Out of the Woods

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on Jan 8, 2017 in capitalism democracy
Message for the new year Since the election of Donald Trump as president, there has been a great deal of soul-searching. A number of explanations of this unfortunate event are popular. Some people blame the schools for not teaching children how...
on Dec 24, 2016 in Christmas military police
A Christmas Message It is the Christmas season, everyone is sending and receiving cards wishing for peace and goodwill to all men and women. But for most peopl...
on Dec 16, 2016 in patriotism
The American Flag and PatriotismAfter the last presidential election and the surprise victory of Donald Trump, the students at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts took down the flag on their campus. Someone burned an American flag.The flag be...
on Dec 4, 2016 in Alt-Right
Alt-Right Until the recent presidential campaign, the Alt-Right was just one more fringe group unknown to most of us. But the campaign rhetoric of the President Elect has encouraged these far right wing groups and brought them to th...
on Nov 23, 2016 in capitalism pollution
Someone gets rich from your polluted drinking water Gen. George Washington had his headquarters in Newburgh, N.Y. Ever since, this town on the Hudson, an hour north of New York City, played a role in American history quite disproportionate to it...
on Nov 9, 2016 in corruption oil survival
Standing Fast at Standing RockOn January of this year Ammon Bundy and a small gang of like minded people occupied The Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon. They demanded, among other things, that the Federal Government cede contr...
on Nov 5, 2016
How We Can Get Along Together In her latest book, Arlie Hochschild, author of a number of interesting and exceptional works in sociology, looks into the question of why voters who understand very clearly that the ruling groups in this cou...
on Oct 26, 2016 in Police violence racism
Lethal Police PracticesPolice killings of Black men continue to be in the news. Nevertheless it came as a shock and surprise to me when I learned that so far this year police have killed 708 persons. If they continue at this rate there will be close...
on Oct 21, 2016
The Debate Over ImmigrationMost of the time the debaters overlook a number of important facts that bear on this debate.The central fact is that policies of the US government are to a considerable extent responsible for the flood of immigrants from Me...
on Oct 17, 2016 in Black Lives Matter Black Women
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