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holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. He oversaw the journalism program at the University of California at Santa Cruz for 23 years, and won the UCSC Alumni Association’s Distinguished Teaching Award, as well as UCSC’s Innovations in Teaching Award, and Excellence in Teaching Award. He was also a college provost at UCSC, and retired in 2004. He is a winner of a Project Censored “Real News Award,†and lives in Berkeley, California.
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Saturday, February 6, 2021
China's Sea of Conflict President Joseph Biden's administration faces a host of difficult problems, but in foreign policy its thornist will be its relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Saturday, February 6, 2021China's Sea of Conflict President Joseph Biden's administration faces a host of difficult problems, but in foreign policy its thornist will be its relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Sunday, December 20, 2020
The U.S. Needs COVID Relief and Renewable Energy, Not a Space Force Instead of wasting scarce funds on the Space Force, the Biden administration should deploy its diplomats to demilitarize space
Sunday, December 20, 2020The U.S. Needs COVID Relief and Renewable Energy, Not a Space Force Instead of wasting scarce funds on the Space Force, the Biden administration should deploy its diplomats to demilitarize space
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Tipping the Nuclear Dominos If the Trump administration follows through on its threat to re-start nuclear tests, it will complete the unraveling of more than 50 years of arms control agreements, taking the world back to the days when school children practiced "duck and cover," and people built backyard bomb shelters.
Wednesday, June 17, 2020Tipping the Nuclear Dominos If the Trump administration follows through on its threat to re-start nuclear tests, it will complete the unraveling of more than 50 years of arms control agreements, taking the world back to the days when school children practiced "duck and cover," and people built backyard bomb shelters.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Military Spending and the Pandemic There is a hypersonic arms race going on among China, Russia and the US, and, according to the Pentagon, the Americans are desperately trying to catch up with its two adversaries.
Wednesday, May 13, 2020Military Spending and the Pandemic There is a hypersonic arms race going on among China, Russia and the US, and, according to the Pentagon, the Americans are desperately trying to catch up with its two adversaries.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020
India And the Corona Virus: Independent Press Fights Back Climate change is producing conditions that favor the growth of diseases like the corona virus and vector-driven pathogens like dengue and malaria. The next pandemic is just around the corner, and unless there is a concentrated effort to make health care a human right, it is only a matter of time before the next mega-killer strikes.
Tuesday, April 14, 2020India And the Corona Virus: Independent Press Fights Back Climate change is producing conditions that favor the growth of diseases like the corona virus and vector-driven pathogens like dengue and malaria. The next pandemic is just around the corner, and unless there is a concentrated effort to make health care a human right, it is only a matter of time before the next mega-killer strikes.
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Friday, March 27, 2020
How Austerity and Anti-Immigrant Politics Left Italy Exposed As the viral blitzkrieg rolls across one European border after another, it seems to have a particular enmity for Italy. The country's death toll has passed China's, and scenes from its hospitals look like something out of Dante's imagination.
Friday, March 27, 2020How Austerity and Anti-Immigrant Politics Left Italy Exposed As the viral blitzkrieg rolls across one European border after another, it seems to have a particular enmity for Italy. The country's death toll has passed China's, and scenes from its hospitals look like something out of Dante's imagination.
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Monday, March 9, 2020
Turkey's Failed Gamble in Syria Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's latest gamble in Syria's civil war appears to have come up snake eyes. Instead of halting the Damascus government's siege of the last rebel-held province, Idlib, Turkey has backed off, and Ankara's Syrian adventure is fueling growing domestic resistance to the powerful autocrat.
Monday, March 9, 2020Turkey's Failed Gamble in Syria Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's latest gamble in Syria's civil war appears to have come up snake eyes. Instead of halting the Damascus government's siege of the last rebel-held province, Idlib, Turkey has backed off, and Ankara's Syrian adventure is fueling growing domestic resistance to the powerful autocrat.
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Thursday, January 23, 2020
2019 News Awards Each year Dispatches From The Edge gives awards to individuals, companies and governments that make reading the news a daily adventure.
Thursday, January 23, 20202019 News Awards Each year Dispatches From The Edge gives awards to individuals, companies and governments that make reading the news a daily adventure.
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Friday, November 22, 2019
Nuclear Lies and Broken Promises Nuclear explosions have a unique footprint. When the weapon detonates, it sends out an initial pulse of light, but as the fireball expands, it cools down for a few milliseconds, then spikes again.
Friday, November 22, 2019Nuclear Lies and Broken Promises Nuclear explosions have a unique footprint. When the weapon detonates, it sends out an initial pulse of light, but as the fireball expands, it cools down for a few milliseconds, then spikes again.
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Tuesday, November 5, 2019
A New Middle East Is Coming The Yemen War might finally end. Iran may, at least partly, break out of the political and economic blockade that Saudi Arabia, the US and Israel has imposed on it. Syria's civil war will recede. And the Americans, who have dominated the Middle East since 1945, will become simply one of several international players in the region, along with China, Russia, India and the European Union.
Tuesday, November 5, 2019A New Middle East Is Coming The Yemen War might finally end. Iran may, at least partly, break out of the political and economic blockade that Saudi Arabia, the US and Israel has imposed on it. Syria's civil war will recede. And the Americans, who have dominated the Middle East since 1945, will become simply one of several international players in the region, along with China, Russia, India and the European Union.
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Friday, September 27, 2019
How the Saudi Oil Field Attack Overturned America's Applecart In many ways it doesn't really matter who -- Houthis in Yemen? Iranians? Shiites in Iraq? -- launched those missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia. Whoever did it changed the rules of the game, and not just in the Middle East.
Friday, September 27, 2019How the Saudi Oil Field Attack Overturned America's Applecart In many ways it doesn't really matter who -- Houthis in Yemen? Iranians? Shiites in Iraq? -- launched those missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia. Whoever did it changed the rules of the game, and not just in the Middle East.
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Thursday, September 5, 2019
Climate Catastrophe Comes for Europe Climate change is upon us. What that future will be is up to the current generation to figure out, and while there is no question that concerted action can make a difference, the clock is ticking. When next the bell tolls, it tolls for us all.
Thursday, September 5, 2019Climate Catastrophe Comes for Europe Climate change is upon us. What that future will be is up to the current generation to figure out, and while there is no question that concerted action can make a difference, the clock is ticking. When next the bell tolls, it tolls for us all.
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Thursday, August 1, 2019
Rivers of Dust: Water and the Middle East The Middle East may be drying up, but so is California, much of the American Southwest, southern Africa, parts of Latin America, and virtually all of southern Europe. Since the crisis is global "beggar thy neighbor" strategies will eventually impoverish all of humanity. The solution lies with the only international organization on the planet, the United Nations.
Thursday, August 1, 2019Rivers of Dust: Water and the Middle East The Middle East may be drying up, but so is California, much of the American Southwest, southern Africa, parts of Latin America, and virtually all of southern Europe. Since the crisis is global "beggar thy neighbor" strategies will eventually impoverish all of humanity. The solution lies with the only international organization on the planet, the United Nations.
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Thursday, July 11, 2019
The World Needs a Water Treaty There is a growing crisis in South Asia, where water-stressed mega-cities and intensive agriculture are quite literally drying the subcontinent up. By 2030, according to a recent report, half the population of India 700 million people will lack adequate drinking water. Currently, 25 percent of India's population is suffering from drought.
Thursday, July 11, 2019The World Needs a Water Treaty There is a growing crisis in South Asia, where water-stressed mega-cities and intensive agriculture are quite literally drying the subcontinent up. By 2030, according to a recent report, half the population of India 700 million people will lack adequate drinking water. Currently, 25 percent of India's population is suffering from drought.
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Tuesday, June 25, 2019
A Wounded Erdogan Could Be Dangerous AKP used Istanbul's budget as a piggy bank for programs that benefited members of Erdogan's family or generated kickbacks for the Party from construction firms and private contractors. Erdogan has already warned his opponents that they "won't even be able to pay the salaries of their employees." The man may be down but he is hardly beaten. There are turbulent times ahead for Turkey.
Tuesday, June 25, 2019A Wounded Erdogan Could Be Dangerous AKP used Istanbul's budget as a piggy bank for programs that benefited members of Erdogan's family or generated kickbacks for the Party from construction firms and private contractors. Erdogan has already warned his opponents that they "won't even be able to pay the salaries of their employees." The man may be down but he is hardly beaten. There are turbulent times ahead for Turkey.
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Thursday, April 25, 2019
Turkey: Revenge of the Kurds After 18 years of unchallenged power and success, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suddenly finds himself in the middle of several domestic and foreign crises with no obvious way out. It is unfamiliar ground for a master politician who has moved nimbly from the margins of power to the undisputed leader of the largest economy in the Middle East.
Thursday, April 25, 2019Turkey: Revenge of the Kurds After 18 years of unchallenged power and success, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suddenly finds himself in the middle of several domestic and foreign crises with no obvious way out. It is unfamiliar ground for a master politician who has moved nimbly from the margins of power to the undisputed leader of the largest economy in the Middle East.
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Thursday, April 11, 2019
Diego Garcia: "Unsinkable Carrier" Springs a Leak Most Americans have never heard of Diego Garcia for a good reason: no journalist has been allowed there for more than 30 years and the Pentagon keeps the base wrapped in a cocoon of national security. Indeed, the UK leased the base to the Americans in 1966 without informing either the British Parliament or the US Congress.
Thursday, April 11, 2019Diego Garcia: "Unsinkable Carrier" Springs a Leak Most Americans have never heard of Diego Garcia for a good reason: no journalist has been allowed there for more than 30 years and the Pentagon keeps the base wrapped in a cocoon of national security. Indeed, the UK leased the base to the Americans in 1966 without informing either the British Parliament or the US Congress.
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019
European Union Elections: A Crossroad Global migration is on the rise as climate change drowns coastlines and river deltas and drought drives people out of arid climates in the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and Latin America. By 2060, as many as 3 billion people could be affected. The Left and center-left has a responsibility to see immigrants for what they are: potential allies and the future.
Wednesday, March 27, 2019European Union Elections: A Crossroad Global migration is on the rise as climate change drowns coastlines and river deltas and drought drives people out of arid climates in the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and Latin America. By 2060, as many as 3 billion people could be affected. The Left and center-left has a responsibility to see immigrants for what they are: potential allies and the future.
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Monday, March 11, 2019
Nuclear Powers Need to Disarm Before it's Too Late Over the years the Americans and the Russians have reduced the number of warheads in their arsenals, they -- along with China -- are currently in the midst of a major modernization of their weapon systems. Instead of a world without nuclear weapons, it is a world of nuclear apartheid, with the great powers making no move to downsize their conventional forces.
Monday, March 11, 2019Nuclear Powers Need to Disarm Before it's Too Late Over the years the Americans and the Russians have reduced the number of warheads in their arsenals, they -- along with China -- are currently in the midst of a major modernization of their weapon systems. Instead of a world without nuclear weapons, it is a world of nuclear apartheid, with the great powers making no move to downsize their conventional forces.
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Thursday, January 3, 2019
Are You Serious ? Awards for 2018 Each year Dispatches From The Edge gives awards to individuals, companies and governments that makes reading the news a daily adventure.
Thursday, January 3, 2019Are You Serious ? Awards for 2018 Each year Dispatches From The Edge gives awards to individuals, companies and governments that makes reading the news a daily adventure.
