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I’ve never thought of myself as someone who needed special consideration. Not even when I ended up spending a year on crutches or a walking in a stiff full-length plaster leg cast following a nasty ski accident at 19, or when I learned in my 40s after a stubborn case of viral pneumonia that …
I sat on the bench watching sinking sun spectacle. There she was, as so often in the twilight poised on her favorite rock resting in the shallow bay just 50 paces from me. Grey Heron standing still. She raises her pointed head; legs stretch out; neck unfolds halfway. Serious eyes slop downward. The bay before …
From Aug. 7, 1789 when it was created, to September 18, 1947, the American people knew that their government had a Department of War, and that it had an Army and a Navy for that purpose, both to defend the country against attack, as it did in 1812, and to make war, as it …
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Another voice. Choked. Years of medical training now transformed to crime. This angry and pained haiku was offered anonymously by a physician who has courageously traveled to offer her medical skills in Texas and several other states that have been trying to outlaw abortions and where violence against clinics and abortion providers has made it …
We are currently at the mercy of a cabal of self-righteous Christian zealots with a 6-3 grip on the US Supreme Court and on Congress, thanks to an arcane structure designed by slave-owning wealthy men who handed the power to a Senate dominated by small-state rich people and to their party of Christian fascists and …
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The outlook for Democrats in Washington and in statehouses across the country in 2022 and in the next presidential election in 2024 range between dismal and disastrous. The party, infested by neo-liberals who want more military spending, more wars, less regulation, “market solutions” to problems like health care and a decent, secure retirement for all …
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Get ready for Covid Omicron Variant Bs2, America. Everything is lining up for another wave of infections and deaths. If you want to know what’s coming down the pike, just look at Hong Kong, China and Europe. In China it’s hard to know how many people really have become infected with the new highly …
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Are you a veteran activist or a veteran organizer of progressive organizations and are over age 55? If so, here’s some exciting news. We all know America is moving into a dangerous period of reaction, the world climate is careening out of control threatening human and perhaps all life on earth, wars and US military …
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It’s looking like Trump’s three nominees on the US Supreme Court, joining three other Republican appointees to give that court its largest reactionary majority in memory is about to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that gave women the right to an abortion. Such a decision in the current case before the High …
(This article was funded by paired assignments and a joint publishing agreement with Counterpunch.org and Tarbell.org. It was inspired by a suggestion from Ralph Nader.) When you want to know if the US government, or the political party in charge, is pulling a fast one on the public, look at the name they give …