For You, My Fellow Fascists
I write about fascism–the fascism of the past in the present. I write about some of those that stood up against it. About the self-imposed genocide by Spain of its own people during and after its...
View ArticleStaring into the Abyss, Biden Should Consider a New VP – Michigan Gov....
Democrats continue to wring their hands over Joe Biden’s rapidly deteriorating poll numbers – as well they should. No incumbent has polled this badly in the history of the U.S. presidency – and...
View ArticleWhat’s Driving Our Epidemic of Distrust?
We Americans don’t trust as much as we once did. So point out all the pollsters who’ve been tracking trust in the United States since the middle of the 20th century. Back in the late 1950s, notes the...
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Pakistan’s Civil, Military Leaders To Review Iran Standoff, Says Minister
UFA, Russia -- A court in Ufa, the capital of Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan, has sentenced eight men to up to 14 days in jail for taking part in an unprecedented rally earlier this week to support...
View ArticleCivilian Casualties in Gaza are No Accident
An old legal adage states: “Men are presumed to intend the natural consequences of their acts.” The natural, indeed inescapable, consequence of Israel’s cutting off life-sustaining supplies of food and...
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Losing My Tribe
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair For me, being Jewish was never about religion or Zionism. My holocaust survivor parents sent me to Jewish day schools and Zionist summer camps, but none of that stuck....
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D. F. Fleming’s and Arnold Toynbee’s Lessons of Russian History as a Way of...
On the morning of June 7, 1971, four eminent American historians—Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Adam Ulam, William Appleman Williams, and D. F. Fleming met in Room 2172 of the Rayburn House Office...
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The Great Economy Trump Left Biden
We have been seeing numerous stories in the media about how people support Donald Trump because he did such a great job with the economy. Obviously, people can believe whatever they want about the...
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Financially Strapped Geneva Multilateral Organizations and U.S. Priorities
Is multilateralism bankrupt? It may be in financial danger, but it still has value. Although the U.N., certain of its specialized agencies and similar institutions are strapped for cash, the recent...
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The Jack Ruby File
Jack Ruby: the Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin. By Danny Fingeroth. Chicago, 2023: Chicago Review Press, 301pp. We have passed the sixty year mark on the first of the four assasinations that reshaped...
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International Order Means Playing by the Rules
When eight billion human beings have to live on a common planet, it is necessary to establish rules of the game, a certain modus vivendi to avoid chaos and violence. Coherent rules enable a peaceful...
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Concourse Contours: Satchmo and the Max Roach Centenary
Richie Powell, George Morrow, Clifford Brown, Harold Land, and Max Roach in NYC, 1954. Photo by Herman Leonard. Louis Armstrong’s trumpet sighs and pleads in counterpoint with the airport...
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The Case for Free Public Transit
In late 2023, Albuquerque, New Mexico became the largest U.S. city to fully embrace fare-free public transportation. This decision came after nearly two years of a successful “Zero Fare” pilot program....
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The Child Tax Credit Changed My Life. Congress Has a Chance to Bring It Back
Photo by Rene Bernal From childhood on, I’ve spent my life haunted by the ghost of poverty. A myth exists in America that financial well-being follows if we just work hard and make good choices. But...
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US Congressional Resolution Calls for Annulling the Monroe Doctrine and...
Gillam’s 1896 political cartoon, Uncle Sam stands with rifle between the Europeans and Latin Americans – Public Domain Now, 200 years after President James Monroe first promulgated his dictate giving...
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How the Gaza War Can Be Big News and Invisible at the Same Time
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Zen wisdom tells us that the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. Yet it’s easy to fall into the illusion that when we see news about the Gaza war, we’re...
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How the Food Industry Uses Big Tobacco’s Playbook
Photograph Source: John Vachon – Public Domain In the 1960s and 1970s, Big Tobacco and public health advocates were locked in a battle. The anti-smoking supporters were gaining ground as cities were...
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Cancelling the Journalist: The ABC’s Coverage of the Israel-Gaza War
Photo of Antoinette Lattouf. Photograph Source: Penguin Random House – CC BY-SA 2.0 What a cowardly act it was. A national broadcaster, dedicated to what should be fearless reporting, cowed by the...
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Blocking the Doors of the Treaty Blockers & the Nuclear Ban Treaty’s 3d...
This weekend marks the 3d anniversary of the coming-into-force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. (https://disarmament.unoda.org/wmd/nuclear/tpnw/) The TPNW now has seventy “states...
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100 Days of War and Resistance: Legendary Palestinian Resistance Will Be...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Law number one in the ‘law of holes’, is that “if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” Law number two, “if you are not digging, you are still in a hole”. These...
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