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Log landing, western Montana. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Way back in 1995 Bob Brown, the Republican president of the Montana Senate, called me into his office. He had co-sponsored a bill with a pro-logging Missoula Democrat to establish a “sustained yield” level of logging on Montana’s state trust lands – and he was worried it wasn’t working out the way he hoped. Bob was right to be worried then and Montanans are right to be worried now because Trump’s Forest Service Chief and former timber industry lobbyist Tom Schultz, has just unleashed the “sustained yield” scam on Montana’s National Forests.…
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At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 – with face masks, gloves, and other basic protections in high demand – Chinese leaders threatened to plunge America into the &ldquo Source link
When Jewish Upon a Star – by Mr. Fish Israel is turning on its last important ally in an act of suicidal hubris. Chris Hedges ScheerPost Israel is sabotaging the negotiations with Iran and alienating its last important ally by refusing to halt its attacks on Lebanon and withdraw from its occupation of the south. It is determined to reignite a regional conflagration that could see Iran perpetually close the Strait of Hormuz and plunge the global economy into a global depression. And it continues its genocide in Gaza. Israel is contaminated by racism and genocidal violence. It is blinded by a repugnant moral superiority. It is corrupted…
SOTN Editor’s Note: You just can’t make this stuff up…except that’s exactly what the Oil&GAS Mafia Don in the White House is now doing, all day long, every day of the week. As follows: WATCH: Trump Says, “I LOVE The Inflation” & Reveals To The World That The US Has Been Taking Millions Of Barrels Of Oil Out Of Iran! What would possess any POTUS to brazenly admit to the whole world that he is outright stealing the oil and gas of a foreign nation?! Obviously the convoluted back story is much more complicated than just a Khazarian-directed POTUS pirate…
Democrats are licking their chops. The midterm elections are approaching and with them the prospect that Democrats will take control of the House of Representatives and perhaps even the Senate. Even with a majority only in the lower chamber, the Democrats would have the power to torment President Trump. “November is going to be a disaster,” Republican Sen. John Cornyn told the New York Times. Trump is “going to have the most miserable two years of his life in the last two years of his term.” Now a lame duck, partly thanks to the president endorsing his rival in the…
The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory, by Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, Princeton University Press, 674 pages, $42.95 “Homer conceived the power of the gods in such a way that whatever happened on the plain before Troy was only a reflection of the various conspiracies on Olympus,” Karl Popper told an Oxford lecture hall in 1948. “The conspiracy theory of society,” the philosopher added, simply replaces those deities with “sinister pressure groups.” That passage, which Popper then revised and incorporated into the second edition of The Open Society and Its Enemies, is sometimes cited as the moment the expression “conspiracy theories” entered the…
By Thomas Kennedy This article was originally published by Truthout After using $1 billion to brutalize immigrants, Alligator Alcatraz has been emptied. Its victims still need justice. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), along with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), announced last week that all persons detained at the Alligator Alcatraz immigration jail were transferred to other facilities, and that the site’s giant tents and cages had been emptied. The reason given to the public was the risk posed by Florida’s hurricane season, with the agency offering this statement: “As we enter hurricane season, ICE and the state of…
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US-allied South African troops conduct search and destroy operation in Namibia in 1980s Photo: Wikipedia The 60-day extension of the ceasefire between the United States and Iran may lead to lasting peace or it may be over within a week, doomed by the dysfunctional alliance between the US and Israel. If it holds, it could mark the beginning of a transition away from the doctrine of “low-intensity conflict” that has shaped U.S. foreign policy for decades. Talks between the US, Iran, Pakistan and Qatar began in Switzerland on June 21st. But Iran was firm that it holds the United States…