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The Tears of Justin Trudeau
The Tears of Justin Trudeau On January 7th the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) swept into a non-violent checkpoint set up by the Unist’ot’en and Gidimt’en clans of the Wet’suwet’en Nation. Fourteen people were violently arrested in the ambush by the militarized colonial forces. The camp was set up by hereditary leaders to defend the ancestral […]
The Austere Neoliberal Globalist Agenda
The Austere Neoliberal Globalist Agenda ‘You’ve over-fed him, ma’am. You’ve raised a artificial soul and spirit in him, ma’am unbecoming a person of his condition: as the board, Mrs. Sowerberry, who are practical philosophers, will tell you. What have paupers to do with soul or spirit? It’s quite enough that we let ’em have live […]
Will the Yellow Vests Protests Come to the US?
Will the Yellow Vests Protests Come to the US? A truth about movements is, they move. They morph, evolve and move around a country or even around the globe. This occurs over months and often over years. The US Occupy encampment era occurred ten months after the Arab Spring and six months after the Spanish […]
Money is no Object
Money is no Object Chances are, most of what you’ve learned about taxes and the economy is wrong. In fact, the key principles at work in our economic system are very different from what we’re taught. If you find you’re one of those who’s been misled, it’s not your fault. A system such as ours […]
Neoliberalism: Free Market Fundamentalism or Corporate Power?
Neoliberalism: Free Market Fundamentalism or Corporate Power? Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair I’ve been hearing about neoliberalism for a long time now and never could make much sense of it. It turns out the story we tell about neoliberalism is as contradictory as neoliberalism itself. Two currents within the critique of neoliberalism offer different analyses […]
How Tre Arrow Became America’s Most Wanted Environmental “Terrorist”
How Tre Arrow Became America’s Most Wanted Environmental “Terrorist” Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The following is an excerpt from the new book The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank. That Tre Arrow, a tree-hugging vegan who espouses non-violence and lives by the airy and some nebulous philosophy of […]
Slip of the Imperial Mask
Slip of the Imperial Mask O’Reilly then said about Putin: “But he’s a killer, though. Putin’s a killer.” Trump responded: “There are a lot of killers. We’ve got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country’s so innocent?”–Feb 4, 2017 I remember the day well. It was the day when the leader “of […]
Center for Science in the Public Interest Greg Jaffe Cornell and GMOs
Center for Science in the Public Interest Greg Jaffe Cornell and GMOs The Center for Science in the Public Interest is known in public interest circles as one of the premiere food safety public interest groups in Washington, D.C. But that reputation has suffered over the years because of the group’s stance on genetically modified […]
Climacide: Survival Rebranding
Climacide: Survival Rebranding A 15-year old Swedish girl bitch slapped the world’s representatives at the recent climate conference in Poland. She stood before them and called them frauds and fakers, while they sat in limp silence. She said they’d had their chances to do something effective about the climate crisis, and they had failed. It […]
Living on a Quagmire Planet: This Could Get a Lot Uglier
Living on a Quagmire Planet: This Could Get a Lot Uglier Sixty-six million years ago, so the scientists tell us, an asteroid slammed into this planet. Landing on what’s now Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, it gouged out a crater 150 kilometers wide and put so much soot and sulfur into the atmosphere that it created what […]
Land Grabbers: the Threat of Giant Agriculture
Land Grabbers: the Threat of Giant Agriculture In the 1980s, I met a retired general at a Borders bookstore in northern Virginia. He used to buy tons of military history books. I used to buy environmental and classics books. We started talking about books. But, slowly, in our discussion of Latin America, I criticized American […]
Why are We Still Logging Our Forests?
Why are We Still Logging Our Forests? Anyone who accepts true science realizes that today’s big forest fires are driven far more by climate warming than by a lack of “active forest management” as claimed in previous editorial opinions. Active forest management, more honestly called “logging,” has always been the timber industry’s cure-all for every […]
Is the Historical Subject Returning, Wearing a Yellow Vest?
Is the Historical Subject Returning, Wearing a Yellow Vest? If someone were to ask me the meaning of politics, I would say that it is concerned with the contestation of power; that it is agonistic, even antagonistic. And that it has to be, because what it contests is the balance of power wielded by different […]
#ShutdownStories: Americans Become Intimately Familiar with U.S. Government Form of Repression
#ShutdownStories: Americans Become Intimately Familiar with U.S. Government Form of Repression As the #shutdownstories pour in, a different picture of America emerges than the one commonly seen in the TV news. This America lives paycheck to paycheck, worries about how to juggle debt and bills, and feels a deep insecurity about their well-being. Many of […]
Art of the Monstrous: Burtynsky and the Anthropocene
Art of the Monstrous: Burtynsky and the Anthropocene The National Art Gallery in Ottawa currently hosts a sensational exhibition called “Anthropocene.” Edward Burtynsky and his associates Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier have created a multi-media mind-boggling representation of the transformation of the earth by humans. Their work has the shock-effect similar to the famous […]
