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The UK and US are Starting a New Cold War with Russia and China, So What are These Governments Trying to Hide?
The UK and US are Starting a New Cold War with Russia and China, So What are These Governments Trying to Hide? Photograph Source: Jonathan Stonehouse – CC BY 2.0 The new Cold War launched by the West against China and Russia is escalating by the day. In a single week, the Kremlin has been unmasked […]
Deconstructing Civilization
Deconstructing Civilization Old paper mill, Oregon City, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. “Our confidence in our ability to direct the course of events has been severely eroded by the experiences of the twentieth century. Several disastrous wars have occurred, against all efforts to prevent them, and even the United Nations has been almost totally unsuccessful […]
The Sky Is Falling – Yes – No
The Sky Is Falling – Yes – No Image Source: Joseph Pennell – Public Domain The sky is falling is one of the more disturbing thoughts in society today, as to whether climate change is on a fast track collision course with doomsday amidst a collapsing society. In that regard, according to the details of […]
Why Government Mostly Helps People Who Need It the Least…Even During a Crisis
Why Government Mostly Helps People Who Need It the Least…Even During a Crisis In January 2020, the NASDAQ stock market’s index stood just under 10,000. In the March crash, it fell to 7,000. As of July 10, 2020, it hit 10,600. The U.S. government’s economic policies produced a “recovery” for the rich who own the […]
Democracy and the Illusion of Choice
Democracy and the Illusion of Choice Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The neoliberal logic of everything for the rich is now so deeply embedded in American political economy that its base assumptions appear untouchable, except in rare and extraordinary circumstances. With the Covid pandemic exacerbating the current crisis of capitalism, political and economic defense mechanisms […]
The US Military Has Its Knee on the Throat of the World
The US Military Has Its Knee on the Throat of the World The 2021 Defense Budget is making its way through Congress. The annual drama of this event has always been of particular interest to residents of the north Pacific Coast, as the US Navy’s nursery lies only twelve miles off our coast. This is […]
Arctic Heat Overwhelms Green Infighting Issues
Arctic Heat Overwhelms Green Infighting Issues Image Source: Hunter Allen and Richard Rivera – Public Domain Arctic temperatures are soaring to new records… and staying there, ever since May of this year. Truth be known, the Arctic’s been heating up for years. Siberia recently hit 105°F. That’s not normal. It’s 30°F hotter than normal. Farther […]
The War That Time Forgot
The War That Time Forgot Drone targeting footage, Afghanistan. Photo: USAF. I hear it all the time. The most crucial decision of this century was the vote to go to war against Iraq. It’s meant to serve as a political line of demarcation, a sure-fire way to determine which politicians, celebrities and news personalities you […]
The Final 100 Seconds
The Final 100 Seconds Screenshot of the 2020 Doomsday Clock Announcement from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists YouTube Channel Never before this year 2020 has the world-famous Doomsday Clock registered only “100 seconds-to-midnight.” According to the Science & Security Board, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, since WWII, the world has never been so perilous. Alas, […]
Turkey’s Big Bet Has Put Libya in Center of a Global Power Struggle
Turkey’s Big Bet Has Put Libya in Center of a Global Power Struggle Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The series of debilitating military setbacks that Libya’s renegade general Khalifa Haftar suffered in recent months have spurred diplomatic activities over the conflict in the country. But the war is far from over. Haftar’s dream of capturing Tripoli from […]
Forest Restoration or Forest Degradation?
Forest Restoration or Forest Degradation? These two images display a recent example of a forest “restoration” project designed to improve the “health” of a ponderosa pine forests. The area to the left of the path was recently (about a year ago) thinned and then burned. The area to the right of the trail shows what […]
There’s a Crisis in US Capitalism
There’s a Crisis in US Capitalism Capitalism has always had business cycles. The capitalist enterprises that produce goods and services are distinctively organized around the conflicted relationship of employer and employees and the competitive relationship of markets. These central relationships of capitalism together generate cyclical instability. Wherever capitalism became a society’s economic system over the […]
Food and Agroecology: Coping with Future Shocks
Food and Agroecology: Coping with Future Shocks The food crisis that could follow in the wake of the various lockdowns that were implemented on the back of the coronavirus may have long-lasting consequences. We are already seeing food shortages in the making. In India, for instance, supply chains have been disrupted, farm input systems for […]
A Machiavellian US in the Middle East
A Machiavellian US in the Middle East The war in Syria has dropped out of the news, like almost everything else, in a time when the Coronavirus seems to dominate all discourse and reporting. But the regime of Bashar al-Assad continues to strangle its own country. The Russians continue to bomb on his behalf, terrifying […]
The Coming Nuclear Menace: Hypersonic Missiles
The Coming Nuclear Menace: Hypersonic Missiles Photograph Source: David James Paquin (attributed) – Public Domain The United States is seeking to acquire “volumes of hundreds or even thousands” of nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles that are “stealthy” and can fly undetected at 3,600 miles per hour, five times faster than the speed of sound. Why so many? […]
