Barred From the Court: US Indian Law = Imperial Relic
On Sept. 24, 2018, the Yakama Nation joined in a case before the US Supreme Court and submitted an amicus curiae (friend of the Court) brief in the case of Washington State Department of Licensing v...
View ArticleThe Covington Altar Boys, Institutional Racism and the Doctrine of Discovery
The smirking Covington Altar Boys episode brings back memories of when I was attending a 99% white, elite, all boys Catholic High School. It was in 1963/65, the peak of Catholic culture in the US, with...
View ArticleConsuming the “Planet of the Humans:” The Most Important Documentary of the...
Back in 2007, the environmental organization 350.org was founded by author/academic Bill McKibben. The name refers to the theory that 350 parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere is the highest...
View ArticleThe Meltdown of the Careerist Greens
“It’s all got to change. If we come out of this crisis with all the rickety, fly-blown, worm-eaten old structures still intact, the same vain and indolent public schoolboys in charge, the same hedge...
View ArticleGeorge Atiyeh, Opal Creek Champion
“George Atiyeh is the Hayduke of the Ancient Forests. If he went up with the forest he defended all his life, it’s the way he would have chosen to go, like Harry Truman at Mt. St. Helens. But I have...
View ArticleA Short Summary of the Election Fraud Grift
Operation Condition Red Trump and right-wing media claim 2.7 million votes for Trump were changed to votes for Biden. It was pulled off using a secret server in a fortified, secret CIA computer outpost...
View ArticleHow Big Green Lost Its Way
“For too long, we failed to use the most important word when it comes to meeting the climate crisis: jobs, jobs, jobs.” – Joe Biden to Congress 4/28/2021 I had just begun reading Bright Green Lies when...
View Article“Love is Love:” a Review of Jackson Browne’s Latest Album
“The rich are getting richer – I should know While we’re going up, you’re going down And no one gives a shit but Jackson Browne” ~ Randy Newman Many superb poets became some of the top...
View ArticlePortland’s Smoke-Free Hemp Festival
Light Up and Leave Us Alone More The post Portland’s Smoke-Free Hemp Festival appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
View ArticleLook Up, Down and Everywhere
So I finally got some time to watch “Don’t Look Up.” Most of the reviews I’ve seen that come from the Business As Usual/American Way of Life/Endless Growth advocates dismiss it due to obvious conflicts...
View ArticleMichael Moore Still Batting 1.000
(Pundits and Pollsters are toeing the Mendoza Line.) “We were lied to for months by the pundits and pollsters and the media. Voters had not “moved on” from the Supreme Court’s decision to debase and...
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Another Election Year: Another Democrat Candidate Promises to Save the...
Logging operations on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington Cascades. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Here we go again. On Tuesday, candidate Joe Biden announced that he will save the remnants of...
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“Won’t You Care for John Sinclair?”
John Sinclair at Hempstalk. “Won’t you care for John Sinclair?” – John Lennon “Our culture is a revolutionary culture, a revolutionary force on the planet, the seed of the new order that will come to...
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A Long, Strange Trip Through the CounterCulture
Ken Babbs and Ken Kesey, from the cover of Cronies. We are fast losing the proto-counterculture folks who came on the scene between the Beats and the Hippies. Many cultural changes happened between the...
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