I was driving along on a narrow road at night And this car comes around the bend Shining its damn high beams in my face. I flash him And damned if they don’t come right at me! I veer to the right, barely missing the edge. Could happen to anyone right? But there’s more. There …
Mask up and get shot!
With the Omicron Ba2 Variant We in the US are in for a Bumpy Ride
Get ready for Covid Omicron Variant Bs2, America. Everything is lining up for another wave of infections and deaths. If you want to know what’s coming down the pike, just look at Hong Kong, China and Europe. In China it’s hard to know how many people really have become infected with the new highly …
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The circles of Hell
Dante’s circles of hell, that is to say, all nine or ten Have vanished with the evils of his time. But Hell itself has much enlarged since then To guarantee that eternal punishment fits the crime. In Dante’s Hell, the inner circle was the worst For that was the infernal reward for treachery Where those …
If you’re elderly, angry and an experienced activist, be there!
Radical Elders to Organizational Meeting Next Saturday, March 26!
Are you a veteran activist or a veteran organizer of progressive organizations and are over age 55? If so, here’s some exciting news. We all know America is moving into a dangerous period of reaction, the world climate is careening out of control threatening human and perhaps all life on earth, wars and US military …
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A rant followed by a big dream followed by some thoughts on psychedelics and the microbiome
I need to get something off my chest. This is a rant: It occurs to me, as I contemplate the horrors of Ukraine, that I would not wish our system on the world as alternative because our system is the most violent system in the world. It is insidiously violent when it’s not blatantly violent. …
Important history lesson:
NATO is Not a Defensive International Organization But Was Founded to Threaten the USSR
Reading US reports on the deadly Russian rocket attack on the so-called International Peacekeeping and Security Center in western Ukraine, one could be excused for thinking that the Russians might have been destroying some UN peacekeeping base. In fact, the deceptively named target, as a few US news reports on the attack did note, …
Berlin should step up and end the war in Ukraine:
Germany Deserves a Big Share of the Blame for the Disaster in Ukraine
Nobody is talking about the blame that must be shouldered by the German government for the crisis and humanitarian disaster in Ukraine. Sure Russia is guilty of a huge war crime in invading Ukraine, Surely too, the US must be blamed for creating the situation which led Russia and its autocratic leader Vladimir Putin …
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And if you don’t love me now
I am repurposing these lyrics From Fleetwood Mack’s “The chain”. Imagining that it is Earth talking like a lover: Listen to the wind blow, watch the sun rise Running in the shadows, damn your love, damn your lies And if you don’t love me now You will never love me again I can still hear …
To idiot politicians and pundits calling for a US 'no-fly' zone over Ukraine:
If the US or NATO Put Fighters in the Air over Ukraine We’d Have World War Final
“Clearly, in the absence of a U.N. resolution, which Russia would veto, a strong coalition of like-minded nations should step in and seriously consider a no-fly zone over the Ukraine.” — Sen. Tom Wicker, (R-Miss), Senate Armed Services Committee …
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Rally against the War on Ukraine and and US/NATO threats against Russia:
CODEPINK Says Stop the War in Ukraine. Russian Troops Out. No NATO Expansion
The women’s peace organization Code Pink and other peace groups are calling for a global action demanding an end to the war in Ukraine and to the US/NATO threats against Russia which precipitatedthe crisis. Here is their statement: CODEPINK strongly condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, where over 350,000 civilians have fled the country in fear …
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