Guilt and Impunity: Gaza and COVID-19
Plague has entered the Holy Land. During the week of Easter and Passover there is an uncanny conjuncture of dire threat and insouciance. Easter in the West is a cheery time of pastel eggs, chocolate,...
View ArticleCOVID-19 and Amerindians
Most of us are preoccupied with quarantining, and whether or not we will have jobs to go back to when this is all over. In truth, it may be months. Therefore, it is difficult to imagine the Coronavirus...
View ArticleIf the Rich Trust in Hydroxychloroquine, Should We?
Donald Trump the president last Saturday became Donald Trump the pitchman. He didn’t pitch any policy. He pitched instead what some are calling a “game changer” in the war against coronavirus, an...
View ArticleRe-Engaging Russia
With the coronavirus already infecting over a million people and severely impacting the global economy, there is a new recognition of a need to reduce global tensions, what the UN secretary general has...
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COVID-19 in Brazil: Favela Residents and Indigenous Communities Among Those...
Photograph Source: paula le dieu – CC BY 2.0 As of noon on April 8th the total number of Covid-19 positive cases reported by Brazil’s health ministry exceeded 14,000 and the number of deaths exceeded...
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Why It’s Going to be Much Harder for Neoliberals to Prevent Government Spending
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It is a sign of how bad things are when the editorial board of the Financial Times, the world’s leading business newspaper, carries an editorial calling for “radical...
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Apocalypse Around Every Corner
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair I used to read my three kids their favourite story book series on Frog and Toad. Frog, more cheery than his friend Toad, who takes things a wee bit too literally and...
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Bernie’s Missed Opportunity
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Bernie Sanders’ 2020 run for President turned out to be even more enigmatic than his 2016 run for the same office. Let’s take a look back in history to remember when...
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Why is Canada Refusing Cuban Doctors?
Photograph Source: Jernej Furman – CC BY 2.0 We all have this feeling right now. Fear, sometimes verging on terror, and the main strategy to stay human is to never panic. Still, there is a lot of...
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A Pandemic May be Reported Like a War, But They’re Very Different
Photograph Source: Photographer Robert Capa during the Spanish civil war, May 1937. Photo by Gerda Taro – Public Domain I was walking in the early evening down an empty street in Canterbury, wondering...
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Mainstream Media Blind Spots In The Coronavirus Crisis
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View ArticleLetter From America: COVID-19 Strikes Home
Friday, April 10, 2020: The news came yesterday. For a couple of days I thought we might escape the worst of COVID-19 here in my small midcoast Maine town of Belfast, population 6,700. We started...
View ArticleWhy Did Our Permanent Emergency Government Fail to Face the Emergency?
Between 1978 and 2018, American presidents declared 58 national emergencies. Their targets ranged from “Transactions with Terrorists Who Threaten to Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process” and...
View ArticleKing Lear and Donald Trump: Two Peas in a Pod
In his “Poetics,” Aristotle was likely to have been the first critic to have formally outlined the structure and guiding principles by which 5th century BC Greek dramatists had to abide. Aristotle...
View ArticleI Warned About Trump’s Attacks on Science, But Didn’t Predict the Horror That...
“¡Abajo la inteligencia! ¡Viva la muerte!” 5Those infamous words – “Down with intelligence! Long live death!” – were pronounced in 1936 by General Millán Astray, a fascist general who was a mentor and...
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Woody’s Wicked Levity and Wicked-er Gravity
“I ought to join a club and beat you over the head with it, [but] I would not belong to a club that would have me as a member.” – Two Groucho Marx cracks joined together A few decades ago I lived in...
View ArticleThose Dasteredly Russians!
Those dastardly Russians! They are at it again! What are they up to now? They are shipping medical supplies to the United States to help America deal with the Coronavirus crisis! What could be worse...
View ArticleThe American World That Covid-19 Reveals
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) virus, which causes Covid-19, seemed to emerge from deepest history, from the Black Death of the 14th century and the “Spanish Flu” of 1918. In just...
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Lockdown Burden on Little Shoulders in Latur
Photo: Ira Deulgaonkar. Paras Madikar reacted to the shutdown of his school in Latur city as quite a few 11-year-olds might. He was delighted that his Class 4 exams had been cancelled and looked...
View ArticleAmerican Politics Without Sanders
The decision of Senator Bernie Sanders to withdraw from the Democratic presidential contest is a blow to the prospects of democracy in America. For several years, but especially since 2016, Sanders has...
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