6 Sep, 2021
Sept. 11 – Day of Warning
Sept . 11 is approaching – the 20th anniversary of the most startling event in the lifetime of most adults...
6 Sep, 2021
3 Sep, 2021
Immigration and National Identity
It's easy to say, "our immigration system is broken." Or to declare: "we are a nation of immigrants."...
2 Sep, 2021
After Afghanistan . . . A Truth Commission?
“Ten members of one family — including seven children — are dead after a US drone strike targeting a vehicle in a residential neighborhood of Kabul . .
1 Sep, 2021
Is Afghanistan FUBAR? It depends who you ask
I have been teaching political science for more than a decade and politicians do not make my job easy...
31 Aug, 2021
You can help stop climate chaos: 25 ways
There is no serious doubt or debate: anthropogenic (human-effected) activities are driving more hurricanes than ever, more intense killer heat waves than ever in recorded meteorological history...
31 Aug, 2021
An Early ‘Occupy’ Episode
The terrible Great Depression of the 1930s wasn’t America’s only economic crash. Various lesser ones happened through the 1800s, almost in a 20-year cycle, inflicting poverty and suffering on working-class families...
29 Aug, 2021
Building social solidarity across national boundaries
It’s easy to conclude that it’s not. In 1915, as national governments produced the shocking carnage of World War I, Ralph Chaplin, an activist in the Industrial Workers of the World, wrote his stirring song...
28 Aug, 2021
We’re covering and marketing Covid vaccinations all wrong
Since the numerous vaccines for Covid-19 were fast-tracked through trials and production in the second half of 2020 the news media have been covering their development and deployment nonstop...
26 Aug, 2021
A world for future generations
Reflect for a moment that Mt. Shasta, off the I-5 in Northern California, was described by John Muir in 1877 as: “Go where you will within a radius of from fifty to a hundred miles, there stands the colossal cone of Shasta...
25 Aug, 2021
Growing old in the newborn universe
Growing old in the newborn universe by Robert C. Koehler 939 words That link between age and wisdom — is...
23 Aug, 2021
Only religious war remains
The Taliban seizure of Afghanistan underscores an ugly 21st century fact: Religion-based warfare remains the world’s worst type of armed conflict, and the “holy warriors” display barbaric cruelty...
20 Aug, 2021
Explain it to me like I’m a two-year old
Imagine the Biden approach to leaving Afghanistan were done as if success and saving lives were the priority...
19 Aug, 2021
Look! Take an Afghander at that perennial FUBAR
I'm sure many of us older players recall where we were when the planes hit on 9.11.2001...
19 Aug, 2021
Game of Thieves in the Amazon
The UN-appointed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a new report, based on the latest scientific findings...
17 Aug, 2021
The Afghanistan debacle
Over a nearly 20-year period, the war in Afghanistan is estimated to have cost about $2.2 trillion and resulted in more than 240,000 deaths, military and civilian, on all sides...