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On September 6, 2019, a date that will forever stain this nation’s reputation, President Donald Trump pulled U.S. troops off the northern Syrian border with Turkey. After a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, our president in his
Read moreA 14-year-old Michigan boy “may be facing criminal charges after admitting he wanted to kill several students and teachers at his school in Pontiac, said the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office.” The Detroit Free Press report from Sunday continues: “A teacher
Read moreThis one Earth we share with our many cousins is entering parlous times. Last summer The Guardian interviewed Mami Mizutori, The U.N. secretary-general’s special representative on disaster risk reduction, and reported, “Catastrophes such as cyclones Idai and Kenneth in Mozambique and the drought afflicting India make headlines
Read moreEarlier this month, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue proved himself tone deaf at a “listening session” where he was hearing complaints from Minnesota farmers whose existence is threatened by the Trump Trade War. As Mary Papenfuss of Huffington Post reported,
Read moreI have been wrong before: • The Dave Clark Five did not permanently supplant The Beatles. • Political platitudes are meaningless without follow-up actions. • Some of the problems I worried most over, were not even mine to solve. •
Read moreAlong with buying the Republican party with campaign contributions, American corporations use a variety of subterfuges to push a “small government / fewer regulations” agenda that amounts to fighting any efforts at protecting the public from their polluting perfidy. Do
Read moreUnited Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for world leaders to meet Monday for a special summit on the “the life-threatening impact of climate change on health, through air pollution, heat waves and risks to food security.” He hoped they would
Read moreHer logic was impeccable. Last year, 15-year-old climate crusader Greta Thunberg of Sweden looked at the facts and realized there was a certain absurdity in going to school to prepare for her future when adults were conspiring to destroy
Read morePresident Trump is going to build his anti-Mexican wall. Not all of it. But – for the first time, despite his repeated lies – there will be more than just repairs to existing border structures. “Who’s going to pay for
Read more“In 1968 most gun-owning voters knew from experience that reasonable restrictions on the marketplace for sporting arms are not a prelude to a repeal of the Second Amendment. Who or what changed that?” While seeking an answer to my query
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