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Supremes Declare War on Wetlands
Image by James Park. The Supreme Court is effectively axing a major component of the Clean Water Act, rolling back 50 years of wetland protection in a declaration of war against nature by changing a...
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Snapshot: Saigon 1994
At the intersection of Nguyen Hue and Le Loi. Saigon, 1971. Photo: Martin Ray. “How can I help you? What do you want?” Early one morning at the Singh Café, while enjoying a breakfast of sweet coffee,...
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Visits of Justice: Stella Assange’s Plea to Australia
Photo by Samuel Regan-Asante It certainly got the tongues wagging, the keyboards pressed, and the intellectually dead aroused – at least for a time. Given how many of those in the Australian press...
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A Plea to My Western Progressive Friends: Stop Helping Putin with Your...
Photo by Don Fontijn A long-retired Russian military man was discussing current events by phone with a former colleague living in Ukraine. Both resented the war between the two recently fraternal...
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My Mariology
From Isis (whose Horus Is not unlike Jesus) Mary may have learned a thing As well as from the ancient one Demeter, the mother, Who brings the spring And don’t forget The virgin Vesta Tender of the...
View ArticlePre-Election Advice: Try Looking at Yourself the Way Politicians Do
The usual way of thinking about politicians is: What do we think of them? Do we like the way they look? Do we like the way they sound? Are they on our side of this or that big divide? Do their policy...
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When Your Life Goes To The Landfill A Shame on Portland, Maine
A caravan of carts. Image by Don Kimball. On May 16, with the promise of summer around the corner, but with nighttime temperatures still hovering around the freezing mark, the City of Portland, Maine...
View ArticleZaporizhzhia Gazette: Notes on an Unfolding Nuclear Crisis
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is directly in the path of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, sitting on the south bank of the Dnieper River, which is currently occupied by Russia. The Russians have...
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Kissinger at 100
At the ripe age of 100, Henry Kissinger remains an icon of the governing class and the foreign policy establishment. Amazingly, his advice is still sought, he writes lucidly on foreign affairs, and he...
View ArticleA New Generation of Organizers Are Building Union Power in the South
Editor’s Note: The following is the transcript of a special live episode of the Working People podcast. It was produced in collaboration with the Action Builder / Action Network team on March 21 in...
View ArticleTaiwan’s Quest to Upgrade Its Battle Readiness Continues to Evolve
In early May 2023, a U.S. delegation consisting of 25 defense contractors arrived in Taiwan for a security summit, aimed to increase interoperability between the U.S. and Taiwanese militaries. It marks...
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Garbage In, Garbage CEO Windfalls Out
Photo by Possessed Photography We’re drowning in garbage. In 2020 alone, the World Bank calculates, some 2.24 billion additional tons of waste piled up around us, creating “serious health, safety, and...
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Cave Man Joe: On Hollow Resistance to Fascism and Other Existential Menaces*
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain *This essay originally appeared one week ago, five days prior to the tentative bipartisan “debt ceiling deal” that Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy...
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A Tale of Cruelty and Criminality: Doug Valentine on the CIA
Aerial view of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters. Photograph Source: Carol M. Highsmith – Public Domain. Douglas Valentine is the best writer still writing about the Central Intelligence...
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The Move Toward a Four-Day Workweek Obscures Low Pay
Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona Dolly Parton’s signature song “9 to 5,” and the 1980s sitcom of the same name reflect a quintessentially American hustle culture of working 40 hours a week in...
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Polluting the Grand Canyon for “Clean Energy”
Photo by Sonaal Bangera The Doomsday Clock, established in 1947 by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, has moved closer to midnight than at any time in its history. The scientists see the world in 2023...
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Supreme Duplicity
Honor Daumier, Three Judges, 1858-60. The Art Institute of Chicago. (Public Domain. Adjacent. adj. and noun. 1. Next to or very near something else; neighboring; bordering, contiguous; adjoining....
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Wilderness Needs Our Humility and Restraint, Not Our Poison
Ted Williams’ recent op-ed attacking wilderness advocates like Wilderness Watch for opposing fish poisoning projects in designated Wilderness and incorrectly asserting that we oppose saving mountain...
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