The Jobs Bill Must Protect Dreamers
Republican officials in Texas are celebrating after successfully suing the federal government over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA has been a GOP target since 2012, when...
View ArticleHawley’s “Love America Act” is All About Hate
Former-slave-state Missouri Senator Josh Hawley doesn’t want America’s white children to be exposed to the simple reality that slavery was not only legal at the founding of our country but was, in...
View ArticleJanuary 6 Uprising Was an Attempted Fascist Coup d’Etat
Six months ago, January 6, 2021, the United States government was toppled in a coup d’etat. It was led by President Donald Trump in which thousands of protesters at the “Stop the Steal” rally stormed...
View ArticleHow the USDA is Failing America’s Captive Elephants
No matter what political views or affiliations people in the United States might have, most of them would agree that animal abuse is just plain wrong. Animals who are kept in captivity or are forced to...
View ArticlePreventing an American Pinochet
As the congressional investigation into the January 6 insurrection gets underway, we’re learning disturbing new detailsabout Trump supporters’ violent attempt to overturn the 2020 election. As I watch,...
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Glimmers of Hope for Wildlife in Colorado
Gray Wolf. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Colorado, like most western states, was once a haven for an incredible array of wildlife including native carnivores like wolves, grizzly bears, Canada lynx, and...
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Is the US Heading for the Exit?
It was all so long ago, in a world seemingly without challengers. Do you even remember when we Americans lived on a planet with a recumbent Russia, a barely rising China, and no obvious foes except...
View ArticleYes, the Constitution was “Pro-Slavery”
The 1619 Project “aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.” Naturally, that...
View ArticleLet’s Reinvent the U.S. Military for Real National Defense
As a ROTC cadet and an Air Force officer, I was a tiny part of America’s vast Department of Defense (DoD) for 24 years until I retired and returned to civilian life as a history professor. My time in...
View ArticleWhen Government and Big Tech Collude Against the First Amendment: an...
It’s become media orthodoxy that big tech firms are not bound by the First Amendment. This conventional wisdom posits that Facebook, Google and Twitter, with their near enormous powers, can squash and...
View ArticleIs There a Progressive Case Against Quantitative Easing?
Ever since Fed Chair Jerome Powell announced the Fed’s rescue package at the start of the pandemic, many progressives have criticized it for favoring the rich. The idea was that, in addition to pushing...
View ArticleEric Blanc, the Finnish Revolution of 1918 and Voting Democrat
Seven years ago, Eric Blanc’s “National liberation and Bolshevism reexamined: A view from the borderlands”made quite a splash, at least within the tiny world of Marxist scholarship. I welcomed a...
View ArticleWhy the Ruins of a Little Village Called Lifta Still Matter
In the Middle East stand the ruins of an ancient settlement known as Lifta. Archeological digs have traced its’ origins as far back as the Iron Age. It contains the remains of a court-yard home from...
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“Pushing Back at Authority”: Son Volt, and the Power of Protest Music
The new Son Volt record, Electro Melodier, is the best collection of protest songs and political songwriting in so many years that a precise qualifier is nearly impossible to offer. It is far easier...
View ArticleThe Global Right Wing’s Bizarre Obsession With Pedophilia
Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán loves a good enemy. He has lashed out against Eurocrats in Brussels. He has cynically demonized immigrants to boost his political standing at home. But now...
View ArticleLet Cuba Live: the Movement Standing Up to Biden’s Maximum Pressure
On July 22, U.S. President Joe Biden and his Vice President Kamala Harris released a “fact sheet” on U.S. “measures” against Cuba. The release from the White House said that Cuba was a “top priority...
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For Justice in Palestine, Boycott Netflix’s Apartheid TV: “Hit and Run”
The Dream Factory. Notes from the Shop Floor. Hit and Run. (Netflix) The best defender of apartheid Israel is not that ferocious bully, AIPAC. It is, and it always has been, Hollywood. The...
View ArticlePopulist-Epistemology
It’s probably fair in every quarter to say that our root problem right now is being able to see where problems are, which views of problems are right and which wrong, and of course, following all this...
View ArticleMaking Our Demands Both Practical and Visionary
When it comes to evaluating a given demand or reform proposal, social movements face a common dilemma. In response to the pressure activists generate, mainstream politicians will constantly urge...
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Kinder, Gentler GMOs?
“Learning to Love GMOs” was the title of the New York Times Sunday Magazine’s cover story July 25 —an enthusiastic endorsement of genetically modified foods. It had the aura of a major PR campaign, the...
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Afghanistan, Failure and Second Thoughts
Photograph Source: Petty Officer 1st Class Chris Fahey – Public Domain It is a country other powers simply cannot leave alone. Even after abandoning its Kabul post in ignominy, tail tucked between...
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The Indian Nation and Its Borders
Photograph Source: US Central Intelligence Agency – Map of Kashmir region – Public Domain September 19, 1965. I was riding on a US military bus through the mountains on the border between Pakistan and...
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The Air-Conditioning Nightmare: an Interview With Eric Dean Wilson
Photograph Source: Jason Eppink – CC BY 2.0 In opening Eric Dean Wilson’s book, “After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort,” I was prepared for a lot of data on how the...
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Hinterlands: Rural Detroits
Photograph Source: Lee Coursey – CC BY 2.0 Leaving the bleak, blue-collar Decatur, Alabama neighborhood known as Old Mouton, which aptly ends in a near vacant strip mall, I hit 67, the highway shunting...
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Joe Biden’s Hollow Resistance: Words vs. Deeds
Photograph Source: DonkeyHotey – CC BY 2.0 The president is increasingly at odds with leaders of the voting rights movement, who see a contrast between his soaring language and his willingness to push...
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Rise of the Right: How the Vaudeville Left Fuels White Supremacy
Photograph Source: Anthony Crider – CC BY 2.0 White supremacy in America was never simply a rightwing phenomenon. It pervades all parts of the ideological spectrum. As I discussed in my CounterPunch...
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Roaming Charges: All That Twitters is Sold
American Panopticon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. + No one can pinpoint precisely when the US war on Iraq began, but certainly dates back at least to 1962 when the CIA began plotting the overthrow of Abd...
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How Ben & Jerry’s Exposed Israel’s anti-BDS Strategy
Photograph Source: Teresa Boardman – CC BY 2.0 Ben & Jerry’s decision to suspend its operations in the occupied Palestinian West Bank is an event that is proving critical to Palestinian efforts,...
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The US Has No Business Lecturing Cuba About “Free and Fair” Elections
Photograph Source: Susan Ruggles – CC BY 2.0 In the weeks following the protests in Cuba on July 11 questions about how US President Joe Biden would react have dominated headlines. On July 22, Biden...
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Slamming China Won’t Save Fossil Capitalism From Itself
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Only the mentally impaired now doubt the reality of climate change. Only the ideologically blind question that human burning of fossil fuels has caused it. In just a...
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