Yearly Archives: 2017
Drawing equivalencies between fascists and anti-fascists is not just wrong – it’s dangerous
We must be very wary of any attempts to excuse or normalize white supremacy.
Vaccine experts react to European court’s controversial decision
A changing attitude toward vaccinations, and increased dangers of litigation toward vaccination production and research companies, is likely to inflate the prices of vital medication that has proven to eradicate lethal diseases like polio.
Nice people make the best Nazis: The moral bankruptcy of silent Trump voters
Trump’s many spoken bigotries were not a deal-breaker for the silent majority of ‘nice’ supporters. That is the true disgrace.
Former mayor sentenced to prison for stealing from food bank
“He took food out of people’s mouths. People who need it. People who would starve without it.”
Only renewables can provide the jobs and revenue Trump promised from oil
The president promised a surge of jobs and tax revenue from oil. His policies won’t deliver either one.
When all the world’s a war…
And all the men and women merely soldiers.
One rural county’s battle to stop a pipeline from slicing through Pennsylvania
Lancaster County, Penn. is rising up against the $3 billion Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline.
Trump’s new FERC commissioner Rob Powelson accepted gifts from energy industry as state regulator
Opponents of fossil fuel infrastructure are protesting Powelson and Chatterjee’s nominations.
Shifting US-Japan geo-politics, banking landscape and financial regulations in the Trump era
The dichotomy fueled by ongoing money conjuring policies can’t end well; it can only result in another crisis.
Winning and lying
Winning in this society has become a meta-political illusion, a dream world, that rationalizes political and lawyerly anti-social behavior as “greatness”.