The Art of the Phony Peace Deal
Well, it only took a million years but peace has finally come to Afghanistan, sort of. Or at least so it appears. I’m not one of those hyperventilating liberal opportunists, bursting at the seems to...
View ArticleThe Smugness of Celebrity Self-Isolation
The rush to elevate self-isolation to Olympian heights as a way to combat the spread of COVID-19 has gotten to the celebrities. Sports figures are proudly tweeting and taking pictures from hotel rooms...
View ArticleTake Heart! Humans are Amazing
There are some things you’d can’t fight with the barrel of a gun. Pandemics are one of them. In times like this, nonviolent responses are our best rescue remedies. They boost our morale, help us take...
View ArticleUS National Security Strategy is Meant to Protect Wall Street, Congress, the...
“Our fundamental responsibility is to protect the American people, the homeland, and the American way of life.” – National Security Strategy of the United States, 2017 (President Donald Trump) “The...
View ArticleDeath of the ‘Usual’
Humanity is faced with a series of self-made, interrelated crises, from the environmental catastrophe to poverty, inequality, the absence of peace and an unprecedented level of displaced persons, among...
View ArticleThe Very Good Countering the Very Bad
There’s been this eerie feeling hanging in the air, a never-before felt-feeling that something ominous is on the horizon. The feeling that, sooner or later, IT is going to hit not only far, but near –...
View ArticleMeet the New FDR – Franklin DONALD Roosevelt?
Facing a global pandemic, America’s very existence hasn’t been this threatened since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration confronted the Great Depression and World War II. The...
View ArticleHow to Make COVID-19 Prevention Work for Working People
America isn’t ready for coronavirus. In the last 24 hours, millions of school children across the country have been told to stay home for two weeks, or even longer. This is an important public health...
View ArticleNukes: The unmentionable Election Issue: Getting to Zero
Where are the Democrats? Why isn’t the present nuclear danger front and center in the Democrats’ presidential debates? I can think of a few reasons. First, Democrats always fear looking weak if they...
View ArticleWhy the Developing World Cannot Flatten the Curve with Coronavirus (COVID-19)...
The “developing world” is often left behind in the medical treatment of epidemics and other diseases, whether these are HIV-AIDS, Cholera, Black Fever, or Tuberculosis, and so on. These are the...
View ArticleCovid-19: How Much of a Breaking Point is This?
Like seemingly everyone else, I’ve been thinking a lot about the Corona Virus. Besides making decisions about my own personal choices, I’ve also been wondering what the ramifications of this outbreak...
View ArticleFour! More!! Years!!!
Nothing is certain but death. Taxes used to be, too, but recent legislation proved they’re not, if you have enough money. So, it can’t be said with total confidence that Joe Biden will be the...
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Capitalism is an Incubator for Pandemics. Socialism is the Solution.
The spread of the coronavirus is exposing all of the contradictions of capitalism. It shows why socialism is urgent. It is only going to get worse. The spread of the virus is impossible to stop — and...
View ArticleTrump Holds White House Presser to Announce Much Stricter Separation Guidance...
It’s hard to take President Trump seriously. Not too long ago he was calling the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic a “democratic hoax” or a “Chinese hoax.” Last week he foolishly hosted a party at...
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How to Make the Airline Bailout Work for Workers, Not Just CEOs
The U.S. airline industry is asking for nearly $60 billion in taxpayer-funded direct assistance and loan guarantees. The industry clearly needs extraordinary help. The pandemic is grounding flights...
View ArticleCOVID-19 vs. Panic-2020
Worldwide stock markets are crashing. Arbitrary travel bans are being imposed. Huge queues before supermarkets are a daily experience. Most of the airports are empty. The future of airlines is in a...
View ArticleHow to Survive End Times
It feels like the end times. A mysterious invisible killer stocks the land. Wild rumors abound. The government is useless. There’s no sense that anyone knows anything, much less is in charge. Could...
View ArticleQuestioning The Qualified Quarantine
We have reached a point of contradiction in the coronavirus panicdemic. On the one hand, we must imprison ourselves in order to stop the virus, on the other hand, the virus is inevitably going to...
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You Have Heard That It Was Said, But I Tweet to You . . .
Donald Trump began his presidential campaign by declaring, “I know more than the generals.” That has been his mantra: claiming that he knows more than anyone else about war, law and order, healthcare...
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A Women’s Police Town
Men have always fought their wars in the name of women’s liberation. The Trojan War was ostensibly fought to free Helen, “the face that launched a thousand ships.” But we all know that the real reason...
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