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How Israel Exploits the Holocaust to Justify War Crimes Against Palestinians
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Sunset’s Soon The amber moon sings: sunset’s soon From Tzin Tzun Tzan, and Tucson, To San Juan Capistrano — Do you know about that Saint John? From Abruzzo? He enjoyed burning Jews, and Muslims too, On...
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On January 19th the New York Times oddly co-endorsed Senators Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar for the Democratic presidential nomination. Two days later, the key New Hampshire primary showed Warren...
View ArticleAmericans Need to Hear More From Iranians, Here’s Where to Start
Following President Trump’s announcement that the U.S. would seek new sanctions, but not immediate military escalation, against Iran, most people in the United States likely breathed a sigh of relief....
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I’m alarmed. I’m afraid. I’m sad. I’m a teacher, and it terrifies me to think of what the future will become for our children if we don’t stop and act right now on the climate disaster. *** I’ll be as...
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Giving Cover to the Abuses of Big Ag
Grain elevators. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. A recent commentary promoting agriculture by Brenden Weiner of the Gallatin Valley Land Trust was full of misinformation. Weiner suggested that “working...
View ArticleThe Better Moral Creed
Last October Attorney General Bill Barr delivered a speech at Notre Dame during which he claimed that “Judeo-Christian moral standards are the ultimate rules for human conduct” and that “the fact is...
View ArticleCuba: a Matter of Principle
Think tanks in the United States and Cuban researchers agree on one thing: the policy of more sanctions and the extension of the U.S. blockade will not change the socialist course of Cuba. In the case...
View ArticleA Historian Reflects on the Return of Fascism
Back in 1941, the year of my birth, fascism stood on the brink of conquering the world. During the preceding decades, movements of the Radical Right—mobilized by demagogues into a cult of virulent...
View ArticleNewsGuard Can Save You From Putin!
The New York Times headline was an attention grabber worthy of Sen. Joe McCarthy: “How Amazon, Geico and Walmart Fund Propaganda.” A subhed explained: “Algorithms are sending ads by American brands...
View ArticleBernie Sanders, Joe Rogan, Human Rights Campaign, and Truth in Advertising
On January 20, comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan mentioned that he’ll “probably vote for Bernie” Sanders in the Democratic Party’s presidential primary. Rogan cited Sanders’s decades of “consistency”...
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The Misuses of Antisemitism in the UK and the USA
Photograph Source: Chatham House, London – CC BY 2.0 Britain and the USA have had close ties, echoes and parallels from our start, some very good, others nasty. One of the latter may now be...
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The Challenge for Chile and the World
Photograph Source: Carlos Figueroa – CC BY-SA 4.0 SANTIAGO, Chile. In October, a rise in Santiago’s metro fares set off the biggest protests in Chile since the end of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship....
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Trump in Davos: US isolationism is Reaching Its Final Narcissistic Chapter
Photograph Source: Matt Johnson – CC BY 2.0 By the time Donald Trump was condemning environmentalists as the “perennial prophets of doom” in Davos, his impeachment trial was opening in Washington. But...
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Can Manufacturing Workers Take Many More of Trump’s Trade “Victories”?
Photograph Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/markjhandel/ – CC BY 2.0 Last week, as Donald Trump was trying to distract attention from his impeachment trial, he was holding events touting his big...
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Adani and the Purpose of Education
Photograph Source: Stephen Hass – CC BY 2.0 Recently, Survival International, the organization that campaigns with ‘tribal peoples,’ ran a story about the Indian conglomerate, Adani Group, setting up a...
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Who Cares If It Leaks? An Afternoon at Hollyhock House
Hollyhock House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1921, crowns a knoll called Olive Hill in East Hollywood. Once it was surrounded by citrus fields, now Hollyhock House and the small shady park it...
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Reflections of a Scientific Humanist
Michael Shermer’s Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist (Cambridge University Press, 2020) is a very special book written for people that actually spend time “thinking.” Geez,...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Justin Trudeau on Venezuela
Re: Your announcement of January 26, 2020 “Interim President of Venezuela Juan Guaidó to visit Canada” Dear Mr. Justin Trudeau: I have read with great disappointment your office’s announcement that you...
View ArticleGreece: a Chronology From January 25, 2015 to 2019
Five years ago, on 25 January 2015, the Greek people sent a great signal of hope to the rest of the world. The purpose of this timeline is to review the main events of 2015. The chronology ends with...
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