To recognize that, after the war crimes committed by Hamas one month ago, something very, very bad is occurring in Gaza. To recognize that the US is supporting it financially and politically and that we must do all in our limited power as citizens to stop it. To recognize that…

States lie. Some more, some less, but they all lie. Indeed, they must lie because they understand that there are times when if they tell the public what they are really doing or why they are really doing it, the public will oppose it. The US is a settler colonial…

This looks to be one of those moments in history when speaking out becomes a moral responsibility. Bibi Netanyahu’s military operation in Gaza consists of the mass murder of civilians around the clock, day after day, and the mass scale destruction of civilian infrastructure. One million people are displaced. 6000…

There appears to be a mass homicidal event taking place in Gaza two weeks after the awful massacre of 1400 Israelis by Hamas soldiers. 5000 Palestinians are dead, including 2000 children, and the Israeli bombing campaign is increasing. People describe a flurry of bombs arching into Gaza like a combustible…

“In June 2021… a strange new weather event dubbed a ‘heat dome’ descended on the southern coast of British Columbia, the part of Canada where I now live with my family. The thick air felt like a snarling, invasive entity with malevolent intent. More than 600 people died, most of…

Studying Greek mythology and the origins of Christianity and Judaism this spring & summer, I have a banal observation: What a people believes shapes their material reality (and vice-versa). I apply it to contemporary America. We are indoctrinated from birth to believe that Economic Growth Is Good. The mechanisms and…

Among the tens of thousands of hours of television I’ve surely watched, the instant of Sinead O’Connor’s ripping up a photo of the pope live on TV as she declared, “Fight the real enemy,” stands out most strongly, most starkly among all the moments and non-moments. It was a: “Yes…

How to explain Trump’s extreme and panicked behavior since losing in 2020? The manic beer belly putsch coup attempt on 1/6/21. The seemingly inexplicable and self-defeating stuffing of a Jersey-bound plane in Florida with boxes of subpoenaed, classified documents. Why? We are witnessing a prolonged & convulsive episode of narcissistic…

America rewards — and lavishly so — the ruthless. It rewards compartmentalization and the absence of critical thought. It rewards those who operate with a reduced or a vanished conscience. America rewards those who reflect back to it its sins of avarice & callousness, as long as they do so…