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Sealed Off and Forgotten: What You Should Know about Israel’s ‘Firing Zones’...
Photograph Source: Soman – CC BY 2.5 A seemingly ordinary news story, published in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, on January 7, shed light on a long-forgotten, yet crucial, subject: Israel’s so-called...
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Not an Inch: Indian Students Stand Against the Far Right
A placard in solidarity with the JNU students at Shaheen Bagh, during the 22nd day of CAA protests at Delhi on 7 January 2019. Photograph Source: DiplomatTesterMan –...
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Claims that the ‘NAFTA 2’ Agreement is Better are a Macabre Joke
Photograph Source: U.S. Department of State – Public Domain Democratic Party House representatives have voted by a wide margin to approve version 2 of the North American Free Trade Agreement, known as...
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Biden Daze
Photograph Source: Beth Rankin – CC BY 2.0 Joe Biden was sent out to pasture three years ago when Donald Trump took over from Barack Obama; he ought to have remained there. Instead, he has become...
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Will the Constitution Fail Again?
Painting by: Junius Brutus Stearns – Public Domain Extreme worship of the Constitution is a feature of U.S. life. It’s been that way for a long time. Even so, the zeal with which it has been deployed...
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The Rumbling Methane Enigma
Photograph Source: Nixette – CC BY-SA 4.0 The northern continental shelves of Russia, inclusive of the Barents Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea (ESAS) are some of the least researched...
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Hijacking the Struggles of Others, Elizabeth Warren Style
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair To say Elizabeth Warren is a political opportunist is not giving her enough credit. She has taken the struggles, as well as the identities of others (women, school...
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Roaming Charges: No Woman, No Cry
Winter, North Hollywood. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. + Can someone remind me what Trump’s being impeached for? Not extra-judicial assassinations, not locking children in cages, not gutting environmental...
View ArticleBrecht in Berlin
Berlin. One of Brecht’s best-loved and most-performed works, The Caucasian Chalk Circle was written in Los Angeles in 1944 while the playwright was still in exile. He returned to Germany in 1947, but...
View ArticleBaby Dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark
In violation of the separation of church and state, American tax dollars are funneled to fundamentalist private schools teaching crackpot absurdities – such as a claim that Noah probably took two baby...
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Poverty Is the New Draft
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Some Trees: Los Angeles
Los Angeles, the desert city, may have more species of trees than any other city in the United States, almost none of which are native to the basin. Thank Luther Burbank, the Johnny Appleseed of...
View ArticleA Note on Carlos Ghosn and Global Capitalism
The boss of world car maker Nissan — arrested and under intense surveillance around his luxury mansion, and charged with gorging himself with about $140 million of unauthorized pay — makes a daring...
View ArticleInstead of Real-Time Commentary, Eight Common-Sense Reason for Not Going to...
In the wake of the assassination of Iranian military leader Major General Qasem Soleimani and nine other people by a U.S. drone strike in Iraq, tensions between the United States and Iran are at their...
View ArticleNuclear Hubris
One thing that becomes clear to me when I wander into the world, and the minds, of geopolitical professionals — government people — is how limited and linear their thinking seems to be. When I do so,...
View ArticleWhy Do We Have School Lunch Debt at All?
A Google search for “paying school lunch debt” reveals a long list of recent news stories about good Samaritans paying off the school lunch debt of children whose families cannot afford it. A Fredonia,...
View ArticleGOP Albatross
Every schoolchild knows that the Ancient Mariner was forced to wear a dead albatross around his neck. I think America’s Republican Party wears a dying albatross: white evangelicals who are both the...
View ArticleA Matter of Quality: Air Pollution, Tennis and Sporting Officialdom
They are disgruntled and have every right to be. Whatever one’s feelings about tennis, expecting athletes to perform in subpar conditions is a rank matter that should see officials taken to task. But...
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The Humanitarian and Environmental Disaster of Trump’s Border Wall
Photograph Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection – Public Domain A new Wild West has taken root not far from Tombstone, Arizona, known to many for its faux-historical reenactments of the old West....
View ArticleWorldwide Furor Sparked by U.S. Assassination of Iran’s General Suleimani
The Trump administration’s January 3 drone missile assassination of Iran’s Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani just outside Iraq’s Baghdad airport brought the world to the brink of yet another catastrophic U.S....
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