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Waves of Nostalgia
This morning, I ran the flatness of St Simons Island and wrote an article in my head. Two hours later, after a shower, several phone calls, and interactions with Laura and Erma, I sat at the keyboard,...
View ArticleBig Business and the Overtime Rule: Irrational Complaints
Business lobbyists have been up in arms in recent months over what they claim is President Barack Obama’s anti-business turn. They point to a number of policies and executive orders that they contend...
View ArticleHungry and Frightened: Famine in Ethiopia 2016
Millions of the poorest, most vulnerable people in Ethiopia are once again at risk of starvation. Elderly men and women, weak and desperate, wait for food and water; malnourished children lie dying;...
View ArticleOpening the Closed Political Culture
The headline, from the Los Angeles Times, hit me like a sucker punch: “Voters’ ‘Bernie or Bust’ efforts persist despite Sanders’ vow not to be another Ralph Nader.” Actually, it was worse than that....
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The Push to Make Sanders the Green Party’s Candidate
Gino Santa Maria | Shutterstock.com Philadelphia Bernie Sanders, to the consternation of critics in the Democratic Party, pundits in the corporate media, and purists on the hard left, has...
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Chernobyl’s Ongoing Toll: 40,000 More Cancer Deaths?
In 1996, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) stated that Chernobyl was “the foremost nuclear catastrophe in human history”. In 2005, the IAEA and World Health Organisation (WHO) set out...
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Big Oil isn’t Going Down Without a Fight
An extreme weather event hits Norway. Finally shocked into doing something radical about climate change, Norwegian citizens propel the Green Party into government, where it declares an immediate...
View ArticleThe Devil Capitalism
Okay, here’s the proposition — you can have a good job, decent pay, lots of overtime, but only if you give me your grandchildren or maybe your great-grandchildren. Would you make this deal with the...
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Dishonoring Harriet Tubman
STOP THE RUNAWAY. FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD. The above reward will be given any person that will take him and deliver him to me or secure him in jail so that I can get him. If taken out of the state, the...
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Where Gun Control Ought to Start: Disarming the Police
On February 5, 2015, Jeremy Lett was physically attacked, then shot in the torso five times while walking outside his apartment. He died in the hospital the next day. His attacker, David Stith, had a...
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Is Washington Preparing for War Against Russia?
You may find it difficult to believe the content of a speech by US President George W Bush in November 2001 when he met with President Putin in Texas and, among other things, declared that “a lot of...
View ArticleVice Presidents, Candidates and History
The United States’ race for the presidential nominations becomes ever more “curiouser and curiouser”. Not unlike Alice, it does seem as if we have all tumbled down a rabbit hole, and found ourselves in...
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Job Satisfaction Under Perpetual Stagnation
Do you hate your job? Do you dread getting up on Monday morning and schlepping to the office, factory, store, desk or wherever that serves, at best, as a place to earn a few dollars to meet...
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What is the Democratic Party Good For? Absolutely Nothing
Think of Republicans and despair for the human race. Even the ones who otherwise seem morally and intellectually sound champion political views straight out of Morons R’Us. However, Democrats are...
View ArticleThe Big Lies and the Small Lies
Havana. Any reasonably sane person would assume that after the recent public acknowledgment by US President Barack Obama of the foreign policy errors that are implicit, and even explicit, in his...
View ArticleEvery Day I Read the Book (the Best Music Books of the Last Year)
Ed Pavlić’s Who Can Afford to Improvise?: James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners (Fordham University Press) is a book that only he could write, but that the rest of us ignore at our...
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Anthropologists Marshalling History: the American Anthropological...
Ryan Rodrick Beiler | Shutterstock.com The membership of the world’s largest professional association of anthropologists, the American Anthropological Association (AAA), is now in the midst of an...
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Did the Arabs Betray Palestine? – A Schism between the Ruling Classes and the...
At the age of 21, I crossed Gaza into Egypt to pursue a degree in political science. The timing could have not been worse. The Iraq invasion of Kuwait in 1990 had resulted in a US-led international...
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Moby Dick on Steroids?
A white whale does not appear in Ian McGuire’s stomach-turning novel, The Great North. But the similarities with Herman Melville’s masterpiece are numerous. A whaling ship, the Volunteer, leaves from...
View ArticlePolitical Violence in Honduras
On March 3, assassins entered the home of Berta Caceres, leader of Honduras’ environmental and indigenous movement. They shot her friend Gustavo Castro Soto, the director of Friends of the Earth...
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