Trans-oceanic cargo ship on the Columbia River. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. When an earthquake hits somewhere in the ocean, surrounding countries near and far brace for the big waves that inevitably follow. Donald Trump’s tariff announcements are just such a tectonic...
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The New York Times Continues to Give Netanyahu the Benefit of the Doubt
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “Flush with newfound confidence and authority, Mr. Netanyahu seemed finally to have gained the political capital he needed to override opposition from his far-right government allies to reach a truce in Gaza.” – The New York Times,...
Perché l’Occidente non guiderà più la storia del mondo
Non occorre essere profeti per predire all'Occidente un avvenire di disgregazione e di declino. Tra le molte ragioni c’è la fine della politica moderna, privatizzata e comprata a pezzi dal potere economico come si compra una qualsiasi azienda. Il risultato è una sorta...
How Trump Helps Companies Save a Pittance at the Risk of Workers’ Lives
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Officials there collaborated with workers and management to develop an innovative plan for upgrading a hoist—a device used to transport the miners—while ensuring miner safety and keeping production of silver, lead, and copper on...
There’s a Cheap, Effective Way to Reduce Pedestrian Fatalities. Florida’s Government Prefers the Fatalities
Photograph Source: Public Domain On August 7, the Gainesville, Florida city commission voted to make three pedestrian crosswalks less visible, and the pedestrians using them less safe, under threat of funding cuts from Florida’s “Department of Government Efficiency.”...
Hiroshima Lives On – in Gaza
Photograph Source: WAFA (Q2915969) – CC BY-SA 3.0 This year marks another solemn anniversary of the atomic bombings—80 years since the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Over 120 national representatives gathered in Hiroshima this year to solemnly...
Hiroshima Lives On – in Gaza
Photograph Source: WAFA (Q2915969) – CC BY-SA 3.0 This year marks another solemn anniversary of the atomic bombings—80 years since the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Over 120 national representatives gathered in Hiroshima this year to solemnly...
A State Unknown: LGBTQ+ Advocate Talap Mamyrkanov Faces Deportation
Image by Jia Li. At an Uzbek restaurant in Sheepshead Bay, we ate plov, manti, and shashlik, and talked for a couple of hours. It was summer. The chicken wings he’d insisted on ordering grew cold; I leaned back in my chair, my belly distended from the food and several...
Tyrant Trump’s Worst Crimes, Dangers, and Destructions on America Yet to Come: Special Alert
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The worst crimes of Donald Trump and dangers to America from the unstable, monomaniacal, lying outlaw in the White House have yet to come. He is not satisfied with tearing apart our country’s social safety net for tens of millions of...
A State Unknown: LGBTQ+ Advocate Talap Mamyrkanov Faces Deportation
Image by Jia Li. At an Uzbek restaurant in Sheepshead Bay, we ate plov, manti, and shashlik, and talked for a couple of hours. It was summer. The chicken wings he’d insisted on ordering grew cold; I leaned back in my chair, my belly distended from the food and several...
There’s a Cheap, Effective Way to Reduce Pedestrian Fatalities. Florida’s Government Prefers the Fatalities
Photograph Source: Public Domain On August 7, the Gainesville, Florida city commission voted to make three pedestrian crosswalks less visible, and the pedestrians using them less safe, under threat of funding cuts from Florida’s “Department of Government Efficiency.”...
Questioning the Corporation
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Home to almost 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies, Delaware’s reputation as America’s “corporate capital” has faced challenges in recent years. Tesla’s and SpaceX’s high-profile exits to Texas in 2024 highlighted other cracks in...