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US HEALTHCARE SYSTEM COMPARED TO THOSE OF DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

I just read an article on the Common Dreams website that compares the US health care system to those of other developed countries. I have personal experience of the French system that substantiates...

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NYC SCHOOL CHILDREN DEMAND PROTECTION FROM GUN VIOLENCE

New York City school children are protesting gun violence in schools. I was just out walking up Central Park West and saw several groups of children with teachers on the street.  Many held signs and...

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TRUMP FOLLOWS PATH OF TYRANTS

Timothy Snyder Yale historian Timothy Snyder, who studies fascist and communist regime change and totalitaria rule, published a book titled “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century,”...

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POPE FRANCIS ON GREED

According to Matthew Kent, regulatory policy associate at advocacy group Public Citizen’s Congress Watch division, the document released by the Vatican “reflects the growing consensus that strong...

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THE COMING COLLAPSE

CHRIS HEDGES From:  Truthdig, 21 May, 2018 By: Chris Hedges The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is the result of a long process of...

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POVERTY IN THE US

The passage below is from Common Dreams, article by Jake Johnson, Friday, June 1, 2018: “While the U.S. is home to ‘over 25 percent of the world’s 2,208 billionaires’, such wealth stands in ‘shocking...

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New York, New York

Just back from a walk up Central Park West and back down Broadway–one of my favorite walks.  As I got to Broadway, a tour bus passed by blaring Frank Sinatra’s New York, New York: “If you can make it...

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Crime in Tennessee

I have just read that crime is a problem in Tennessee; Memphis has been called the fourth most dangerous city in the country and has the highest rate of violent crime in the state, followed by Athens...

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STUDENT LOANS

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY American young people in huge numbers are burdened for the rest of their lives with student debt, currently more than $1.5 trillion dollars. Not surprisingly, a...

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DANGER OF EXTREME CLIMATE CHANGE ON PLANET EARTH

“Global heating is technically more correct (than “global warming”) because we are talking about changes in the energy balance of the planet. The risks are compounding all the time. It stands to reason...

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