The Speech Trump Must But Cannot Give
Some of my commentary about politics is presented in the form of “advice” to the ruling classes. Please understand: I don’t really expect them to take my advice. My advice is not really directed toward...
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What’s the Hang Up on Releasing Adult Lobos?
Mexican wolf. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. On March 9, a colleague from Endangered Species Coalition and I published this op-ed in the Albuquerque Journal, identifying Arizona and New Mexico as major...
View ArticleLessons From Africa: Military Intervention Fails to Counter Terrorism
Late last year, President Trump provoked a furor when he declared his intent to withdraw some 1,400 US troops from West Africa, where he claimed they had quelled the terrorist threat. He sparked a...
View ArticleAnother New Peace
It’s not easy to write in the middle of a tsunami or a pandemic either for that matter. It seems like a good opportunity, one might think, all the bars are closed and people’s usual activities like...
View ArticleTrump’s Mass Negligent Homicide Doesn’t Let Democratic Leaders Off the Hook
In the last few days, New York and Pennsylvania postponed voting in presidential primaries from April until June. A dozen other states have also rescheduled. Those wise decisions are in sharp contrast...
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What Does COVID-19 Have to Do With Industrial Pollution?
Tehachapi, California. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The industry lobbyists were lined up at the trough last week grabbing hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars from the corporate-heavy giveaways in...
View ArticleThe White House and the CDC are United in Stupidity
On Saturday, I received a postcard of guidelines from the white house and the Centers for Disease Control – CDC. The guidelines repeated based recommended behavioral changes to the coronavirus outbreak...
View ArticleDeath Camps in the Making: New York’s Prisons During a Time of Pandemic
Every day, says Donna Robinson, a bucket of bleachy water is delivered to a ward in Bedford Hills to be used by the sixty women housed there, her own daughter among them. That’s the extent of the...
View ArticleFormer WHO Director: 8-Week Suppression Strategy Could Stop US COVID Crisis...
“We know we can get this under control,” says Dr Anthony Costello, a former Director at the World Health Organization (WHO) where he headed up maternal, child and adolescent health. “The problem is...
View Article“The Coronavirus is Man-Made:” the Conspiracy Theory Trap
In this trying time, have you heard some of your friends say that the U.S. government created this pandemic or that the pandemic is not real at all? It is worth responding to these outlandish claims...
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Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats
Photograph Source: Esmée Winnubst – CC BY 2.0 The hard work of protecting water and land from the long-term harms associated with gold and silver mining takes place daily on the frontlines of tenacious...
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COVID-19 in Haiti: the Current Response and Challenges
Image Source: WILL POWER – CC BY 2.0 On March 19, Haitian president Jovenel Moïse confirmed the first two cases of the novel coronavirus in Haiti. The number has since increased to eight. In response,...
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Apocalypse, Now and Forever
Cover Art: Notes From an Apocalypse by Mark O’Connell Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back is a thoughtful, engaging book that ends in failure. But Mark...
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Oil industry Exploits Pandemic as Excuse to Dodge Federal Regulations, Fees
Photograph Source: Phil Dolby – CC BY 2.0 In an act of appalling hubris, the oil and gas industry is asking the federal government to loosen enforcement of federal regulations on public lands in...
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“Whose University? Our University!” The Struggle for a COLA at UC Berkeley
Photograph Source: Kevin Gong – CC BY 2.0 On March 5th, in the midst of a campus-wide march and rally, a student protester at UC Berkeley walked into the bustling Free Speech Movement Café, a study...
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The UK and Covid-19 Crisis
Photograph Source: Sanshiro KUBOTA – CC BY 2.0 The UK has been preoccupied with its roiling Brexit psychodrama since 2016. Brexit has to be seen in the larger context of the UK’s incomplete recovery...
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No Pandemic-Related Pause? VA Privatization Leaves Veterans Waist Deep in...
Photograph Source: Brianmcmillen – CC BY-SA 4.0 “Every time I read the papers That old feeling comes on; We’re waist deep in the Big Muddy And the Big Fool says to push on.” – Pete Seeger, 1967 Half a...
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COVID-19 in Germany: Explaining a Low Death Rate
Photo: privately owned by the author and the man in the picture. On 31st March 2020, www.worldometers.info calculated the global death toll from Corona tallied 38,000. Among comparable European...
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Mike Davis on the Politics of Coronavirus
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Plague Days
Plague Days The graves were six feet deep To halt the spread of plague And keep six feet away From everyone you meet On the street — And when you go out Or up to the roof Ask: should we build some...
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