Tuesday, July 22, 2025

As giants in my life fall, I toast a best friend & best partner

A tribute to David Fletcher, high end audio wizard...
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How Cuba beat the pandemic: From developing new vaccines to sending doctors overseas to...

For decades, Cuba has heavily invested in its medical and pharmaceutical system, in part because of the six-decade-old U.S. embargo.

Effects of domestic violence during Covid on children mind-set

I hope and wish that all do our very best to protect our kids and children from going through such experiences in the first place.

‘The greatest purveyor of violence in the world’

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
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MLK opposed ‘poverty, racism & militarism’ in speech one year before his assassination 53...

“Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism and militarism.”

Beyond COVID: The essential building blocks of a just world

The qualities inherent in this global cleansing are perennial principles that many hold dear: sharing, cooperation, tolerance, understanding.

Brothers EMpowered is building that village we all need to thrive

Charles Caine founded the community mentorship organization in 2014 to help men of color overcome the barriers in their lives and the lives in their communities.

Support for families needs to be permanent

"The pandemic didn’t create the impossible conditions facing moms—it only exacerbated them."

Gimme Shelter…Land Lords Need not Apply!!

What we need to make a better society for most working stiffs out there is community owned and operated nonprofit rental housing.

Can social movements realign America’s political parties to win big change?

Groups such as Sunrise and Justice Democrats are reviving the old idea of realignment, with hopes of provoking new political transformations.