The Photographs of Thomas Moore and Quench
“The school was a circle—an all-encompassing environment of resocialization. The curriculum was not simply an academic schedule or practical trades training but comprised the whole life of the child in...
View ArticleThe Democratic Establishment’s Drive to Derail Sanders Will Backfire Again
It’s repulsive, though unsurprising, that former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg ended his campaign to help Joe Biden take out Bernie Sanders just before Super Tuesday. After winning Iowa on February...
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Malm’s “Fossil Capital”
Capital is Karl Marx’s theory of capitalism. Capitalism is a mode of production, a historical social system (as were primitive communism, the slave states of Greece and Rome and feudalism). After...
View ArticleYou Can be Free to Vote, Even Behind Bars
Birmingham, Alabama is a landmark city for the American civil rights movement. Even today, it’s ground zero for a vital fight over voting rights. I visited Jefferson County Jail in Birmingham recently...
View ArticleWashing our Hands of Trump and Powerlessness
It’s time to wash our hands of Donald Trump. The coronavirus pandemic is quickly becoming Trump’s Hurricane Katrina, because the federal government bungled the early stages of the disaster so badly....
View ArticleWar, Profit and the Coronavirus
If you want expertise, don’t bother reading any further here. I know as much about coronavirus as any stunned disbeliever with a sudden, irresistible urge to touch his face. This is a news story that’s...
View ArticleThe Fed’s Baffling Response to the Coronavirus Explained
When the World Health Organization announced on February 24th that it was time to prepare for a global pandemic, the stock market plummeted. Over the following week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average...
View Article“Two Sides” of Trump’s India Visit!
President Donald Trump’s brief visit (Feb 24-25), his first to India, has left many questions unanswered for both sides, United States as well as India. Of course, there is no denying that Trump would...
View ArticleCoronavirus Offerings and Job Losses
It was predicted, warned against and is happening. Universities fattened by the Chinese student market are now in a state of financial shock, cutting losses, trimming courses and doing what over...
View ArticleThe Beagle in Me, the Child in Snoopy
At the local pet shop, the owner, a gruff older man, tells me, “Oh, you got a beagle? You’re fucked!” And he laughs and laughs. “Dumb as a bag of rocks. Dumber than than the stone you walk on. You’ll...
View ArticleThe Virus of Nuclear Proliferation
In an avalanche of reporting we are now assaulted with information about how the world is urgently attempting to batten down the hatches to avoid the possibility of deathly consequences from the...
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Boomerang of Peace
Yuri Gagarin and George Harold Burchett, Moscow, 9 July 1961. In my files, there is a photo of my grandfather, George Harold Burchett, with Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. It was taken on 9 July...
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We Need Environmental Lawyers and Law
Timber wolf. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. I suspect most people think democracy is being able to vote, or being “free” to engage in extreme behaviour without considering its consequences, or being able...
View ArticleWe Need More Lunatics
The Moon with Venus, as observed in New Mexico, Dec. 2019 (Photo by the author) Back in February, on the day I knew the full moon would be rising, I sat down outside facing east, a few minutes before...
View ArticleFighting Insecure Housing: Q&A with Dominique Walker
Dominique Walker, 34, of the grassroots activist group Moms 4 Housing, is a mother and one of the unhoused women and children who last November began to occupy a vacant home in West Oakland that...
View ArticleYou Don’t Need Putin to Undermine American Democracy
With the 2020 election heating up, there is a stiff wind methodically weaving through this fierce desert of geriatric combat, something evil and relentless, sending haunted tumbleweeds rocking back and...
View ArticlePlease, Jill Biden, Please
I noticed disturbing signs. Then I’d look for positive signs to dispute those disturbing ones. Denial is an exquisite luxury. My husband Charles had an exceptional sense of direction. When we visited...
View ArticleWarren Isn’t A Snake, She’s Just Misreading Hegel
Bernie Bros, but especially sisters and non-binary siblings who dare to stand up to the billionaire class are being accused of calling former Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren a snake. The...
View ArticleBernie’s Mistakes
Establishment media is ridiculing Bernie Sanders for stating some simple truths: establishment media was out to get him, the DNC was out to get him and young voters who support him haven’t been good...
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Krugman Disses Sanders and Embraces Biden While Distorting the Obama Record
Paul Krugman, a past winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, wrote a recent New York Times column with the title “Bernie Sanders is Going for Broke.” He criticizes Sanders for his politics which are...
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