Dennis Kucinich’s extended interview with Aaron Mate’ is cogent: Dennis Kucinich: where are the pro-peace Democrats?. He speaks well. Kucinich sounds clear-headed, informed, and inspiring. He discusses what the proxy war with Russia says about the U.S. attempts to maintain a unipolar world. Here’s my summary of his interview, with quotations. “Once the United States…
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, and saves society money? Lots of people complain about crime, especially property crime. People complain especially on websites such as nextdoor….
U.S. sanctions on oil-producing countries Iran, Venezuela, Syria, and Russia raise energy prices worldwide. U.S.-sponsored coups and proxy wars in Latin America overthrew democratically elected governments and provoked refugees to flee poverty and oppression. Likewise, U.S. wars in the Middle East, Afghanistan, and elsewhere in Asia and Africa since 9/11 have caused at least…
U.S. sanctions on oil-producing countries Iran, Venezuela, Syria, and Russia raise energy prices worldwide. U.S.-sponsored coups and proxy wars in Latin America overthrew democratically elected governments and provoked refugees to flee poverty and oppression. Likewise, U.S. wars in the Middle East, Afghanistan, and elsewhere in Asia and Africa since 9/11 have caused at least 38…
Using https://midjourney.com, a Deep Learning-based AI system that generates realistic images based on text prompts, I created the following images of Donald Trump. Some are quite clever. Some are grotesque. The AI technology is scary smart. See here for some of the images it generated (most by me, a few by others). Donald Trump in…
James Kirchick’s essay How the Anti-war Camp Went Intellectually Bankrupt in The Atlantic is a defense of U.S. involvement in the war in Ukraine. The essay consists mostly of name-calling and of ridicule of cherry-picked arguments made by antiwar commentators from the left (e.g., Noam Chomsky), from the right (e.g., Ron Paul), and from what…
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 Donald Trump. Kent appears frequently with Steve Bannon and with Tucker Carlson. He supports crazy conspiracy theories. He has called the…
The images below were generated by an AI program MidJourney, based on my prompts, shown at the bottom of the article. My aim was to get it to imagine a peace treaty between Biden and Putin that would bring an end to the horrible and risky war in Ukraine. They would be lauded as heroes…
You are already paying for addicts’ drug habits. Why not treat addiction in a more humane way that reduces crime, defunds drug gangs, better helps the addicts, and saves society money? Lots of people complain about crime, especially property crime. People complain especially on websites such as nextdoor. Likewise, many newspapers and TV news shows…
Four recent articles have similar, frightening messages about the risk of nuclear escalation in Ukraine. My member of Congress, Rep. Adam Smith (no relation), is playing a large role in sustaining that risk. The first article, Putin flirts again with grim prospect of nuclear war – this time he might mean it, by Pjotr Sauer…