John Buell
John Buell has a PhD in political science, taught for 10 years at College of the Atlantic, and was an Associate Editor of The Progressive for ten years. He lives in Southwest Harbor, Maine and writes on labor and environmental issues. His most recent book, published by Palgrave in August 2011, is "Politics, Religion, and Culture in an Anxious Age." He may be reached at jbuell@acadia.net
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Views Monday, March 30, 2020 Corporate Media Ignores How Privatization of US Hospitals Explains Lack of Beds, Ventilators The escalating total Covid 19 deaths in New York City and the frantic quest to obtain life saving medical gear has rightly captured media attention. New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s impassioned plea for more federal assistance and a need-based system for allocating aid among the states was covered... Read more |
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Views Sunday, March 22, 2020 Why Americans Should Stop Talking About 'China Flu' and Learn From China There is an old saying that politics stops at the water's edge. Never really true, it is even less appropriate today. Domestic politics and international relations interact with each other, often in subtle or unseen ways to the detriment of us all. President Trump’s insistence on calling the virus... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, March 18, 2020 Disaster Capitalism and the Real Culprit in the Italian Covid-19 Catastrophe Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein worries that the Coronavirus pandemic will provide another opportunity for neoliberal elites to impose more of their right wing agenda on a citizenry scared and confused by this mysterious and dangerous disease. Klein of course is expanding on her award... Read more |
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Views Monday, March 09, 2020 Will the Establishment's Neoliberal Model of Drug Profiteering Finally Kill Us All? Why is there even a question as to whether any Cov19 vaccine or diagnostic test kit should be free? Vaccines and diagnostic tests are essential components of any public health program, not merely conveniences to an isolated individual. When symptomatic patients are tested for a disease,... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 25, 2020 Why the Nevada Culinary Workers Revolted Against Their Union Bosses to Support Sanders and Medicare for All In the days leading up to the Nevada Democratic caucus media frequently referred to the “powerful” 60,000 member Culinary Workers Union. In the last quarter century instances when the words powerful and union would be used in the same sentence are all too infrequent. Nonetheless, this union has... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 29, 2020 With Bernie Sanders Now a Frontrunner, Corporate Media Smears Him as Trump-ish The corporate media and the political establishment have always loathed Sanders, but this distaste has taken different forms. Sanders supporters would do well not only to scrutinize current opposition strategies but also to be alert to new and dangerous modes of attack. Distaste of Sanders has... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 03, 2020 Australia's National State of Emergency: The Fire This Time Australia is facing an all—encompassing disaster. Or is it? Even as fires circled much of the island Continent and for a time left only two roads out of the country’s largest city, Sydney, the nation’s Prime Minister refused to allocate more funds for volunteer fire fighters or to treat these... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 30, 2019 The Lies Corporate Media Tell When Bernie Sanders Is "Extreme" and Trump's GOP Is "Mainstream" Is a candidate a centrist? This question matters because many voters like to think of themselves as moderates or centrists. Other voters, not heavily engaged in the political process, are responsive to labels. Therefore the candidate who captures the label in the eyes of the corporate media has a... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 26, 2019 Trump Is Deregulating the Nation Toward Disaster While Trump’s xenophobic and protectionist agenda, thankfully often blocked by the courts, has received the lion’s share of media attention, his henchmen have enacted a whole series of game changing initiatives in the area of federal regulation. Deregulating such domestic concerns as transportation... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 06, 2019 From Guatemala to Moscow to Washington, Neoliberalism and Privatization Driving Our Crises To the corporate media, history goes back only as far as yesterday. Thus the media portray the chaos and violence in Central America as though this is just a case of stuff happens. Or all of a sudden millions decided to come north in search of a better life. And these exculpatory views survived... Read more |