The Public Wants Ranchers Out of Point Reyes National Seashore
The National Park Service recently released the public comments on how Point Reyes National Seashore should be managed and they show that the vast majority of the public wants beef and dairy operations...
View Article“A Plague On Both Your Houses”
Trump’s discussion of injecting UV light and disinfectant into the body to treat COVID-19 during his daily briefing was, of course, a new low. The man, whom his secretary of state Rex Tillerson once...
View ArticleTrump and Biden Trade China Hit Pieces: Distinctions without a Difference
This season’s sequel to the Game of Thrones features reality TV star and current occupant of the Oval Office versus the former Senator from MBNA and two-term VP. It’s time to binge watch dueling hit...
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The COVID-19 Chronology From Hell
Historically, in hyper-crises, local and global systems can change fundamentally. Before the coronavirus pandemic hit first China and then the rest of the globe, the question of whether the American...
View ArticleCOVID-19 and Central America: a Learning Moment?
The countries of Central America are indeed central to the foreign and domestic policies of the United States in many ways, most obvious of which is immigration. But the current COVID19 pandemic has...
View ArticleSaving Journalism Will Require Some New Thinking
There has been a new wave of despair among journalists in the last couple of weeks as several major news outlets, including the Los Angeles Times and McClatchy News Service, announced layoffs and/or...
View ArticleCOVID-19 From the Front Lines
Some of us in the frontlines of health care have been trying to convince CDC to declare racism as a threat to public health. We think our proofs are strong. Nearly five years ago, when we started the...
View ArticleCan Boris Johnson’s Government Survive the COVID-19 Crisis Their Mistakes...
In the summer of 2011, riots erupted all over London and television screens and newspapers were filled with pictures of blazing buildings and looted shops. People swiftly noted that among those not...
View ArticleLet Cruise Workers Off the Death Ships Now!
Crews Held Hostage as Virus Rages – Unionize Seafaring Workers! Solidarity with the Trapped Seamen: We Demand Testing, Treatment, Housing, Union-Scale Wages and the Right to Repatriation! The novel...
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Ranked-Choice Voting: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Photograph Source: Kelley Minars – CC BY 2.0 Climate activist Bill McKibben took to the New Yorker recently to advise me and the Green Party to stand down our presidential campaign and instead work...
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The Corporate Food System is Making the Coronavirus Crisis Worse
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The global food system has been very much front and center in the COVID-19 story. Everyone, of course, is aware that hunger is closely tracking the virus as its wreaks...
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We Need Healing From Our Oil-Addicted Society
Redwood Forest Defense, Humboldt County, 2020. Click here to support Redwood Forest Defense Economic stimulus in response to our pandemic should stop funding fossil fuel companies with bailouts....
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Public Health and Private Profits Under COVID-19 Pandemic
Photograph Source: Fars News Agency – CC BY 4.0 During an interview with Jonas Salk, the creator of the polio vaccine, CBS newsman Edward R. Morrow asked who owned the patent for the vaccine. “Well,...
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Biden the Lout
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair A longer version of this article originally ran in CounterPunch on August 23, 2008 under the title “Change,” “Hope” … Why They Must be Talking About Joe Biden! We reprint...
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Beijing in the Time of COVID-19
Photograph Source: Pau Colominas – CC BY-SA 4.0 Beijing. Beijing is not back to normal but there is an air of normality. The Beijing Subway has 23 lines but only one runs on a north-south axis. This is...
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The Luxury to Fear COVID-19
Photograph Source: David Stanley – CC BY 2.0 El Salvador is showing very different faces. While some people herald its young president for his forceful actions as the savior of the country and even an...
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View ArticleBaking Cakes, Coronavirus and Survival Through Turbulent Times
It was a kind of revelation when in one of my afternoon meditations I blinked on to the simple philosophical idea that if one wishes to bake a cake (for instance) one must believe that they can bake a...
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In the American Snake Oil Stain
In his Journal of the Plague Year, 1664, De Foe tells us that “the posts of houses and corners of streets were plastered over with doctors’ bills and papers of ignorant fellows, quacking and tampering...
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Feed Sonoma: Agricultural Cooperatives Will Help Save the World
Tim Page, co-founder of Feed Sonoma. “Building a new world in the shell of the old.” – IWW slogan Co-operation will save the world, and so will co-operatives like “Feed Sonoma,” a farmer-worker owned...
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