Photograph Source: U.S. Northern Command – Public Domain Donald Trump’s deployment of federal troops to Los Angeles represents a new and dangerous phase for American democracy. His actions should be taken as a warning sign of the authoritarian streak within the...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Were you fortunate to have had a favorite uncle when you were younger? Someone who personified kindness? I was. My family and I had a positive memory of a certain Uncle Sam who welcomed our ancestors into the United States with open...
Image by Jon Tyson. “That politics ain’t nothing, but if you stretch it so long that it can’t go no further, then you know what you got on your hands? You got an antagonistic contradiction. And when you take that contradiction to the highest level and stretch it as...
Who Pays to Stop a Pandemic? Image: Sue Coe. Throughout human history, zoonotic diseases, illnesses that jump from animals to humans, have shaped civilizations, triggered pandemics, and rewritten the course of economies. The Black Death, which ravaged Europe in the...
Militarized riot squads deployed on the streets of Los Angeles. Still from local news coverage. “In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.” ― Roberto Bolaño, Distant...
Photograph Source: @zelamine – instagram Many years from now, long after Gaza has been obliterated and its unwanted survivors have been dispersed to whatever hellish limbo awaits them, in that distant future when everyone will have always been against this, I suspect...
Photo by Jon Tyson There are various reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, but there is one important factor that has not been sufficiently explored. The Soviet Union in the 1980s had become increasingly irrelevant. The irrelevance was particularly...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Were you fortunate to have had a favorite uncle when you were younger? Someone who personified kindness? I was. My family and I had a positive memory of a certain Uncle Sam who welcomed our ancestors into the United States with open...
Image by Jon Tyson. “That politics ain’t nothing, but if you stretch it so long that it can’t go no further, then you know what you got on your hands? You got an antagonistic contradiction. And when you take that contradiction to the highest level and stretch it as...
Who Pays to Stop a Pandemic? Image: Sue Coe. Throughout human history, zoonotic diseases, illnesses that jump from animals to humans, have shaped civilizations, triggered pandemics, and rewritten the course of economies. The Black Death, which ravaged Europe in the...
Militarized riot squads deployed on the streets of Los Angeles. Still from local news coverage. “In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.” ― Roberto Bolaño, Distant...
Photograph Source: @zelamine – instagram Many years from now, long after Gaza has been obliterated and its unwanted survivors have been dispersed to whatever hellish limbo awaits them, in that distant future when everyone will have always been against this, I suspect...