Back to Work! Trump’s COVID-19 Capitalist Cure Back to Work!
U.S. capitalism’s would-be savior, the “moron” President Donald Trump, sees his re-election prospects tied to a “re-invigorated” economy based on sending U.S. workers back to work close to the height...
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Gen Z National Student Leadership Begins Fightback for College Relief
Photograph Source: Sterling College – CC BY 2.0 College students last week gained tenacious footing and found ways to fight back against pandemics of disease and insecurity, but their struggle is still...
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Mapping Militarism 2020
A new collection of maps found here displays what militarism looks like in the world. Here’s a brief guide to using and understanding them. Across the top are 10 drop-down menus on these topics: Wars,...
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What the President Continues to Say (About the Plague)
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair In two previous pieces in CounterPunch I compiled Donald Trump’s statements on the COVID-19 pandemic up to April 19th (early evening). Here is a continuation of that...
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Beware the Pentagon’s Pandemic Profiteers
At this moment of unprecedented crisis, you might think that those not overcome by the economic and mortal consequences of the coronavirus would be asking, “What can we do to help?” A few companies...
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The Washington Post’s Neocons are Beating Cold War Drums…Again
Image Source: F Delventhal – CC BY 2.0 The Washington Post has a reputation as liberal and even left-of-center, although its editorial pages are dominated by neoconservatives who support the idea of...
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Capitalism’s Voracious Appetite: Bodies are the Commodities
Image Source: Diogenes Searching for an Honest Man, attributed to J. H. W. Tischbein (c. 1780) The allure of capitalism has never been a clean or ethical one—the very roots are predicated on a system...
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Our History Is the Future: Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Indigenous...
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View ArticleAll the Presidents’ Miens
All the Presidents’ Miens All I know is we face an up and coming always up and coming electoral battle in the fall between, always between, pussygrabbers, to the Left and pussygrabbers to the Right,...
View ArticleThe Screamer
I was covering an Extinction Rebellion march and rally a couple months ago when, as folks were organizing themselves, unrolling the banners, figuring out logistics and doing some last minute...
View ArticleHow Many People Will Patent Monopolies Kill This Pandemic?
No one wants to die, but hey, who wouldn’t be willing to sacrifice their life to protect someone’s patent monopoly? That is a question that is implicitly raised in this New York Times piece on the race...
View ArticleThe Rohingya in Malaysia: Coronavirus and Alibis for Paranoia
Rounding up undocumented workers, migrant and refugees is part of a brutal order of things in Malaysia. When matters economic are going well, authorities turn the blindest of eyes. The money pours in;...
View ArticleGenocidal Disease, as it is Happening in Amazonia
Back in 2009 with a Fulbright Foreign Scholarship and as a Visiting Professor at the Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), I conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the Amazonian and Brazilian city of...
View ArticleA Good Time: Civilization Hits the Pause Button
Think of all the times you were on hold, waiting for a response, something to take place, like a decision about a school or financial aid application, a job interview, a submission to a publication, or...
View ArticleFreedom of Press Under Attack by Trump
Sunday was World Press Freedom Day and although it’s far from a national holiday, freedom of the press is a right granted to all Americans. Unfortunately, this critical freedom, which has survived and...
View ArticleThoughts on the Liberation of Saigon and the end to America’s Genocidal War...
The following are recollections from several members of the ThisCantBeHappening! about their anti-war movement struggles and the day of final triumph in Vietnam 45 years ago. A Day in the Park Like No...
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Conserving Politics or Conserving Nature?
Gallatin Range. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Imagine a world in which conservation decisions were based on ethics and aesthetics, that including the interdependence of all the earth’s organic and...
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Testing Times: a Journal of the Onset of the Plague Year
Donald Trump is not a president. He can’t even play one on TV. He’s a corrupt and dangerous braggart with ill-concealed aspirations for a Crown and, with an election coming up, he’s been monopolizing...
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Two Truths from the Pandemic No One Is Mentioning
Two truths at least are certain in this post-pandemic world: 1) Humans have so dominated the world, destroying much of non-human life and systems in the process, that the world has struck back in...
View Article“What the Hell Do You Have to Lose?”
The coronavirus does not care whether we are Republican or Democrat; mainline or evangelical Christian; Jew, Muslim or Hindu; white, black or brown; Chinese, Italian, Iranian, Russian, African or...
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