Imagine: we all keep quiet, for one whole day not long ahead. what would happen? Here’s a Daily Poem from the Poetry Chaikhana — Keeping Quiet By Pablo Neruda (1904 – 1973) English version by Alastair Reid Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. For once on the […]
Read MoreFirst, I see where Paul Krugman “jokes” (?) that a fake alien invasion would jumpstart the economy. www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/15/paul-krugman-fake-alien-invasion_n_926995.html Next, I see this video by Michio Kaku. (Geez! Who does he work for? Did he “go to the dark side”? or has he just been an unusually effective apologist all along. Reminds me of Steven Hawking. […]
Read MoreWe have a Raging Grannies group here in Bloomington, Indiana. The last time I saw them sing was at a protest to the widening of a highway that I helped to organize. (Our protest got swallowed by the fed’s DOE engineering juggernaut that continues to massage consumer car culture in an age of peak oil, […]
Read MoreWhile some people’s hearts are still closed, and therefore capable of, and even deliberately seek, rampant destruction, (see last post), others feel the suffering and seek to help. Here are two articles, showing two different approaches to how we help each other in the early 21st century. Both are creative, inspiring, and, you bet, heart […]
Read MoreNaomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine describes how predatory capitalism profits from chaos and destruction, by reaping lots of contracts to “rebuild.” I was among those shocked to realize this. What Klein did not say was that the predators don’t just wait for the forces of chaos and destruction to ignite, but that they actively set the […]
Read MoreYes, let’s launch the question. What if the increasingly corporatized, centralized, and militarized United States of America, like the monolithic Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of yore, broke up into its constituent parts? If so, the question is, what are those parts? The most obvious answer is the states, all 50 of them deciding their […]
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