountable
Aaj Woh Kashmir Hai Mehkoom-O-Faqeer Kal Jise Ahl-E-Nazar Kehte Thay Iran-E-Sagheer (Today that land of Kashmir, under the heels of the enemy, has become weak, helpless and poor/Once known among the...
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