Compassion, Empathy, and Charity in the Time of COVID-19
My Ph.D. dissertation was on attitudes and perceptions towards forgiveness. I was motivated by a desire to increase the peace in the world in light of every human’s inevitable mistakes. Those mistakes...
View ArticleTrumpism Is the Real Virus
It’s painfully obvious that even before the outbreak of COVID-19 this country was suffering from a deadly plague—the plague of ignorance and incompetence spreading from the White House, its allied...
View ArticleCurrent Economic Policies Have Capitalism on Life Support: Effective Actions...
I. Evolution of Current Economic Depression and Ineffective Policy Responses The current economic depression was predicted by many economists 1 2 (YouTube), before it was triggered by the Covid-19...
View ArticleBaby Boomers for Biden Recant Left Legacy
Former members of the leading Vietnam War-era peace organization in the US, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), recently circulated an open letter warning today’s young activists to – as the adage...
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The Warped Ethics of Voting for the Lesser Evil
Centrist Democrats and even some prominent, erstwhile, progressives are using the infamous “lesser evil” argument against the “Never Biden” advocates on the left. Essentially the argument runs...
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Should South Africa Follow the Law of the Jungle … or the Doctrine of Odious...
South Africa’s fierce debates over the costs and benefits of a proposed International Monetary Fund (IMF) bail out of $4.2 billion unveil the country’s massive weaknesses and potential strengths, at a...
View ArticleThe Myth of the V-Shaped US Economic Recovery
The spin is in! Trump administration economic ‘message bearers’, Steve Mnuchin, US Treasury Secretary, and Kevin Hasset, senior economic adviser to Trump, this past Sunday on the Washington TV talking...
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The Recent History of GDP Growth, CO2 Emissions, and Climate Policy...
Note: I began designing this table-runner just before the COVID-19 pandemic blew up in the United States. In the time I have been embroidering it, rates of death and misery have soared while wealth...
View ArticleThe Youth and the Looming Economic Crisis: Prospects for Radical Change
History shows us that economic crises do not become political crises that severely threaten the ruling order until a critical mass of people come to the realization that the system itself is rotten,...
View ArticleThe Working Life of the Meat Packer in the Time of the Plague
End of the day, factory whistle cries, Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes. And you just better believe, boy, somebody’s gonna get hurt tonight, It’s the working, the working, just...
View ArticleWhy the Oil and Gas Industry Will Never be the Same
When a staple commodity collapses to negative value it signals that something is clearly amiss in the global economy. When it is a global energy source like crude oil, it does not just signal pain in...
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The Tenderloin Containment Zone: A Photo Essay
San Francisco – Sunday morning, April 26, 2020. San Francisco is openly violating its own Department of Public Health guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic, turning the sidewalks of the Tenderloin...
View ArticleAncestor Dreams
Even though the nights have been quieter, I have been dreaming more vividly. Across the self-isolated populace there are reports of widespread nightmares—stress, fear, change of routine cited as likely...
View ArticleVirtual Liberation in Italy
For most years in Italy, April 25th would be a day of commemoration and sociability. It marks the 1945 call from the anti-Nazi Committee of National Liberation (CLN) for the final uprising against the...
View ArticleWhat Cuba Has to Teach, in Pandemic Times and Beyond
In July 2019, I visited the Cuban Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) as part of the 50th Anniversary Venceremos Brigade. We were impressed by the many scientific advances that...
View ArticleGoing Viral
Does anyone else feel like we have slipped into a parallel universe? While life goes on here in my little home and my wife and I feel well enough, outside the world is melting down. I keep trying to...
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Coronavirus and the Increase in Domestic Violence
Americans are paying dearly as they suffer through the coronavirus epidemic. The costs of inadequate testing, poor medical care and even death in isolation are only compounded by the nation’s...
View ArticleHating Arabs as a Common Ground: Why Israel’s Coalition Government is Likely...
Shortly after an agreement to form a “national emergency government” in Israel, leader of the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) party, Benny Gantz, tweeted triumphantly that ‘democracy’ in Israel has been...
View ArticleMeat/Mental Health Story Latest in Fake Nutritional Science
“Meat Improves Mental Health” mainstream media blasted out this week, without mentioning the “study,” published in Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, was funded by an “unrestricted...
View ArticleSanitizing the Kent State Massacre
May 4, 2020 will mark the 50th anniversary of the massacre at Kent State University (KSU). We were peacefully protesting the US invasion of Cambodia when the Ohio National Guard launched a teargas...
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