ECONOWAR

The world is changing, and understanding of the world is changing with it.  A time has arrived when warfare-as-we-know-it is slowly becoming obsolete. Certain exceptions still stand out.  The ruination of 7 Middle Eastern Countries has taken a bit longer than the neocons’ optimistic estimate of only five years, but chalk that up to unforeseen resistance: quite inexplicably some people are not entirely sold on hosting foreign invaders.

Letter to Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Client State Japan

One thousand nine hundred and fifty-three days follwing the Planetary Catastrophe at Fukushima-Daiichi

To:  His Excellency, Shinzo Abe

        Prime Minister of Japan

Your Excellency:

Although you have declared that Japan must end its dependence on expensive imports of fossil fuels to meet its energy demands, and therefore the nuclear industry must re-start all 43 Japanese reactors shuttered following the Fukushima-Daiichi planetary disaster, your silence on the much more reasonable costs of solar energy and wind energy seems particularly puzzling in light of the recent drain on the Japanese economy resulting from the disaster at Fukushima and the resulting need of Japan to import much of its energy from abroad.

Why We Need 329,700.7 Members of Congress

“The median net worth of  a member of the 2013 congress was $1,029,505, eighteen times the worth of an average American home.” http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/28063-congress-net-worth-is-43-billion-individual-members-median-net-worth-is-1-million

American history is studded with precedents for disproportionality.  Our most stunning example comes directly from our very own Sacred Constitution’s Thirteenth Amendment identifying a black person as three-fifths of a white person.

ENHANCED CARDIAC ARREST

On January 1, Popular Resistance published an article, titled, “Leading Historian on US Torture: How to read the Senate Report.” https://www.popularresistance.org/leading-historian-on-us-torture-how-to-read-senate-report/

“Perhaps more importantly [than its reference to so many iconic cesspits of human suffering,] its details have purged that awkward euphemism “enhanced interrogation techniques’ from our polite public lexicon. Now everyone, senator and citizen alike, can just say ‘torture.’”  It could join that cheerful Nancyism: “Just Say No” to an advancing army of U.S. inspired anodyne remarks as in “Just Say No to Torture.”

HOPE

This is the moment of recognition that the notion of slavery can't safely be tucked away in the landscape of black people exclusively, but that that landscape itself has caught up with all of us, even the 1% who are enslaved to their own greed.

LIVING UNDER OCCUPATION

There is a saying by George Santayana,  “Those who cannot remember the past  are condemned to repeat it.” In the year of 2014, people aged 65 years and older represent 9% of the U.S. population. Of those, persons aged 80 to 100 who have memories of World War II number roughly half of that, or 4.5%. I am one of those persons.

POLAR BEAR ARREST BY THE NYPD SPARKS INTERNATIONAL OUTCRY

Todays news carries the report that after an 8-hour sit-down at the intersection of Wall Street and Broadway, 102 “Flood Wall Street” protestors were arrested and one polar bear. The arrest was carried on livestream feed throughout the world.