Sunday, November 1, 2026

Calibrating for fake v real news

Welcome to the era of mass gaslighting. Infowars. Trump. Putin. Bin Salman. Fox News.

Banana Amerika: The Fix Is In!!!

Here is my conspiracy theory: The empire that controls both political parties did not want Sanders to be the nominee.

The Struggle for Merdeka in West Papua

“The Indonesian elite ensures that West Papua is relatively isolated from media scrutiny, access to international agencies and diplomats (even though many western states are well known to oppose any indigenous struggle for self-determination, given it would only raise questions about their own subjugated indigenous populations).”

Tackling the ‘Impossible’: Ending Violence

Whenever, in ordinary circumstances, the subject of violence comes up, most people throw up their hands in horror and comment along the...

A pandemic of fallacious thinking and civic irresponsibility: The precarious state of reason

Who anticipated the awful arguments/claims that would result in response to the Pandemic?

Stop Trump movement

Time to reach out to each other. Hello?

WW2: The infamous Herman Goering had this quote from the Nuremberg Trials after

"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood....

Together or separate

We need to put up with each other for a few months while we preserve the basics of our 244-year experiment in People Power.

Profiles in pusillanimity

Getting honest uncorrupted replacements is a two-year priority if we hope to get some of the moral compass corrected in our national politics.

How to avoid consumer confusion about sustainable seafood

Use these tips to avoid consumer confusion about sustainable seafood and trust that every purchase is as great for the planet as it is for your diet.