The Unfinished Business of 1989
There is something that the western media hasn’t touched on that much about the world reaction to the horrific attack on Ukraine this month by Russia. What has become crystal … Continue reading
Autocracy as Democracy: What Republicans Mean By “Unity”
After the events of last Wednesday, January 6, 2021, it should be a lot clearer to most of us who hadn’t quite understood it before, just how the U.S. Republican … Continue reading
The Revolution IS Being Televised
(With respect to the great Gil Scott-Heron) June, 2020, USA:
No PPE Shortage Here
As America continues to convulse under the brutality of the Trump administration in all of its forms, now most recently as the result of the murder of George Floyd by … Continue reading
“While you bleed to death.”
One of my readers has taken exception to the impeachment rhetoric overflowing since Wednesday’s announcement by Nancy Pelosi that the current president of the United States will be undergoing an … Continue reading
Telling the truth? Not to the best of his recollection
If anyone needed evidence for why America has a system of laws intended to hold the powers of State accountable for the job they are entrusted with performing for our … Continue reading
Not Even A Cold War
Ironies engulf me in this month of November, 100 years after the end of the War To End All Wars, which it didn’t, of course. Instead, that war set the standard to … Continue reading
“We find ourselves in a moment where we recognize the arrogance of power”
English translation from the Slovak of a speech by Andrej Kiska, President of Slovakia, regarding the murders of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancé, Martina Kušnírová (BACKGROUND NOTE: This fellow, as … Continue reading
Twitter Needs To End
Yikes, a reader writes: I have never warmed to Twitter. The premise of an artificially restrictive “platform” for communicating that allows you only a few dozen letters to complete … Continue reading
Fears of freedom in the Great Again
My uncle read this recently, and sent me a note: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/opinion/sunday/millennials-freedom-fear.htmlet “Let me tell you about freedom. It is not a ‘thing’, like Uggs or a new laptop. Freedom … Continue reading
Goodbye, Walter
Walter Becker died today. He was 1/2 of Steely Dan, the other half being Donald Fagan, whom I have tickets to see, coincidentally, on the 16th of September, 2017. I … Continue reading
Debate #1: Winning On Points was Not Enough
What is disturbing about the current presidential campaign season is not that Donald Trump has succeeded with his asinine incompetence and little conception of his utter unsuitability for being president … Continue reading
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