Strike, strike, strike
“Strike, Strike, Strike.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The ruling oligarchs are terrified that, for tens of millions of people, the economic dislocation caused by inflation, stagnant wages, austerity, the pandemic…
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Monarchs belong in the dustbin of history
“Off With Her Head.” Illustration by Mr. Fish The fawning adulation of Queen Elizabeth in the United States, which fought a revolution to get rid of the monarchy, and in…
We are not the first civilization to collapse, but we will probably be the last
“Doomsday Selfie.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. CAHOKIA MOUNDS, Illinois — I am standing atop a 100-foot-high temple mound, the largest known earthwork in the Americas built by prehistoric peoples. The…
The dawn of the apocalypse
“Our Climate Future.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. This past week has seen record-breaking heat waves across Europe. Wildfires have ripped through Spain, Portugal and France. London’s fire brigade experienced its…
NATO: the most dangerous military alliance on the planet
“Together We Are Wrong.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the arms industry that depends on it for billions in profits, has become the most…
Fascists in our midst
“Elephants in the Womb.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The Supreme Court is relentlessly funding and empowering Christian fascism. It not only overturned Roe v. Wade, ending a constitutional right to…
No way out but war
“No Guts No Glory.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The United States, as the near unanimous vote to provide nearly $40 billion in aid to Ukraine illustrates, is trapped in the…
The Israeli execution of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh
“Hard Pressed.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Shireen Abu Akleh, the Al Jazeera reporter with more than two decades of experience covering armed conflicts, knew the protocol. She and other reporters…
Jesus, endless war, and the rise of American fascism
“With this Ring.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The Democratic Party—which had 50 years to write Roe v Wade into law with Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama in full…
Let us now praise Amazon unionists
“Hammer-Head.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Let us honor those workers who stood up to Amazon, especially Chris Smalls, described by Amazon’s chief counsel as “not smart, or articulate,” who led…
Waltzing toward Armageddon with the merchants of death
“Raft of Doom.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The Cold War, from 1945 to 1989, was a wild Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one…
The greatest evil is war
Ukrainian firefighters stand beneath a television broadcast tower in the Jewish cemetery located in Kyiv’s Babi Yar Holocaust memorial site on March 1, 2022. Photo courtesy State Emergency Service of…
America’s new class war
Illustration by Mr. Fish There is one last hope for the United States. It does not lie in the ballot box. It lies in the union organizing and strikes by…
The most important battle for press freedom of our time
Street art depicting Julian Assange in Lambeth, England. Photo by Duncan C/Flickr. For the past two days, I have been watching the extradition hearing for Julian Assange via video link…
The unraveling of the American empire
Art by Mr. Fish/Scheerpost America’s defeat in Afghanistan is one in a string of catastrophic military blunders that herald the death of the American empire. With the exception of the…
Papering over the rot
Art by Mr. Fish/Scheerpost The death spiral of the American Empire will not be halted with civility. It will not be halted with the 42 executive orders signed by Joe…
Battling white supremacy in the ring
Open air Heavyweight World Championship fight between the reigning world champion Tommy Burns of Canada, left, and challenger Jack Johnson at Rushcutters Bay near Sydney, 1908. Photo by Philipp Kester.…
The great delusion
Art by Mr. Fish/Scheerpost Joe Biden and the systems managers of the deep state and empire are returning to power. Trump and his coterie of buffoons, racists, con artists and…
American requiem
Art by Mr. Fish/Scheerpost Well, it’s over. Not the election. The capitalist democracy. However biased it was towards the interests of the rich and however hostile it was to the…
The politics of cultural despair
Art by Mr. Fish/Scheerpost The physical and moral decay of the United States and the malaise it has spawned have predictable results. We have seen in varying forms the consequences…