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Turkey’s Big Bet Has Put Libya in Center of a Global Power Struggle
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The series of debilitating military setbacks that Libya’s renegade general Khalifa Haftar suffered in recent months have spurred diplomatic activities over the conflict...
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Symbols are Invested with Power. Don’t Dismiss the Importance of Toppling a...
Empty pedestal where a statue of Edward Colston used to stand. Photograph Source: Caitlin Hobbs – CC BY 2.0 I did not expect to be returning to this issue so soon but I was surprised, to put it...
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Dismantling a Complex Ideology: Thoughts on the BLM Movement
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair On Sunday, May 31, 2020, over 700 people joined me and my friends in solidarity to fight against white supremacy and the institutions that uphold them in the United...
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Cut Overseas Police Training Programs
Photograph Source: Lorie Shaull from St Paul, United States – CC BY-SA 2.0 The police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has ignited protests across the United States and calls to demilitarize and...
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Will the Death of George Floyd Mark the Rebirth of America?
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair They were relegated to the protest equivalent of a ghetto. Their assigned route shunted them to the far fringes of the city. Their demonstration was destined for an...
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The Military Must be De-Funded Along with the Police
Photograph Source: DVIDSHUB – CC BY 2.0 As Vijay Prashad explains in his book, Red Star Over The Third World, domestic fascism in the West has reflected the West’s pre-existing colonial practices...
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Police Killings are a Political Tactic
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair As the spark that lit a fire, the murder of George Floyd was horrifyingly, sickeningly ordinary. According to the scant data on police killing of citizens that is...
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Cornel West: What It Means to Be Human
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Dirty Hairy
Dirty Hairy Weird dream once again Last night That Trump was giving a speech In the street When his secret service detail split And, left Unprotected, he was whipped Into a smear All that remained was...
View ArticleTrump at West Point: Un-Policing the World
Donald Trump claims to be the law-and-order president of the United States. There does not seem much sign of this as the stitching of the Republic gets undone. Protestors have been given a considerable...
View ArticleNot the Way It Was: Spike Lee’s Shallow Film on Viet Nam
It is now 2:00AM in Portland, Oregon. I just got through watching Spike Lee’s 2hr. and 35min. film on Viet Nam. I have two words to describe this film: EXTREMELY SHALLOW. I was very disappointed in...
View ArticleCyclone Amphan is a Warning for the United States
In the march of the news cycle in U.S. media, the devastation of Cyclone Amphan in Bangladesh and Eastern India is all but forgotten. But the several million people who live there, and those of us with...
View ArticleThe Unemployment Insurance System is Badly Broken
The Republicans have been working hard to ensure that the $600 weekly supplement to unemployment insurance benefits, which was put in place as part of the pandemic rescue package, is not extended...
View ArticleThe Rich are Defunding Our Democracy
How can you tell if you’re living in a democracy? The answer can get rather complicated. Simple yardsticks can often confuse more than clarify. Take the notion that you have democracies where you have...
View ArticleSystemic Racism and the Killing of Rayshard Brooks
The killing of 27 year old Rayshard Brooks on Friday, June 12th, in Atlanta, Georgia, occurred less than three weeks after the murder of George Floyd. Both were killed by a white police officer. It...
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Living With Global Warming
I modeled mathematically the thermal imbalance of our biosphere, which we call global warming, so as to gain my own quantitative understanding of the interplay of the two major effects that give rise...
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Cold War Bully: the Life and Crimes of Roy Cohn
Photograph Source: Roy Cohn, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right / World Telegram & Sun photo by Herman Hiller – Public Domain Ever since the spring of 1954, when I was a precocious...
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The Return of the ‘Hamburgs’? White Vigilantes, the Chicago Police, and...
Photograph Source: Raed Mansour – CC BY 2.0 Chicago has seen some of the largest and most militant demonstrations in the United States during the two weeks that followed the murder of George Floyd....
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Who Deserves a Nobel Prize During a Pandemic?
Photograph Source: Edna Winti – CC BY 2.0 A few weeks ago, I was talking to Noam Chomsky about the state of the world. At one point, Noam smiled and said that he is not aware of any German doctors in...
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British Leaders Have No Idea How Bad Slavery Was
Diagram illustrating the stowage of African slaves on a British slave ship. Image Source: the United States Library of Congress – Public Domain Conservative leaders snigger at protesters seeking the...
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