Under COVID-19 Lockdown in Coleman Prison
We were notified this afternoon, that we are going on a lockdown, the whole institution, and the lockdown will be for at least 30 days. We were told we would be given 500 minutes for the phone, which...
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Spanish Flu: A Warning from History
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View ArticleTop 10 Reasons the U.S. Government Is Blowing This
10. Recognizing that a problem that has grown severe in other countries could grow severe in the United States would require thinking of the United States as existing in the same world, susceptible to...
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In Loving and Proud Memory of My Friend Derek Soberal
Derek Soberal, singled out for attack by Toronto Police, at a Metro Hall OCAP Occupation in 2013. Derek Soberal, a friend I had lost touch with in recent years, was a proud Canadian whose most inward...
View ArticleCoronavirus Exposes Stunning Presidential Leadership Vacuum
This is what happens when you put an untrustworthy reality TV show actor in charge of the United States government facing a crisis of unparalleled impact upon the citizenry, the economy and life as we...
View Article“Maximum-pressure March”: US hybrid war on Venezuela heats up
The first quarter of 2020 has seen the Trump administration escalate its rhetoric against Venezuela. At the State of the Union, President Trump promised to “smash” and destroy the Venezuelan...
View ArticleTrump’s Budget Proposal Reveals His Values
It is often said that government budgets are “an expression of values.” Those values are clear in the Trump administration’s $4.8 trillion budget proposal for 2021, unveiled early this February. The...
View ArticleThe DNC Declaration of Dependence: Death, Shackles, and Misery
We are in trouble in this year of 2020, when global warming is causing ethnic strife and the break-up of states into warring chiefdoms; when there is an intensified nuclear arms race between the United...
View ArticleFlake News, Bics, PINOcchios, and the War on Bernie Sanders
Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! – Lewis Carroll Corporate media isn’t doing itself any favors. Although constantly assaulted by Trump as Fake News, when it...
View ArticleBusiness as Unusual: Notes on a Pandemic
Even if no one you know catches it, you’ll start to worry if you’re not already flushed with paranoia. At first, everything seemed normal. It was hard to understand all the attention given to it when...
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When “Fake News” Was Banned: an America Trump Would Have Loved
Every month, it seems, brings a new act in the Trump administration’s war on the media. In January, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo exploded at National Public Radio reporter Mary Louise Kelly when he...
View Article‘Zionist’ Biden in His Own Words: ‘My Name is Joe Biden, and Everybody Knows...
“I am a Zionist. You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist,” current Democratic Presidential candidate, Joe Biden, said in April 2007, soon before he was chosen to be Barack Obama’s running mate in...
View ArticleOn the Front Lines of the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Doctor’s View
Coronavirus has officially hit the United States. Throughout the country, there have been anywhere between 1600 and 3600 confirmed cases and 41 deaths. This number is likely a gross underestimate of...
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Under Capitalism, Every Plague Has a Silver Lining
Photograph Source: Dan Zen – CC BY 2.0 However grave the calamity, someone will see it as a way to make a buck. COVID-19, which the World Health Organization declared as a global pandemic on March 11,...
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IMF Refuses Aid to Venezuela in the Midst of the Coronavirus Crisis
Illustration by Nathaniel St. Clair On March 16, 2020, the chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva wrote a blog post on the Fund’s website; it represents the kind of...
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A Lesson Coronavirus is About to Teach the World
Philippe de Champaigne’s Vanitas (c. 1671) If a disease can teach wisdom beyond our understanding of how precarious and precious life is, the coronavirus has offered two lessons. The first is that in a...
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Covid-19 and the Need, Right Now, For a Universal Basic Income
Photograph Source: Generation Grundeinkommen – CC BY 2.0 Apart from the medical threat revealing a brutal class divide in healthcare, the coronavirus pandemic is creating social and economic havoc...
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Civilization Ruffled by Another Perfect Epidemiological Storm
Plague is defeated, detail of the “Column of the Plague” (Pestsäule), Graben, Vienna, Austria. Photograph Source: Jebulon – CC0 It is the beginning of the twenty-first century and most humans remain...
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Keats’ Cats
Keats’ Cats All cats are saints, Except Keats’ cats Keats’ cats nap on Keats’ coats, Laid atop Keats’ cot — The cot Keats keeps by the oven Why not? It’s warm there, in Keats’ kitchen — And the sounds...
View ArticlePortraits of Fire in the Ancien Régime
Ithaca, NY. Just before the shutters were drawn on public gatherings in this college town in the middle of the Empire State, and before the thousands of students were sent away (many to corona hotspots...
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