The chapter in Samantha Power’s recent book “The Education of an Idealist” (William Collins, 2019) on the impressive response to the 2015 Ebola outbreak by the Obama administration – with so many lessons not taken to tackle the present Covid crisis under a maniacs regime….. Power finishes her writing with the following lines: “Looking back, I now see all that the scoreboard could not capture: The relief of a father who has been reunited with his son, newly free of a deadly disease. The look on a government minister’s face as he traverses a rainbow crosswalk. The insistence of diplomats Read More
Month: May 2020
Human Beings are Capable of New Departures
Giraffe D.S. lecture on the evolving situation and it’s uniqueness…..
While the Whole World is Busy….
Denmark and Hongkong are paying attention, as some others…..
Planet of the Humans – Jeff Gibbs Story Directed by Michael Moore
has triggered a storm of consternation and condemnation from the Green Establishment – which is telling. While the critics are right in pointing out that the film’s footage is old and partly even outdated they fail to address it’s overarching message: the New Green Deal is based on a fatal alliance and, worse, dependency on Old Capital and thus about to perpetuate the propagation of unlimited – but fatal – growth paradigms……. Watch the movie Comment by Graham Redfearn in The Guardian
The incomplete, true, authentic and wonderful history of May Day – Peter Linebaugh
……On May Day 1980 the Green and Red themes were combined when a former Buick auto-maker from Detroit, one “Mr. Toad,” sat at a picnic table and penned the following lines, The eight hour day is not enough;We are thinking of more and better stuff.So here is our prayer and here is our plan,We want what we want and we’ll take what we can. Down with wars both small and large,Except for the ones where we’re in charge:Those are the wars of class against class,Where we get a chance to kick some ass.. For air to breathe and water to Read More