Persistent willful ignorance of necessary knowledge can be deadly. This is true of denial of climate collapse. It is also true of…
Happy Kellogg-Briand Pact Day! As you all know, but most people do not, the Peace Pact was signed 91 years ago today.…
I, for one, if anything good ever happens, will not be telling people to love it or leave it. I’ll be telling them to love it or improve it.
The fact is that CNN is biased. Aren’t you shocked to hear that? Why do we have to constantly point it out? CNN acts on behalf of its owners, its advertisers, and those it wants access to
Review of “The United States, Southeast Asia, and Historical Memory,” edited by Mark Pavlick and Caroline Luft
This apocalyptic hell is real and now; the soothing tranquility on the TV news is imaginary
We tend to forget that right up through the presidency of George W. Bush wars were thought of as temporary things that had endings
We all need to be part of the urgent all-hands-on-deck-immediately efforts to prevent both worsening of environmental collapse and nuclear and all war.
Life sentences are costly in every sense, and counterproductive. They skew the whole prison system toward inhumane sentences
A look at The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment
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