How a Police State Will Deal With the COVID-19 Pandemic
“Fear is a primitive impulse, brainless as hunger, and because the aim of horror fiction is the production of the deepest kinds of fears, the genre tends to reinforce some remarkably uncivilized ideas...
View ArticleA Pandemic Comes to the U.S.
Part I—Uncomprehending and Unprepared On 10 March 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters in reference to the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19), “It will go away, just stay calm.” He added, “It’s...
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The Conquerors of America
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Patrick Weidhaas, a colleague of mine from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and also a colleague from the union group there (Society of Professional...
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Cashing in on Degrading Public Lands: How Welfare Ranchers Reap a Beef...
Gutting the Grazing Regulations BLM is preparing an EIS to eviscerate the already weak and often toothless public lands grazing regulations, strip nearly all controls from grazing permits, and add new...
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Austerity Has Weakened Our Ability to Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic
Photograph Source: wandererwandering – CC BY 2.0 “I have delivered food parcels to four families this morning,” says Paula Spencer, who runs the community centre in Thanington, a deprived district on...
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Death By Tweetstorm: a Win-Win for Trump
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair For lack of respirators, patients with severe respiratory distress from COVID-19 will die as the epidemic unfolds. A drug to treat the disease is urgently needed. But...
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The Cost of This Pandemic Must Not Bankrupt the People
Photograph Source: David Shankbone – CC BY 2.0 The global pandemic of COVID-19 has spread to almost every country on the planet earth. The virus will take many lives, disrupt communities and...
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Putting Profits Before Workers’ Safety: Inside Amazon During the COVID-19 Crisis
Photograph Source: Fibonacci Blue – CC BY 2.0 As coronavirus continues to spread and much of the country is locking down, Amazon has been ramping up. With more people staying home, delivery is becoming...
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Jenny Lewis: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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View ArticleCorona Hopes
Let’s hope The virus kills off All the motherfuckers Who ever said… Thank god we don’t live in caves, Thank god we no longer Live in the trees… Let’s hope the virus kills All of us who can’t live...
View ArticleTransitioning ‘Ontologically’ Pt II: Building Counter-(Oc)Culture
Beyond being “disrespectful,” the modern Western insistence on a mechanical universe delimits the radical imaginary in general. To refrain from telling the [spiritually-based] activist they are wrong...
View ArticlePlease Hand-Sanitize All Pitchforks and Torches: Tips For a Safe Coronavirus...
Ain’t nobody slowing down no way Everybody’s stepping on their accelerator Don’t matter where you are Everybody’s gonna need a ventilator… –Mick Jagger/Keith Richards, “Ventilator Blues” Oh, those...
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Save the Great Burn Wilderness
Heart Lake, Great Burn, Roadless Area. Photo: George Wuerthner. The 275,000-acre Great Burn proposed wilderness lies west of Missoula on the Idaho-Montana divide. The 1910 Burn, which over ran 3...
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Rethinking Commander-in-Chief in American Leadership
Ask Americans who’s commander-in-chief, most will respond: our president. Citizens only think about this just before a presidential election every four years when their final, ‘supreme criteria’ of...
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Palpitations of the Pulps
“Space is not only high, it’s low. It’s a bottomless pit.” ― Sun Ra The latest volume in Wakefield Press’ epochal Jean Ray translation project, 1932’s Cruise of Shadows, comprises both his biggest...
View ArticleBoris Johnson Must Learn Lessons From Italy: People Before Profit!
Most people know that we cannot trust Boris Johnson and his government to take the correct measures to protect the safety of the working-class. That much was made clear last Monday when Johnson was...
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Looking Past the Pandemic
Redtail Hawk, Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge, Willamette Valley, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. This morning there was a Red-Tailed Hawk perched low in the woods outside my window for a least forty...
View ArticleDuring the COVID-19 Pandemic, Do as the Vietnamese Do
As I wrote in a recent essay for international education colleagues, Viet Nam has overcome steep odds in many contemporary arenas and throughout its millennia-long history. In the midst of the...
View ArticleAre We Our Brothers’ and Sisters’ Keepers?
We in the West have been caught unaware and unprepared for a disaster in the making. Think The Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, and Jaws all rolled into one, despite the obvious warnings about...
View ArticleCOVID-19 and the Death of Connectivity
The Covid 19 pandemic is the second major crisis of globalization in a decade. The first was the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, from which the global economy took years to reach a semblance of...
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