Who’s Trashing Downtown Every Night and Why?
The corporate media and corporate politicians are paralyzed with indecision. Which fake myth do we adhere to? “Black people burning down their own neighborhoods” or “outside agitators”? What if it’s...
View ArticleDeath, Protest and George Floyd
Mobs are unruly, headless things. The message is the action. The platform is often violence. But what is happening across the United States cannot simply be labelled as a looting-leads-to-shooting...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Police Murder Video Exhibition: Democratizing The News Feed,...
In the wake of the police murder of George Floyd, another unarmed Black man crying out “I can’t breathe!” as he was strangled in public, the ethical question of re-posting the videos and pictures of...
View ArticleThe Oligopoly That Controls Our Digital Infrastructure Has Deepened Economic...
In a brutal and devastating way, the Covid-19 pandemic is revealing the many stark and deep inequalities at the heart of our corporate capitalist political economic system. In the United States, for...
View ArticleTime to Stop Messing Around and Strike at the Root of Police Violence
Protests quickly broke out nationwide following the May 25 killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, which was caught on video and quickly went viral. Yes, Chauvin has been...
View ArticleA Superpower in Chaos
Minneapolis could not have happened at a worse time for the US elites. While violence perpetrated against African Americans by White police officers has happened a number of times before, its...
View ArticleTales from the Dark Side of Customer Service, or “Christians” Giving...
I used to teach Business Ethics. It was one of my favorite classes because I think it’s so important. Businesses impact every aspect of our lives. They not only provide goods and services, on which we...
View ArticleIt is Happening Here
My thoughts about the historical moment: June 1, 2020 was one of the most significant days in the history of the United States. In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, with over 104,000 dead and...
View ArticleNo, the Public Fury Will Not “Move On” Prime Minister!
It is quite clear from the last week that the majority of the public are furious. Indeed MPs from across the country, including Conservative MPs, have said that the anger they are receiving from their...
View ArticleIt’s the Worshippers Who Are “Essential”
As the coronavirus death toll was about to reach 100,000, in a quick press announcement, President Trump declared, “Today I’m identifying houses of worship, churches, synagogues and mosques as...
View ArticleHow the Washington Post Accommodates Disinformation
The Washington Post has come up with a doozy of a pairing for its online interview series. On Thursday, June 4th, the paper is featuring its senior diplomatic columnist David Ignatius and former...
View ArticleThe Police Are The Out-Of-Towners Provoking Violence
Since protests of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis began on May 26, authorities at every level have blamed “outsiders” for provoking violence. On May 30, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz...
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The Coup Against ‘The Most Loyal Ally’
Photograph Source: National Archives of Australia – CC BY 4.0 The Australian High Court has ruled that correspondence between the Queen and the Governor-General of Australia, her viceroy in the former...
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The Sadism of American Power
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It was just a couple of weeks ago that President Trump was both inciting and praising anti-lockdown protesters around the country. These included armed white militia...
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The Murder of George Floyd is Normal for an Abnormal Society
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair There is no need to wonder why George Floyd (age 46) was murdered in broad daylight in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25, 2020. The script of his death is written deep...
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“Total Domination”: Popular Rebellion in the Shadow of Trumpism-Fascism
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair We’re going to clamp down very, very strong. The word is dominate – Donald Trump, speaking to US governors, June 1, 2020 Danger, danger, there’s a fascist in the White...
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The UK Compared With Other Countries on the Pandemic
Photograph Source: Philafrenzy – CC BY-SA 4.0 As I write (the weekend of 30-31 May), the UK’s death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic has reached 38,489. Even the rightwing Financial Times regards this...
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From Mississippi to Minneapolis: Leaving the ‘Abyss of Despair’
Photograph Source: Adam Jones, Ph.D. – CC BY-SA 3.0 In the early morning hours of August 28th, 1955, two white men burst into the Mississippi home of Moses Wright where 14-year-old Emmett Till slept....
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Revolution, Not Riots: Prospects for Radical Transformation in the Covid-19 Era
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police served as yet another wakeup call for a nation that has historically struggled with recognizing...
View ArticleFour Aphorisms
Four Aphorisms One can never think one’s way out of a crisis. From about the age of six, in our globalised, massified, work-ethic society, all humans are set on a trajectory bound toward a state bereft...
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