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Government Debt is Not the Problem
Polarization of the American public reflects the polarization of its political Parties, both of whom strive for ascendancy by demeaning, contradicting, and formulating proposals to wrong the other; each Party wrongs itself and the American public. The recent and periodic arguments concerning the proposed federal budget, an entrance for initiating threats to “close the government,” […]
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The Impact America’s Defeat in Ukraine Will Have on the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
If Joe Biden will become the Democratic Party’s nominee for the Presidency, then almost any Republican nominee would likely beat him because he had committed America’s Government to victory in Ukraine — done it is such a way that there can be no going back on it that won’t strip him of the public’s respect […]
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Why There is No Illegal Immigration in China
What is illegal immigration? Every healthy scientific contradictory debate starts with a clear definition. Illegal immigration is defined as the migration of people across national borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country. The most common but informal term for “foreigner” in China is 老外 (lǎowài) It usually is respectful […]
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The Priesthood of Expertise
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. — Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked, 1935 In The Death of Expertise, national security expert Tom Nichols warns that knowledge is under attack by an ill-informed public determined to replace […]
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We Need Clean Air, Not Another Billionaire
The first time I heard the chant it was while helping to block the street in front of leading fossil fuel financer Black Rock in lower Manhattan last Wednesday the 13th: “We need clean air, not another billionaire!” The dozens of people I was taking action with also liked it, and we kept chanting loud […]
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Melbourne’s 75th Nakba Exhibition in St Paul’s Cathedral
16 September to 27 October 2023: St Paul’s Cathedral in Melbourne holds 75th Nakba Exhibition This year marks the 75th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe) in which about 800,000 Indigenous Palestinians (57% of the Indigenous Palestinian population) were expelled from their homes and villages by Zionist colonizers. From 16 September to 27 October 2023 […]
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It’s Either Cuba or Daniel Blake
The world is in turmoil. As the Western powers and their economic policies continue to tear apart the global whole, the countries of the South have united to demand justice. This is a long story, one that continues and remains on a planet where human beings have gone straight into an invisible plane. Since the […]
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The Angertainer Steps Down: Rupert Murdoch’s Non-Retirement
One particularly bad habit the news is afflicted by is a tendency to fall into discussions about itself. Its members, some of them at least, used to call it the “Fourth Estate,” an unelected chamber of scribblers supposedly meant to keep an eye on the other three, yet finding itself at times distracted, gossip-driven, and […]
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Mr. Mike’s Mondo Imbroglio or How Not to Launch a Global Anti-Censorship Movement
So, I’ve been excommunicated from Michael Shellenberger’s global anti-censorship movement. It’s my own fault. I was sowing dissension. I engaged in harmful speech in the group chat. I was making people feel uncomfortable. I was not playing ball. I was not with the program. The program, as you may recall, was launched in Westminster, London, […]
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Syria and China: a New Pole in the Middle East
Peter Koenig – PressTV Interview – transcript 21 September 2023 Background Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is in China on his first visit since the war and foreign-backed insurgency gripped his country some 12 years ago. President al-Assad arrived in the eastern city of Hangzhou where he will attend the opening ceremony of the Asian Games […]
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