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The Limits of Free Markets, Both Economic and Intellectual
The Limits of Free Markets, Both Economic and Intellectual Both in economics and speech, the market is a powerful metaphor. Free economic markets are efficient, and produce the greatest good for the greatest number of people by the fair interplay of sellers and buyers. The marketplace of ideas is supposed to produce truth, and maximize […]
U.S. Government Is Boosting Military Spending to Record Levels
U.S. Government Is Boosting Military Spending to Record Levels Photo by DVIDSHUB | CC BY 2.0 Early this February, the Republican-controlled Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed new federal budget legislation that increased U.S. military spending by $165 billion over the next two years. Remarkably, though, a Gallup public opinion poll, conducted only days before, found that […]
Fixing Global Warming is Bigger Than Paris ‘15
Fixing Global Warming is Bigger Than Paris ‘15 Photo by NOAA Photo Library | CC BY 2.0 The worldwide effort to harness, slow down, lessen, reduce, remove the threat of global warming is epitomized by the Paris ’15 climate accord. This agreement calls for nations of the world to implement plans to slow down greenhouse […]
Fukushima: A Human-Made Disaster Brought on by Bad Faith
Fukushima: A Human-Made Disaster Brought on by Bad Faith “Nearly seven years after the triple reactor meltdowns, this unique nuclear crisis is still underway,” Greenpeace International’s Shaun Burnie wrote in a blogpost last December. The word “unique” is an understatement but true. The March 11, 2011meltdowns are the world’s first combined earthquake-tsunami-reactor catastrophe. Moreover, while […]
America’s Troll Farm Media
America’s Troll Farm Media Photo by Porsche Brosseau | CC BY 2.0 Despite all the smoke and mirrors, most Americans seem to see where the stenographers of corporate capitalism are taking us. A recent Gallup poll found that while 84% of Americans see media as “critical” or “very important” to democracy, only 28% see the […]
False Alarms and Exaggerated Threats
False Alarms and Exaggerated Threats Photo by Anthony Quintano | CC BY 2.0 Three days after the January 13 false alarm of a North Korean nuclear attack on Hawaii, Japan’s public TV broadcaster NHK issued its own false alarm around 7 p.m., warning in error that North Korea had launched a missile at Japan. As reported […]
The Current Onset of Climate Tipping Points
The Current Onset of Climate Tipping Points As extreme temperatures, the rate of sea ice melt, the collapse of Greenland glaciers, the thawing of Siberian and Canadian permafrost and increased evaporation in the Arctic drive cold snow storms into Europe and North America, and as hurricanes and wild fires affect tropical and semi-tropical parts of […]
Logging Can’t Restore Burnt Forests
Logging Can’t Restore Burnt Forests Photo by USDA Forest Service Alaska | CC BY 2.0 Every time I drive up to Mount Bachelor in Central Oregon I pass the Deschutes National Forest’s logging and mastication projects. The Forest Service and the Deschutes Collaborative suggest they are “thinning” the forest to preclude large wildfires and to […]
The Arctic Heats Up in the Dead of Winter
The Arctic Heats Up in the Dead of Winter Photo by NOAA Photo Library | CC BY 2.0 Every once in a while a climatic event hits that forces people to sit down to catch their breath. Along those lines, abnormal Arctic heat waves in the dead of winter may force scientists to revaluate downwards […]
Ignorance and Greed: Trump’s War on the Environment
Ignorance and Greed: Trump’s War on the Environment Under Donald Trump, the environment has been the hardest hit of any sector of society, carried out by executive actions, the overturning of Obama-era regulations, and the enactment of new rules via cabinet review. This assault is occurring just as NASA reports that we’ve just had another […]
The Hackneyed Imperialist Tool of Demonization
The Hackneyed Imperialist Tool of Demonization The systematic dehumanization of the leaders of other countries; the routine exaggeration of their military capabilities; the monotonous falsification of the nature and attitudes of other peoples; the reckless application of double standards in comparing the conduct of others with our own, as well as the inability to recognize […]
The Colorado Gas Wars: Where Things Fall Apart, for There is No Center
The Colorado Gas Wars: Where Things Fall Apart, for There is No Center Things stay mostly the same in Colorado, where climate change doesn’t exist in the minds of many politicians and some captains of industry. The marvels of fracking are a constant. Wells explode with regularity; each week thousands of barrels of toxic liquids […]
Racing Towards a Low-Yield Armageddon
Racing Towards a Low-Yield Armageddon Photo by James Stencilowsky | CC BY 2.0 On February 3 the Washington Post observed that “the United States can deliver a [nuclear] strike anywhere in the world in 30 minutes with astounding accuracy” and questioned the need for “a new generation of low-yield nuclear weapons,” quoting the commander of the strategic force, General […]
Colonizing the Western Mind
Colonizing the Western Mind Photo by Marco | CC BY 2.0 In Christopher Nolan’s captivating and visually dazzling film Inception, a practitioner of psychic corporate espionage must plant and idea inside a CEO’s head. The process is called inception, and it represents the frontier of corporate influence, in which mind spies no longer just “extract” […]
