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Higher Education in the Time of COVID-19
Desperate attempts to curtail the spread of the Corona Virus are turning many localities in different parts of the world into phantom cities. Universities and other higher education institutions have...
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How to Wage War, FDR-Style, on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Roosevelt and Winston Churchill aboard HMS Prince of Wales for 1941 Atlantic Charter meeting – Public Domain The United States, President Donald Trump is now proclaiming, stands at “war.” We are...
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UN Chief Warns of Coming Recession for the Planet
Photograph Source: I, Aotearoa – CC BY 2.0 The United Nations has shut down most of its meetings and all of its conferences, but the world body in New York stays open. There are peacekeeping missions...
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Joe Biden: Survival of the Unfittest
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Since becoming his party’s frontrunner and presumed nominee, Joe Biden has been hard at work, providing more fodder for future Trump campaign attack ads against himself....
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The Political Uses of Pandemic
Photograph Source: Michael Kowalczyk – CC BY 2.0 Crisis has long had political uses for ruling groups. As I wrote in a piece for CounterPunch in 2015, elites and their intellectual courtiers often...
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A Debt Jubilee is the Only Way to Avoid a Depression
Photograph Source: Adán Sánchez de Pedro – CC BY 2.0 Even before the novel coronavirus appeared, many American families were falling behind on student loans, auto loans, credit cards and other...
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The Pathogenic Profits System: Beyond Begging, Praying, and Capital
Photograph Source: Jim Linwood – CC BY 2.0 We live in an age of Orwellian untruth where falsehood is the norm. One key falsehood worth unmasking is the claim that the current COVID-19 stock market...
View ArticleMy Birthday Memory of Waldo Jeffers and “The Gift”
Back in the late 1960s, the Velvet Underground created a spoken word song called “The Gift.” Back then, I thought this song was an absurdly fascinating and dreadful fantasy and was one of the most...
View ArticleThe Pandemic Surveillance State
In anticipation of the post-COVID-19 world, bold statements are being made on how we will, as a race, be wiser, even kinder; cautious, and reflective. If history is ever a lesson on anything, such...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Patients Should Not Face Surprise Medical Bills
In the crush of news over the explosive spread of COVID-19, Congress has moved aggressively to pass the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. While imperfect, this bill will do much to provide free...
View ArticleThe Folly of Denying Online Purchases to Food Stamp Recipients
A California friend on food stamps has alerted to me to the fact that in most states, recipients on food stamps cannot use them for online purchases of food. The exceptions are the few states in a...
View ArticleThe Nez Perce-Clearwater Forest Plan Has No Accountability
The Forest Service is currently accepting public comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the forest plan revision on the Nez Perce and Clearwater National Forests. The comment deadline...
View ArticleThe New Federal Reserve as Garbage Can for All Capitalist Debt
Yesterday, the Federal Reserve crossed its latest liquidity free money Rubicon. It announced it will provide unlimited credit–and assume the bad debts, not just of banks, shadow banks, and wealthy...
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Five Ways Using Stimulus Funds for Energy Efficiency Would Reduce Inequality...
Longview, Washington. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. I am getting some serious 2008 flashbacks these days. Our economy is going into what could become a serious recession, and our political overlords want...
View ArticleThe Case for an Indictment of the US Government for Criminal Negligence for...
The charge is criminal negligence. Criminal Negligence exists as follows: “Everyone is criminally negligent who in doing anything, or in omitting to do anything that it is his duty to do, shows wanton...
View ArticleTrump and the Virus: It’s All About the Base
In confronting the coronavirus pandemic, it is striking that President Trump, who normally likes to be seen as The Man in Charge, driving events, has instead dragged his feet when pressed to take...
View ArticlePower in a Time of Coronavirus
Every day now we’re waking up into an extreme real-life nightmare, while responses are still routinely lagging far behind what’s at stake. Urgency is reality. The horrific momentum of the coronavirus...
View ArticleThe Coronavirus Conundrum and Human Rights
These are strange times. From left to right, no one quite knows what to do or who to believe. While the rapid spread of the coronavirus has rendered many of us bewildered and confused, the edict to...
View ArticleBeware Wall Street During a Pandemic
We have entered uncertain times. The novel coronavirus has upended life around the globe, and none of us knows exactly how long the outbreak or its ramifications will last. But daily reminders of how...
View ArticleSanctions: Unilateral Coercive Measures for Regime Change in Venezuela
In discussing the issue of “sanctions” there are two main points that need to be made. One is the use of the correct terminology when referring to the government actions that the US, Canada and the EU...
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