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American Democracy vs. Fascist Autocracy
Image by Unsplash+ and Getty Images. Liberty – Equality – Democracy: America and Americans are defined by their dedication to these founding principles–ideas that were fostered by the Enlightenment...
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Labor Holds the Line in Argentina
Protestors hold up signs. Image Credit: Phoebe Moore. This March, Argentina’s school year began with empty classrooms. The price of learning materials rose by 502 percent over the past year, leaving...
View ArticleTwo Guys I Met in Jakarta…Gone Too Soon
It may seem an inappropriate way to begin a serious discussion, but the incredible nature of this coincidence forces me to talk about an issue of personal hygiene. My wife and I were re-organizing the...
View ArticleGood Friday in Palestine: Personal, Past and Present
Nothing has changed since a version of this column first appeared (April 10, 2020) in CP under the title A Lethal Virus Called Israeli Occupation: A Somber Easter in Occupied Palestine. The original...
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Consider the Commune: Venezuela and Beyond
About midway through his new book Commune or Nothing: Venezuala’s Communal Movement and its Socialist Project, author Chris Gilbert introduces the reader to Marxist theoretician István Mészáros and his...
View ArticleThe Antiauthoritarians of the First International
The International Workingmen’s Association, popularly known as the First International, first met in September of 1864 at St. Martin’s Hall in London. It began as a relatively modest gathering of...
View ArticleRelitigating the Pandemic: School Closings and Vaccine Sharing
There is a steady drumbeat from people intent on making a major issue over the fact that many cities may have kept their schools closed for too long during the pandemic. The argument is that children...
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Bach Hits the Road
Johann Alexander Thiele, View from the Lößnitz Plain towards Dresden (1751), Gemäldegalerie alte Meister, Dresden. Written for a solo soprano voice and small ensemble and lasting about a half-hour, J....
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Settlements are an Obstacle to Peace
Image by Semion Lugo. Almost eight months after the brutal Hamas’ attack on innocent Israeli and Jewish citizens, including women and children, there are still some essential questions that need to be...
View ArticleIn Defiance of Whiteness: “Suffering Is the Bridge”
You and Orin have done such an incredible job with Domenico’s and the Other Side. Beyond words. And I mean it. It is when you opened that I started to appreciate Utica. True....
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Cut Off Funds for Genocide and War By Stopping the Congressional Discharge...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Nothing can justify a genocide. And nothing can justify providing weaponry and support for those conducting a genocide. Nevertheless, the US Senate on February 13...
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What’s So Green About Burning Trees? The False Promise of Biomass Energy
Biomass burner, Mayger, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Renewable energy comes from matter that nature produces and replenishes constantly. The power generated through this source does not...
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Why America Needs a Commercial Shipbuilding Industry
Photograph Source: Steel city ady – Public Domain James Crawford served five years in the U.S. Marine Corps maintaining the radar systems on super-sophisticated warplanes built to fend off enemy...
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The Biggest Treasure I Found After Five Decades in Archaeology
Photograph Source: Mario Modesto Mata – CC BY-SA 3.0 Flush with my newly minted university degree, I sat down for breakfast with my entrepreneurial grandfather who met me with the question, “So you...
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Rising Talk of School Closures Fuels Expansion of the Community Schools Movement
Photograph Source: Will Maupin –CC BY-SA 4.0 Judging by a rash of news reports beginning in late 2023, communities across the country may be gearing up for a massive wave of school closures in 2024....
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Trump’s Commercial Pleasures
Photo by charlesdeluvio At 9:58 am on March 25th, former president Donald Trump, decked out in a navy suit, red tie and white shirt, appeared in a New York court seeking a further delay in a case...
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Mountaintop Removal: David Brooks and the Elite Consensus on Gaza
U.S. Marine and Afghan War veteran Zachary Kern burns his medals and a paper flag at anti-genocide “Cancel the DNC” rally 3/22/24 in Chicago. Photo credit: Behind Enemy Lines In his March 24th opinion...
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Neoliberalism 2024: The Math’s Not Mathing
Photograph Source: NTSBgov – Public Domain Bridges being knocked down, the average income needed to meet basic needs being unavailable to most, thousands dying yearly from a lack of medical care,...
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Spending Unlimited
Image by Christine Roy. The White House released its budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2025 on March 11th, and the news was depressingly familiar: $895 billion for the Pentagon and work on nuclear...
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The Never-Ending Federal Surveillance Crime Spree
Photo: James Bovard. Last December, one of the most intrusive provisions in the federal statute book was set to expire. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorizes the...
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Carbon Capture, too Little too Late?
Image by Jas Min. Will carbon capture technology bail society out of the latest version of greenhouse gas emissions, CO2 suddenly doubling its rate of increase when compared to the past decade, in...
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Reflections on Gaza, “Empire,” and Who and What is Breaking the World
Image by Nat. I recently attended a moving presentation of Palestinian poetry at the public library in the University of Iowa campus town of Iowa City. The presenters and audience were largely (though...
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Congress Goes Berserk Over TikTok
Photo by Solen Feyissa Lots of people have been blamed for the frenzy to ban TikTok, from the CIA and FBI, to the mainstream media, to political elites, to AIPAC, to competitors like Facebook. But I...
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Roaming Charges: Nowhere Men
Lieberman with President Ronald Reagan in 1984. Photo: William Fitz-Patrick, Reagan Library. “Not a day goes by without a question imposing itself on the minimally sane mind: how can all this shit...
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Of Life and Lithium: Why the “White Gold” Rush Won’t Save The Planet
Image by omid roshan. With his perfect tan and slicked-back hair, California Governor Gavin Newsom stood at a podium at Sacramento’s Cal Expo in late September 2020 and announced an executive order...
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The Trump Media Stock Bubble
Photo by Jonathan Cooper Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the stock market, Donald Trump has managed to hack into the National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation...
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U.S. Complicity in Israel’s “Plausible” Genocide
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “Honoring our alliances does not mean facilitating mass killing,” Representative Ocasio-Cortez said on the floor of the House of Representatives on March 22. “We...
View ArticleWho’ll Stop the Rain?
+ The UN has been used to start many wars, but has it ever stopped one? The Security Council’s ceasefire resolution, temporary as it is, was completely ignored by Israel. Will any of the Council’s...
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Israel’s War Psychosis
Bomb-shattered buildings in Gaza. Photo: Tasnim News Agency, CC BY-SA 4.0. The October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israelis followed by the extremely disproportionate IDF assault on Gaza has been...
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The Banality of Sir Keir Starmer
Secretary Antony J. Blinken meets with British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer in Munich, Germany, February 17, 2024. (Official State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy) What is remarkable about Sir...
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