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Jeffrey Cavanaugh

Jeffrey Cavanaugh is a former MintPress political analyst and columnist specializing in international relations and US policy. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations, specializing in International Security and Conflict. He has worked as a political science and public administration lecturer at Mississippi State University.

First Step To Ending Homelessness? Provide Homes

Empirical evidence shows that just giving people what they need is the simplest, most effective way of fighting poverty.

June 4th, 2014
Jeffrey Cavanaugh
June 4th, 2014
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh
Police Homeless Contest

When it comes to American politics and public discourse there are few dirtier words than the “s”-word: socialism. In the minds of provincial Americans who have never been outside of America’s borders in the modern era, the word conjures disquieting images of soldiers on parade in Red Square, empty shop shelves in Eastern Europe, and benighted

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The Obama Nixon Doctrine

Obama’s foreign policy doctrine that would take the U.S. off its war footing smells an awful lot like what Nixon went for in the face of similar realities and crises.

June 2nd, 2014
Jeffrey Cavanaugh
June 2nd, 2014
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh
Obama/Nixon

The nation’s chattering classes and the world at large were set atwitter this past week by an event that seems to have become a semi-annual spectacle for those who pay attention to U.S. foreign policy -- the West Point presidential address. Presented before the year’s graduating cadets -- a group that will ultimately have to pay the blood price for

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Renewable Republicanism Struggles Against The Oil Oligarchy

If history has taught us anything, it’s that oil doesn’t create peace, stability or progress. But it also turns out that it doesn’t make oil-rich countries as rich as we might think.

May 28th, 2014
Jeffrey Cavanaugh
May 28th, 2014
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh
Sean Hannity

Imagine for a moment that you are a country in the developing world. Except for your cheap labor, you have no resources to speak of. What fertile land you have is mostly given over to the wealthy, while the rest of the population is squeezed into sprawling, squalid shantytowns or spread out across a vast landscape trying to scratch a living from

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As Seas Rise, It’s Farmers vs. Fossil Fuels

New reports say global sea levels are going to rise higher and faster than previously expected, and insurance companies are eager to dip their toes into this new business.

May 22nd, 2014
Jeffrey Cavanaugh
May 22nd, 2014
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh
Climate Report

Those holding beachfront property that they plan to pass on to their heirs may want to reconsider their plans. Several studies released by climatologists and glaciologists over the past week suggest that sea levels are going to rise by much more than the 4 feet already forecast by the latest report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate

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The NRA Wants To Ban This Gun

Why are the NRA and far-right rallying against a so-called “smart gun” that is both a poor product and a dud among consumers? What are they so afraid of?

May 19th, 2014
Jeffrey Cavanaugh
May 19th, 2014
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh
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After 20-year-old Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School one cold December morning in 2012 and proceeded to slaughter 20 kindergarteners and six adults with a Bushmaster AR-15, the NRA and other gun rights activists said it was wrong to politicize the shooting. The slaughter of all those children wasn’t due to the fact that a madman

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The Sagebrush Lumpenproletariat

Marx’s lowest, most degenerate class of the proletariat is alive and well in America today.

May 14th, 2014
Jeffrey Cavanaugh
May 14th, 2014
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh
Range Showdown

In Karl Marx’s famous The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte -- the communist philosopher’s examination of the 1851 coup that overthrew France’s Second Republic and the work in which he famously said history repeats as first tragedy and then farce -- he describes the lumpenproletariat, a group that played a key role in the destruction of

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The Poor White Man’s Burden

We look at the average white American man and think, “White Male Privilege,” but Joe Six-pack is likely in the same economic boat as everyone else.

May 9th, 2014
Jeffrey Cavanaugh
May 9th, 2014
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh

The Onion recently posted a biting piece titled “White Male Privilege Squandered on Job at Best Buy” that neatly struck at two of the most divisive and paradoxical aspects of American politics today -- race and class. We all may laugh, but the issues it raises are nonetheless vital to halting America’s headlong slide into oligarchy and

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