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As the World Burns: Hurtling Towards an Unlivable Planet
As the World Burns: Hurtling Towards an Unlivable Planet Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The media and political establishments are diddling while the planet burns. Are we really supposed to take their games seriously as humanity veers ever more dangerously off the environmental cliff? In 2008, James Hansen, then head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space […]
Climate of Class Rule: Common(s)er Revolt or Common Ruin
Climate of Class Rule: Common(s)er Revolt or Common Ruin Photo Source r. nial bradshaw | CC BY 2.0 Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that […]
Corporate Media: the Enemy of the People
Corporate Media: the Enemy of the People I detest the malignantly racist, sexist, narcissistic, and authoritarian pathological liar and bully Donald Trump on many different levels, and I share none of his sick world view, but the corporate media really is, well (to use Trump’s recurrent phrase), “the enemy of the people.” Here below is […]
Trump’s Trade Tantrum: On Tipping Points and Authoritarian Peril
Trump’s Trade Tantrum: On Tipping Points and Authoritarian Peril Photo by Graham C99 | CC BY 2.0 The Tangerine Tosser’s triple trade tiff – with China, the European Union, and the United States’ NAFTA partners (Canada and Mexico) – has the potential to spark an American and global economic meltdown. Classic signs of a coming […]
Rotten to the Heart: Authoritarian Chickens Roosting at Home
Rotten to the Heart: Authoritarian Chickens Roosting at Home Photo by T toes | CC BY 2.0 Yes, He’s Awful Much of what liberals say about Donald Trump and the chilling political moment the Trump presidency represents is true enough. Trump really is the arch-authoritarian malignant narcissist that liberals say he is. Trump thinks he […]
The World Will Not Mourn the Decline of U.S. Hegemony
The World Will Not Mourn the Decline of U.S. Hegemony Commentators on both right and left bemoan the decline of American global power under Donald Trump, but is that such a bad thing? asks Paul Street in this commentary. There are good reasons to bemoan the presence of the childish, racist, sexist and ecocidal, right-wing […]
Time is Running Out: Who Will Protect Our Wrecked Democracy from the American Oligarchy?
Time is Running Out: Who Will Protect Our Wrecked Democracy from the American Oligarchy? Photo by Joe Schueller | CC BY 2.0 There’s been an interesting debate over the years about the relation between capitalism and democracy, for example, are they even compatible? I won’t be pursuing this because I’d like to discuss a different […]
Someone Tell a Reporter: the Rich are Destroying the Earth
Someone Tell a Reporter: the Rich are Destroying the Earth “I Said Why? They Said They Didn’t Know” Let history record that on Wednesday, September 6th, 2017, 14 days after climate change-fueled Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas and 4 days before Hurricane Irma hit southern Florida, the climate-denying President of the United States Donald […]
The Burning Earth Bears Witness in California
The Burning Earth Bears Witness in California Photo by Glenn Beltz | CC by 2.0 Watching the first ten minutes of the “Public” (Petroleum and/or Pentagon?) Broadcasting System (“P”BS)’s NewsHour two nights ago, I was overcome by a sense of the surreal. The first news item was the Insane Clown President’s (ICP) idiotic (if base-pleasing) […]
Why Study History?
Why Study History? As liberal Democrats for the most part, United States historians have no doubt been having a field day with Donald Trump’s recently reported clueless comments on United States history. The president’s moronic take on the nation’s past was front-page news last Tuesday in liberals’ and academics’ favorite newspaper, The New York Times. […]
