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A Memorial Day action to undertake
Originally posted on The Brooklyn Culture Jam:
National security adviser Walt Rostow poring over a map of Vietnam with President Lyndon Johnson. (National Archives Photo) In 1968, Republican operatives working on behalf of Richard Nixon persuaded the South Vietnamese delegation at the Paris Peace Talks to turn their backs on an otherwise acceptable peace offer…
The Red Nose campaign–whitewash for tax cheats?
Originally posted on The Brooklyn Culture Jam:
on a computer or TV screen near you. already. Are any of you seeing lots of these ads? If you spend time online or waiting to buy groceries at Walgreens, or you watch a lot of NBC TV, you’re getting bombarded. Walgreens, NBC and Comic Relief are all onboard…
Wet Bulb Temperature Soon to Become Leading Cause of Death
Originally posted on Kevin Hester:
As our Abrupt Climate Change Catastrophe becomes more extreme the leading cause of death on the planet will be humans hitting their Wet Bulb Temperature. Robertscribbler has written about this phenomenon here: ‘Never-before-seen high temperatures and high humidity are resulting in thousands of heat injuries and hundreds of heat…
The Battle of Fallujah claims another victim
This is the story that flashed across my FB feed a few mornings ago. It had all the tear-jerk potential that you’d want in a story from Fox News 10 (the affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona). To be fair, Fox isn’t the only entity picking this story up and we’ll get to that later. Anyway, to cut to […]
The Pain You Feel Is Capitalism and the Living Planet Dying.
Originally posted on Kevin Hester:
We have exceeded all of our planetary boundaries and we have psychopaths at the helm of our sinking ship, armed to the teeth. They will fight to the bitter end. Nowhere on the planet do I see a political party planning for the collapse of society and our biosphere. We…
Daniel Berrigan, Presente!
Father Daniel Berrigan, the Jesuit priest/activist/poet/playwright/convict, passed away yesterday at age 94. I had met him several times (and had his support of my own projects) over his lifetime. I felt a real loss here, though I haven’t seen him in ages. Thanks to my friend Schuyler Rhodes, I had the pleasure of having dinner […]
Republican Climate Change Denial is Blinding Our Ability to Observe the Arctic
Originally posted on robertscribbler:
Denial. It’s all-too-often what happens to the powerful when they are confronted with the consequences of their own bad actions. It can best be said that denial is blindness — the willful inability to open one’s eyes to the tough reality of the world. In literature, we can see denial in…
Consensus on AGW 99.99%
This is a chart just released by Dr. James Lawrence Powell, a retired professor with the appropriate credentials who (during his long productive career) sat on a number of important government boards on science. I had written about him after he consented to be on my late radio show a couple years ago (full details and […]
Ithaca Fringe Festival takes the stage in third year
A lovely column about the Festival that just happens to include an interview with me. Enjoy.
A Pox on the NY Democratic Party
New York’s Democratic Party (and the New York GOP) are both living in the past. This is NOT sour grapes (okay, it’s slightly overripe grapes). I’m stating this in response to yesterday’s Presidential primary in NY State, which saw Hillary Clinton snag 58% of the vote over Bernie Sanders. But that number, though indicative […]
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