The Harsh Desert

Jayel Aheram is a student journalist, Iraq War and Marine veteran, internationally-published photographer, artist, polymath, etc.

Aheram writes about foreign policy, antiwar issues, and the police state at Young Americans for Liberty. He is a longtime political blogger at RedStateEclectic, copyright wonk at Copyfascism Watch, and sometimes on television as contributor to the international newscast RT International.

His primary blog is over at Tumblr, where he mixes polemics, politics, and photography.

Aheram is a journalism student at College of the Desert, former editor-in-chief of the student-run newspaper The Chaparral, and founder and former station manager of KCOD Radio and Television.

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• America’s convenient military scapegoats
• In Los Angeles
• The Occupy movement’s dissent from violence
• What “post-war” period?
• Partisan Democrats seek to turn “Occupy Wall Street” into extension of the Obama campaign
• Anger over Troy Davis’ execution, yet none over Anwar al-Awlaki’s
• America’s concern with extremism hypocritical
• Sasha the praying mantis
• Samstache
• Letter to the editor
• Recruiting antiwar youth
• COD student senate to host 9/11 memorial and vigil
• Let sleeping dogs lie
• Samuel’s 21st birthday
• Pokécoffee!
• Some guidelines for The Chaparral
• Promoting KCOD
• Racial waxing
• The Arab Winter as U.S. doctrine
• Dog owner’s manuals