American greed is evidenced even at the supermarket. If you go to the supermarket and you buy a bag of cookies or crackers, the bag will literally be only half full. This is somehow very deceptive because you are not getting what you think you are, nor what you need. What is wrong with just …
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The Redistricting Race To The Bottom from Joyce Vance
Words from Joyce Vance on the recent Louisiana v Callais Case “Here’s the perspective part: Sometimes you need to step back, because when you focus only on the trees, you miss the forest. We are seeing a radical, racist transformation of voting maps in many Republican-led states. The larger question we should be asking is: …
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The Common Weal
It is very evident that America and the world are on the brink of disaster. It’s hard to know exactly what form this will take. Probably a third World War, but certainly the breakdown of society as we have known it through the 21st century. It’s hard to imagine how it would be possible to …
Trump Toots his Tooter
Three attempts on Trump’s life have failed. What a pity. He can’t even hire a good assassin. After all, John F. Kennedy was cleanly assassinated sitting in a car with a number of other people and he was picked out of the crowd and assassinated. Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. An attempt was made on Reagan’s …
Screeching to a Halt
This is a repost, because nothing has changed on the New York streets: The noise in New York City has become deafening. There is no reason in this world for people to be allowed to put their hand on the horn of their car and keep it there – beeping away at immovable traffic. There …
The Time Has Come
It seems as though A.I. could take over the job market creating huge numbers of unemployed men and women in the US, possibly in the rest of the world as well. This means that vast numbers of human beings will be unemployed. Maybe this is saying that we need fewer people in the world; starting …
Portable Parks
The once iconic street of Manhattan has become the victim of locked wooden fencing masking huge empty spaces. Some of these spaces were beautiful apartment buildings. It may have been 217 Park Avenue where many theater people lived. It was a beautiful building that is now torn down and empty. However, why not turn the …
Trump threatens a “whole civilization will die tonight.”
This letter from Robert Reich says it all. No one could say it better. “Friends. I don’t know how better to put this than to say Trump’s threat this morning to “wipe out a whole civilization” of Iran puts America into a new immoral universe. He is directly threatening a war crime. And every one …
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Thrive and Survive
A city of empty stores looks isolated. Our New York City is filled with empty storefronts. Part of the problem is that unless they are specialty stores, they are not particularly viable in this day and age of online shopping. The other problem is the structure of commercial real estate laws and regulations. We need …
War By Any Other Name
Recently, Trump reported that “ending”wrapping” the war was all in his mind. Well, he better start wrapping. His war has cost Americans billions – add it to the cost of groceries. American children will soon go hungry because of Trump’s failure to end his own pointless war. Isn’t there some way a president can be …