While democracy sinks, the media wants to assign blame for inflation. It wants to focus on the details of a partisan cat fight rather than discuss its background or cause. It centers discussion on Republican attacks on Big Bird rather than the issues involved. It is combative, not constructive.…
Tucker Carlson said President Joe Biden has aligned himself with sentiments of “The Great Replacement,” which he explained as “the replacement of legacy Americans with more obedient people from far away countries. They brag about it all the time, but if you dare to say it’s happening, they will…
Ruthless, demagogic Republican leaders plot to steal the next election while still propagating a big lie about the last one, this while the pandemic still rages, especially in Republican states, and while severe and unprecedented weather affects our planet. Serious people like the current administration (Build Back Better Act)…
“Let Freedom ring” is a soaring proclamation of our free destiny in our National Anthem. Within the confines of their own personal aspirations, Republicans have given it their own interpretation Their idea of freedom overrides the rights of everyone else: not to wear a mask during a deadly pandemic…
Typically, the US government has shrouded Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) incidents in secrecy or buried them. Investigations tend to come and go, usually the latter, relegated to a thick fog of irrelevancy which smothers any potential embarrassment. If we encounter guided objects in or beyond our atmosphere that are…
Media focus is myopic. Its narrative sees only the visible participants. What is of consequence behind the settings are usually invisible. That prevailing force is corporate. In a democratic capitalist system, we depend on media sources to disperse unvarnished truth, but the ultimate check on the corporate control is…
Do we need a tragic narrative to rouse us from our own stupors of pursued self-satisfaction? How about a story of self-indulged actions that lead to widespread tragedy and death? Perhaps the self-absorbed celebration of Refugio Manuel Jimenez Jr. and Angela Renee Jimenez, the couple who set off a…
Charles Dickens also lived in an era when elite forces ruled, for us the corporate elite. Upheaval in France had brought excesses on both sides. First “Let them eat cake” is a familiar sentiment of the exploitive rich in late 1700 France, a quote usually attributed to an arrogant…
America’s history of defending democratic principles leaves a lot to be desired. Actions of presidents in the past bordered on questionable, many times marked by expedience and partisanship. Deadly actions were often taken with little transparency and no real urgency. A grossly unpopular war was authorized by the Congress’s…
While a rising rival, China, assembles a space station, deploys a rover after an impressive landing on Mars, elbows back 5G efforts by pampered, burgeoning, monopolistic, gorge-crazy US communications companies, builds colossal domestic infrastructure projects, launches Asian and African economic efforts affecting three-quarters of known energy reserves, introduces a…