Wednesday, July 9, 2025

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...

Economics 101 and robotics

Regardless of how our society develops, the important thing is for all of us to care for those who are living.

Human beings are destroying life on Earth but deluding ourselves that we are not

If you are powerful enough to campaign for change against one or more of the ongoing manifestations of violence in the world, consider doing so strategically so that you have maximum impact.

Fake news about energy, clean and dirty

I used to listen to Freakonomics, an interesting podcast, until it called nuclear energy clean and nonpolluting. I haven’t listened to any...

No more land lords!!!

Let's have Uncle Sam begin buying up privately owned rental property (residential AND commercial) and give the public a fair break.

Ending Human Violence is a Task for Each of Us

The simple reality is that violence will only end when each one of us is committed to ending it. Are you?

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”.

Our surreal world

Our world, I am thinking, is no longer a real one. It has become a surreal world, a world of irreality, ever since Donald Trump was elected President.

“The same hypocrisy”

If we are fortunate, and enough citizens out there vote this terrible and criminal administration out of office, then we on the ‘Real Left’ have our work cut out for us.

Veterans and former industrial workers need to be a priority during the Covid-19 pandemic

The people who are in the high-risk groups must protect themselves from getting infected with the new coronavirus as it can be quite dangerous.