Restaurants in the Pandemic
The NYT ran a column by a bar-restaurant owner telling of the horrible circumstances facing restaurants during and after the shutdown period. While the restaurant industry is among the hardest hit...
View ArticleSilence=Death: Larry Kramer, RIP
Larry Kramer (1935-2020) died on Wednesday, May 27th, of pneumonia. He was 84 years old and, during much of his adult life as a writer and activist, he battled – both personally and politicly – the...
View ArticleTo Students and Teachers Targeted by the Israel Lobby
University students and instructors periodically drop into my inbox with stories of repression and reprisal for having criticized Israel—or merely for having spoken favorably of Palestinians. In some...
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The Future of Forever War, American-Style
Photograph Source: torbakhopper – CC BY 2.0 Covid-19, an ongoing global human tragedy, may have at least one silver lining. It has led millions of people to question America’s most malignant policies...
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“What Are We Fighting About?” 9th Circuit Hears Yellowstone Grizzly Bear...
Court hearings over the fate of grizzlies have always made me nervous, and the one on May 5th was no exception. For the second time in ten years, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of...
View ArticleState Terrorism
50,000 lives were sacrificed to the President’s delays, denials, and bungling of the coronavirus cries in the interest if the Dow and his re-elecetion. Its as though he could shoot 50,000 people on...
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Two Fictions of Mainstream Economics
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Mainstream economics consistently fails to predict the future. I’m talking about those ‘schools’ of mis-thought, ranging from Paul Krugman on the ‘left’ to Glenn...
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Last Stand in the Big Woods
Ron Mitchel, guarding the big outside in Idaho, circa 1970. This essay, excerpted from Red State Rebels: Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland, is dedicated to Ron Mitchell, one of the fiercest...
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The Virtues of Not Eating Animals
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Growing up in a village I was born in a Greek village where land and food self-sufficiency were everything. My father had a few strips of land where he raised enough food...
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Trump’s War on Arms Control and Disarmament
Photograph Source: ZhengZhou – CC BY-SA 3.0 A successor to the Trump administration will have to rebuild the credibility of the Department of Justice and the effectiveness of such regulatory agencies...
View ArticleHow Hydroxychloroquine Could Help Trump…Politically
This month President Donald Trump boldly continued to promote the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a protection against being infected by covid-19. In an almost off-handed comment during a...
View ArticleMasks and COVID-19: an Open Letter to Robert Kennedy Jr and Children’s Health...
I join with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in opposing mandatory vaccinations. I have no faith in products like vaccines that are developed for profit under American capitalism. Manufacturing and marketing...
View ArticlePlague Music
Were Georg Frideric Handel to be beamed back to earth from the celestial realm he has inhabited since his death two-and-a-half centuries ago, he would soon have a Netflix hit, scores of viral YouTube...
View ArticleIncel Terrorism
America is getting back to “normal,” but what does that mean? Mass shootings, for one thing. No school shootings—though that’s mainly because there’s no school. But the other day, a self-proclaimed...
View ArticleTens of Millions of Are Out of Work, Why on Earth is Trump Trying to Cut Food...
In some ways, this horrible pandemic has brought out the best in humanity. Where I live, neighbors are helping neighbors. A friend who cleans houses for a living says about half of her clients are no...
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In Search of the Chosŏn People of Lost Korea
When you go away / Sick of seeing me, / I shall let you go gently, no words. / From Mount Yak in Yŏngbyŏn / An armful of azaleas / I shall gather and scatter on your path. / Step by step away / On the...
View ArticleWhy are Our Leaders Still Putting Their Faith in the Rich?
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed fundamental inequalities in this country. With millions of us hurting — especially the poor and people of color — there’s been widespread public support for bold...
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What is a “Native” Plant in a Changing World?
California Fan Palms in Anza-Borrego State Park in California (Photo by author) The term “native plant” has become a common one, and many people probably assume that the definition is clear cut....
View ArticleProudhon v. Facebook: A Mutualist Solution to Cyber Tyranny
I’m pretty sure this place use to be a democracy. Not America. Contrary to what Broadway may have told you, even our saintly Founding Fathers were little more than racist neocons in pantaloons. I’m...
View ArticleThe Machine Stops
Given the current confinement imperative, one is confronted everywhere with the idolization of detached digital communication, turning necessity into a virtue. Given the authoritarian tendencies of...
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