Climate overheating is a story, and human survival depends on how we tell that story. It is a story about the ruling…
The Permian period ended about 250 million years ago with the largest recorded mass extinction in Earthās history, when a series of…
āThe Second World War is here, and it is only a matter of time before the United States is an open belligerent…
An outreach mental health client of mine, years ago – Iāll call him Gregory – had (as a very young child) been…
Since 9/11/2001 – when a 19 person volunteer unit from the Middle East, armed with a few box-cutters, forced the US public…
I have been a vegan for a number of years, but have kept it low key. I am surrounded by meat eaters…
As Cuba teeters on the brink of an escalating US assault, my thoughts drift back to a trip my wife and I…
As a citizen of the United States – a collection of isolated individuals who have unconditionally surrendered to The Fascist States of…
I wrote over a year ago that ādoomerism,ā or ādoomism,ā if you prefer, ought to be a precondition for activism. If you believe…
David Pakman makes a fairly stunning observation: Trumpās perseverative trope about immigrants coming from āinsane asylumsā likely reflects Trumpās utterly moronic inability…
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