Exploring the high rates of social violence in the Americas
For decades, the Americas have been the most violent part of the world outside active war zones. Many factors contribute to this, but long-term solutions remain difficult to achieve.
Trump debased his own primary, slurred party foes & stole the election. What! No...
That my thought experiment won’t happen, indeed fail badly, reinforces a party going full speed towards a cliff without looking up from its insular "party favors."
Does not our ongoing, epic failure to obstruct immorality confirm America as an immoral...
What morally deficient country tolerates blatant wickedness without rising up to avert the next outrage? His re-election was bad enough; tolerance of evil is worse.
Fed up with toxic snake pits? Find solace and timeless vistas from geology, cosmology...
It ain’t over ‘til it's over, and the better angels of our nature are most readily accessible through great literature and art, great science, and expert history that dispels truthiness and lies.
Alex Saab and the fragility of the solidarity movement
It’s difficult not to see the renewed imprisonment of Alex Saab as a disappointing capitulation to U.S. coercion after so many of us fought for his freedom, but we cannot forget the task at hand.
Nukes in space: Elon Musk’s push for nuclear propulsion
Today the use of nuclear in space is being pushed harder than ever.
History tells us…there’s hope
The answer to “who can save our country?” is in the mirror.
Breaking things: A proposal of resistance
A proposal of resistance seeking people to think about what can be done, and what is required from local governments to response to the viciousness and brutality of ICE and other federal agents occupying our cities and towns.
How many people have the US and Israel killed in Iran?
Why the real numbers of people killed are almost certainly much higher and why this matters with the conflicting estimates of the death toll in occupied Iraq 20 years ago.
Why poverty reduction under capitalism is a myth
Capitalists and their biggest fans have long argued that the system is an engine of wealth creation.