Image Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration – Public Domain Dictators defend their rule with guns. Democrats defend their rule with paper. Of course, the constitution that upholds democracy is not just any piece of paper. It is a document backed up...
Counterpunch
Junk Science and Bad Policing: The Homicide Prediction Project
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The law enforcement breed can be a pretty dark lot. To be paid to think suspiciously leaves its mark, fostering an incentive to identify crimes and misdemeanours with instinctive compulsion. Historically, this saw the emergence of...
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Can we admit how completely fucked we are? Donald Trump is destroying the American economy and the American empire. More precisely, the Trump administration is accelerating the demise of the United States, internally and externally, that’s been underway for a long...
The Biggest Federal Land Heist in the History of the West?
Alabama Rocks and Mt. Whitney, BLM lands, California. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The United States possesses a natural bounty of federal public lands, sprawling across the West and encompassing spectacular mountains, sagebrush basins, and cactus-studded deserts. It is...
Why I Don’t Cheer for Israel’s ‘Pro-Democracy’ Movement
Photograph Source: Oren Rozen – CC BY-SA 4.0 In conversations about Israel and Palestine, I am often asked about my views on the internal resistance to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. My questioners point to hundreds of thousands of Israelis who have...
Shredding Constitutions
Image Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration – Public Domain Dictators defend their rule with guns. Democrats defend their rule with paper. Of course, the constitution that upholds democracy is not just any piece of paper. It is a document backed up...
Junk Science and Bad Policing: The Homicide Prediction Project
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The law enforcement breed can be a pretty dark lot. To be paid to think suspiciously leaves its mark, fostering an incentive to identify crimes and misdemeanours with instinctive compulsion. Historically, this saw the emergence of...
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Can we admit how completely fucked we are? Donald Trump is destroying the American economy and the American empire. More precisely, the Trump administration is accelerating the demise of the United States, internally and externally, that’s been underway for a long...
The Biggest Federal Land Heist in the History of the West?
Alabama Rocks and Mt. Whitney, BLM lands, California. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The United States possesses a natural bounty of federal public lands, sprawling across the West and encompassing spectacular mountains, sagebrush basins, and cactus-studded deserts. It is...
Why I Don’t Cheer for Israel’s ‘Pro-Democracy’ Movement
Photograph Source: Oren Rozen – CC BY-SA 4.0 In conversations about Israel and Palestine, I am often asked about my views on the internal resistance to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. My questioners point to hundreds of thousands of Israelis who have...
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Can we admit how completely fucked we are? Donald Trump is destroying the American economy and the American empire. More precisely, the Trump administration is accelerating the demise of the United States, internally and externally, that’s been underway for a long...
The Biggest Federal Land Heist in the History of the West?
Alabama Rocks and Mt. Whitney, BLM lands, California. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The United States possesses a natural bounty of federal public lands, sprawling across the West and encompassing spectacular mountains, sagebrush basins, and cactus-studded deserts. It is...