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CORNELL WEST GETS A SURPRISE
Cornel West says he was standing with 20 clergy members and social justice activists at the event in Charlottesville on Saturday singing “This Little Light of Mine” as nine military-style units of...
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A FRIGHTENING LOW FOR THE US
Comparing the United States to Hitler’s Germany in 1933, a former British ambassador expressed shock at Donald Trump’s statements. A UN panel has issued a warning about the Charlottesville matter....
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FALL IS COMING
It is eight o’clock and dark outside. The Fall season is on its way and soon these long summer days will be gone. New York City at Night I like the four seasons we have here in NYC very much. I have...
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DANGEROUS AND UNPRECEDENTED STORM
Hurricane Irma, “the most powerful Atlantic hurricane ever recorded” is devastating the Caribbean as I write. “Fueled by warm ocean waters and fulfilling some of the most ominous predictions from...
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LOFOTEN DECLARATION
“The Lofoten Declaration, named for an archipelago in Norway where drilling by the oil industry has been successfully blocked by environmental groups, demands ‘unprecedented action to avoid the worst...
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NO PREPARATION FOR HURRICANE IRMA
People Fleeing Irma Below is a link to an article about the failure of preparation for a hurricane such as Irma. http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/09/11/pers-s11.html I was especially...
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BERNIE WANTS TO REVOLUTIONIZE U.S. HEALTHCARE
Here is a link to an article about Bernie Sanders’ efforts to create Medicare for All in the US....
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MILITARY COUP IN THE UNITED STATES?
I read today in an article published in the Boston Globe that the United States is undergoing a military coup. Titled “America’s Slow Motion Military Coup”, you can read it at the link at the end of...
View ArticleGLOBAL WARMING OBVIOUS IN NYC
Today, the 22nd of September 2017, at 1:19 pm it is 80 degrees here in New York City and will be warmer yet before the evening. Climate Change writ large! I remember when there would be a few nippy...
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CARBON BOMB UNDER OUR FEET
In an article published on Common Dreams today, “Warming Soils Could Trigger Potentially Unstoppable Climate Feedback Loop: Study”, the authors report a quotation, “There’s a carbon bomb right under...
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GLOBAL WARMING SEEN ON COLUMBUS DAY
If one doubted global warming, a photograph taken during today’s Columbus Day celebration in New York City would give evidence of it. Mayor DeBlasio during celebration As...
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TRUMP THREATENS U.S. HEALTHCARE
The United States looks more and more like an underdeveloped nation, especially with regard to health care. Trump is doing everything he can to end healthcare subsidies of the US system, which was...
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AUTUMN?
Fall Color in Central Park in Past Years A look out my window just now showed me a faint trace of fall color in some of the trees in front of the hospital across the street and going up 10th...
View ArticleSAVE SOCIAL SECURITY
At 9:41 pm on Thursday, October 26, I got an email from an organization of members of the Democratic party that the House of representatives had voted to pass “a budget DESTROYING Medicare and Social...
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EARTH IS “WARMEST IN THE HISTORY OF MODERN CIVILIZATION”
A frightening report by the US Climate Assessment released on November 3rd says that the earth is warmer now than ever in the history of modern civilization. “Mandated by law and released every four...
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VOTING DAY IN NYC
Today is voting day in New York City and Mayor de Blasio, holding the Italian flag during a parade not long ago honoring Italian Americans, is up for re-election. I went out before lunch to my...
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NINE ELEVEN: REMEMBERING
World Trade Center Towers Burning On September 11th, 2001 my house in Brooklyn, where I lived at the time, was under the huge smoke trail that you can see in this image. We could smell the smoke for...
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TRUMP EXPRESSES “THOUGHTS AND DESIRES OF AN AUTOCRAT”
Since he assumed the office of President, I have been expressing disapproval of Donald Trump who, as you may remember, actually received fewer votes from the people of the United States than Hillary...
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ALARMING NYC WEATHER
MACY’S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE 2017 Above is a photograph of one of the floats in the Macy’s parade here in New York today, Thanksgiving Day, November 23rd 2017. There is not a flake of snow on the...
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IS THE UNITED STATES SLIDING INTO FASCISM?
There is considerable expert opinion that the United States is sliding into fascism. Dr. Brian Klaas, an American scholar who is currently a fellow in comparative politics at the London School of...
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