Image essay on U.S. militarism
For documentation see How the U.S. provoked Russia in Ukraine: a compendium. Quoted in Glenn Greenwald’s WHO CAUSED THIS WAR? The US’s Twisted Interference in Ukraine. For documentation for the above two memes, see...
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Something liberals and conservatives can agree on
Liberals tend to dislike suburban sprawl and over-dependence on cars. Conservatives tend to dislike regulations and lack of freedom. Here’s a policy change that should satisfy both liberals’ desire for more walkable, self-sufficient neighborhoods...
Stopping crime by helping SADs
You are already paying for the drug habits of people with substance abuse disorder. Why not treat addiction in a more humane way that reduces crime, defunds drug gangs, better helps the addicted people,...
Guilt by Association: How the Peace Movement is hindered by antiwar MAGA Republicans like Joe Kent
Tonight I went to a fundraiser for Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who is running for Congress in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District. Perez’s opponent is Joe “America First” Kent, a far right MAGA Republican endorsed by...
Summary of The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the C.I.A., and the rise of America’s secret government
David Talbot’s book The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government is a biography that reads like a spy novel. It is painful to read because of all...
Interactive 3D visualization of U.S. Military Bases Worldwide
Click here for an interactive 3D visualization of U.S. military bases worldwide, using three.js. (Alternative location is here.) The visualization includes data from 1746 bases. About 700 of the base are in U.S. states...
Bernie Sanders, please stop calling yourself a socialist. You’re a social democrat!
Bernie Sanders calls himself a democratic socialist. But he’s not a socialist at all. Noam Chomsky and Cornel West say that Sanders is a social democrat and a New Dealer. See Bernie Sanders is...
Increasing the Visibility of Washington State Democrats’ many progressive resolutions
Hundreds of active members of the Democratic organizations in Washington State devote substantial time and energy into attending party meetings, working in committees, vetting candidates, knocking on doors, making phone calls, and debating resolutions....
Without Amazon’s interference, San Francisco taxes big business
By Melanie Mazza at EOI Online Two cities struggle to fund homelessness relief. One succeeds. San Francisco just did something Seattle couldn’t manage: on Election Day, they voted to tax big business to fund homelessness...
On political struggle and spiritual acceptance
Ady Barkin wrote an essay in The Nation, I’m Dying. Here Is What I Refuse to Accept With Serenity, about politics, spirituality, and dying. At age 32 he was diagnosed with ALS, and within...