Friday, March 24, 2023

Why the US manufacturing renaissance is essential for its survival

After decades of decline, the nation now seems “on the brink” of understanding that it’s let far too much manufacturing capacity slip away.

The not-so-winding road from Iraq to Ukraine

The continuing influence of the neocons, who were the architects of U.S. aggression against Iraq, in the ever-escalating Western military response to Russian aggression against Ukraine.

Global problems are far-reaching, permanent & inter-connected. Nationalistic responses are political, tribal,...

The Age of Nationalism (the last few centuries) must now for the health of all shift to the Age of One World.

Marjorie Taylor Greene advocates for secession—again, so—Speaker McCarthy makes her Speaker pro tempore

Marjorie Taylor Greene and her calls for a "national divorce" is a call for illegal secession.

January 6 gave revolution a bad name

Even John F. Kennedy recognized that when confronted with extreme abuse of power, we are left with no alternative. 

Writing as Resistance

Doomed writers buried their accounts of the Warsaw ghetto in the hope that they could teach whoever unearthed the documents about good, evil, indifference and the importance of the truth as an act of resistance. They have left us a trove of papers on how to construct a life of meaning.

Michigan opens the door to restoring union power

For the first time in nearly 60 years, a state is poised to reverse its “right to work” law and begin to undo the damage of a corporate-driven anti-union trend.

On MAGA’s deceptive fixation: founders ‘ordained this Christian nation’

But when did factual truth matter/ To yahoos seizing forms to shatter?

Think grocery prices are high now? Just wait.

We can’t afford to let another supermarket giant gobble up an even bigger piece of the American pie.

Frederick Douglass: Power concedes nothing without a demand

Despite presidential misconceptions, Frederick Douglass is dead. But he continues to inspire people around the world.