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Haitiā€™s Wounded Long to Heal

Scott Weinstein is a comrade, as well as being a registered nurse. Shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans he traveled to New Orleans where he stayed for months, helping out at the Common Ground medical/community clinic. Immediately following the earthquake, Scott made his way to Haiti to do what …

On peak oil, climate change, overpopulation, and fascism

Foreword This essay was originally written for the Three-WayĀ Fight anti-fascist blog (threewayfight.blogspot.com) in the late fallĀ of 2005. Iā€™m not sure if it ever appeared there or not, though it wasĀ serialed in three parts in the first three 2006 issues of Turning theĀ Tide (available from antiracistaction_la@yahoo.com). The essay was aĀ response to …

H1N1 Conspiracy Theories

The following is a message i sent to someone with a nifty cool anti-imperialist blog, who back in 2009 was promoting Kevin Annett’s conspiracy theories about the H1N1 flu virus… Argh. Comrade, i do appreciate your blog, but Annett’s declaration that the end is nigh leaves me feeling very uneasy. …