Cattle grazing Grand Staircase Escalante NM, Utah. Photo by George Wuerthner. Livestock production is one of the most ubiquitous human activities around the globe.  It is particularly detrimental to arid lands, and much of the western public lands are arid. Typically most livestock advocates, which…

Trump’s firing of Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, two months before leaving the White House, may mean Trump is keeping a domestic military intervention in his playbook. Esper publicly rebuffed President Trump’s invocation of the Insurrection Act in June. Trump wanted to use that act to justif…

YAAK, Montana Conservation groups have filed a legal protest challenging a massive logging project that would clearcut thousands of acres, including old-growth trees, and threaten an imperiled population of grizzly bears and protected lynx habitat on the Montana-Canada border under the guise of r…

This year is the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, a conflict from which Washington policymakers learned nothing. Almost 40,000 American soldiers died in that conflict that should have permanently vaccinated the nation against the folly and evil of foreign intervention. Instead, the w…

Photograph Source: John Eisenschenk – CC BY 2.0 A huge, huge sigh of relief that Donald Trump lost! His chance of staying in power is slim and we shouldn’t allow it to happen. However, that close to 75 million people  will have voted for this  narcissist liar, this corrupt, misogynist, and rac…

Photograph Source: Bart Everson – CC BY 2.0 After World War II ended in 1945, I lived as a pre-teen who went to bed with my silver cap gun under my pillow with nightmarish visions of Hitler still alive and able to resume hostilities against America. That’s how I feel about Donald Trump, minus th…

Photograph Source: Mike Maguire – CC BY 2.0 There are many reasons why loser Trump refuses to concede. Yes, delusion has been the counterfeit coin of his fantasy realm – “I won this election by a lot” he tweeted with all caps last Saturday. In his fevered mind – nourished by a bullying c…

Photograph Source: Kingofthedead – CC BY 2.0 Trump and Pence need to be removed from power immediately for three basic reasons. First, consistent with my own and others’ understanding of the current White House as proto-fascist, Trump and his inner circle continue to absurdly claim that the 2020…

Photograph Source: Pk4wp – CC BY-SA 4.0 In mid-October 2020 a French schoolteacher, 47-year-old Samuel Paty, decided to show his Freedom of Speech class cartoons demeaning Islam’s founding prophet, Mohammed. The cartoons were the same ones originally published by the satirical magazine Charlie…

The Buffalo Horn drainage in the Gallatin Range. The Gallatin Range is the largest unprotected landscape in the northern Yellowstone Ecosystem. Photo by George Wuerthner. The Gallatin Yellowstone Wilderness Alliance (GYWA) has produced draft legislation to protect the wildlands of the Northern Yello…

On Friday, November 6, the Haitian government published in Le Moniteur a new decree limiting the powers of the Superior Court of Auditors and Administrative Disputes (CSCCA). The decree itself was signed by the president and ministers nearly two months earlier, on September 9, but was not formally m…

I’ll never be able to watch the docuseries “The Reagans” when it airs on Showtime (November 15) (“‘They created a false image’: how the Reagans fooled America,” Guardian, November 12, 2020). Mea culpa! I don’t have the staying power anymore as a leftist to stomach more shit about…

Photograph Source: Kojach – CC BY 2.0 Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle was anxious to tell readers that drug development in the pandemic has been a great success story. After all, look at all the treatments we have, and now it appears that Pfizer/BioNtech have developed a highly effective v…

“Anti-Mexicanism is a form of nativism practiced by colonialists and their inheritors.” — Dr. Juan Gómez-Quiñones (2017) Tuesday, November 11, 2020—marks one of the saddest days of my life. On this day, we—the Mexican people on both sides of la frontera and our allies—lost a legend: th…

Moses’ Logos  The logos, the logue The Decalogue — the rod The shepherd, the pastor, The master Whose rod is a branch Of the tree of knowledge Of good and evil Of dogma, unyielding, inflexible, Stiff But let’s not forget, for Moses to rupture The Pharaoh’s law His rod became a snake, a bran…

Image by Cartoonistarif: CC BY 2.0 The protections guaranteed to Americans by the First Amendment of the Constitution are under assault, and they have been for some time. In 1947, ten Hollywood writers and filmmakers were summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee for alleged ties to…

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair With Donald Trump soon to be exiled from the White House, four years of speculation about the precise degree of departure from the normal course of American imperial management is about to be put to the test. Any path forward will be a consequence of the trends, pro…

Still from Seven Days in May. One of the occupational hazards of a 24-year career as an intelligence analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency is the tendency to anticipate the dark side.  Whenever I see a floral arrangement, for example, I expect there to be a corpse nearby.  Now if I were still…

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Thou are not conquered yet, dear land, Thy spirit still is free. Though long the Saxon’s ruthless hand, Has triumphed over thee. Though oft obscured by clouds of woe, The sun has never set, Twill blaze again in golden glow, Thou art not conquered yet […] Through…

Nuclear fuel assemblies being inspected before entering a pressurized water reactor in the United States – Public Domain Although possibly a sad comment on his predecessors, incoming U.S. president, Joe Biden, is offering the most progressive climate policy so far of any who have previously held h…

The end of the road, Alford Desert, southern Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. “Nothing is more characteristic of the totalitarian movements in general and of the quality of fame of their leaders in particular than the startling swiftness with which they are forgotten & the startling ease with whi…

For most of 2020 Covid-19 has dominated mainstream media, and whilst serious, the pandemic is but the latest in a series of dark clouds gathering upon our collective horizon: interconnected crises, from the environmental emergency to war, poverty, inequality, and social division among others. All fl…

The role of China’s wet markets in producing Covid is ignored for two reasons. Vaccines that Pharma is developing with $1 billion of our tax dollars would be shown to be a fool’s errand as new animal strains erupt from the markets. And wild-eyed conspiracists, when they aren’t exposing Satanic…

A few weeks before the 2020 election, I visited a local gun shop. It was a madhouse. Weapons flew off the shelves as fast as customers could get their wallets out. Ammunition was in short supply too. Why? Well, on the front door, a flyer warned that, if elected, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would act…