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POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES “IS A POLITICAL CHOICE”
Below are remarks by Philip Alston, U.N. Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, reported by Common Dreams on 19 December 2017 Among the things he noted are: U.S. inequality levels are...
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2017 THE COWARDLY YEAR
In January of 2017 the New York Times ran an article about Trump’s ban on entry of Muslims into the United States and said it was “Cowardly and Dangerous.” Several of his actions were called...
View ArticleAMERICAN CHILDREN IN DANGER
I read these remarks at online sites. [From Wikipedia: “Health Affairs is a peer-reviewed healthcare journal established in 1981 by John K. Iglehart … . It was described by The Washington Post as ‘the...
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SCARY WEATHER
It is 58 degrees at 9:51 am in New York City in January! It is raining and foggy as well. This frightens me even though the high tomorrow is predicted to be 41 degrees and the prediction of the high...
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A US HERO
Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using the tactics of nonviolence and civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs and...
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PROTESTING TRUMP AT EVENT WITH ANDY WORTHINGTON
This was at Revolution Books up in Harlem. You can’t see her, but Deborah is beside me with another of these signs. We were there to hear Andy Worthington, British activist...
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“US Not Like The Developed World”
Pyongyang I just read a strikingly accurate assessment of ways in which the US is not like the developed world in an article that quotes Korean leader Pyongyang. He correctly notes that the US is...
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NYC GETS SNOW
It is snowing heavily at 9:19 this morning in New York City. I don’t think we have had a flake before this. I well remember winters forty years ago when there was snow on the ground for months and...
View ArticleMARCH WEATHER IN NYC
As I was walking down 10th Avenue a few minutes ago, it was raining and snowing at the same time. I can’t remember seeing that before, though I may have and just don’t remember. It is now snowing...
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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...
View ArticleCrime 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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