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Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Still Don’t Have a Clue About the Financial Crisis
Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Still Don’t Have a Clue About the Financial Crisis NYT readers were no doubt disturbed to see a column in which former Fed Reserve Board chair Ben Bernanke, Obama Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and Bush Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson patted themselves on the back for their performance in the financial crisis. […]
Elections and the Illusion of Political Control
Elections and the Illusion of Political Control Photo Source Paul Sableman | CC BY 2.0 As if on special at Metaphors-R-Us, and just in time for the primary elections, CNN published an article on fake buttons that are provided to give people the illusion of control. It seems psychologists determined that fake buttons at crosswalks, […]
Sustainable Development Goals: No More Complacency, Urgency Needed!
Sustainable Development Goals: No More Complacency, Urgency Needed! “We face mounting challenges in the form of growing numbers of conflicts, rising inequality, erosion of human rights, unprecedented global humanitarian crisis….climatechange is moving faster than we are; yet we see insufficient political will to meet commitments.” Remarked UN Secretary General António Guterresin the closing of the […]
Will World Trade Collapse After America Withdraws From WTO? Don’t Bet on It!
Will World Trade Collapse After America Withdraws From WTO? Don’t Bet on It! With Trump slapping tariffs right, left and center on friends and foes alike, and threatening to withdraw America from WTO, concerns about declining global trade have heightened. Trading nations like China and Japan are wary and worried about the prospects for world […]
Western Civilization 101
Western Civilization 101 Notwithstanding the fears of Samuel Huntington and the more overtly violent demonstrations of self-described Western chauvinists such as the Proud Boys, the term “Western Civilization” is of only relatively recent creation. Advanced following the First World War, the concept, along with other inventions such as “Great Books” series, was designed to uphold […]
The Fires This Time
The Fires This Time Photo Source Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington | CC BY 2.0 This is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives […]
Petroleum Junkies of the World, Unite!
Petroleum Junkies of the World, Unite! Photo Source Fibonacci Blue | CC BY 2.0 I’m a fossil fuel junkie. I drive a car and use electricity. My computer, TV, telephone, refrigerator, stove, lights, water, and sewage all run on carbon-based energy.[1] All of the materials used to build my house and furniture were made with […]
Climate of Class Rule: Common(s)er Revolt or Common Ruin
Climate of Class Rule: Common(s)er Revolt or Common Ruin Photo Source r. nial bradshaw | CC BY 2.0 Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that […]
Climate Change: What About the Marxists?
Climate Change: What About the Marxists? Photo Source Akuppa John Wigham | CC BY 2.0 Author John Steinbeck in 1962 asked, “Why must progress look so much like destruction?” (1) In fact, ever-expanding production of things – progress, in other words – promotes destruction in the form of climate change. Perpetrators of boundless production dominate […]
Culture and Behavior May Clue Climate Change Response
Culture and Behavior May Clue Climate Change Response Photo Source Dan Costin | CC BY 2.0 Behavior acculturated to ancestral norms, originally necessitated by occupation, is the focus of a new study in China with interesting ramifications for climate change. In general, farming requires more stable relationships than, say, herding with the constant movement of animals. Now the […]
Chemically Induced Frankenstein-Humans
Chemically Induced Frankenstein-Humans Photo Source CGP Grey | www.CGPGrey.com One of the biggest open questions of this century is whether 144,000 different chemicals swirling throughout the world are properly tested and analyzed for toxicity. By almost all accounts, the scale of toxic risk is unknown. This may be the biggest tragedy of all time, a […]
The Tip of the Radiation Disaster Iceberg
The Tip of the Radiation Disaster Iceberg Photo Source Surian Soosay | CC BY 2.0 The World Nuclear Association says its goal is “to increase global support for nuclear energy” and it repeatedly claims on its website: “There have only been three major accidents across 16,000 cumulative reactor-years of operation in 32 countries.” The WNA […]
Workers’ Power vs. Climate Destroyers: What It Will Take to Save the Planet
Workers’ Power vs. Climate Destroyers: What It Will Take to Save the Planet Humanity faces a multi-faceted crisis. Endless wars of imperial aggression, both overt and covert– from Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan to Yemen, Palestine and Central and South America. These conflagrations compel those at the bottom of the economic pyramid to fight and die […]
Extinction and Responsibility: Why Climate Disaster Might Heal Us Even As it Kills Us
Extinction and Responsibility: Why Climate Disaster Might Heal Us Even As it Kills Us If climate disaster has left us with no future do we still feel responsible to the earth that outlives us? Or do we say “who cares?” If we say “who cares?” then our sense of responsibility was never anything more than […]
