Any query you make on the internet regarding US elections will render little information on voting consequences for citizens, but a wealth of information on who or what party is leading in current polls. Almost all national media sources focus on the rancor of the race. It is like…
As most of us know, we have a deceitful, dangerous man in the White House. Again, and again, he has proven he will do anything for his re-election. Prior to his impeachment, his lawlessness and impeachable offenses mounted. Finally, his extortion of help from the Ukraine government in smearing…
The two current attacks on humankind have similar causes: greed and stupidity. Though one is a force of nature, it was a result of the human pillaging of our planet, the ravaging of a natural habitat for personal profit, reserving paltry resources to study the consequences of disturbing creatures…
Mohammad Ali’s Report, “The Influencer,” in Wired Magazine is a gripping narrative about India’s headlong descent into a right-wing, racist and lawless government that would make Mahätmä Gandhi, a strong advocate of religious pluralism, turn over in his grave. Some of the elements of this descent, past and present,…
In this day of coronavirus, beware of Republican deceit and duality. Republican leaders never operate in pursuit of nurture for all, even in crisis. All recent evidence points to this fact. Only a few examples need suffice. When Barack Obama was inaugurated in 2009, it became immediately clear that…
Beware, moderate and progressive voters, of the crony-capitalist juggernaut that has been and will be launched to defeat the Democratic candidate, and especially Bernie Sanders. They have a lot at stake: billions in profits off the backs of average Americans -- extended to other countries where their sway is…
Is it only irony that a global parasite, Donald Trump, scorned the best picture Oscar for the South Korean film “Parasite,” asking how a foreign movie could get the honor? It is ironic in the fact that he, himself, displays all the characteristics of a parasite (Chinese liver flukes…
In the Name of God
We think of monogamy as natural, but it’s actually quite advanced—the trouble is we default to it out of fear instead of choosing it consciously.
Darkness is good for us; it is an ally that heals us. It is something to be embraced, not feared. From Palaeolithic times, up until very recently, the only major sources of light we would have experienced once the sun went down would have been starlight, moonlight and firelight.…
