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The Hillary Clinton Resentment Machine
Photograph Source: jalexartis Photography – CC BY 2.0 Only a sadomasochist would consider it a genuine prospect. A failed presidential candidate, the louse in the locks of the Democratic Party, keen to...
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Dams and the Green New Deal: Why the Silence?
The Dalles Dam, Columbia River. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest question that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with. Providing more...
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The Forever Wars
Photograph Source: The U.S. Army – CC BY 2.0 Politicians and pundits in the West and jihadists have something in common. Both see the conflict between the West and Muslim worlds through the grand...
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The Never-Ending Curse of Coal
Photograph Source: Jeremy Buckingham – CC BY 2.0 Last week Murray Energy, one of the largest coal mining corporations in the nation, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. That makes it the fifth coal...
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Boris Johnson Opts For His Santa Claus Election
Photograph Source: Matt Brown – CC BY 2.0 BoJo ran out of rope when all his gambits intended to bounce parliament into accepting his Brexit deal got nowhere (as was widely predicted). The EU accepted...
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America Will Keep Losing Its Middle Class as Long as ‘Free Markets’ Dominate...
Photograph Source: Eden, Janine and Jim – CC BY 2.0 National industrial policy was once something you might read about in today’s equivalent of a friend’s Facebook post, as hard as that might sound to...
View ArticleLiving a Mixed Metaphor: Down the Rabbit Hole With Donald Trump
There can be no question about it. Donald Trump is Lewis Carroll’s Queen of Hearts. “Off with his head!” was the president’s essential suggestion for — to offer just one example — a certain...
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The Nature Conservancy and BLM Collaborate to DeFacto Privatize and Destroy...
Sagebrush plain, Greater Yellowstone. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. In a recent article the Bureau of Land Management, The Nature Conservancy, and local ranchers claimed that removing conifers, mainly...
View ArticleWhy is Latin America Burning?
In Latin America several countries are under turmoil, as people cannot even meet their most basics needs. The last few months have seen a remarkable spectacle: hundreds of thousands of citizens are...
View ArticleAmerica’s Education System: Teaching the Price of Everything and the Value of...
“Ask students to read for more than a couple of sentences and many will protest that they can’t do it. The most frequent complaint that teachers hear that it’s boring. It is not so much the content of...
View ArticleWarren’s Excellent Opening Gambit on Medicare-for-All
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have set themselves apart from the Democratic presidential field in explicitly advocating Medicare for All proposals. Under their plans, an expanded Medicare...
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Fighting Words for Young Workers From a Radical Elder
Photograph Source: frankieleon – CC BY 2.0 I was explaining to my 26-year-old son recently that while I’m continuing to work as a writer, because I waited until age 70 to begin collecting my Social...
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Protecting the North Cascades: Looking for an Alternative that is Good for...
Copper Ridge, North Cascades National Park. Photo: NPS. Wilderness Watch recently asked the National Park Service (NPS) to develop a new alternative in the planning for grizzly bear recovery in the...
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The Rediscovery of Civil Society: Perils and Potentials
Photograph Source: Krugerr – CC BY-SA 4.0 The concept of “civil society” gained epic popularity in the past few decades. The discourse of civil society entered dramatically into the global political...
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How Unofficial Capital Controls Stopped a Run on the Banks in Lebanon
Photograph Source: @joefoodie – CC BY 2.0 Lebanon’s banks were closed for two weeks due to the mass protests throughout the country. The banks opened last Friday (1 November). There was the expectation...
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The Language of Erasure
Ecuadorian refugees near Guatemala – Public Domain no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well – Warsan Shire, from...
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Mexico: One Failed US War Doesn’t Justify Another
Photograph Source: Diego Fernández – Public Domain On November 4, ten dual US-Mexican citizens — members of an offshoot sect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints — died in a highway...
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Inequality and the Iron Law of Decaying Public Services
Photograph Source: Dave Hosford – CC BY 2.0 Fires are raging everywhere in California these days, and firefighters are having enormous trouble keeping up. Chronically understaffed local fire...
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A Fellow American video
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On Coffee, Cantatas and Unwed Daughters Crossing the Threshold
Your Musical Patriot has returned from the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society, held this year in Boston—if you have the nerve to call the “redeveloped” harbor district where the...
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