Finding Meaning and Purpose in Adversity
Acknowledging your grief is not self-pity, nor is it a cry for help. On the contrary, it has been empowering for me to recognize that I will live with this grief for as long as I live. But I won’t be...
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Slavoj Žižek’s Virulent Polemic Against Covid-19, and Stuff!
“I used to be Deleuzanal, but, now, I’m not Saussure.” – Toilet stall wall riddle, next to Nietzsche Is Peachy Someone must have called Slavoj on his Radphone in the middle of the night and said go...
View ArticleBLM Timber Sale Increases Fire Risk, Reduces Climate Resilience and Harms...
The Bureau of Land Management’s Medford District has proposed the Bear Grub timber sale in the mountains between Ruch in the Applegate Valley and Talent in the Rogue Valley. This project focuses on...
View ArticleUniversity Bailouts, Funding and Coronavirus
In a set of stable circumstances, funding higher education should be a matter of automatic persuasion. If you want an educated populace, the tax payer should muck in. In some countries, however, this...
View ArticleDraconian Lockdown Powers and Civil Liberties
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” —Viktor Frankl We still have...
View ArticleHealthy and Unhealthy Fear in the Age of Coronavirus
Perhaps because I have so much of it, I am fascinated by the subject of fear. One part of me, the “scaredy-cat” side, when its activated “dies a thousand deaths,” making me I suppose half a coward. I...
View ArticleTens of Millions Will Be Pushed into Poverty Amid COVID-Induced Recession
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has lowered regional GDP growth projections from positive 1.3 percent to negative 1.8 percent in light of the global COVID-19...
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When “Moderate” Democrats Lead the Ticket and Win, Down-Ballot Candidates...
Many mainstream Democrats claim if “democratic socialist” Sanders were their party’s presidential nominee, many party candidates running in down-ballot races would lose in races they should win. They...
View ArticleWhy Remdesivir and Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19?
Louis Proyect writes: “I understand the reluctance to put a plus where Trump does, but this article [“How New Jersey’s First Coronavirus Patient Survived,” in the New York Times, ~3 April 2020]...
View ArticleThe Rap Sheets of the Big Ventilator Producers
Earlier this year, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in South Carolina announced that a company called ResMed had agreed to pay more than $37 million to settle allegations under the False Claims Act that it...
View ArticleMuhammad Ali’s Fight Against the Pentagon
Like many home-bounders during this coronavirus crisis, I’m watching movies on Netflix and Amazon Prime. I just finished watching a biography of Muhammad Ali, who was one of the greatest boxers of all...
View ArticleMontana Ballot Access Decision Suppresses Green Party Voters
In 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court held that unequal distribution requirements for statewide petitions violate the Fourteenth Amendment. Again in 1970, citing the 1969 Illinois case, the SCOTUS struck...
View ArticleAspirational vs Pragmatic: Why My Radicalness is Getting More Radical
Setting aside the pain and suffering of the infected for a moment, the most amazing part of the pandemic is its pulling back the curtain on the fragility and venality of the economic/political system...
View ArticleCorona, Capital and Class in Germany
As 70,000 people have died (6th April 2020) from the Coronavirus and the USA was initially expecting up to 82,000 deaths (and now is expecting up to 200,000 deaths), German economists have been asking,...
View ArticleCould COVID-19 Kill Capitalism?
This is not your normal zoonotic pandemic virus. That would be the famous Black Plague of 1348 spread by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. It arrived in northern Italy from the Crimean Peninsula, and...
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Coronavirus as Metaphor: It’s Not Peanuts
Photograph Source: cplbasilisk – CC BY 2.0 “No problem can be so complicated that it can’t be run away from.” ~ Linus, from Charles Schultz’s comic strip Peanuts One now sees people walking along...
View ArticleFrom Strike Wave to General Strike
The strike wave is here. The strike wave is real. Can workers take the next steps toward a General Strike? The current crisis is a rare opportunity for us to build a movement both outside of electoral...
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BlackRock Takes Command
The mainstream financial press has been remarkably quiet about the Federal Reserve’s appointment (March 24) of BlackRock to manage its massive corporate debt purchase program in response to the...
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Seven Disturbing Facts About COVID-19 in Louisiana
Photograph Source: Louisiana National Guard – CC BY 2.0 Virus Raging. Statewide Louisiana is second only to New York in deaths per 100,000 people with 582 reported as of April 7. Six parishes...
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How China Learned About SARS-CoV-2 in the Weeks Before the Global Pandemic
Photograph Source: Travis Wise – CC BY 2.0 The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the WHO, said at the...
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