Can We Simultaneously Oppose Bayer/Monsanto’s Biotechnology and Support...
Genetically engineered crops are a form of food imperialism. This technology allows mega-corporations like Bayer/Monsanto to patent seeds, lure farmers into buying them with visions of high yields, and...
View ArticleWhy Capitalism Can’t Cure Global Pandemics
We frequently hear that COVID-19 is the worst pandemic since the influenza of 1918. It is forgotten that another pandemic known as “the third plague” (because it was “the third major bubonic plague...
View ArticleVeterans Exposed in Cold War Bioweapons Testing Still Awaiting Answers — and...
On May 12, 2000, the CBS Evening News first reported that over 1,000 American sailors were unwittingly exposed to chemical and biological warfare (CBW) agents in the 1960s and early 1970s as part of...
View ArticleRearranging Desires Amidst Climate Catastrophe, COVID Chaos, and Capitalist...
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak states that her political goal is to rearrange desires. No goal is more pertinent to our present trying time. As Chuck Mertz refrains “the future ain’t what it used to be.”...
View ArticleArabs, UN Must Move to Swiftly Protect the Status of Palestinian Refugees
‘Heinous racism,’ is how the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor described a recent decision by Lebanese authorities to bar Palestinian refugee expats from returning to Lebanon....
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How Economic Misery Helped Fuel the Syrian War
Ever since the civil war began in Syria in early 2011, the left has largely ignored the social and economic circumstances that led to a conflict costing over a half-million deaths and the...
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Not Liberty, Happiness
Photograph Source: Becker1999 from Grove City, OH – CC BY 2.0 In 1863, John Stuart Mill posited the utilitarian principle as the foundation of ethics. Even today this lets us weigh actions morally: the...
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COVID-19 Planning: Is It Time to Nationalize Big Pharma?
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Pharmaceutical corporations make billions providing drugs to help improve some people’s lives, in much the same way that privately-run hospitals provide care to those...
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Workingman’s Blues (COVID 19 Version)
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair I went back to work last week. Even though neither I most of my fellow workers are convinced library books are an essential service, the fact that we are once again...
View ArticleVice President Kamala Harris?
The Washington Post and other generally reliable sources of Washington (or is it Wilmington?) scuttlebutt report that Kamala Harris’s chances of becoming Joe Biden’s running-mate are on the rise. She...
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For Cuba and Venezuela, US Silence May Not Be Golden
Photograph Source: Difference engine – Own work – CC BY 2.0 The U. S. President and his Secretary of State frequently expound about the supposed failings of enemies abroad. Recently they’ve blasted...
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Guaidó and the Failed Military Operation Against Venezuela: a Story of...
Now that we have had a few days to study the failed, illegal paramilitary incursion by a group of American and Venezuelan mercenaries into Venezuela, some key details have emerged in this incredible...
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Corruption and the Pandemic Bailout
Neil Irwin had an interesting New York Times piece on how concerns about moral hazard in the bailout may damage the recovery. The gist of the article is that the fear that bad actors will be wrongly...
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My Israeli Nemesis is Moving to America
Erdan with IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz. Photograph Source: Israel Defense Forces – CC BY 2.0 My first run-in with Israeli politician Gilad Erdan took place on July 1, 2018, when I arrived at Ben...
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Do the Most Severe Lockdowns Coincide to the Highest COVID-19 Death Rates?
Photograph Source: Ian Dick – CC BY 2.0 The organization Our World in Data is running an article on the severity of government lockdown policies used to deal with the Covid-19 disease, “How Are...
View ArticleDark Winter? Honey Badger Trump Don’t Care
“This coalition of the business elite, right-wing Christian evangelicals, and white nationalists and other white supremacists is very dangerous. Fascism is ultimately a death cult.” – Jason Stanley ,...
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The Covid-19 Testing Fiasco
Photograph Source: The White House from Washington, DC – Public Domain From the start, testing for Covid-19 in the U.S. has been abysmal. Experts agree that without adequate testing, the disease cannot...
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The Fed Hasn’t Spent a Dime Yet for Main Street Versus $735 Billion for Wall...
The stimulus bill known as the CARES Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act) was signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 27. Among its many features (such as direct checks...
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Roaming Charges: Unmasked and Anonymous
A show of hands. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. “There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.” – Tom Robbins, Jitterbug...
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El Diego: the Two Lives of Maradona
Still from “Diego Maradona.” 22 June 1986. A world cup semi-final is about to play out in the Estadio Azteca stadium at the heart of Mexico City. Under the billowing blue skies and the streaming...
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