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Alliance for the Wild Rockies Sues Feds to Stop a Project That Will Kill 72...
Yellowstone grizzly. Photo: National Park Service. Once over 50,000 strong in the lower 48 states, grizzlies were reduced to less than 1,000 bears. Grizzly bears were eliminated from Texas by 1890,...
View ArticleThe Return of Infrastructure Week
According to the Washington Post, Donald Trump is calling for a fourth stimulus package, which he wants to be “very big and bold,” and to focus on infrastructure. He argued that this is a good time to...
View ArticleHow COVID-19 Changed Our Lives: a Report From Beijing
On January 18, after attending a meeting in Hangzhou, I planned to return to my home in Beijing. At that time, the Spring Festival in China was approaching. Although I had started buying tickets one...
View ArticleAppeal for Humanitarian Diplomacy in the Korean Peninsula
External threats such as pandemics remind all of us the need for global solidarity. The more we cooperate, coordinate, and share information and resources the safer we all are. In times of...
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An Open Letter to My Landlord #CancelRent
We will not be paying rent for April, and we thought we’d let you know why. Dear Mr. and Mrs. Randall, Just to let you know, since we’ve never met, I’m one of your many residential tenants. I imagine...
View ArticleBy The Time We Notice We’re Hungry, It May Be Too Late
“[A]s the top U.S. watermelon-producing state prepares for harvest, Reuters reports, “many of the workers needed to collect the crop are stuck in Mexico …. Without the workers crops could rot in fields...
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The Future May Be Female, But the Pandemic is Patriarchal
Before I found myself “sheltering in place,” this article was to be about women’s actions around the world to mark March 8th, International Women’s Day. From Pakistan to Chile, women in their millions...
View ArticleThe Swedish Alternative: Coronavirus as a Grand Gamble
As draconian lockdowns, punitive regimes and surveillance become the norm of the coronavirus world, Sweden has treaded more softly in the field. This is certainly in contrast to its Scandinavian...
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It’s Time to Clean Ecofascism Out of Environmentalism
The coronavirus pandemic is lethal, but could there be a silver lining beyond the pain? Social media is awash with how the newly cleaned environment is hosting wildlife not seen for years. Dolphins are...
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The Coronavirus Rained on Trump’s Easter Charade
Photograph Source: Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks – Public Domain In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, President Trump was hell-bent on loosening social restraints so that churches...
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What We Should Do About COVID-19
Like their counterparts elsewhere, contract sanitation workers in Chennai work with little or no serious protection. Photo: M. Palani Kumar. With his first speech on the coronavirus, Prime Minister...
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Prisons are a COVID-19 Petri Dish
Photograph Source: Prison Insight – CC BY 2.0 Now is the time to empty the prisons. With over two million people incarcerated, the vast majority for nonviolent crimes, prisoners are packed like...
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The Temple of Self-Gratification
Photograph Source: Ken Walton – CC BY 2.0 Author David Foster Wallace once said that America is, “One enormous engine and temple of self-gratification and self-advancement.” The spectacle of American...
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The Dark Secrets in the Fed’s Last Wall Street Bailout Are Getting a Devious...
Largest Recipients of Federal Reserve Bailout Funds, 2007 to 2011. From December 2007 to November 10, 2011, the Federal Reserve, secretly and without the awareness of Congress, funneled $19.6 trillion...
View ArticleCould COVID-19 Reshape Global Leadership?
As U.S. COVID-19 cases double every few days and the death toll mounts, the U.S. seems to be caught in a “worst of both worlds” predicament: daily life and much of the U.S. economy is shut down, but no...
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Beset by Bach
Back in December of 2011 while I was living in Berlin for a year, I filed one of my Friday morning CounterPunch columns as I packed for a trip to France for Christmas with friends. The piece was a...
View ArticleEddie Van Halen and the Future of Humanity
This morning I watched a 2015 Eddie Van Halen interview on YouTube. He talked a lot about various guitar geek stuff. He also shared some of his family history. His father was Dutch, a native of...
View ArticleEfficiency vs. Resilience
Many years ago, bestselling author Michael Pollan explained there’s a trade-off between efficiency and resilience. For example, your grocery store probably did not have a warehouse full of toilet paper...
View ArticleCarcinogens
I have less potential than an aborted fetus. I guess I wouldn’t describe potential in the normal sense though – and that’s worth clarifying. I think potential is often measured using units of caveats....
View ArticleHospital Bailouts Begin…for Those Owned by Private Equity Firms
On March 22, the Steward hospital chain sent a letter to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, saying it would close Easton Hospital, in the state’s Lehigh Valley, on March 27 unless it received a government...
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