Friday, June 19, 2026

Crisis management: Critical lessons from Covid 19

Crisis Management is truly the difficult art and practice of Thinking the Unthinkable and then doing everything in our power to thwart it.

The Anti-Empire Report #143

“The question thus facing “socialists” like Sanders is this: When all your idealistic visions for a more humane, more just, more equitable, and more rational society run head-first into the stone wall of the profit motive … which of the two gives way?”

Cross-generational power to change

What can what little girl do? She can lead the rest of us to victory.

If at first you don’t secede

We can negotiate our way to a far more satisfying set of sovereign nation-states. We can do it without bloodshed.

Coping with a complex messy world: Education for the 21st century and beyond

Critical Thinking—surfacing and rebutting fallacious arguments/claims--is one of the most important skills in dealing with Wicked Messes.

NO MORE Sympathy for the Devil(s)

“The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.”

The carbon capture plants that COP26 didn’t discuss

The time has come to stop viewing these plants with a blind eye and start to use them in an effective way.

Election 2016: Amerika Wins, Americans Lose!

Regardless of who won last night, the empire of Amerika keeps on rolling... but not for long.

Stopping crime by removing incentives

We can eliminate the need to use crime for economic support by providing economic support.

Lord Trumpismo, Pace ‘Ozymandias’

How the mighty do fall, and how the fake mighty fall, often amidst high comedy -- with a whimper, not a bang. A little fun skewering the Donald. The good news is he won't appreciate the joke.