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“We hear all our lives about the ‘gentle, stormless Pacific,’ and about the ‘smooth and delightful route to the Sandwich Islands,’ and about the ‘steady blowing trades’ that never vary, … Continue Reading Riverboat Sam: “Night Surfing Not a Brilliant Idea”
By John Frederick Kaufman, sole member of The Pacific’s Editorial Committee It turns out that what the Trump White House meant to say is that the U.S. aircraft carrier USS … Continue Reading Pacific Follies: White House Explains Missing “Armada” and Unwisely Threatens North Korea Again
[Originally posted 9/21/2016 on Otherwords.org under a “Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives Work” license.] The Climate Change Debate is Over Increasing major storms and rising sea levels have long been predicted … Continue Reading Todd Larsen: “The Climate Change Debate is Over”
By T.S. Swanky, * any resemblance to any actual person or conservative columnist, living or dead, is an astounding coincidence. I confess, dear readers, in this inaugural of my posts … Continue Reading T.S. Swanky*: “War is Making TRUMP (and US) Great!” [Satire]
Vice President Mike Pence walked right up to the “demarcation line” between North and South Korea, looked around, and then went back to Seoul to issue this stirring invitation to … Continue Reading Where’s the Diplomacy? V.P. Mike Pence Stands on Border of North Korea and Talks Tough
If you are hoping that global warming from the burning of fossil fuels will make future dips in the ocean a little more comfortable, you are narrow-minded, to say the … Continue Reading Oceans Under Threat of Acidification and Trump Policy
By John Frederick Kaufman So the United States suddenly felt the need to give our MOAB (“mother of all bombs”)–more officially known as GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast–a try on Thursday … Continue Reading In the Aftermath of Dropping the “MOAB” Bomb on Afghanistan
By Rumple Oxbridge (The Pacific’s unreal radical rhymer) How many mothers can it kill, this “mother of all bombs?” It’s only dropped on terrorists we’re certain have no wombs. What is … Continue Reading Rumple Oxbridge: “The Mother of All Bombs”
Writing recently in The New York Times Magazine, prominent historian Rick Perlstein attempts to figure out how exactly American conservatism could produce, as if out of nowhere, a candidate and … Continue Reading A Response to Rick Perlstein’s “I Thought I Understood the American Right . . .”
Wall Street Sodbusters [Reposted with acknowledgement and thanks from Otherwords.org Please see original post page for copyright information.] Big-money speculators are buying up farms, charging tenants to farm it, and boxing … Continue Reading Jim Hightower: “Wall Street Sodbusters”
American journalists may be the “enemies of the American people,” according to President Trump, but that didn’t stop a whole lot of them from supporting Trump’s order launching 59 Tomahawk … Continue Reading Journalists, Democrats Rally Round the Flag of War (and a Flagging President)
By Rumple Oxbridge, The Pacific’s radical rhymer, sometimes referred to as “rhymer-in-residence.” I was going to say a little goes a long way but if I may be so bold why … Continue Reading Rumple Oxbridge: “On Pornography”
By John Frederick Kaufman On the 100th anniversary of the United States’ entry into World War I (the war that failed, as all the others have, to “end all wars”), President Donald Trump … Continue Reading A Statement Against the U.S. Missile Strikes & Escalating War in Syria
(Post from Common Dreams website) . . . “In the meantime we know another truth: that a US military escalation against Syria (because we must not forget that US … Continue Reading Phyllis Bennis: “Trump, Syria, and Chemical Weapons: What We Know, What We Don’t, and the Dangers Ahead”
The ongoing war in Syria is a vast catastrophe; what began as a peaceable resistance movement against the Assad regime, one among many in the “Arab Spring” of 2011, has devolved … Continue Reading Syria: War Still Not the Answer
Must politicians and journalists succumb to the language of war? Or the flip side: Must we put words like “peace” on weapons of war? I’m thinking of the U.S. nuclear missiles called … Continue Reading Let’s Stop Saying “Nuclear Option”
By John Frederick Kaufman Speaking of his poetry, here’s what Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who died yesterday in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 84, told the Associated Press in … Continue Reading The “Human Rights Poetry” of Yevgeny Yevtushenko Very Relevant Today
A poet in a bad mood can ruin a reputation, as T.S. Eliot did for April when he called it “the cruellest month”, adding an extra letter l for emphasis. … Continue Reading April: Poetry & Mud
