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Amid Plague, Sanctions are Genocide
Photograph Source: Euan Morrison – CC BY 2.0 Sanctions have long been indefensible; now in the time of Covid-19, more so than ever. Nor are they some minor phenomena. Over a quarter of humanity lives...
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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Body Politic
Photograph Source: srslyguys – CC BY 2.0 As the international community is consumed by the impact of Covid-19, there are signs of the impact of the pandemic on the body politic. There is change...
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John Prine: Jesus The Missing Years (RIP Good Buddy)
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View ArticleConservation Groups Oppose the Nature Conservancy’s Cattle Grazing...
The Dugout Ranch, acquired some 20 years ago by The Nature Conservancy is the last commercial operation before one enters the incredible spires, arches, and slot canyons of The Needles District of...
View ArticleNo Fennel in the Sausage, No $600 for the Jobless
Last week, in one of his daily coronavirus briefings, President Trump shared that some of his business friends had been advising him to “don’t do anything, just ride it out and think of it as the...
View ArticleBeware Government Secrecy in Times of Pandemic
Every British Columbian should be nervous, and irritated, by the never-ending secrecy demonstrated by health officials. We are talking about COVID-19, where it is, and how we should be dealing with...
View ArticleLove in a Dangerous Time
A profusion of anonymous axioms and memes floods social media these days but one remains my very favorite: “It’s like we’ve all been sent to our room to think about what we did.” My friends, if there...
View ArticleThe Dishonest Mr. Daines
There must be something in Washington, D.C.’s water that makes politicians think they can do one thing and get away with telling their constituents something else. Certainly the current occupant of the...
View ArticleBasic Economics for Economic Columnists: a Depression is a Process, Not an Event
With the economy going into a shutdown mode for at least month, and possibly quite a bit longer, we’re again hearing the cries from elite economics columnists about a Second Great Depression. These are...
View ArticleLost in the Pandemic: the Forever Wars
Locked down in my fifth floor apartment in Geneva, Switzerland with a view across the French border dominated by the snow-capped Monte Blanc, I began to wonder whatever happened to the forever wars we...
View ArticlePolitics and Corruption at Grand Canyon
The Trump Administration is on the warpath. Not to end the Coronavirus, which the President generally believes does not require much federal government intervention, but a war on the environment. From...
View ArticleJohn Lennon in Quarantine: a Letter From Havana
John Lennon is in quarantine. He, or at least his bronze sculpture, sits on a bench in the leafy park at 17th & 6th Street in Vedado, as though inviting visitors to sit next to him and have a chat....
View ArticleCOVID-19 and the Lessons of Life in Exile
Everything is unsettled. Whatever you thought was steady and predictable has now turned out to be alien and dangerous. You can no longer interact with your family or friends or other members of your...
View ArticleMartin Khor: the Making of a Global Activist
When future students of North-South relations look back to the history of the last 35 years or so, among the key figures they will most likely mark as one of the most decisive in shaping the course of...
View ArticleWhy We Need a New Progressive Party and How We Can Create It
There is no room for progressives in the Democratic Party. No matter how many votes he or she gets, no progressive will be permitted to be the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. Progressives...
View ArticleBanal Terrors: Pandemics and the Ordinary Business of War
The twaddle of framing the confrontation of the coronavirus as a “war” has proven to be a cheapening, misguided exercise. France’s president Emmanuel Macron has deemed COVID-19 the “invisible, elusive...
View ArticleSanders Suspends: What Happened? What Now?
Kyle Kulinski of Secular Talk commented just as Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign: “Bernie made a number of mistakes that I highlighted and broke down in detail. No excuses. Having said that,...
View ArticleWe Are Living (And Dying) in Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death”
Edgar Allan Poe’s 1842 tale “The Masque of the Red Death” is a story about class. Poe’s tale contrasts the fates of rich and poor during a plague even more lethal than the coronavirus. Poe’s...
View ArticleAmerican Exceptionalism in the Face of Covid-19
Food takes a special place in times of universal distress. Amid this Covid-19 pandemic, food insecurity and hunger are growing exponentially. Here in the US, the richest society on Earth where the...
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Could COVID-19 Count Fox News Among Its Victims?
Photograph Source: Patrick Finnegan – CC BY 2.0 It is hard to find good news in these dark days of the growing pandemic COVID-19. Stuck between a choice of going bankrupt and dying of a highly...
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