Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Introduction: Language in the Age of Fascist Politics In the age of expanding fascism, the power of language is not only fragile but increasingly threatened. As Toni Morrison has noted, “language is not only an instrument through...
Counterpunch
SuperTrump Obliterates Democrats Past Failures, Humbles NATO Partners and Passes BBB: Where is the Kryptonite?
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain SuperTrump had two super weeks from June 22, 2025 to July 4. First, he sent B-2 Sprint bombers 7,000 miles non-stop to hit their targets without losing one American life. Then, emboldened by his success as...
Closing Nuclear Reactors Means Big Improvements in Local Infant Health
Aerial view of the Consumers Power Company of Michigan’s Palisades Plant Unit 1. Photo: Department of Energy. Not long ago, the U.S. nuclear power industry was in freefall. Only two reactors had been ordered since 1978, meaning the existing reactors were aging. Old...
Ann Coulter Wants to Kill Native Americans (So Do Some on the Left)
Ann Coulter, Youtube screenshot. The live music had come to an end, and my friend Janene Yazzie, a brilliant organizer with the NDN Collective, looked up from her phone in disgust, horrified by what she had just read. Someone wished her people dead. A group of us were...
Resisting the Deadly Language of American Fascism
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Introduction: Language in the Age of Fascist Politics In the age of expanding fascism, the power of language is not only fragile but increasingly threatened. As Toni Morrison has noted, “language is not only an instrument through...
Ann Coulter Wants to Kill Native Americans (So Do Some on the Left)
Ann Coulter, Youtube screenshot. The live music had come to an end, and my friend Janene Yazzie, a brilliant organizer with the NDN Collective, looked up from her phone in disgust, horrified by what she had just read. Someone wished her people dead. A group of us were...
Resisting the Deadly Language of American Fascism
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Introduction: Language in the Age of Fascist Politics In the age of expanding fascism, the power of language is not only fragile but increasingly threatened. As Toni Morrison has noted, “language is not only an instrument through...
Closing Nuclear Reactors Means Big Improvements in Local Infant Health
Aerial view of the Consumers Power Company of Michigan’s Palisades Plant Unit 1. Photo: Department of Energy. Not long ago, the U.S. nuclear power industry was in freefall. Only two reactors had been ordered since 1978, meaning the existing reactors were aging. Old...
Ann Coulter Wants to Kill Native Americans (So Do Some on the Left)
Ann Coulter, Youtube screenshot. The live music had come to an end, and my friend Janene Yazzie, a brilliant organizer with the NDN Collective, looked up from her phone in disgust, horrified by what she had just read. Someone wished her people dead. A group of us were...
Resisting the Deadly Language of American Fascism
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Introduction: Language in the Age of Fascist Politics In the age of expanding fascism, the power of language is not only fragile but increasingly threatened. As Toni Morrison has noted, “language is not only an instrument through...
The Passing of a Teamster Rebel: Remembering Bennie Jackson
Bennie Jackson on the right confronting one of the old guard dinosaurs. Photographer unknown. Recently, I learned that my old union representative Bennie Jackson passed away seven months ago. He was a lifelong union militant at United Parcel Service (UPS) in Chicago...
Texas Flood Deaths Were Preventable
Area of “Flash Flood Alley” in Texas; the lighter curved region running from Dallas down through San Antonio. Image Source: Zhongyu Han and Hatim O. Sharif – CC BY 4.0 The tragedy unfolding in Central Texas is stark. As of writing, over 100 are dead or missing — the...