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12Jun

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USA

War and Friendship in a Time of War

BY KATHY KELLY Salman Rushdie once commented that those who are displaced by war are the shining shards that reflect the truth. With so many people fleeing wars and ecological collapse in our world today, and more to come, we need acute truth-telling to deepen our understanding and recognize the terrible faults of those who have caused so much suffering in our world today. In The Mercenary, Jeffrey Stern has accomplished a tremendous feat inasmuch as every paragraph aims to tell the truth. In The Mercenary, Stern takes on the appalling disaster of war in Afghanistan and in doing so extols the rich and complicated possibilities for a deepening friendship to grow in such an extreme environment. Stern’s self-disclosure challenges readers to acknowledge our limits whe...

Letter from London: Almshouses, Amis and Assange

12Jun

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Human Rights, United Kingdom

Letter from London: Almshouses, Amis and Assange

BY PETER BACH Old book shop along the Wye River. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. I was thinking generally about shelter and more specifically about the safe house for battered women in New York’s Lower East Side that I wrote about in 1986. This was a small contribution for a book edited by Roland Hagenberg and Judy Cantor. Just being able to speak to the women required a high degree of trust on their part, and it was heartbreaking to see some expressing gratitude for refuge granted to them for something that shouldn’t have happened in the first place, and to see one person burst into tears was painful indeed. I remember feeling utterly inadequate, thoroughly out of place, not just as a man. This was despite the fact I had said I had five sisters, which for some reason had gone down we...

The Appalling Failure of the G7 to Act on Nuclear Disarmament

12Jun

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The Appalling Failure of the G7 to Act on Nuclear Disarmament

BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER G7 leaders at the Hiroshima Peace Park by ラーム・エマニュエル駐日米国大使/Wikimedia Commons. Seven super-hypocrites took a walk in a park recently and called it paying respects. If this sounds like the opening to a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, it may as well be. Because nothing tangible or real came of this caper. The park was the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and the visitors were the leaders of the G7 countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Afterwards, US president, Joe Biden, tweeted: “Today, my fellow G7 Leaders and I paid a visit to Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park where we paid our respects.” Walking in a park isn’t paying respects to the dead of Hiroshima, where at least 140,000 were killed (althoug...

Prophets of Doom: Kissinger and the ‘Intellectual’ Decline of the West

12Jun

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Prophets of Doom: Kissinger and the ‘Intellectual’ Decline of the West

BY RAMZY BAROUD Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain It is unclear why 100-year-old Henry Kissinger has been elevated by Western intelligentsia to serve the role of the visionary in how the West should behave in response to the Russia-Ukraine war. But does the centenarian politician have the answers? Every major global conflict that involved the US and its NATO allies in the past had its own state-sanctioned intellectuals. These are the people who usually explain, justify and promote the West’s position to their own countrymen first, then internationally. They are not ‘intellectuals’ in the strict definition of the term, as they rarely use critical thinking to reach conclusions that may or may not be consistent with the official position or interests of We...

Cave Man Joe: On Hollow Resistance to Fascism and Other Existential Menaces*

11Jun

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Cave Man Joe: On Hollow Resistance to Fascism and Other Existential Menaces*

BY PAUL STREET 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 worked up last Saturday. Nothing in the “deal,” which now faces opposition from the most reactionary members of Congress, leads me to significantly alter the general emphasis here on Biden’s predilection for caving to the right in the name of “reaching across the aisle.” The tentative bargain is not as completely awful as it might have been, but it is plenty bad enough. As The New York Times national correspondent Peter Baker reports: “Many on the political left are aggravated that Mr. Biden in their view gave into Mr. McCarthy’s hostage-taking strat...

Polluting the Grand Canyon for “Clean Energy”

11Jun

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Environment, USA

Polluting the Grand Canyon for “Clean Energy”

BY BILL HATCH 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 as 90 seconds from apocalypse, due to the threat of nuclear war arising from the Ukraine War. The United States has sanctioned Russian gas and oil but hasn’t yet sanctioned low-enrichment uranium from Russia because it sells US companies somewhere between a quarter and a half of all the low-enriched uranium used by commercial nuclear reactors. But that could change: today there are bills in both houses of Congress to sanction Russian enriched uranium and to stimulate the moribund US uranium-mining industry, driven out of business due to import compe...

“White Protectionism” is White Supremacy: A Bait and Switch as Old as History

11Jun

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“White Protectionism” is White Supremacy: A Bait and Switch as Old as History

BY ANTHONY DIMAGGIO Ku Klux Klan parade in Washington, D.C. in 1926. Photograph Source: National Photo Company Collection – Public Domain In recognition of the institutional political biases operating against people of color, the NAACP has issued a travel advisory against Florida, lamenting Governor Ron DeSantis’s “aggressive attempts to erase Black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida schools.” The organization bluntly declares that “Under the leadership of Governor DeSantis, the state of Florida has become hostile to Black Americans…before traveling to Florida, please understand that the state devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by African Americans and other communities of c...

Accountability Needed at the Country’s Most Toxic Site

11Jun

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Environment, USA

Accountability Needed at the Country’s Most Toxic Site

BY JOSHUA FRANK Photograph Source: United States Department of Energy – Public Domain On the edge of Washington state, just a few miles from the great Columbia River, boiling radioactive sludge is seeping out of a huge underground tank known as B-109. Another tank, T-111, was found to be leaking a similarly noxious soup back in 2011 and has been polluting the soil and groundwater ever since. The Department of Energy (DOE), the agency ultimately in charge of this problem, isn’t doing a thing about it. Not that they don’t want to, they just don’t have an answer, so the leaks just keep on leaking. Such is the business of Hanford, home to the largest cesspool of high-level radioactive waste in the country, 56 million gallons worth that sit in 177 hulking underground tanks that ar...

11Jun

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The Clintons and the Rich Women

BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Clinton talks on the Oval Office telephone with Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel. Photo: David Scull, National Archives. Hillary Clinton has never addressed her role in the midnight pardon of billionaire fugitive Marc Rich. In fact, she’s rarely been asked her opinion on the free pass given to one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, a man who violated embargoes against Iran and South Africa and fled the country rather than face trial in what was billed as “the biggest tax evasion case in history.” HRC has variously said that she was “unaware” of the decision and “surprised” by it. When pressed, she merely cackles. Even though 300 pages of core documents relating to the pardon decision remain under seal at the Clinton Library, a review of the availabl...

11Jun

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ZIO-NAZI

The Death Penalty for Homelessness

BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair You can measure the depth of a civilization by how it treats its poor, very young, elderly and mentally ill. By any such metric, ours here in the Exceptional Empire is barbaric. Take New York City mayor Eric Adams and his pronouncements on the homeless destitute. He made a name for himself with stunts like proclaiming he’ll incarcerate people for erratic behavior. Since lotsa homeless are erratic – they either started that way, which was partly how they lost shelter, or living rough eroded their good manners – they are the target population for being locked up. Not to be outdone, presidential candidate Donald “I’m the Real President” Trump swears he’ll ship the homeless to camps outside cities, so they’ll stop “blighting” urban ...