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  • In Chicago the Left Embraces the Democrats and Celebrates Brandon Johnson’s Victory

    Brandon Johnson, a progressive black community activist, union organizer, and former teacher, won the Chicago mayoral election against Paul Vallas, the corporate Democrat opponent. Johnson’s victory expressed popular rejection of neoliberal privatization and respect for progressive unions, in particular the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). Johnson was outspent two to one, but not out-organized, winning 52-48%. […]

  • Lula da Silva in China

    This week’s News on China in 2 minutes. • Lula da Silva in China • ByteDance posts record earnings • New Tesla mega factory in Shanghai • Afrobeat gains popularity in China

  • Changing Society: Nature, Life, and Resistance in Culture Today

    Changing Society: Nature, Life, and Resistance in Culture Today

    None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe,  (Elective Affinities, Die Wahlverwandtschaften, 1809) What kind of culture do we want? What kind of culture do we need? Our culture reflects our fundamental ideologies and these ideologies are rooted in patriarchal religion and neoliberal politics in […]

  • Fantasies

    Fantasies

    “It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.” — Bertrand Russell, “The Pursuit of Truth” in The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell (1993).

  • Jabs Caused 300,000 Excess Deaths and $147 Billion in Damage to Economy in 2022

    In the U.S., COVID-19 vaccines injured 6.6 million people, disabled 1.36 million people, caused more than 300,000 excess deaths, and cost the economy an estimated $147 billion in damage — in 2022 alone — according to a new analysis by Humanity Projects, a wing of Portugal-based research firm Phinance Technologies. Read the full article here. […]

  • Listening to the Chronicle of Higher Ed

    Listening to the Chronicle of Higher Ed

    Note: I am not attacking people personally, or their right to opinions. However, I have been in this rodeo since 1983, academia, with the deans, chairs, provosts, VPs and presidents, and plethora of others, who hands down (not all) got it wrong about the value of and reason for education, K12 and higher ed. This […]

  • The Cobalt Gold Rush and the East Palestine Disaster

    Holidays in my childhood were spent at my grandparents’ farm in Plain Grove, Pennsylvania, 35 miles from East Palestine, Ohio. My grandfather’s grandfather fought at Gettysburg and homesteaded the 160-acre farm after the Civil War. My grandmother sold it in the 1960s for $13,000, lacking a male heir to do the work; but my relatives […]

  • Escalating Save-the-People-and-Planet Tactics

    Escalating Save-the-People-and-Planet Tactics

    Over the last couple of years there have been three books published, or about to be, which have dealt prominently with the question of whether violence against fossil fuel CEO’s and/or sabotage of fossil infrastructure is warranted. The case is made in all three that it might be given the absolute criminality of those CEO’s […]

  • Can You Fight for Climate Justice Without Being Antiwar?

    Can organizations sincerely say they are leading the climate justice fight without also being unapologetically antiwar? Short answer — no. Here’s why. We cannot end climate change without ending war. The United States military is the planet’s largest single emitter of greenhouse gasses and consumer of oil. The US military and its weapons, consistently deployed […]

  • A Changing Society

    A Changing Society
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