Little Justice for Black Mesa People
People have asked me to diary about the situation on Black Mesa, a location on the Navajo Nation, where, for the past 30+ years, Peabody Coal Co., owned by a bigger corporate fish in Scotland, England,...
View ArticleAnother Reason To Despise Nuclear Energy
The Arizona Sun has a story about an important study that makes the point that the heavy metal aspect of uranium is as hazardous as its radioactivity. </long link> Depleted uranium might be...
View ArticleCut and Run Democracy
We are more on the defensive than ever now. It is last call for words of power. Bush stood over the defeated Democrats like the Ted Rall warrior-king-generalissimo he is and shouted his victory cry...
View ArticleWho Are the Real Luddites of the World?
Who are the real Luddites of the world? First of all, the Luddites, 19th century followers of the mythical Ned Ludd were more interested in maintaining their jobs than they were in opposing technology....
View ArticleAmerica’s Public School System: Creating Aliens Through Alienation
“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.” Doris Lessing There are still many factories in the US that have not dissolved away...
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Public Comments Meetings- BushCo Style
Bush and Co. continue to destroy basic democratic traditions in the US. One of the latest is the erosion of the public comment process. In the development of coal resources on publice and native...
View ArticlePeople Shackled: The Multiplier Effect Suppressed
Synopsis: I consider myself an intelligent working-class Democrat. The Bush tax cut has resulted in a suppressed Multiplier Effect, causing economic upheaval and loss of concern for moral hazard, so...
View ArticleThis Week's Preview: The Coming Judicial Injustice
For the past 7.6 years, the Federal judiciary has been proactively packed with conservative jurists. This past week has been a preview of what we can expect to see from them. 1.) This one....
View ArticleRide for Obama
It was friggin' windy yesterday. The flags all look like moon-flags. The riders went all the way to the polling place at the chapter house, about 10 miles. Voting in Navajoland is a time of...
View ArticleWar is too late, but not necessary
Lazy talk is not for a soldier in the battle of words. But if it is really peace you desire, then strain to understand each other's true meaning.
View ArticleAre you educated about the Path to Peace?
Eleven years ago I made this in honor of all the people who endured, and all the peacemakers of the world. It's for all to see, it's the truth, undead, articulated just as surely as Prism, just as...
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, a heart-felt Thanks, and a prayer for a good New Year.
View ArticleMy Dissent to Judge Boasberg's Order Denying the DAPL Injunction
Despite my belief that judicial actions in the US require a law degree to decipher, I decided to address Judge James Boasberg’s May 7 denial of an injunction against further activity on the Dakota...
View ArticleA Headspinning Experience
Up to date news about the siege of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington DC has been showing up in a nice diversity of places, and from several dedicated journalists reporting from the streets. Check...
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What's so special about the US?
Hundreds of years ago- in my history it was called the Age of Enlightenment- an idea germinated that eventually became the basis of any legitimate and morally right government: that it exists by the...
View ArticleFront Line Workers Suffer by AWOL Leadership
What good is a trillion dollar military defense that is stuck on the bench during the Covid-19 attack because of an AWOL Commander in Chief and Congress? Meanwhile, the real coronavirus frontline...
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