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Stand By for Space Wars
Photograph Source NASA/Bill Anders There was much international news in mid-March, although little of it was encouraging for those who prefer peace to war, handshakes to saber-rattling, and cooperation...
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The Revolution Must be Fun
Tony Perrottet’s Cuba Libre! Che Fidel and the Improbable Revolution that Changed the World is a “colourful page turner”.[i] Perrottet wanted a book that is “entertaining and readable, unsaturated by...
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Russiagate: A Trump-Boosting Triumph of Diversion and Inauthentic Opposition?
Photo by Nathaniel St. Clair Did the Russian government make some efforts to intervene on Donald Trump’s behalf in the 2016 United States presidential election? Has Trump’s behavior toward Russia been...
View ArticleGod Raised Trump
The Trump family is a source of constant inspiration to other families whose children are not as accomplished as their parents might have hoped, as well as to the parents of those children. Jared...
View ArticleA Generous Cup of Coffee
Rosy Abelson Isak saved my life. Correction, not my life, my mental health. I met Rosy at the beginning of the 1970s, while we were both working at the Public Health Research Institute of New York. It...
View ArticleOur Wounded Planet
Should we save the planet or kill the enemy? Perhaps no question more succinctly separates the past from the future, or so it occurred to me after I read Rebecca Solnit’s stunning observation in a...
View Article‘Every War Is a War Against Children’
We, in the United States, have yet to realize both the futility and immense consequences of war even as we develop, store, sell, and use hideous weapons. The number of children killed is rising. At...
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Re: The Green New Deal: First, Shoot the Economists
Photograph Source Senate Democrats Note: please do not shoot economists. The title is a metaphor. Soon to be released research from the United Nations is expected to place species loss, a/k/a mass...
View ArticleThe Invisible Protection of Whiteness
The social reality for the southern Negro community was perceived as full of danger. The threat of death for Negroes, young and old, who did not comport themselves in accord with the prevailing codes...
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Of Estella Leopold and a “Fierce Green Fire” for the Earth
Estella Leopold and Louisa Willcox. This week, I am thrilled to launch the first of a four-part podcast featuring Estella Leopold, daughter of conservationist, writer, and philosopher Aldo Leopold....
View ArticleEveryone Deserves Full Protection Under Law
Our country has made significant strides in advancing LGBTQ+ rights over the last 15 years. The 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling affirming marriage equality offered millions of Americans something to...
View ArticleWhere Do the Democratic Candidates Stand?
Now that Attorney General William Barr has issued his summary report on the Mueller investigation of Trump, the Russians and the 2016 election, the talking heads at “liberal” media might refocus from...
View ArticleMe, Google and that Russian Guy
I was in the moment, right there, right in the moment, when suddenly, shit, something happened and, I don’t know, here I am. WTF? I’m not in the moment any more. I must have fallen through a worm-hole...
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Russiagate and the 1980s Crack Epidemic
White House Photographic Office • Public domain The release of the Mueller report and its conclusion that President Donald J. Trump and his top aides did not collude with Russia has prompted some...
View ArticleRussiagate Reality Check
Donald Trump is bragging that the Mueller report did not prove he colluded with Russia during the 2016 election. For most of us, when we rate how we’re doing in our jobs, we don’t say, “Nobody can...
View ArticleThe Health Care Crisis in Rural America
We’ve got a rural health care emergency on the horizon. Rural hospitals are closing or teetering on the brink of closure at an alarming rate. More than a hundred have closed since 2005 and hundreds...
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Russia Was Never the Real Scandal
Photograph by Joshua Frank Robert Mueller won’t be filing any more indictments related to the “Russiagate” investigation. Though the search unearthed ample evidence that Russia wanted Trump to become...
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Pacific Odyssey: Volcanic Rabaul and Admiral Yamamotto’s Bunker
This article is Part VIII of a series that describes a journey from the Philippines to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. For Part I, please click here. Once at the center of Rabaul, this...
View ArticleA Great Project for South American Sovereignty is Destroyed, But the Fight...
In 2008, Venezuela was one of the main instigators of a new structure, the Union of South American Nations, or UNASUR, aimed at uniting and integrating South America as an independent bloc of truly...
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On My Visit to New Zealand: Can Christchurch Heal Our Collective Wounds?
Government House, New Zealand • CC BY-SA 4.0 I visited the city of Christchurch on May 23, 2018, as part of a larger speaking tour in New Zealand that also took me to Auckland, Wellington, Hamilton and...
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