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…
Maureen Dowd, having none of Liz Cheney being the pure-hearted defender of democracy, ended her NYT oped of 5/9/2021, regarding the Cheneys, “Trump built a movement based on lies. The Cheneys showed him how it’s done.” As we know, Liz Cheney is one of only a few Republicans to…
Since 1916 we – American taxpayers -- have given $470 billion to “Big Oil” for the oil depletion allowance which, in effect, has paid oil companies more than the capital cost of the asset, in this case, oil. The oil depletion allowance in American tax law is an allowance…
Required to realistically Renew Democracy in the USA with Republican-controlled states trying to disenfranchise non-white voters: A. For the People Act, HR1 2021 1. Uniform Voting Rights for all states – Republican or Democratically Controlled. a) Automatic voter registration. b) Election day a federal holiday. c) Voting rights for felons…
“Follow the money,” we often hear investigators say in finding culprits behind crime and corruption. One most willing receiver of such shady money, Donald J. Trump, sought to retain unaccountability for his crimes as well as dominion over an almost limitless supply of booty tied to his presidency by…
The anti-intellectual, anti-science sentiment of Republican thinking is not just a characteristic of far-right Republican leaders, it has filtered into the whole American culture. It is a growing norm that feeds the populist movement that many politicians run on in campaigns. It inhabits social media forums. It inspires podcasts…
The real perpetrators of the world’s critical problems are in the shadows, actually hiding behind the actors daily portrayed in all the media forums: newsprint, magazines, television, social media, billboards, and books, even the pretend media of fiction, whether movies, novels or plays. The problems are encapsulated in at…
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,…
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…
