The Contemptible Secretary DeVos
That shut her up real horrorshow and lovely. – Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange As a lawyer I am reluctant to speak unkindly of a federal judge, but I cannot resist observing that U.S. Magistrate...
View ArticleIllegal Loggers Murder Indigenous Forest Guardian in Brazilian Amazon
Maranhão state, Brazil On the morning of November 1, a group of illegal loggers in the Araribóia indigenous territory ambushed members of the Guajajara people’s Forest Guardians, a volunteer land and...
View ArticleA New Disease Big Meat Doesn’t Want You to Know About
Have you ever heard of African swine fever (ASF) caused by the African swine fever virus (ASFV)? A fourth of the world’s pigs have died from it just this year –– half of all of China’s pigs –– but like...
View ArticleSierra Club Takes a Commendable Turn on Population, Climate Change, and...
The Sierra Club – long a retrograde proponent of saving the planet by driving a Tesla, eating wild caught salmon, and voting blue – took positive environmental leadership with their end of the year...
View ArticleFlying Leaps, 30 Years Later
I never imagined that the US would use the Stasi playbook as the template for its own state sponsored surveillance regime and turning not only its own citizens into virtual persons of interest, but...
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Nelson Algren and the Pathologies of Life in the USA
Colin Asher’s Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren is both a top-notch work of research and an elegantly written profile of a great writer who is too little remembered today....
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Microsoft Should Not Fund Israeli Spying on Palestinians
Photograph Source: Coolcaesar – CC BY-SA 4.0 The act of Palestinian activists covering their faces during anti-Israeli occupation rallies is an old practice that spans decades. The masking of the face,...
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The Crass Warfare of Billionaires Against Sanders and Warren
For many decades, any politician daring to fight for economic justice was liable to be denounced for engaging in “class warfare.” It was always a grimly laughable accusation, coming from wealthy...
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A Socialist Party in Our Time?
Photograph Source: David Shankbone – CC BY 3.0 Nearly two years ago, Eric Blanc wrote an article for Jacobin that justified socialists running on the Democratic Party primary ballot as a “dirty break”...
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Eating the Amazon
NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview – Public Domain Catastrophic fires have been burning all over the world, not just in...
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Pacifica’s WBAI Back on the Air But Fight for Non-Corporate Radio Continues
Logo for WBAI – License New York City’s Pacifica radio station, WBAI, was back on the air as of midnight this past Wednesday, but the struggle to keep it a community radio station is far from over....
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From Canada’s Election to Public Action: Beyond the Moral Tumor of Alberta...
Photograph Source: thekirbster – CC BY 2.0 For months during and after Canada’s 2019 federal election campaign, corporate media provided daily frontline news space for non-stop Alberta demands for more...
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Neoliberalism’s Children Rise Up to Demand Justice in Chile and the World
Photograph Source: Hugo Morales – CC BY-SA 4.0 Uprisings against the corrupt, generation-long dominance of neoliberal “center-right” and “center-left” governments that benefit the wealthy and...
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Repatriate the Children of the Jihad
Photograph Source: Y. Boechat (VOA) – Public Domain “Listen! If all must suffer to pay for the eternal harmony, what have children to do with it, tell me, please? … And if it is really true that they...
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Ignoring Climate Catastrophes
Photograph Source: Nathaniel St. Clair The planet is coming apart at the seams right before the eyes of scientists at work in remote fringe areas of the North where permafrost crumbles and collapses....
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Middle East: a Complex Re-alignment
Image Source: Turkish Flame – Public Domain The fallout from the September attack on Saudi Arabia’s Aramco oil facilities is continuing to reverberate throughout the Middle East, sidelining old...
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Growing Ecological Civilization in China
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences invited me to an international ecological conference in Jinan, Shandong Province. The Academy gave the conference a provocative and insightful title: a Paradigm...
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2020: The Incipient Bet
Frame-breakers, or Luddites, smashing a loom – Public Domain In the fall of 1992, after I finished my second round of speeches for the Quincentennial of America’s “discovery,” drawing on my book about...
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And the Armies That Remained Suffer’d: Veterans, Moral Injury and Suicide
Photograph Source: USAG- Humphreys – CC BY 2.0 I was very pleased to see the New York Times editorial on November 1, 2019, Suicide Has Been Deadlier than Combat for the Military. As a combat veteran...
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Roaming Charges: Enter Sondland
Abandoned shoes, Old Town, Portland. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. + One of the useful life-lessons Roy Cohn taught the young Donald Trump was always to have a fall guy, a patsy on retainer to take the...
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