10 Mar, 2021
Maine Farm Girl & Kansas Grain Farmer Talk Climate on The Train
A young Kansas grain farmer and I were riding on a train through Iowa when the subject of the climate crisis came up...
10 Mar, 2021
7 Mar, 2021
When we see, learn, and act, and use the counterfactual
In March of 1991, at the age of 13, my life changed. I watched footage of police violence so staggeringly brutal that I had a million questions and no answers...
6 Mar, 2021
Reflections on the End of the Death Penalty
In the Fall of 1984, my wife secured a church position in Richmond, Virginia and our family of four moved from Manhattan in New York City...
5 Mar, 2021
Where We Are and Where We’re Headed
Where We Are and Where We’re Headed by Mel Gurtov 534 words Published in: City Watch LA, LA Progressive, Black...
4 Mar, 2021
Taking war personally
Taking war personally By Robert C. Koehler Published in: Common Dreams, City Watch, LA Progressive, Uncommon Thought, Free Press, The...
3 Mar, 2021
Planned Human Obsolescence
This academic term I’m teaching my college courses fully online; a year into the global pandemic of COVID-19, and it’s not safe to public health for classes to be held face-to-face...
2 Mar, 2021
Blood for Oil
Thirty years ago, when the United States launched Operation Desert Storm against Iraq, I was a member of the Gulf Peace Team...
1 Mar, 2021
Nine Decades of Progress
I’ll be 90 on my next birthday. My long life is sinking, shrinking, slip-sliding away.
28 Feb, 2021
The Exploration of Space as a Project of Humanity
The exploration of space began with national rivalries at the time of Sputnik, but since about Apollo-Soyuz (1975) it has become an international project...
27 Feb, 2021
Zoonoses and Climate Change: Is One Health Enough?
Zoonotic diseases or zoonoses are animal infections that people can catch. Viruses, bacteria, parasites...
26 Feb, 2021
A Rapidly-Globalizing World Needs Strengthened Global Governance
The world is currently engulfed in crises—most prominently, a disease pandemic, a climate catastrophe, and the prevalence of war...
25 Feb, 2021
Windmills: the new scapegoat
The cornerstone of every social structure is its belief system, and those who control and benefit the most from the system have one primary job:
24 Feb, 2021
A Blizzard. A Power Outage. A Failure of the Heart.
A continent-wide snow storm swept across the United States last week...
23 Feb, 2021
Biden’s Opportunity with China
The dominant view of China in both Washington and in American public opinion is that the United States...
23 Feb, 2021
The Good, The Bad and the Profound
January 29th marked the day the United States of America rejoined the Paris Climate Accords and is back in the global fight against the climate chaos...