I'm an old Pogo fan. For some unknown reason I persist in outrage at Feudalism, as if human beings can do much better than this. Our old ways of life are obsolete and are killing us. Will the human race wake up in time? Stay tuned... OpEd News Member for 870 week(s) and 2 day(s) 142 Articles, 2 Quick Links, 306 Comments, 5 Diaries, 5 Series, 0 Polls
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(2 comments) SHARE If you didn't know when this article was written, you might think it was yesterday. I wrote it in 2014. The only apparent change since then is in the numbers of dead and dying children, whole families wiped out, and open declarations of genocidal intent by government leaders, and not only Israeli, but also those now asking for my own vote. Wednesday, February 14, 2024 | Full Article | Print Article
(2 comments) SHARE 18 U.S.C. 2441(a) Offense.-- Whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime, in any of the circumstances described in subsection (b), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death. Saturday, February 10, 2024 | Full Article | Print Article
(1 comments) SHARE I haven't followed Carlson, or Putin for that matter. But in this lengthy and very candid interview, the contrast between two heads of state is so striking it bears more than a cursory glance. Wednesday, February 7, 2024 | Full Article | Print Article
(1 comments) SHARE Without a lineage of guided practice, only an impoverished artifice of distraction, deflection and denial remains. Jurisprudence, for instance, has been inverted and reduced to a fancy set of lock-picks and escape tricks. Friday, February 2, 2024 | Full Article | Print Article
(2 comments) SHARE Why should we believe this will stop, given a level of corruption that provides blanket impunity for live-streaming extermination of an entire people? It's a growth industry after all. Saturday, December 23, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
(1 comments) SHARE Big business is so much bigger than business now, that the few economic models that ever made sense are all distorted. For instance, if there was a ceasefire imposed on just one of the ongoing foreign massacres (and there are at least three at any give moment), the "economy" would be in real trouble. But if people are homeless, unemployed, destitute and starving, the market doesn't even notice. Friday, November 17, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
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Many Palestinians are being forced, by gunpoint, to leave behind their homes in northern Gaza and march down the road en masse as Israel executes its next face of ethnic genocide and forced population transport. Those walking have reported watching stray dogs eat the bodies of dead Palestinians Saturday, November 4, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
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The dead are disproportionately infants and young children, blown to rags, buried under buildings, shot, suffocated, etc., while occupied, imprisoned, detained, surrounded, besieged, starved, orphaned and helpless. Saturday, October 28, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
(1 comments) SHARE Some thoughts after a quote from French economist Andre Orlean, in a book by Howard Richards. I think it's about what happened to us when we invented money. Saturday, October 28, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
(1 comments) SHARE The key may be the neurological correlation of behavior and perception. Modifying either what we do, or the way in which we understand reality, can shift our trajectory. But behavior modification is too much like trying to back a triple-tandem truck into an alley: instant chaos. On the other hand, modifying the way in which we see and understand our world brings whatever the hardwired correlate to that view, instantly. Wednesday, October 18, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
(1 comments) SHARE This is what happens when the definition of leadership is being in front of a stampede. Sunday, October 15, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
(7 comments) SHARE Netanyahu runs US foreign policy now. What happened to Zelensky? And who's next? Have they picked somebody in Taiwan yet? What will become of all those semiconductors? Saturday, October 14, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
(1 comments) SHARE Some of these important films are free online now. But just reading the short synopses in this list may change your views on this critical issue. Friday, October 13, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
(2 comments) SHARE All commentary on the the carpet-bombing of the Gaza Strip makes a point of condemning the recent Hamas incursion as a War Crime. But this falls a bit short of today's reality. In this age of total surveillance (the prevailing economic logic now), war is a crime at which we can no longer feign surprise. Friday, October 13, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
(1 comments) SHARE This comes way before "corrupt" and "stupid." This is patently batshit. Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
(1 comments) SHARE The issue of moral real estate is irrelevant, and evades the serious questions of humanity's essential viability, given the commodification of conflict itself... Saturday, July 29, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
SHARE A chaotically polarized electorate, social fragmentation, cultural incoherence, and logarithmically increasing carbon emissions are the extremely toxic byproduct of the algorithmic attention-mining that sustains and drives the privately-owned digital services our very lives now depend on for food, water, medicine, electricity, transportation, shelter, the clothes on our backs, our children's education. Saturday, July 15, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
SHARE We can't tackle these catastrophes in the usual way, as if they were separate problems that just happen to be coming to a head at the same time. They cross too many boundaries that are really insubstantial, just arbitrary boundaries of thinking, a legacy of bureaucratic departments and academic disciplines of the past. They're too hopelessly interrelated, like the Rubik's Cube puzzle, solving one problem un-solves another. Wednesday, June 7, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
(3 comments) SHARE There is no way any problem-solving organization can solve the problem of proliferating problem-solving organizations. We're back to what we came in with: our own sensibilities, our tendency to project our own traumas on others, our automatic snap-judgments, our ulterior motives, our hidden agendas. All the mechanisms we evolved for mere survival in a world full of large predators, that got us this far. Saturday, June 3, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
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The promise of the digital age has been abandoned and forgotten as a few trillionaires fasten the last blast doors keeping out ever-growing waves of homeless, starving, diseased, former middle-class professionals; those whose neighbors have not yet been replaced by machines. But they'll be along soon. |