Joining the 1%
One day I walked out, and what do you think I found just lying there on the pavement but ten billion buckaroos. It must have fallen out of somebody’s pocket. I decided to join the 1%. On the way home I...
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The Law Offices of Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe
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Meet Larry Hogan, Maryland’s Trump
Larry Hogan during debate with Ben Jealous. Maryland Public Television. Two years before Donald Trump rode the Tea Party wave into the White House, Larry Hogan captured the Maryland governor’s mansion...
View ArticleThe American Taliban
If you believe in the separation of church and state, then you probably think that evangelicals exert far too much influence on American life, our politics and culture. When I remarked to a friend that...
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Collapsing Rainforest Ecosystems
Photo Source A.Davey | CC BY 2.0 The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences recently issued a report on the status of arthropods in rainforests (Bradford C. Lister and Andres Garcia,...
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The Climate Crisis is Back in the News
Photo Source Peter Prokosch | CC BY 2.0 The prospect of drastic climate change is back in the news. But, for all too many people it is just that, a news item. It is like other eye-grabbing stories: a...
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No Wonder We’re Screwed
Photo Source Fibonacci Blue | CC BY 2.0 It’s always been fascinating (and revealing) how people regard the core beliefs of our two major political parties. Not how they themselves vote, which is...
View ArticleThe Arms Behind the Invictus Games
The origins of the Invictus Games (“For our Wounded Warriors,” goes the slogan) lies in war. Wars that crippled and caused depression and despair. The games became a project of grand distraction and...
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Will the War Powers Resolution Rise from the Grave?
Photo Source James N. Mattis | CC BY 2.0 Just in time for Hallowe’en, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced on October 15 that he would attempt to resurrect the corpse of the War Powers Resolution....
View ArticleA Call to Secular Humanist Resistance: Global Humanism for a Safer, Kinder...
In May of 2018, Counterpunch.org was kind enough to publish my essay, “A Call to Secular Humanist Resistance.” That piece was very popular on social media. It even received a “like” and re-tweet from...
View ArticleOn a Firm Foundation of Mayonnaise: Human and Natural Threats to the...
The reasons for abandoning construction of the new US Marine Corps Air Facility, being built for the Marines by the Japanese Defense Ministry at Henoko in northern Okinawa, are many. It tramples on...
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Fascism Denial Ignores Some Inconvenient Truths
Photo Source Governor Tom Wolf | CC BY 2.0 The massacre of 11 Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue, the arrest of a far-right serial bomber in Florida, and probably the killings of two African Americans in...
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Saudi Killing in an Age of Manufactured Outrage
Photo Source Alfagih | CC BY 2.0 The murderous dismemberment of the US-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has prompted– after an initial phase of “let’s not presume the Saudi bone-saw killers...
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Why a Neoliberal Society Can’t Survive
Photo by Nathaniel St. Clair Humans are complicated creatures. We are both cooperative and sectarian. We tend to be cooperative within in-groups (e.g., a trade union) whilst competing against...
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Grand Canyon – Cheval Sombre & Dean Wareham
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Notes on Antisemitism
Photo Source Diebold Schilling – Heritage. Civilization and the Jews by Abba Eban | CC BY 2.0 (1) Like everything, antisemitism has an origin in time. Some find it in Egyptian, Greek and Roman writings...
View ArticleThe Big Battle Over Rent Control
In California high rent has gotten ½ million low-income people to leave the state in the last 11 years and thousands to lose their homes to go live on the streets. According to U.S. Census Data, rent...
View ArticleArgentina in Turmoil
Seventeen years after the 2001 crisis in Argentina, the Macri government, which came to power in December 2015, is reinforcing a fierce structural adjustment plan for its population following the loan...
View ArticleOne Law to Rule Them All: Thou Shall Not Kill
Routine mayhem in America is the “new normal?” Not only is it not “normal” it is not “new.” The soul searching and despairing cries of “Why?” echo again across the nation. The blood of one group of...
View ArticleIndia’s Farmers Plan Mass March to the Nation’s Parliament as Agrarian Crisis...
With over 800 million people, rural India is arguably the most interesting and complex place on the planet. And yet it is also one of the most neglected in terms of both investment and media coverage....
View ArticleThe Formation of Workers’ Councils in the Abode of the Islamic Republic’s...
“Our alternative is clear, the only way out of this crisis rests in the hands of the working class; the formation of independent workers’ councils”. The voice of Esmail Bakhshi, a representative of...
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The Occasional Stupidity of Hope and How, Again, to Learn From Cuba
Photo Source DieselDemon | CC BY 2.0 The occasional stupidity of hope and how, again, to learn from Cuba Hope is pervasive in the North. We live for hope. It pervades medicine, for instance. Patients...
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The Hypocrisy of the United States, Cuba Edition
Photo by Nathaniel St. Clair One can only marvel at the blatant, outrageous hypocrisy of the United States. This is on clear display in many areas: proclaiming support for self-determination while...
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Diverting Class War Into Generational War, Again
Photo Source D.C.Atty | CC BY 2.0 The wages of a typical worker have barely risen in four decades, many recent college grads are facing unbearable student loan burdens, housing costs are hugely...
View ArticleA Polish Warning for an America on the Brink
There are Trump hotels, Trump buildings, Trump golf courses, and—for better or worse—a Trump Presidency. What’s next: “Fort Trump”? Yes, it’s possible according to the entreaties of the current Polish...
View ArticleDon’t Commodify and Commercialize Montana’s Parks
While most of the public’s attention is focused on the upcoming election, there’s another important deadline to comment on the future of Montana’s state parks coming up Nov. 7. And once again,...
View ArticleCongress Should End US Military Backing for the Saudis’ War in Yemen
Each day since October 2, new evidence has emerged that the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a resident of Virginia, was a premeditated murder. At the same time, it is also...
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America’s Holy Places in the Age of Trump: Greta Ronningen’s Prison Pilgrimage
Photo Source fusion-of-horizons | CC BY 2.0 Can churches and organized religions counter the noxious force of Trump’s America, a country pushed toward fascism by Evangelicals, racists and anti-Semites?...
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South Africans Peer Down Trump’s World Economic Shithole
South Africa has just witnessed two major economic events which spoke volumes about the prospects for global and local capitalism: an austerity-oriented budgetleaving the economy far more vulnerable to...
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Weather Disasters: Climate Change and the Potential for Conflict
Photo Source U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | CC BY 2.0 East Island was an uninhabited remote island in the Hawaiian chain, but it was an important refuge for wildlife: Many of the endangered Hawaiian...
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