The brave new world where losers cry foul. Donald Trump tried to break our democracy via the electoral system. With our long history of stuffed ballot boxes, intimidation, private security…
In the muddle of these times, progressives ’embrace’ the democratic party because they have no alternative. We in the US live in a duopoly, where our votes are limited by…
As our human plight continues, the latest outrage has turned the people of Sri Lanka into revolutionaries, storming the capital and forcing their president to flee the country. Sri Lankans…
Well, we don’t have to look very far, indeed, we don’t have to look at all. We feel it in our bones. We sense it on a regular. Our civilization…
Our true destiny…is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places. – David W. Orr Communities are the…
In this crazy year of 2020, we’ve already been forced into some pretty substantial changes. COVID-19 has most of us in masks in public, social distancing and avoiding what used…
There is an implicit notion in our culture that corporations equal capitalism. Nothing is more false. Capitalism is the notion that folks make products or offer services, each with a…
Well, Here we are folks! A pivotal year in so many ways. Climate chaos is upon us. The very fabric of what’s left of our democracy is being hollowed out…
The Woodstock Music Festival was held August 15 -18, 1969 in upstate New York. It was in many ways the capstone of an utterly wild time, when young people revolted…