Monday, July 28, 2025

Citadels of paranoia; panoramas of despair: An occupation of phantoms.

Despair seems an apt response to events one cannot reconcile, of circumstances of which one cannot gain perspective nor control.

Juneteenth for white folk

Is Juneteenth the national holiday going to fix the disparate outcomes for black people in education, health, income, wealth, home ownership, death by police, imprisonment, unemployment, and other inequities?

Inequality social dysfunction and misery

Income and wealth inequality is not simply a monetary issue, it is a complex social crisis that supports and strengthens notions of superiority and inferiority, and was described by President Barak Obama in 2013 as “the defining challenge of our time.”

Good Cops/ Bad Cops

“It is time for the myriad of good cops out there to speak up and speak out against their fellows in blue who shoot and kill the innocent and unarmed... Period!”

67 years in the peace movement

I would like to announce the publication of a book which discusses the things that I have experienced during my 67 years of work in the peace movement.

Ballad of a thin nation

So many of my friends, neighbors and coworkers continue to believe in the Big Lie of democracy.

The urgent need for climate action

So let us act with urgency, for the sake of future generations, and for the sake of our beautiful planet.

Book Review: “The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: How the US is Orchestrating a Coup...

In one concise statement, Dan Kovalik sums up the criminal — if self-serving and for now effective — foreign policy of the U.S. across the planet:

Donald Trump’s deepest fraud?

Without a doubt, the aristocracies of the U.S. and of all of its allied countries want this type of world government, even though it would hurt the publics everywhere.

Bloodless Occupation

“It is so sad to see Muslim extremists reverting to 12th-century brutality and American ‘patriots’ regressing to 19th-century behavior.”