I recently received an email from a friend who forwarded the following rant from a doctor: “Dear Mr. President: During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and […]
Category: Politics
REMEMBERING MARTIN LUTHER KING
On this day when we celebrate the life of Martin Luther King and mourn his death, it is at once encouraging that so much progress has been made in terms of racial discrimination and disheartening to realize that so much more remains to be done. 1968 was a traumatic year in many respects, but for […]
CHALLENGING THE RULES OF WAR
I keep reading and hearing about “rules of war.” Talk about an oxymoron. Call me naive, but I believe there should be only one rule of war: Don’t do it! Sure, people have been doing it since time immemorial, but that doesn’t mean they should. One rule of war that makes no sense is that […]
TO REFORM OR TO REPLACE: THAT IS THE QUESTION
To reform, or to replace–that is the question:Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous greed and political control, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them. The worldwide movement toward the social coalescence of the human family was recently struck by a […]
WHICH WAY FOR THE “OCCUPY” MOVEMENT?
John Heilemann, writing in the December 5 issue of NEW YORK magazine, offers an excellent account of the differences among the leaders of the ‘leaderless’ movement called Occupy Wall Street, or OWS, which occupied Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park for several weeks before being forcefully removed by the New York City Police Department. Heilemann observes that the […]
A PANICKED MOVE BY DESPERATE CENTRAL BANKS
“Money is not a force of nature. It is a concept, an idea, a figment of the human imagination. And it is real only to the extent that we allow it to rule our lives and our relationships with one another.” — TCGC Right now, money — the most lethal concept every coughed up by […]
CORPORATIONS INCREASE THEIR PROFIT SKIM
If the US economy is in a recovery, where is it being felt? By the 1 percent occupying the corporate boardrooms. At the depth of the Great Recession, corporate profits never declined below 5 percent of gross domestic product. And since then, have hit historic highs. According to figures released by the Bureau of Economic […]