28 Jul, 2016
WILD TURKEY WITH H-BOMB: Failed Coup Heightens Calls for Denuclearization
“An explosive cocktail of political instability mixed with 90 U.S. H-bombs raises the specter of accidental or suicidal nuclear detonation...
28 Jul, 2016
Real Cooperation with Nations Is the Best Survival Tactic
“Unexamined assumptions are the real dictators in culture and society. Too many people in the U.S. believe that human beings...
27 Jul, 2016
Beyond Drift
“It is hard to say which is more mesmerizing about our present cultural moment, the blustering neo-fascism of Donald Trump,...
27 Jul, 2016
Slavery, War and Presidential Politics
“As I watched “unity” take hold of the Democratic Party this week, the believer in me wanted to be imbibe...
27 Jul, 2016
Thank you Bernie
“Bernie Sanders, over the past 15 months you have awakened our nation.” Robert F. Dodge, M.D. Published in: Sierra County...
26 Jul, 2016
Break-In: The Kremlin-Trump Connection
“Richard Nixon had “The Plumbers.” Donald Trump, it seems, has the Russians—either the FSB (Federal Security Service, formerly the KGB),...
25 Jul, 2016
Proactive Philanthropy: Don’t Wait, Reach Out!
“Baby Boomers are swelling the retired ranks at an unpresented rate. Many of these seniors are taking more money and...
22 Jul, 2016
Ready?
“So, let’s channel the cranky ghost of George Wallace as he justified his 1968 run for the presidency when he...
21 Jul, 2016
Volatile America
“In a flash I thought, oh God, the civil war has started. Then the headlines shifted and, for the moment,...
21 Jul, 2016
Why Black Lives Matter To Me
“There are deathbed conversions. I was there for one. The day before he died in 2003, I asked my grandfather...
20 Jul, 2016
Babel
“Writing used to be easy for me. Now, nothing seems easy. Leaning in, I just stare at the screen. Occasionally,...
19 Jul, 2016
Imagine
“With our daily news running to atrocity after tragedy, Americans are frightened and angry. Some are resonating with hate talk...
17 Jul, 2016
Nonviolent History: South Africa’s Port Elizabeth Boycott Begins July 15, 1985
“On July 15, 1985, South Africans in the Port Elizabeth Township began a boycott of white-owned businesses to undermine the...
17 Jul, 2016
The Superpowers Are Violent Powers
“If asked to identify the world’s superpowers today, most people would name the United States, Russia, and China. Although many...
16 Jul, 2016
Refusing the “New Normal”
“It has been a rough few weeks, to say the least. Philando Castile, killed by police during a traffic stop,...