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Climate Talks in Madrid: What Will It Take to Prevent Climate Collapse?
Power station, Imperial Valley, California. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The two-week marathon of the annual UN climate conference is underway in Madrid, and the world’s expectations have perhaps never...
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What’s the Matter With America?
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair To impeach or not to impeach. A lot of decent voters don’t know what to think. Kansas is no exception, but Kansas has a number of exceptional role models for our...
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Was Trump Looking for Corruption or a Personal Favor?
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Congress’s first round of impeachment hearings wound up largely focused on whether President Trump had offered a quid pro quo for receiving a favor from Ukraine, i.e....
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Afghanistan: a Pentagon Paradise Built on Lies
Photograph Source: DVIDSHUB – Public Domain The Pentagon cannot be pleased with the Washington Post. That’s because the Post has just disclosed a mountain of previously secret documentary evidence...
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American Culture Loves a Good Killer
Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino) and Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) debate Hoffa’s next move. © 2019 Netlfix US, LLC. All rights reserved. Donald Trump’s narcissistic, authoritarian instincts and the man’s...
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The Demonization of Jeremy Corbyn
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair For years, under the glitzy brand of ‘New Labour’ and its facile slogans of ‘modernisation’, the British Labour Party had been moving to the right. Encouraging people to...
View ArticleHow Africa Could Power a Green Revolution
Just before this year’s global climate summit opened in Madrid recently, researchers announced that emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels will hit a record high in 2019. Although the 0.6...
View ArticleJulian Assange, Thanks for Warning Japanese About Washington
“The hostility or fear against WikiLeaks that resides in these arguments [about whether to publish or not] comes from a philosophy that these things should be kept between the people in question and...
View ArticleModern Family Progressivism
In a recent New York Times’ column, Thomas Edsall defends progressives against Attorney General William Barr and other social conservatives who charge them with wanton destruction of the family. Edsall...
View ArticleCongress: The Snail’s Pace Race
I don’t keep count, but I see lots of headlines like this one from The Hill, dated December 5: “Congress races to beat deadline on shutdown.” Reporters Jordain Carney and Niv Elis tell us that...
View ArticleHomogenizing India: the Citizenship Debate
The federal government of India has yet to realize its obligations toward minorities. India’s progress will be greatly hindered unless the federal government as well as the majority community assure...
View ArticleSure, Impeach Trump, But Let’s be Honest
Sure, impeach Trump for legitimate reasons explicitly stated in the Constitution. But let’s be honest that an 18th century document did not include slaveholding among high crimes against humanity, and...
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Interference Paranoia: Russia, Reddit and the British Election
Photograph Source: thierry ehrmann – CC BY 2.0 In some ways, it is a very British thing: fair play is expected; the reasonable person with all faculties intact, going about the business of living and...
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Who Will Protect Us From an Unpatriotic Patriot Act?
Photograph Source: Jeff Ruane – CC BY 2.0 “It is the responsibility of the patriot to protect his country from its government.” – Thomas Paine While Congress subjects the nation to its...
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Ideology or Popularity: How Will Britain Vote?
Photograph Source: It’s No Game – CC BY 2.0 It’s not news that Jeremy Corbyn isn’t a popular figure. It’s also not news that Jeremy Corbyn’s policies are hugely popular with the British public. Why...
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Australia’s Big Smoke
Smoke haze as the author’s plane descends at Sydney airport on 6 December, 2019 Photo: Kenneth Surin. I am in Sydney, having just spent 6 days in Brisbane to the north. The area around, and to the...
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Why the Afghanistan Papers Are an Eerie Reminder of Vietnam
Photograph Source: Jayel Aheram – CC BY 2.0 Noam Chomsky recently celebrated his 91st birthday. As an homage to Noam, I spent the day with one of his lesser-known books—The Backroom Boys (1973). The...
View ArticleGoat Grazing is No Solution to Wildfires
The recent commentary by Mark Nelson in the San Francisco Chronicle, who works for the Ag industry, suggesting that grazing by goats and other livestock can help reduce wildfire losses in California...
View ArticleNo Israeli Peace, Joy or Goodwill at Christmastime for Palestinians
Peace, Good Will and Joy on Earth at Christmas! But what does that mean for Palestine and Palestinians? Every year, on the 11th day of the 11th hour of the 11th month, the human spirit pauses to pay...
View ArticleWhen You Follow the Gun Trail, You Can End Up in Expected Places
I’ve always wanted to find out where the guns came from. Who were the ‘willing accomplices’ to the wars I witnessed? In 1996, I traced to its Boeing makers in the deep south of the US a missile fired...
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