Thursday, October 31, 2024

Improve democracy: Close the college

Attempts to fix this have been made from time to time, but never garnered enough votes to mount a successful fix to this fundamental flaw.

Suckers for fat cat sports!!

Do you think these sports divas (owners, players and media) have a great deal?

Hearts and minds

As with the needless sacrifice of our young Amerikans during Vietnam, ditto for the use of them again in these Middle Eastern 'phony wars'. 

Starving and bombed children of Yemen seek entrapment in flooded Thai cave

“Am I pleased that the 12 children and their coach in Thailand were rescued? Of course I am. I just wish that an equivalent effort was being made to rescue each of the 50,000 children we will kill today, tomorrow, the next day and the day after that….”

About Justice

“For a word that has been chiseled into stone monuments for centuries, we could reasonably hope society would by now have the practice and understanding of Justice down cold.”

Climate and the U.S. election

The U.S. election in November is critical, not just because of Donald Trump’s neo-fascisinm, but primarily because if the climate-change-denying and fossil-fuel supporting Republican Party retains power.

The safe and secure war lords

With Memorial Day around the corner, once again the War Lords who run our empire will propagandize to their hearts content.

The psychology of mass killers: What causes it? How can you prevent it?

But what is this ‘invisible’ and ‘utterly invisible’ violence that is inflicted on us mercilessly, and has a profoundly damaging impact, from the day we are born?

Critical race—to the bottom

Let teaching our children be based on our efforts to help educate future leaders who are both sensitive and pragmatic.

Cassius was correct

How many Amerikans, like the good Germans in 1940, cheered the carpet bombing of Iraq, and the subsequent invasion?