Apocalypse Now: Stop the Madness
“April is the cruelest month.” –T.S. Eliot, “The Wasteland,” 1922 COVID-19 has now violently emerged, alongside the Climate Emergency, as an existential threat. Our health, economic livelihoods,...
View ArticleThe Price of Power and West Point’s Class of 1986
Every West Point class votes on an official motto. Most are then inscribed on their class rings. Hence, the pejorative West Point label “ring knocker.” (As legend has it, at military meetings a West...
View ArticleDo You Want to Wait Until One Hundred Years Later: The More Things Change,...
This year our country celebrates the 100-year anniversary of the 19th Amendment, the right to vote for women, although sadly, suffrage was only granted to white women in many states, and it would not...
View ArticleDon’t Threaten Afghans…It Will Be Counterproductive
The principal deputy assistant secretary at the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA) in the U.S. State Department, Alice Wells, dropped a bombshell on the Afghan government and the country’s...
View ArticleInfected with Passivity: Letter from Catalonia
“Perseus wore a magic cap so that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over our eyes and ears so as to deny that there are any monsters.” – Karl Marx The...
View ArticleBiden Must Become the Climate-Commander-in-Chief
Now that Bernie Sanders has suspended his run for President Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic nominee. But not so fast. Sanders’ voters are going to support Biden when he earns it. Sanders blazed...
View ArticleA Palestinian Guide to Surviving a Quarantine
Call it a ‘quarantine’, a ‘shelter-in-place’, a ‘lockdown’ or a ‘curfew’, we Palestinians have experienced them all, though not at all voluntarily. Personally, the first 23 years of my life were lived...
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Plague and Civilization
Photograph Source: The National Guard – CC BY 2.0 The plague is a disease that raises its devouring and catastrophic head every so many decades and centuries, especially when humans violently disturb...
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The Use and Abuse of MMT
Detail from Government. Mural by Elihu Vedder Summary After being attacked by monetarists and others for many decades, MMT and the idea that running government budget deficit is stabilizing instead of...
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How to Convince the Recalcitrant That This Time Really is Different
Photograph Source: Steven Pisano – CC BY 2.0 Although I personally agree with the “shelter in place” policy currently in effect in North Carolina and other states, and am more or less reconciled to...
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Wisconsin: Electoral Politics Gone Lethal
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything more depressing in United States political history than last Tuesday’s election in Wisconsin. Following days of legal wrangling and in cold-blooded defiance of the...
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A Basic Income Manifesto
Photograph Source: Generation Grundeinkommen – CC BY 2.0 In the COVID-19 crisis, which is hitting hard at the vast majority of people, it’s hardly surprising that, in these first weeks of the...
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The President and His Mob: the Autopsy of Governance
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair President Trump’s current campaign of reprisal against his critics within the federal bureaucracy has become a Soviet-style purge, a vendetta, that resembles the...
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In CoronaLand
In CoronaLand Nothing is true All debts are forgiven — The storming of the Bastille Was a looting operation As the wind roars like a train And sirens flood the street A man fills up the stairwell With...
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Five Ways to Get Rid of Coronavirus
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Depleted Forests
“Restoration” logging on Oregon’s Deschutes National Forest. Photo by George Wuerthner. You can’t solve a problem if you don’t identify it correctly. When it comes to wildfire safety, the timber...
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Conservation Groups Will Sue Feds to Stop Massive Timber Sale in Critical...
Salmon and steelhead at Bonneville Dam. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Since time immemorial Pacific salmon and ocean-run steelhead trout have fought their way up the tumultuous waters of the Columbia and...
View ArticleJohn Prine and Bernie Sanders: Honoring Two Men Just Brought Down by the...
Two hugely important people were taken down by COVID-19 this past week. Both have left a legacy, the importance of which cannot be ignored. John Prine The first struck down last week is one of the...
View ArticleWill the Coronavirus Pandemic Help Curb War and Militarism?
Decades ago, when I began teaching international history, I used to ask students if they thought it was possible for nations to end their fighting of wars against one another. Their responses varied....
View ArticleSo Long, Bernie
People, on the political left, need something to believe in if they’re to survive in a right-wing society. While many on the left criticize those of us who supported Bernie Sanders for president, there...
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