2022 Archives

The Best of the Rest of the News. — It's time to prosecute Trump for his crimes against America and the American people. —Putin held a superspreader rally in Moscow yesterday and it had an eerie resemblance to Trump's early rallies, right down to the paid attendees like Trump hired when he announced his candidacy in 2015. — Last Thursday the House of Representatives voted 428-8 to suspend permanent normal trade relations with Russia. — China is the Ukraine wild-card. — While Koch Industries refuses to leave Russia, polling shows that 80 percent of US voters favor a windfall profits tax on Big Oil. — Roger Stone is trying to sell a plan to make Trump president next year; that's how bizarre and desperate these anti-American conspirators have become. — Elected Republicans are increasingly using "eliminationist" rhetoric, normalizing the idea that violence against Democrats and minority groups in America is an acceptable form of "legitimate political discourse." — In Good News, Denver has sent out mental health teams to deal with 911 calls over 2000 times and not once did they need police backup. — Trekkie Alert! Star Trek uber-fan Stacey Abrams stars as the leader of planet Earth in the newest season of Paramount+'s Star Trek series.

Zelenskyy’s proposal is an important conversation to engage, and the American press, by ignoring it, does a disservice to the cause of world peace. Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy yesterday proposed that the world create a new agency, one that is well-armed enough to take on the most powerful nations, to defend smaller countries and, particularly, smaller democracies that are under attack from larger nations. The American press is ignoring it. But it’s the opening for a conversation the world should engage now, as democracies around the world are increasingly failing and under attack.

Public outrage is building: the Court’s approval rating is now around 40% - Congress needs to act, before an entire branch of government sinks into an irredeemable Trump-fueled muck of corruption. So now, as expected after decades of taking big bucks for her rightwing work on behalf of America’s oligarchs, we learn that the wife of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Ginny Thomas, was in Trump’s January 6th “rally” up to her eyeballs. Let’s just say it right out loud: the US Supreme Court is corrupt. And Americans know it.

Glimpses into the life of an extraordinary man . More than two decades ago I spent a fair amount of time over several visits to remote northeastern Australia with Geoff Guest, who was thinking of affiliating his program for Aboriginal children with the German Salem International program I worked with for decades. Geoff was part Aboriginal, part white and was stolen from his parents at a young age as part of Australia's program back in the day to "civilize" Aboriginal youth. He was part of the "Stolen Generation" of Aboriginal or mixed-race children taken from their parents by the Australian government between 1910 and 1970.