As a message on Veterans’ Day, Yusuf / Cat Stevens, apparently standing by his Peace Train, writes: I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them. This is perhaps the most …
Author: craigshields
Some Things Are Looking Up
Jair Bolsonaro’s loss in Brazil and various aspects of the 2022 midterms here in the U.S. stand out as bright spots in terms of dealing with the trend to fascism/nationalism around the world. On a related matter, it’s gratifying that …
Tagged with: Citizens United
American/Chinese Cooperation on Climate Change Mitigation
It’s no secret that the American business community and the government entities that support it distrusts the Chinese when it comes to things like IP theft. I’m not saying that this is unwarranted, but it’s certainly regrettable. That’s because it …
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Tagged with: climate change mitigation
Bertrand Russell on Tolerance
“Love is wise – Hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other. We have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say …
Tagged with: Trumpism
End of the World
The cartoon here would be a lot funnier if it didn’t so accurately depict the behavior of our global corporations. Whether it’s plastics, fossil fuels, fast food nearly devoid of nutrition, exorbitantly expensive drugs, products with planned obsolescence, weapons of …
We’re Not a Very Refined People
I’m still struggling to understand how half the nation voted for terrorism, gutting Social Security and Medicare, and banning abortion. We’re a very coarse bunch of people at this point. We’re closer to Iran or Syria than we are to …
Tagged with: gutting Social Security and Medicare
Meat’s Impact on Planet Earth
A reader notes: This is how the global appetite for ‘cheap meat’ is affecting the earth. So true. Fortunately for us, the Asian countries use meat more as a decoration that a meal in and of itself. Also on our …
Tagged with: Meat's Impact on Planet Earth
Trumpism and the Republican Party
Sure would be good to see this in action. The sketchy performance of Trump’s endorsements in the midterms combined with his legal woes seem to indicate that he’s going down hard. But is he taking the whole GOP with him? …
Tagged with: Big Lie
Herschel Walker in a Run-Off
This from a reader. I don’t think anyone is kidding himself about the candidate’s astonishing lack of intelligence, or his capacity to do anything for the people of Georgia. If he’s elected, God help us, he’s there to do what …
Tagged with: Herschel Walker
Honesty in U.S. Politics
At a certain level, the 2022 midterms were a referendum on honesty, at least as far as the voter fraud myth was concerned; most of the purveyors of the Big Lie got clobbered. Yet that doesn’t mean we’ve moved into …
Tagged with: 2022 midterms
