Wednesday, June 17, 2026

One positive note

“I looked over the 45 people thus far nominated or selected to be in Biden’s administration, and I noted several positive things.”

Mother in “WAR”

It was way back when, right before our nation performed the most horrific act of preemptively attacking and invading Iraq... which was not only illegal,...

The anti-empire report #159: The mind of the mass media

What is it that motivates such people? I think it’s mainly that they realize that blame for much of environmental damage can be traced, directly or indirectly, to corporate profit-seeking behavior, an ideology to which they are firmly committed.

Insulated from the truth

In 1933, soon after Hitler's ascent to power, the British ambassador to Germany made this assertion: "I have the impression that the...

Re-igniting Progressive Politics: A Compact Manifesto

It was such idealistic “striving” by which Hubert Humphrey set the “moral test of government” – how we treat those who “in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life – the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.”

Shameless

Trump rally participants chanted about Ilhan Omar: “Send her back! Send her back!” They are shameless so I feel shame for them.

12/3/18 Interview with David Krieger

John Scales Avery interviews Nuclear Age Peace Foundation founder David Krieger on his dedicated and heroic life-long work for the complete abolition of nuclear weapons.

I’ll cry instead

We have a long lasting parade of fools in my beloved country.

Military Madness

Nearly 50 years and nothing ever changes, does it?

Late summer ’70

It is difficult for folks who live in a country that had never been invaded or occupied before, to suddenly rev up the passion needed for such action.