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01.25.17
by Brian O'Neill

With Trump and Cruz, The Land of the Free Grows Harder and Colder

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Donald Trump and Ted Cruz rush to see who can make America a broken beacon

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Standard | Posted in Charter 17, Foreign Affairs, National Security | Tagged refugees, syria, ted cruz, Trump | 6 Comments
01.24.17
by Brian O'Neill

Pipelines in the Great Lakes: The Tenous State of Oil in Mackinac and The Power of Great Journalism

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A spot of tempestuous and historic beauty is also a looming environmental disaster

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Standard | Posted in Environment, Good Reads, Great Lakes, Uncategorized | Tagged Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, oil, pipelines | 10 Comments
01.23.17
by Brian O'Neill

Self-Censoring, Fear, and the Environment

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The Trump cabinet. (Artist: Viktor Vasnetsov.)

The problem is what Trump and his anti-environment goons will stop good people from doing. 

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Standard | Posted in Environment, water | Tagged CDC, climate change, EPA | 3 Comments
01.19.17
by Brian O'Neill

The Borderland

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Like travelers, we are crossing a frontier into a different land, with a terrible king and ancient howling gods. 

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01.19.17
by Brian O'Neill

A-Change is Gonna Come: Trump and the GOP Plan to Sell The Country Off

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There are people who gaze upon our shared heritage and think: we should drill here.

As bad as you thought it would be, it’s going to be worse

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Standard | Posted in Charter 17, Environment, Politics, Rivers | Tagged America, public land, republicans, Trump | 8 Comments
01.19.17
by Brian O'Neill

The Trump Administration in a Nutshell: Rick Perry’s “Learning Curve” On the Nuclear Arsenal

 

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“Oops”

 

The incompetence of the Trump administration may reach peak horror with Rick Perry as Secretary of Energy. 

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Standard | Posted in National Security | Tagged end of the world, Energy, Rick Perry, Trump | 1 Comment
01.18.17
by Brian O'Neill

Chelsea Manning and the Quality of Mercy: Obama at the End of Days

 

Chelsea Manning did her time. Anything else is merely culture wars. 

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01.17.17
by Brian O'Neill

NATO is “Obsolete”: The Surreal Horror of the Trump Presidency

 

Seriously, guys, this is the face of the US now

Trump’s comment-like things on NATO were created by ignorance, but there is a terrible philosophy underneath

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Standard | Posted in Foreign Affairs, National Security | Tagged right wing watch, Russia, Trump | 0 comments
01.13.17
by Brian O'Neill

Were you expecting talons? This is what authoritarianism looks like.

 

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That’s right- it looks like a greasy oval weasel.

Trump is Trump, but his Congressional enablers are what will prove genuinely ruinous. 

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Standard | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged chaffetz, Comey, Trump | 1 Comment
01.13.17
by Brian O'Neill

Democracy, the Deep State, and Trump

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The CIA and NSA are equal parts venal and incompetent, and their heavy hand is inherently anti-democratic. So what happens when they meet unassailable corruption? 

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Standard | Posted in Charter 17, National Security | Tagged CIA, Comey, FBI, Intelligence, NSA, Russia, Trump | 3 Comments

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