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Sex, the Culture Wars and a Republican Congress
Netflix is current running the movie, Loving, a dramatization of the true historical drama of the interracial love affair and marriage of Richard and Mildred Loving. The film is set in in mid-1950s thru mid-‘60s Virginia and depicts the couples’ friendship and love. It also shows that their sexual relationship was accepted by their respective families and immediate community. Nevertheless, the… → Read More
The Buffalo Shooting and the Great Replacement
The belief in the Great Replacement has been promoted by conservative media and politicians. Months before the January 6th attack, Fox TV host Tucker Carlson ranted on-air about it. “In political terms,” he said, “this policy is called ‘the great replacement,’ the replacement of legacy Americans with more obedient people from far-away countries.” “They brag about it all the time,” he added, “but… → Read More
COP26: Capitalism = Death
The COPS26 gathering achieved the height of “blah, blah, blah” when India, joined by China, watered down a key commitment to end coal mining by shifting an original commitment for "phasing out" to "phasing down." And the final COP26 document never used the words “fossil fuel.” → Read More
U.S. Wars, Endless Wars: Will They Ever End?
The war in Afghanistan is finally over. After 20 long years of a false war against alleged “terrorism,” the U.S.’s bloated and inept → Read More
Vengeance: Trump’s Republicans and the Deepening Culture Wars
America has long been a nation at war – war against foreigner nations and peoples and war among its own people. While the wars against those foreign may have been bloodier in terms of lives lost, the wars at home have been the most vengeful. Since the nation was first settled, generations of Americas have More → Read More
Why History Matters: the Legacy of Slavery
Many Americans watched as Joe Biden marked his Inauguration Day celebration with a brief presentation before the statue of Abraham Lincoln, invoking the Civil War as an historical moment when the nation triumphed over deep division. When recalling Lincoln, many New Yorkers may remember the famous speech he gave at Cooper Institute (aka Cooper Union) More → Read More
Sex Life in the Time of the 21st Century Plague
“We’re both really embracing this as time together rather than using it to stress out,” report a school teacher from Chattanooga (TN) to NBC News. “There’s fear in general, sure — there are people that I love that are at a higher risk — but sex has definitely been a distraction for us. It’s More → Read More
Koch’s America: the Rule of the New Robber Barons
The U.S. is a capitalist country and capitalist control the country. The recent death of David Koch [pronounced “coke”], principle co-owner with his → Read More
America’s Puppet: Meet Juan Guaidó
Juan Guaidó is a useful pawn for U.S. interests in Venezuela, but is he expendable? On January 15th, the White House reported that VP Mike Pence spoke by phone “today” with Guaidó, the president of Venezuela’s National Assembly. It claimed the call was made “to recognize his courageous leadership followin → Read More
Trump Politics: Power, Powerlessness and the Perfect Target
Now a year-and-a-half into the Trump presidency, it’s become a truism that the president’s support is anchored in a deep sense of social and political powerlessness felt by many Americans, especially older, white men. An early 2016 Rand pollcomparing Donald Trump and Ted Cruz supporters found that those who agreed with the statement “people like me don’t have any say about what the government… → Read More
Century of the National Security State: A New Subversives List?
Who is a subversive and who determines loyalty? The Attorney General’s List of Subversive Organizations claimed the designation was based on “reasonable grounds exist for belief that the person involved is disloyal” or has “membership in, affiliation with or sympathetic association” on its list of “totalitarian, Fascist, Communist or subversive” organizations or groups advocating the overthrow… → Read More
Terrorism & White Men’s Murderous Rage
Five days after the Halloween lone-wolf terrorist, Sayfullo Saipov, attacked pedestrians and bicyclists in New York, killing 8 people and injuring 12 others, another lone-wolf undertook a terrorist attack this time in a small, unincorporated community 30 miles southeast of San Antonio, TX. The terrorist, Devin Kelley, killed 26 people and injured 20 others attending the First Baptist Church in… → Read More
Permanent War, Permanent Failure
The current tiff between two of the world’s most pugnacious petty tyrants, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, could, sadly, end in a military showdown – an → Read More
Inequality: Trump’s Challenge, Trump’s Failure?
In the decades after WW-II, many Americans embraced a shared ideology that hard work, debt and white skin privilege would guarantee them – and, more importantly, their children – a better tomorrow.… → Read More
Popular Insurgencies: Reshaping the Political Landscape
Donald Trump’s presidency is spawning innumerable movements, groups and individual engagements that are beginning to challenge not only the new administr → Read More
ALEC Under Attack: Activism Matters
On July 29th, Mike Pence, the Republican VP candidate and Indiana Governor, delivered a keynote lunchtime address to the American Legislative Exchange Coun → Read More
Birth-Control Wars: Two Centuries of Struggle
The birth-control wars have reached a new level of contestation. On Monday, June 27th, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law — Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt — that sought to … → Read More
The Drone War Comes Home
In August, a 27-year-old female prostitute and her 75-year-old john were charged in Oklahoma City for public lewdness. They were caught engaging in a clandestine tryst in the gentleman’s Ford F-15… → Read More
Trump’s Enemies List: a Trial Balloon for More Repression?
Donald Trump recently proposed the establishment of a database tracking system of Muslims in the U.S. He made his original comment in response to a question about a Muslim tracking system posed du… → Read More