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Category Archives: current world history
The Coup Against American Normalcy and Competence is Well Under Way
We have all been watching Trump’s disruptive political urges and his crazed socio-cultural ideas for over a decade now (starting with his campaign of denying President Obama’s birthright citizenship). It should be very clear that while Trump sells a false … Continue reading
The Universalization of Uncertainty
This post probably won’t make a lot of people happy. The news from our world, and from its human populations, seems to be generally bad, and seems likely to be worse in the future. I am hoping, however, by helping … Continue reading
To Help Your Climate Anxiety, Just Follow Paul
The Climate Emergency is here. Our wonderful capitalist civilization of convenient consumption has pushed too much pollution into our common atmosphere, and our earthly and watery environments are suffering as well. All around the world, smart and well-informed people are … Continue reading
To Build A Green Future: Implementing the Manifesto
Readers in America are unlikely to have heard about it, a very broad coalition calling itself the “Peoples of the Global South” has recently published a “Manifesto for an Ecosocial Energy Transiton from the Peoples of the South” that does … Continue reading
We Weren’t Dealing Well with Climate Emergency, Now Ukraine Emergency Makes It Worse
(Original post, dealing with climate emergency, was greatly revised to cover Ukraine invasion and re-published Feb. 28, 2022.) The climate emergency has the potential to destroy all our comforts and conveniences, and possibly our lives – and we aren’t dealing … Continue reading
Any Bravery Left, in our Sick New World? Updated June 2021
Let’s start with some context. The Great Depression of the 1930’s was a worldwide event, the economic effects reached at least 90% of the world’s population in significant ways. World War II, that followed (with the two events developing over … Continue reading
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Trump: The Suicide of Civilization?
The election of Donald J. Trump to the American Presidency in 2016 represents a stunning victory of ignorance over intelligence, a triumph of fraudulent salesmanship over honest customer service. To the extent that Trump succeeds in boosting irreversible climate change … Continue reading
The Party of Selfishness and Destruction
The Party of Selfishness and Destruction This time, February of the 2015 Christian calendar, is a very, very dangerous time in the long, on-going story of human beings on earth. A political party which is devoted to the promotion and … Continue reading