Living at the End of the World
The coronavirus spreads like a kind of modern plague across the global landscape. The view from my study window is of the gently rolling hills of the Berkshires in the foothills of the Appalachians....
View ArticleUs Foreign Policy After the Election
Former vice-president Joe Biden looks likely to be going to-to-toe with Trump for election in November, especially after the Primaries in Arizona, Florida and Illinois where Bernie got a whupping. At...
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America’s Commandos Deployed to 141 Countries and “Criminal Misconduct” Followed
Last October, a group of eight Apache attack and CH-47 Chinook helicopters carrying U.S. commandos roared out of an airfield in Iraq. They raced through Turkish airspace and across the Syrian border,...
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Reading Camus’ The Plague in a Time of Pandemic
“Each of us has the plague within him, no one, no one on earth is free from it. We must keep endless watch on ourselves lest in a careless moment we breathe in somebody’s face and fasten the infection...
View ArticleThe Great 5G Hype
President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson share much in common – a similar appearance, a showman’s presence, conservative (if not racist) beliefs, a nationalist ideology, reputed...
View ArticleWhat Will the Post-COVID-19 Global Economy Look Like?
The coronavirus has now gone global, and economies are in freefall. The pandemic is clearly the precipitating cause of today’s crisis, but there’s an underlying disease that has been with us for a long...
View ArticleTrump Should Have the Guts to Call His Middle East Troop Redeployments What...
Few can forget the words of Tony Blair’s government aide hours after the World Trade Center was destroyed on 9/11. “It is now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury,” wrote Jo Moore....
View ArticleThe Federal Reserve Dictatorship Runs Amok Against Savers
If you are a saver in a money market account or in a bank, you’ve already noticed your dwindling interest income as interest rates have been at their lowest in modern American history. Well, brace...
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Manifesting Radical Feminism
Webster’s defines a manifesto as “a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer.” In her recently published book Burn it Down! Feminist Manifestos for the...
View ArticleConsiderations of the Post-Sanders Era
Just the other day, I was looking through the articles Kevin Coogan had written over the years. Kevin, a long-time commenter on my blog, died unexpectedly on February 27th and I was curious to review...
View ArticleWhat COVID-19 Says About Us
A crisis, according to self-help and leadership books, reveals much about a person’s character. The same can be said of a nation’s character. Since the latest pandemic began to spread out of China in...
View ArticleSanders v. Warren: Why It Still Matters
When the body politic suffers severe trauma, here will be people yearning for a return to “normalcy.” Their efforts almost always turn out poorly. Voters who see in Joe Biden, of all people, a chance...
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Examine Your Own Cultural Practices, Senator Cornyn
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Senator John Cornyn told reporters it’s “no coincidence” COVID-19 originated in China, given “cultural practices there.” What cultural practices did...
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Poverty in the Time of Corona: Victims of a Sickness That is Yet to Exist
Photograph Source: Alison McKellar – CC BY 2.0 In the days on COVID-19, also known as coronavirus, we sometimes forget that the virus is not a “natural disaster,” nor does it affect all people equally....
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Death at the Greek Border: Syrian Refugees Should Not Be Used as Political Pawns
Photograph Source: Bundesministerium für Europa, Integration und Äusseres – CC BY 2.0 In a surprising move, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, announced on February 29 that he will be re-opening...
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Nature’s Revenge: Climate Change and COVID-19
Tehachapi, California. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The corona virus pandemic is no accident. Like past global epidemics, it’s a warning that nature has had it with the ecocidal proclivities of man. These...
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If Neoliberalism is Crumbling, What Will Follow?
Image Source: quapan – CC BY 2.0 The biggest problem with the future is that you can’t know what it will be. When Ronald Reagan was elected United States president in 1980, we did not at the time...
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Triggering a Global Financial Crisis: COVID-19 as the Last Straw
Photograph Source: Richard Eriksson – CC BY 2.0 Whether a black swan or a scapegoat, Covid-19 is an extraordinary event. Declared by the WHO as a pandemic, Covid-19 has given birth to the concept of...
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Fighting COVID 19 in Cuba, China and the United States
Photograph Source: NatalieMaynor – CC BY 2.0 Governments, according to Thomas Jefferson, are supposed to guarantee people’s rights to “life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” COVID 19 has out...
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Survive and Revolt
Yankee Doodle, by Archibald MacNeal Willard. “I Don’t Take Responsibility at All” Millions of U.S. -Americans are no doubt aghast over the Supremely Dangerous Asshole (SDA) Donald Trump’s statement...
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