Split Hearings: the Assange Extradition Case Drags On
It is being increasingly larded with heavy twists and turns, a form of state oppression in slow motion, but the Julian Assange extradition case now looks like it may well move into the middle of the...
View ArticleMake America Radical Again: A Conversation with Harvey J. Kaye
Harvey J. Kaye is the Ben & Joyce Rosenberg Professor of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, the Founding Director of the University’s Center for History and...
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Natural Gas Pipeline Corridor Threatens Imperiled Species and Inventoried...
Wolverine. Photo: US Fish and Wildlife Service. Since time immemorial native wildlife, including grizzly bears, lynx, and wolverine have inhabited and traveled the higher elevation connections between...
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Trump’s Feeble Phase 1 China-US Trade Deal
Cargo ship, Columbia River. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. With the announcement today, January 16, 2020 of the signing of the US-China Phase 1 ‘mini’ trade deal, and the US Senate’s simultaneous...
View ArticleSorry Chomsky and Friends, The Green Party isn’t the Problem
“Rather, piety is what George Santayana and John Dewey defined as the sources of good in our lives, in our move from womb to tomb, our acknowledged dependence on those who came before. I am who I am...
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Remove the Livestock, Not the Wolves
Mexican wolf. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Wolves are smart, family-oriented animals and science demonstrates that problems with livestock increase following wolf removals. So why does the government keep...
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Autobiographical Roots of Habermas’ Thought
Photograph Source: thierry ehrmann – CC BY 2.0 Habermas is reticent to talk about his childhood trauma of being born with a cleft palate, which had a decisive and lasting impact both on his own sense...
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Truth a Major Casualty of Impeachment Hearings
Image by Nathaniel St. Clair As in any political battle, truth has been one of the major casualties of the impeachment proceedings against President Donald J. Trump. While the Democratic impeachment...
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The Evolution of “Davos Man” into . . . Trump Fan!
Official logo of the World Economic Forum – Public Domain The biggest surprise up in the Swiss Alps this week at the Davos World Economic Forum? Reporters who cover this annual global bacchanal of...
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Where Was Rudy Giuliani When Democrats Needed Him?
Photograph Source: Gage Skidmore – CC BY-SA 2.0 Help me get this straight. Rudolph Giuliani is the President’s private attorney, or at least he still seems to be. According to CNN on 10/11/19: “Rudy...
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Making Rebellion Attractive: Why the Establishment Still Hates John Reed
Photograph Source: John Reed, the American Communist – Public Domain ‘If Mark Twain or John Reed were alive today and looking for work, would they find it at your newspaper or channel? Could Twain have...
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China’s Coronavirus Outbreak Reminds Me of the Irish Polio Epidemic I Survived
Photograph Source: Gauthier DELECROIX – CC BY 2.0 China is responding to the spread of the coronavirus in Wuhan much as countries have always reacted to life-threatening epidemics. At every level of...
View ArticleWhy the Green Party isn’t the Problem
I just read the open letter by Noam Chomsky, Bill Fletcher, Barbara Ehrenreich, Kathy Kelly, Ron Daniels, Leslie Cagan, Norman Solomon, Cynthia Peters, and Michael Albert calling on the Green Party not...
View ArticleThe Fate of the Earth (See Page Five)
Let me betray my age for a moment. Some of you, I know, will be shocked, but I still read an actual newspaper. Words on real paper every day. I’m talking about the New York Times, and something stuck...
View ArticleCould the Climate Crisis be “The Good News of Damnation”?
On August 12, 1945, six days after the U.S. government obliterated the city of Hiroshima with a single atomic bomb, Robert Hutchins, the president of the University of Chicago, delivered a remarkable...
View ArticleMarital-Status Discrimination Reduces Fertility in China
Building on recent posts by Dean Baker (responding to NYT and Washington Post here and Ross Douthat here) that debunk the idea that there is a “demographic crisis” in China, there’s also an important...
View ArticleThe World Demands Us Out of the Middle East
The world is saying no to war with Iran and US out of the Middle East. Hundreds of protests were held in the United States and around the world on Saturday with a unified voice of “No War.” These...
View ArticleIran is Not Responsible for US Deaths in Iraq
Who exactly is responsible for US casualties in Iraq during the Iraq War? The question has been raised thanks to President Trump’s decision to assassinate Iranian General Gasem Soleimani. On January...
View ArticleThe International Court of Justice and the Rohingyas
The International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) Order to the Government of the Republic of Myanmar to adopt various provisional measures to protect the Rohingya community from “physical destruction” and to...
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Soviet Hippies: The Grass is Greener on the Other Side
Still from “Soviet Hippies.” (Terje Toomistu) Astmatol : a spasmolytic agent used as a powder or in cigarettes. Astmatol is made of one part henbane leaves, two parts belladonna leaves, six parts...
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