Editor’s Note: I just watched this Town Hall meeting (see below) hosted by Senator Bernie Sanders on COVID-19 with Senator Elizabeth Warren, Representative Pramila Jayapal, and Representative Mark Pocan. This is a call to put pressure on Congress as well… Read More ›
social and political commentary
“Bailout Worse Than 2008” Matt Taibbi, interview by Rising’s Krystal & Saagar
Editor’s Note: Here is an interview of Matt Taibbi on the recent US stimulus/bailout. Matt likens this stimulus to the bailout in 2008. While almost all of us are hit by the social/health and financial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the… Read More ›
A Tropical Bird, article and art by Erik Kaye
Originally posted on Vision-, Faces- and Beastscapes: The Crazy Art of Erik Kaye:
It’s our fault we let these culture wars go on this long. Taking Our Country Back, then the other side takes their country back, then we take…
Nuclear – Insidious Death
by Chris Arcus social and political commentary copyright 2010 President Obama comes from the most nuclear state in the US, Illinois… The World’s first nuclear reactor was assembled under a football stadium in Chicago at Stagg Field, the contaminated materials… Read More ›
Two Deserts
A Message to Environmentalists by Erik Sutter-Kaye Chigasaki, Japan 8/20/08 Until you understand the nature of the unfolding environmental situation, your efforts to reverse its process will be in vain. There is no chance of undoing the damage to the… Read More ›