No Tree Stands alone: Climate Disaster, Gaza Genocide were Preventable
H. Patricia Hynes Informed Comment The methodical destruction of Gaza and its people – in little over 1000 days – has taken the crime of genocide to an extreme unprecedented…
The Plague of Plastic: The Other Petroleum Curse
H. Patricia Hynes for Informed Comment Microplastics, those miniscule particles smaller than 5 millimeters which plastics physically break down into, have now infiltrated every part of the planet – from…
‘The Color of Law’
By H. Patricia Hynes Editor’s note: This column appeared first on the Op-Ed page of the Greenfield Recorder. For many years, I worked in Boston public housing with teams of…
A Hell of America’s Own Making
The Pentagon’s escalating dystopian scenarios, its fixation with being overstretched by climate crises and great power conflict to the point of collapse, and its more recent goal of reducing its…
Book Review: Driving the Samburu Bride
Driving the Samburu BrideBy Diane C. Perlov Reviewed by H Patricia Hynes / Original to ScheerPost Diane Perlov’s memoir of the two years she lived among semi-nomadic people in northern…