July 2022

Michael Hudson on the state of the world's economies

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Tuesday, 5 July 2022

I would not ordinarily post an article this long but in this case it is worth it because it is the summary of  an analysis of the world economic situation, with political and social consequences, that is the empirically based rational shadow of American society's craven, lunatic aggression against its own poor and working class and what it perceives as weak opponents and economic victims abroad.

Funeral drums for the Durango rubble Cesar Vallejo Trans. Bill Hatch

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Tuesday, 5 July 2022

Funeral drums for the Durango rubble
Cesar Vallejo
Trans. Bill Hatch

Father Dust who rises from Spain,
God save you, free you, crown you,
Father Dust, who ascends from the soul.

Father Dust, who rises from the fire,
God save you, trace you, enthrone you.
Father Dust, who is in the heavens.

Father Dust, great-grandson of smoke,
God save you and may you ascend to infinity,
Father Dust, great-grandson of smoke.

"Drought in the San Joaquin"

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Wednesday, 6 July 2022

Drought in the San Joaquin
Bill Hatch, 2022

I am restless here at night
In the hot night lonely,
Slow, soft, slight continual blows,
And the absence of a Delta breeze
Irritates my heart.

The fat earth 
Is no good without water
No good without water.

Hot wind blows at night
Round the corners of sheds
Barns houses fences
Dust enters our bodies.

But the fat earth
Is no good without water.

Impacts on Germany and Italy of war in Ukraine

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Wednesday, 13 July 2022

Asia Times/Settimani News

A tale of two wars
Both sides think they’re winners, needn’t give in – but battlefield and European home front are separate wars
By FRANCESCO SISCI
JULY 13, 2022

It may be a tale of two wars going in parallel. So far, they have not met but eventually they will meet and prove one side or the other right.

The first version of the war is the Russian one.

The river and electricity

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Thursday, 21 July 2022

You can argue  that senior facilities in the Coachella Valley are not ecologically sound or even healthy, given the temperatures around Palm Sprimgs and Indio in the summertime, and, speaking as a resident of such a facility, I would agree with you but I came down here for family reasons. But, if hydroelectric power from Glen Canyon is interrupted, I can guarantee that some lives will end without air-conditioning in Southern California. -- blj

Post-logging politics?

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Saturday, 23 July 2022

The proble3m in Shasta County this article fails to mention is the state of the logging industry, now denied insurance and annually assaulted with more and more violent fires. Mills have been consolidated, there is less work in the woods, and these appear to be more permanent than the typical cycles of past decades. People must be very nervous about fire, not just in the woods but on the outskirts of Redding and nearby towns, which have already had one wildfire. Shasta County is a very unhappy place right now because it is ecologically and economically very  threatened.

"Give the Indians back to white-supremacist states," sez Supremes

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Sunday, 24 July 2022

Supreme Court reversed almost 200 years of US law and tradition upholding tribal sovereignty in its latest term
Published: July 21, 2022 8.25am EDT
Kirsten Matoy Carlson
Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University

https://theconversation.com/supreme-court-reversed-almost-200-years-of-u...