After nearly fourteen years in exile, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was finally reunited with his family last week. Assange survived a decade-and-a-half of incarceration, from his 2010 London arrest to seven years of “asylum” in the Equadorian embassy and then 1,901 days of solitary confinement that involved psychological torture (Assange endured a kind of “chemical … Continue reading
Who benefits from rising property taxes? Why does Missoula need another special tax levy to keep the firefighters in business when property taxes are already sky high as it is? And why are the lords of Missoula’s budget exempt from the election process? As Missoulians reluctantly brace for the imminent effects of last year’s 37% … Continue reading
There’s a new focus-grouped term to re-brand the relentless addiction to unnecessary development. Since the so-called “involuntary homeless” now occupy a cornered market of government-subsidized housing projects, the term “workforce housing” has come into play. This latest evolution of the “affordable housing” scheme helps guarantee that developers can exploit a whole new market of desperate … Continue reading
What transformed the formerly safe neighborhoods of the American west into the post-apocalyptic bazaars of meth, trafficking and murder they are today? Within less than a decade tent cities rapidly emerged from public parks and sidewalks and grew into shantytowns and Hoovervilles like the ghastly disgrace called “the Zone” in Phoenix, Arizona. Over the past … Continue reading
It’s a dark and snowy morning in Missoula, Montana. A billow of smoke rises up from beneath a pedestrian bridge where several hooded figures huddle around a morning campfire near the river’s shore. A path through the foliage leads away from the campfire toward a shoreline shantytown of tents and lean-tos. Further down the trail … Continue reading
It’s been exactly ten years since the American-backed coup d’état that overthrew democratically elected president Yanukovich in Ukraine on 23 February 2014. After the decade of civil war that followed, many Americans still don’t know why Russia “invaded” Ukraine’s eastern border. Most of us have never heard of the Donbass or the neo-Nazi Azov Battaltion … Continue reading
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