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Defender of the Backwoods: The Good Life of Andy Mahler

Andy Mahler, the valiant defender of America’s backwoods, lived in and learned from the forests he spent much of his life fighting to protect from...

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Gaza Diary: Can You Imagine?

Can you imagine being a reporter in Gaza, knowing that you're on a target list by Israel simply because you are a reporter and feeling compelled to...

29.08.2025 10

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Roaming Charges: From of the Mouths of Madness

ack in April, Jesús Escalona Mújicas was on his way to his job at a construction site when he was pulled over by federal immigration officers and...

25.08.2025 1

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Can’t Quit the Blues: the Electrifications of Otis Rush

In 1969, after nearly 14 years of constant gigging in small blues clubs and cutting scorching singles for obscure labels, songs that received limited...

22.08.2025 10

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Evil Under the Sun

Saif Helles, a child from Gaza City, died of starvation. This image of young Saif’s emaciated body, as striking as Mantegna’s Lamentation of the...

16.08.2025 3

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Evil Under the Sun

At some point in Israel’s starvation of Gaza, hunger stopped being just physical, and started to erode the mind. You would see people wandering...

16.08.2025 3

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The Mirror Stage of US Politics

The US has been transformed into a mirror world, the mirror world of a pathological narcissist, a world of reverse images where victims are flipped...

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Roaming Charges: From Police State to Military Police State

DC was a much rougher place and poorer, though more vibrant, city in the 70s and 80s than it is now that it's been almost completely gentrified. I...

15.08.2025 30

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Through the Eyes of Lee Miller

When the US entered the war, Miller went back to work for American Vogue and followed the D-Day landings into France. She was no embedded reporter. In...

10.08.2025 10

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Roaming Charges: Empire of the Downpresser Men

Just days after a federal appeals court upheld a ban on ICE using roving patrols and racial profiling to target immigrants, Trump’s secret police...

08.08.2025 9

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A World in Search of Its Conscience

Living in Gaza now requires a choreography of absence. We don’t walk; we drift. We don’t eat; we search. We don’t sleep; we remain alert, ears...

02.08.2025 4

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Through the Eyes of Lee Miller

When the US entered the war, Miller went back to work for American Vogue and followed the D-Day landings into France. She was no embedded reporter. In...

02.08.2025 10

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Roaming Charges: Something’s Gone Wrong Again

This was the week the worms turned. Some of them, anyway: A super majority of Americans now oppose Israel’s genocide in Gaza; Bari Weiss and Donald...

01.08.2025 10

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What is a Palestinian-American’s Life Worth?

And why would the Israelis aggressively pursue holding the killers to account? The settlers are agents of the regime. Indeed, they are the leading...

25.07.2025 20

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The Mob Murder of Saif Musallet

His family and friends called him Saif. He was affable and gregarious. He was kind and generous. He was handsome and athletic. He helped run the...

19.07.2025 10

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Roaming Charges: Masked and Anonymous

George Retes was pulled over by ICE as he was driving near the violent raid on farm workers outside of Camarillo last Thursday. The ICE agents broke...

18.07.2025 10

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What Would You Wear to Celebrate a War Criminal?

What would you wear to the feting of a man wanted for war crimes, who is currently supervising a genocide? Jackie Rosen wore pink. Amy Klobochar chose...

12.07.2025 5

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Roaming Charges: Heckuva Job, Puppy Slayer!

While offering his “thoughts and prayers” for the families of those drowned in the Texas floods, JD Vance referred to the killer torrents that...

11.07.2025 10

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Sound Grammar: Francis Davis and the Best Jazz of 2025, So Far

I bought my first jazz LP in 1974 at a headshop called Karma on the southside of Indianapolis, thinking it was a rock record: Birds of Fire by the...

09.07.2025 10

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When the Helping Hand Holds a Machine Gun

These killings weren’t accidents. They weren’t provoked. They didn’t come about as an attempt to quell riots. The people killed were not...

04.07.2025 5

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When the Helping Hand Holds a Machine

These killings weren’t accidents. They weren’t provoked. They didn’t come about as an attempt to quell riots. The people killed were not...

04.07.2025 10

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When the Helping Hand Holds a Machine Gun

There’s no precise number for how many Palestinians have been starved to death by Israel’s embargo on food entering Gaza. But there is a number...

28.06.2025 20

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Roaming Charges: After Midnight

Trump mega-bombed a mountain in Iran and called it peace. Unfortunately, he didn’t bomb what was beneath the mountain. If anything. If the...

27.06.2025 40

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Tears of Rage, Tears of Grief

June 1 to June 6 Here’s a U.S. senator urging Israel to sink a boat bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza and kill activist Greta Thunberg. This is no...

21.06.2025 4

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Roaming Charges: Neo-Conned Again!

Using Israel's logic for attacking Iran (to protect itself from (non-existent) Iranian nuclear weapons), every country in the Middle East (and beyond)...

20.06.2025 10

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Roaming Charges: From the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Venice Beach

The last time a President deployed the National Guard to a state over the objections of the governor was in 1965, when LBJ sent them to protect Civil...

13.06.2025 20

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Roaming Charges: The Delicate Sound of Plunder

Back in March, the Trump administration bragged about raiding a big Tren de Aragua gathering" in the Texas hill country outside of Austin. Forty-five...

06.06.2025 20

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When the Dead Speak and the Living Refuse to Listen

In this time of silence, many of the words that are spoken have lost all meaning. In fact, their meaning has been inverted, twisted inside out....

30.05.2025 20

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Roaming Charges: White Lies About White Genocide

White genocide? There were 27,621 murders in South Africa in 2023, more than 80 percent of them young, black males, who were poor or unemployed....

23.05.2025 8

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Roaming Charges: White Lies About White Genocide

White genocide? There were 27,621 murders in South Africa in 2023, more than 80 percent of them young, black males, who were poor or unemployed....

23.05.2025 10

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Return to Alcatraz: a Photo Essay

Trump, ever in search of sadistic pleasures, wants his own CECOT-like prison to intern what he calls America’s “most vicious and violent...

21.05.2025 20

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Roaming Charges: Sturm und Drang Warnings

As a parable from the past to help us come to grips with our perilous present, you could do worse than screen Storm Warning, the 1951 noir that may be...

16.05.2025 40

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A Silence That Kills

The problem with writing about Gaza is that words can’t explain what’s happening in Gaza. Neither can images, even the most gut-wrenching and...

10.05.2025 3

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Roaming Charges: 100 Days of Turpitude

America finally got its Pope, but not the reactionary, the Opus Dei wing was furiously lobbying for. And not an anti-abortion zealot like Cardinal...

09.05.2025 20

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Roaming Charges: Judge Not, Lest Ye be…Jailed

What if the remarkable string of federal court decisions against Trump’s policies (several rendered by his own appointees) isn’t evidence of an...

02.05.2025 40

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Roaming Charges: Show Us Your Papers!

American citizens are being routinely caught in Trump’s deportation dragnet, detained, jailed, and threatened with deportation, even a four-year-old...

28.04.2025 6

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Living on the Cliff’s Edge: the Ruins of Puyé, Pope Francis and the Fate of the Earth

On the day Pope Francis released his encyclical on the fate of the Earth, I was struggling to climb a near vertical cliff on the Parajito Plateau of...

27.04.2025 20

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Massacre at Al-Hashashin

  At 3:52 AM on March 23, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society received word of casualties from an Israeli attack in the Al-Hashashin area outside of...

26.04.2025 5

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Living on the Cliff’s Edge: the Pueblo People, Pope Francis and the Fate of the Earth

On the day Pope Francis released his encyclical on the fate of the Earth, I was struggling to climb a near vertical cliff on the Parajito Plateau of...

25.04.2025 5

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Living on the Cliff’s Edge: the Anasazi, Pope Francis and the Fate of the Earth

On the day Pope Francis released his encyclical on the fate of the Earth, I was struggling to climb a near vertical cliff on the Parajito Plateau of...

25.04.2025 9

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Roaming Charges: Trump’s Penal Colony

Trump dreams of his own Kafkaesque penal colony, a place where he can ship the accused without the trouble of a trial, a place where the imprisoned...

18.04.2025 20

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I Am Bombed, Therefore I Am

“Nobody should have to livestream the deaths of their loved ones to prove that they deserve to live.” –Mohammad Safa First, the Israelis said...

12.04.2025 4

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Roaming Charges: Who Shot the Tariffs?

The contradictions of life in late-capitalist America under Trump: Most Americans want the return of manufacturing jobs to the US, as long as they...

11.04.2025 8

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Double-Tapping Gaza

They call it a double-tap: bomb a place with lots of people, say a school filled with kids and their parents, then when the ambulances, medical...

05.04.2025 8

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Roaming Charges: Welcome to the Machine

Trump and Rubio would have deported Tom Paine for writing seditious pamphlets as a "citizen of the world" and not the US. As it was, Paine died a...

04.04.2025 10

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Bombing the Bombed, Displacing the Displaced, Starving the Starved

Palestinian woman amputee. Photo: Palestinian Center for Human Rights. Palestinian woman amputee. Photo: Palestinian Center for Human Rights....

29.03.2025 4

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Roaming Charges: The Goldberg Variations

If the Trump team was going to "accidentally" include any reporter in their Yemen war planning–Goldberg, the former IDF prison guard–would be the...

28.03.2025 40

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Roaming Charges: Schlock and Chainsaw

Here is Trump’s Secretary of Commerce Howard (Net worth: $808 million) Lutnick’s message to seniors (whose ranks I have now reluctantly joined) on...

24.03.2025 30

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The Ceasefire That Never Was

Detail of Israeli flyer dropped on Gaza. Detail of Israeli flyer dropped on Gaza. Detail of Israeli flyer dropped on Gaza. Detail of Israeli flyer...

22.03.2025 3

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Episodes From the Great Disappearance

On January 29, ICE pulled over Bernandino Randa Marinas on his way to work in Chicago. After handing his ID to an ICE agent, Bernandino was ordered to...

21.03.2025 20

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