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
One month ago, agents of Hamas somehow infiltrated one of the most heavily defended fortresses of one of the most technologically advanced societies in the world, killed 1,200 Israelis and claimed several hundred hostages. Israel responded by bombing and invading Gaza, in turn killing many of their own hostages alongside more than ten-thousand civilians. Israel … Continue reading
In the interest of preserving words whose meanings are threatened by the Orwellian redefinition of everything, it becomes necessary to reevaluate one of the most glaring contradictions that daily confronts the mass of western society. Namely, how can millions of people self-identify as “left” while supporting the very antithesis of lefty values through the promotion … Continue reading
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