No Two Sides About It, Confederate Statues Must Come Down
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Collaboration: Be Careful Who You Work With
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8/19/2017
Depending on your worldview, Monday's super-hyped solar eclipse may be interpreted as: a). A sign of the impending apocalypse, b).
Total Eclipse
The ultimate talisman of the primitive, of what the civilized call the dark ages of prehistory, is the image of tribal people cowering in fear and abasement at a reoccurring and entirely predictable phenomenon of the "clockwork universe," the eclipse of the sun. Even civilizations with some form of recorded history but limited application of the scientific method are denigrated for their tendency to attribute this phenomenon to a sentient being.
When will the United States transcend White Supremacy?
Now that the violence in Charlottesville has forced "white supremacy" into our political vocabulary, let's ask an uncomfortable question: "When will the United States transcend white supremacy?" My question isn't, "What should we do about the overt white supremacists who, emboldened by Trumpism's success, have pushed their way back into mainstream politics?" I want to go beyond easy targets to ask, "When will U.S. society-not just neo-Nazis and the Klan, but the whole country-reject all aspects of white supremacist ideology and take serious steps toward rectifying the material inequality justified by that ideology?" There's no evidence the dominant culture is interested.
Steve Bannon Is Desperate To Persuade Us That He Wasn’t Fired Just For Being Steve Bannon
Stephen K. Bannon, the embattled chief strategist who helped President Trump win the 2016 election but clashed for months with other senior West Wing advisers, is leaving his post, a White House spokeswoman announced Friday. John F. Kelly, the retired four-star Marine Corps general brought in late last month as White House chief of staff, has been contemplating dramatic changes to West Wing staffing that included firing Bannon .... "This was without question one man's decision: Kelly.
Cozumel, Cancun: The Rights of Nature Plowed Over, Sewage Saturated, Cruise-ship Imploded
With the power of the telecom thieves and my cellular phone, and, viola, I am conversing via text and downloaded images with my 21 year old daughter on the Island of Cozumel, with her mother, stuck in the maelstrom of tourists and a denuded ecosystem. Yes, I admit, I loved that island, 1979, 1983, 1987 , but I knew my very presence, my ecological footprint, the baggage of being an American, a scuba enthusiast, journalist, too, and dive bum, all were part of what was starting to become very out of whack in the world of those who have and those who do not have.
His Life is Over
"No Nazis in our neighborhood," read the words emblazoned in large, bold type across the tops of the fliers, which also show a picture of a group of demonstrators carrying tiki torches on the campus of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville the night of Aug. 11. One man carrying a torch near the bottom right corner of the image is circled. The fliers identify the circled man as Jerrod Kuhn and claim that he is a "leading figure with the Daily Stormer, an avowedly neo-Nazi website around which local groups have been organizing to promote anti-Semitism, white supremacy and violence against LGBTQ communities."
Wal-Mart Patents Floating Blimp Warehouse
Wal-Mart Stores has opened a new front in its battle with Amazon.com. The world's largest retailer has applied for a U.S. patent for a floating warehouse that could make deliveries via drones, which would bring products from the aircraft down to shoppers' homes.
Remove Him Now
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What Trump’s Increasing Isolation Could Mean For His Presidency
President Trump speaks on the phone Jan. 28 with Russia's Putin, flanked by top aides, from left, Reince Priebus, Vice President Pence, Steve Bannon, Sean Spicer and Michael Flynn. Only Pence remains.
More Banking Follies
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Largest Wildfire on Record is raging in Greenland, as Ice Melt Speeds Up
The largest wildfire ever recorded in Greenland was recently spotted close to the west coast town of Sisimiut, not far from Disko Island where I research retreating glaciers . The fire has captured public and scientific interest not just because its size and location came as a surprise, but also because it is yet another signpost of deep environmental change in the Arctic.
Ex-RNC Official: GOP Used to Oppose Nazis
Former RNC spokesperson Cheri Jacobus: If there is truly "no place for white supremacists or Nazis" in American life, and specifically in the GOP, then why tacitly encourage it by doing nothing about it? Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were not defeated by furrowed brows and "strong words" denouncing his evil in carefully crafted statements that avoided specifically using his name. The brave allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, provided salvation for those still alive in the concentration camps and exposed the greatest evil the world has ever known with the murder of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust by Nazis.
The Alt-Right and the 1%
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Trump And Russia: Lots Of Talk, But Critics Say There’s No Clear Strategy
President Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption President Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7. President John F. Kennedy waged a showdown with the Soviet Union during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 - and signed a nuclear test ban treaty with Moscow the following year.
Upcoming Russian military exercises a prelude to invading a NATO country? Simply absurd
Belarus: NATO expansion in Eastern Europe 'inflames confrontation' - Lavrov Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held a joint press conference with his Belarusian counterpart Vladimir Makei following their meeting in Minsk, Monday. In less than a month Russia and neighboring Belarus are to conduct defensive military exercises which are routinely scheduled every four years and within their own territory.
America’s Liberal Establishment Enables White Nationalist Organizations to Recruit
White nationalists held a rally and killed at least one counter-protester in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, as reported by the Washington Post and AP in this Boston Globe article . Read this article carefully and you will see how America's liberal-establishment wing of the ruling class bear enormous responsibility for helping white nationalist organizations recruit working-class whites.
Ten Years After Financial Crisis, Our Elites Have Learned Nothing
Last week I heard BBC announce the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the financial crisis. This is dated to the decision by the French bank BNP Paribas to prohibit withdrawals from two hedge funds that were heavily invested in subprime mortgage backed securities.
Fourth CEO Quits Trump Panel
Could America's first CEO president lose America's CEOs? It was a question that came to the fore again Monday when first Merck's Kenneth Frazier, then Under Armour's Kevin Plank and Intel's Brian Krzanich stepped down from a White House business group set up to advise Donald Trump. On Tuesday, Scott Paul, the president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, said he was stepping down, because it was "the right thing for me to do."