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Iraq Will be Hit Harder by Falling Oil Prices Than COVID-19 or ISIS
Photograph Source: L.C. Nøttaasen – CC BY 2.0 The shadowy figures of well-armed Isis gunmen can be seen making an attack in the plains of northern Iraq on an outpost held by paramilitary fighters loyal...
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The Pandemic’s Catastrophic Hit to the Labor Market
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Temporary layoffs make up 78.3 percent of unemployment. As expected, the April jobs report showed a catastrophic hit to the labor market stemming from the pandemic....
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The War Against the Wolves of Alaska
Alexander Archipelago wolf. Photo: Robin Silver. Tongass National Forest Southeast Alaska is home to the Tongass National Forest, the largest national forest of north America. Tongass has old-growth...
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U.S. Dishonors Navajo with Death Penalty
Flag of The Navajo Nation – Public Domain Amidst the coronavirus devastation, it’s important not to overlook the fact that, at the end of April, two federal appellate judges called out the U.S....
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Tyson is a Repeat Offender
Photograph Source: Animal Freedom – CC BY 2.0 Even though 1,000 workers at Tyson’s slaughterhouse in Waterloo, IA have tested positive for the coronavirus, it has reopened. Tyson has said last week it...
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Trump Is Using COVID-19 As An Excuse To Let Polluters Destroy
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View ArticlePatriotic Vaccines: The Divided Coronavirus Cause
When it comes to the politics of medicine and disease, the United States has always attempted to steal the limelight, while adding the now faded colouring of universal human welfare. In 1965,...
View ArticleA For-Profit Postal Service Would Slam Small Businesses
Like most Americans, Julie Buckles, the owner of Honest Dog Books in tiny Bayfield, Wisconsin, has had to be flexible in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Overnight, we went from hosting music,...
View ArticleRepublicans Can’t Seem to Make Up Their Minds About Mail and Voting
One laudable side effect of the COVID-19 panic is a nationwide effort to promote “vote by mail” as a universal alternative to standing in line at polling places. One reason that effort is laudable is...
View ArticleNothing Left
Does the political left even exist in any meaningful way in the US today? As a lifelong card-carrying member of the left since the antiwar movement during the Vietnam War, I believe that the left...
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Virologist Luis Villarreal: “Leery” of COVID-19 Models, Vaccine Possible...
Somewhat exasperated by the Covid-19 models publicly showcased over the last two months, I decided to ring up virologist Luis Villarreal for his perspective. Luis Villarreal is founding director of...
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On Asparagus and Bombers
Photograph Source: julie corsi – CC BY 2.0 In late spring an age-old tradition places asparagus – the white kind preferred here – at the very top of German menus. But only until St. John’s Day, June...
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In Lockdown, India is No Country for Old Men
Photo: Sanket Jain. At this time, Shamshuddin Mulla would have been in the fields – repairing engines and pumps. He did step out on March 26, the second day of the lockdown when a despairing farmer...
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We Need a Centralized Medical System Too
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare two fundamental flaws in the American healthcare system. Number one: There’s a reason that other rich countries treat healthcare...
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Low-Balling the Unemployed in the Era of the 2020 Great Recession
Photograph Source: Raymond “Dmitri” Beljan – CC BY 2.0 This past Friday, May 8, the US Labor Dept. released its latest jobless figures. The official report was 20 million more unemployed and an...
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Class Struggles and Social Distancing
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair On the day after armed protestors stormed the Capitol building in Michigan to demand that the whole economy be re-opened, the news included reports that Michigan has...
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“Making It Up As They Go Along:” Boris Johnson and COVID-19
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair As I write (the weekend of 9-10 May), the UK’s death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic has reached 31,855. The UK, unlike the US, has started counting deaths in care homes....
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Who Are You Kidding? The Democratic Party and the Joe Biden Fiasco
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The accusations against the projected Democratic Party presidential nominee, Joe Biden, trouble and confuse U.S. liberals. As a result, they say surprising and, at times,...
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Discouragement Gap in College Dreams Brings Civil Rights Value to Real...
Photograph Source: Steve Snodgrass – CC BY 2.0 Assaults on Civil Rights can be loud, with microphones or guns, but the effects of structural racism are often hushed, in the silence of dreams deferred....
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Who’s in a Catch-22?
Photograph Source: Jeanne Menjoulet – CC BY 2.0 “Sadly, one can image someone – Trump?, Kushner? – calculating the trade-off between business and the human cost, and saying, “they are expendable.” –...
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