27 Feb, 2019
O.N.E.
“Our National Embarrassment. Our National Emergency. There he is, residing for a minute in the White House, a minute that...
24 Feb, 2019
Game Over? Report Card on Our Planet’s Environment
“Unrelenting Warming The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report for 2019 indicates that most experts point to environmental problems as...
21 Feb, 2019
At a Climate Crossroads: Nonviolence or Violence
“Sixty-one years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King declared, “Today the choice is no longer between violence and nonviolence. It is...
20 Feb, 2019
Are you black, white or human?
“Some of my best friends are colored. All of them are, actually. And so I introduce you to Lowell Thompson,...
19 Feb, 2019
Should the U.S. Government Abide by the International Law It Has Created and Claims to Uphold?
“The Trump administration’s campaign to topple the government of Venezuela raises the issue of whether the U.S. government is willing...
18 Feb, 2019
Why Protest Trump When We Can Impeach Him?
“While I commend efforts to turn Presidents’ Day into a display of outrage over the non-emergency declaration rather than a...
13 Feb, 2019
The music that’s in all of us
“And suddenly the music burst through the borders. This was in May of 1999, in a city in the Netherlands...
13 Feb, 2019
What it Really Takes to Secure Peace in Afghanistan
“Constant military surveillance of Afghans yields almost no real intelligence about the problems they face each day. An unusual group...
13 Feb, 2019
Nuclear Power Can’t Survive, Much Less Slow Climate Disruption
“Too late. We already have socialism for the rich, with the nuclear power industry as a prime example.” John LaForge...
10 Feb, 2019
American dream: Bait and switch?
“American mythology posits a narrative for our foundation which rests upon an ideology of values and self-evident truths which separate...
7 Feb, 2019
Don’t Expect Rulers of Nuclear-Armed Nations to Accept Nuclear Disarmament?Unless They’re Pushed to Do So
“At the beginning of February 2019, the two leading nuclear powers took an official step toward resumption of the nuclear...
6 Feb, 2019
Understand the disease to cure it
“Two days ago, on February 4, 2019, the bodies of a handsome apparently successful husband and beautiful successful wife—Denise and...
6 Feb, 2019
Jim crow jumps into the game
“What? The governor put that picture on his yearbook page? In 1984? The wave of outrage, the demand for his...
6 Feb, 2019
The ultimate human idiocy
“What’s the ultimate form of human idiocy? I nominate religious suicide bombings, in which fanatics kill themselves to murder “infidels”...
5 Feb, 2019
On China, the US Public Stands Apart
“Why isn’t the American public as agitated about China as are the Trump administration, the mainstream media, and even many...