Patrick Mazza

Moving Beyond Empire, Building the Future in Place

How the US Ascended to Global Empire in the 20th Century

How the US Moved from a Continental to Global Empire

We Should Have Listened to Jim Hansen, Instead We’re Heading Toward Global Chaos

Starve the Poor; Feed the Pentagon

Becoming Our Own Volcano: the Fires of Nature and Humanity

The Drive for Domination Puts US Unity at Risk

Sailing on the Planet Titanic

A National Divorce? Separating the Red and Blue

The Day the World Should Have Changed

Seattle Goes Global: a Center of Empire

Overcoming Social Fragmentation

Finding Our Center in Moral Courage and Compassion

The Politics of Regionalism: Secession vs. Interdependence

Is the US Headed for a Breakdown?

How to Realize Rail’s Full Potential as a Climate Solution

Rail Workers Shafted Again

New Portland Police Oversight Board, Could be Strongest in the Nation and Create a National Model

Moving Beyond Single-Issue Politics

Midterms Reveal Progressive Possibilities in a Changing Nation

U.S. Review Envisions Using Nuclear Weapons Against Non-Nuclear Attacks

How Close are We to Nuclear War?

Our Human Irony: Fire People on a Fire Planet

From Nuclear Sub Commander to Nuclear Weapons Abolitionist

The Able Archer Nuclear Test: “The Greatest Intelligence Failure in U.S. History”

In 1983 We Came Closer to Nuclear War Than We Knew: A Cautionary Tale

Ocean City, Cities in the Ocean

Exiting the Global Megamachine

Democracy vs. the Megamachine

Creating the Capitalocene: Endless Accumulation

The Rise and Fall of the Megamachine

Climate and the Collapse of World Order

Ditch the Constitution and Start Over: When a Government Becomes Destructive of the Rights of the People

Imagining the Pacific Republic

Coming to Terms With Our Grief for the World

Secession From the Left

Rebuilding From the Region Up

Utopian Visions as Engines for Change

The Sickness of Unlimited Expansion

How the Nation-State Crushed the Region and Created Our Global Survival Crisis

Living in a Time of Catastrophe

How Will the U.S.A. be Remembered?

Beyond the Clash of Empires: a World of Living Places

Averting Climate Catastrophe: Can We Get Here From There?

Climate Action: Back to States and Cities

Preparing for a Season in the Political Wilderness

Freeing Ourselves From the War Machine Machine

Toward a New Bill of Human Rights

From the Market Mirage to Regional Communities: the Communitarian Vision of William Appleman Williams

Facing the Winter of the Soul