Wednesday, October 14, 2026

History must record Trump’s plan for a nationwide ‘Kent State’ massacre

there are two particularly chilling passages in Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump: Both, to my mind, invoke Kent State, but on a much larger scale.

The Better Business Bureau Downgraded Wells Fargo. It’s Not Enough.

Americans won’t be safe until all fraudulently-inclined institutions are discredited and their leaders are replaced.

Big Banks break their climate promises by propping up Big Meat

Massive industrial livestock financing sabotages major U.S. banks’ climate goals.

Imagine you are a poor nation, trapped by debt and strangled by climate change—what...

Climate change, debt, and development have a caustic relationship, hindering economic justice and national advancement, but solutions exist.
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The real deal with Medicare for All

Any Medicare for All is better than our present system.

Prospects for a republic beset with disunity 

A republic needs endless work/ Or insurgent forces go berserk.

Old hack Donald lost the farm – but needs a firmer boot

After all, there's no fool’s paradise,/ Unless enough fools gulp bad advice.

Finland’s NATO move leaves others to carry on the ‘Helsinki spirit’

What are the consequences for Finland and the world, including Finland's historic role as a peacemaker.

Higher Education: Capitalism at Its Most Despicable

Public colleges have long been expected to benefit from academic research. But that all changed in 1980 with the Bayh-Dole Act. Now universities are more deeply entrenched in the capitalist world—a true degradation of higher education.

Making Science History

The Koch brothers are buying up museum boards to influence others of their junk climate theories. Isn’t it odd that infamous science-deniers are directing a science museum?