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As the Earth Dies…
The Robbery of Nature John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark (Monthly Review Press) The earth is dying and capitalism is to blame. Facing this, one can opt for hope, as Marxist ecosocialists do, or one...
View ArticleAn Irrational Fear of Predators Drives Utah Politics
A couple months ago I went to the Utah Capitol to oppose House Bill 228 (the brainchild of state Rep. Casey Snyder), otherwise known as the Livestock Predators Removal Amendments. The bill was one of...
View ArticleOnce Again, Congress Will Let Wall Street Pillage Main Street
Over the last decade, Congress’s approval ratings have hovered around the mid-teens or low 20s, reflecting the reality that our representatives in Washington, D.C., serve the needs of big donors while...
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The Politics of Framing and the Framing of Politics
We know how to frame from picture framing, and we also know the frame in which a picture is placed can influence how we see a picture. Well, virtually the same thing applies to politics. The way in...
View ArticleThe Shallow State
The CDC, Dr. Fauci, and other pandemic experts are sidelined in the midst of the plague. So are many scientists in the E.P.A. and other agencies charged with protecting the health and safety of the...
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‘Justice is Indivisible’: Placing Palestine Back at the Center of Muslim...
Photograph Source: Neil Ward – CC BY 2.0 It was nearly twenty years ago at a Muslim conference in Washington D.C. that I heard the distressing argument that Palestine should not be made a central topic...
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Radical Politics and Pandemic Nightmares
In this wide ranging interview with educators from the University of Barcelona , I analyze the Covid-19 crisis as part of more comprehensive crisis of politics and morality through what I label as...
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Debunking Trump’s Nonsense
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Conspiracy theorists never let a crisis go to waste. When something truly terrible happens, the conspiracy theorist sets to work to determine the dark, hidden forces...
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A Late-Breaking Bulletin From PBS: “For Many Americans, Health Insurance is...
Photograph Source: PBS NewsHour – CC BY 2.0 I would like to nominate the “Public” Broadcasting System’s (“P”BS) “NewsHour” and its economics reporter Paul Solomon for the 2020 Piss Down Our Backs and...
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A New John Ratcliffe or the Same Old Story?
Photograph Source: Office of Congressman John Ratcliffe – Public Domain Last summer, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats was forced to resign because of his assessments of Russia and North...
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Mass Unemployment Is a Failure of Capitalism
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The difficulties caused to workers by record unemployment during the pandemic are a product of capitalism. Most of the time, employers decide to hire or fire workers...
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Kevin Morby and Waxahatchee
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View ArticleWhy America Cannot Afford to Let the U.S. Postal Service Go Bankrupt
Bill Boone was a fresh-faced 23-year-old in 1952 when he cast his first ballot for U.S. president, while proudly serving aboard an aircraft carrier off the coast of Korea. The U.S. Postal Service...
View ArticleLast Year America’s CEOs Said They Cared About Us…They Lied
Last August, the nabobs of Corporate America — the nearly 200 top CEOs who make up the prestigious Business Roundtable — sort of asked for forgiveness. Twenty-two years earlier, the Business Roundtable...
View ArticleBiden Ridin’ the Pandemic to the White House, Trump to Take Hit for...
The world is amidst the COVID-19 crisis and in our corner of the planet a presidential campaign is reduced to a single issue: Trump/not Trump. Pick your poison. At a time that calls for national...
View ArticleWhat If Armed Terrorists Threatened the Prime Minister of Canada?
Fortunately, Canada is not a country that has suffered continuous threats of coup d’etats as Venezuela has these last 21 years. The Motive Be that as it may, as a matter of clarification and...
View ArticleCardinal George Pell and the Victims of Child Sexual Abuse in Victoria.
In the long and still unfinished search for justice, two agencies have been outstanding. The Victorian Police performed dogged investigatory work, and the Royal Commission over five years compiled...
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Finding Hope in Times of Despair: New World is Possible
Photograph Source: Gedalya AKA David Gott – CC BY 2.0 “For me, I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.” – Winston Churchill We are living in seemingly very dark times. I...
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Terminal Conditions
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair As I write, the United States is approaching 80,000 deaths from COVID-19. Undoubtedly, this number will exceed 100,000 in the next few months. As a consequence of the...
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The Wet-Bulb Peril Has Arrived… Way Too Early
Photograph Source: Bill Harrison – CC BY 2.0 The human body has limits. If “temperature plus humidity” is high enough, even a healthy person seated in the shade with plentiful water to drink will...
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