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Fire Scar Historical Reconstructions: Accurate or Flawed?
First day of the Eagle Creek fire, Oregon. Photo: US Forest Service. Tree fire scars are used to reconstruct past fire occurrence. These historical reconstructions are often used to guide current...
View Article“Ballot Access Fairness”: the Answer is Already in Some Voters’ Hands
Every two years, independent and “third” party candidates for various offices scramble to get their names on ballots around the United States. Every two years, those candidates come up against — and...
View ArticleConservation Conversion Charade in Montana
Montana’s junior senator, Steve Daines, is trying to capitalize on the restoration of full funding to the Land and Water Conservation Fund to bolster his terrible conservation record prior to his hotly...
View ArticleWhy Must the People Protest?
“A philosophical tradition in the Americas began with Bartholome de Las Casas (writer of The devastation of the indies: a brief account) in 1514” – Enrique Dussel I have spent the last few years being...
View ArticleRecipe for Disaster: Dirty Deals Done Dirt Cheap
During the early days of the coronavirus lockdowns, in some quarters there was a certain degree of optimism around. Although things were really bad for millions of people, the claim was that the...
View ArticleA Fatal Skirmish on the Line of Actual Control
Beijing. Incongruous, deadly, bizarre. Two nuclear powers engaging in a fatal skirmish over a piece of territory with no economic resources, using rocks and clubs with protruding nails. A stone-age...
View ArticleWhite Privilege: the Psychic Wage, Mass Incarceration and Class Solidarity
White Skin Privilege White privilege is a thing. It’s just not the same thing the corporate Democrats use to boss us around with. The concept of white privilege was not invented by some liberal...
View ArticleTrump’s Desperate, Despicable Diversions
Reality is catching up with President Trump. His failure to take the coronavirus pandemic seriously early on has contributed to the deaths of untold thousands of Americans, which is expected to reach...
View ArticlePolice Culture in the United States
The call to defund the police ignores a fundamental structuring principle at work in the collective mindset of policing, and that is the culture of policing in the United States. Any call for reform...
View ArticleTrump Hammers Cuba While Cuba Cures the Sick
A team of 85 Cuban doctors and nurses arrived in Peru on June 3 to help the Andean nation tackle the coronavirus pandemic. That same day, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced another tightening of...
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Reaction in a Time of Protest: Black Lives Matter and Its Critics
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair As a general rule, in times of social unrest the basest reserves of reaction quickly boil to the surface. These always take forms that are quite predictable. Thus, the...
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Rio de Janeiro: Police Violence and Solidarity
Photograph Source: Fernando Frazão/ABr – Agência Brasil – CC BY 3.0 BR On May 31, hundreds of people in Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city in Brazil, joined protesters around the world in marching...
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Why and How to Defund the Police
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The vague and easily misinterpreted call to Defund the Police has been spreading quickly across the USA. Some may have a knee-jerk reaction to “just say no” to this...
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Remembering “Ball Four,” So We Can Forget You-Know-Who
Photograph Source: Professional baseball player Jim Bouton – Public Domain In 1964, an 18-year-old New York Military Academy first baseman named Don Trump slammed a game-winning home run against...
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Today’s Science Deniers: What We Owe Galileo After 400 years
Photograph Source: Dimitris Kamaras – CC BY 2.0 On June 22, 1633, a sick and beaten old man, on his knees, had to “abjure, curse and detest” his view that “the earth moves and is not the centre of the...
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Dams, Deaths Squads and the Murder of Berta Cáceres
Photograph Source: Comisión Interamericana de – CC BY 2.0 “They build dams and kill people.” These words, spoken by a witness when the murderers of environmental defender Berta Cáceres were brought to...
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Barbarism on the Rise: Hunting Mama Wolves and Bears and Their Cubs in Alaska
Arctic wolf. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. When I was in elementary school, I had a slingshot for hunting birds. To this day, I find it impossible to explain why I indulged in such unsavory behavior....
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Pollution Rises As China Ends COVID-19 Shutdown
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View ArticleOur Politics Need a Culture of Atonement
Culturally informed by Roman Catholicism’s expectation that regret must prompt an apology as well as penance, Western European tradition calls for a rhetorical journey by politicians who claim to have...
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Icelandic Noir
Still from The Valhalla Murders (Netflix). Over the past couple of months, I have been bingeing on Netflix like most house-bound CounterPunchers. In case you haven’t seen them yet, I highly recommend...
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