I had the pleasure to sit down with James Howard Kunstler, author of such notable books as the geography of Nowhere, The Long Emergency, the fictional World Made By Hand Series, and my personal favorite, Too Much Magic, Wishful thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation. The intention was to talk specifically about Syria ...

On Friday, April 13, more than one hundred protesters from across the state, even some from Maryland and Virginia, came to the steps of Harrisburg’s Capitol Building to demand action from Governor Tom Wolf. The organizers presented a petition with more 700 signatures to the governor’s office to ban fracking and pipeline construction across the state. Tim ...

America is in a new “gilded age”, only without the mass child labor. We are still riddled with mass wealth inequality, neglected social institutions, and a government run by tycoons and villains. The crackdown on unions and labor movements of the past decades has yielded no fruit for America’s working class, and for too long ...

In a recent court case in Boston, more than a dozen protesters were found “not responsible” after a judge found their actions to stop climate change a “legal necessity.” The protesters were fighting against the installation of a gas pipeline in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, by jumping into the holes dug for construction and refusing to leave. ...

It is once more time for a new edition of Policy Watch, where we bring you the latest on important bills and laws in Congress to keep you informed! For updates from last month’s edition, The Veterans Care Financial Protection Act was passed and signed into law on March 9th. The ADA Education and Reform Act is still ...

Our country is in dire need of criminal justice reform. Crucial failings in our prison system have led to continuation of a broken infrastructure that turns former convicts back to a life of crime. Recidivism rates in the United States are astronomical: 77 percent of prisoners in state penitentiary systems, and 76 percent of federal ...

We’re back once more for another edition of policy watch: Capitol Hill has been slow lately, with recent demand over an immigration bill fizzling out as all measures to pass legislation failed in the Senate. As updates from our previous installment, The ‘Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization Act’ and the ‘Department ...

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre     The falcon cannot hear the falconer;     Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;” William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming Last year, following several years of struggle, Garry Shay, Lead Chair of the Rules Committee, California Democratic Party was able to push through a rule change that ...

For over three years the citizens of Lancaster County have been fighting the construction of a natural gas pipeline that will literally cut through the entirety of the county.  The purpose of the pipeline will be to transport fracked gas pulled from the fields in northern Pennsylvania and ship it to LNG terminals in Philadelphia ...

President Trump’s new budget proposal, released February 12, includes measures to end federal funding for PBS and National Public Radio, as well as the elimination of vital student loan programs. It would also replace the SNAP program with “foods packages.” Trump’s plan would also demand major cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. I didn’t think I’d have ...

In the throes of a devastating drought, a city the size of Los Angeles is in grave danger of running out of water. Cape Town, South Africa, a city of over 4 million people, has been suffering from a drought since 2015, and residents could be completely cut off from running water as early as June ...

Those of us who live in California and oppose illegal immigration are often met with the bromide that illegal aliens plant and harvest our food, and that without them, the nation would starve. We are told illegal aliens are the backbone of California agriculture. It has been true that Mexican born labor has been at ...

This is the beginning of an ongoing series we’d like to do called Policy Watch, where we look at potential national and state legislation and consider the ramifications of such bills on American life and politics. Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse Act of 2017  This bill was introduced by Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, in March 2017. ...

This morning, I read a story on how all eyes are on Representative Joe Kennedy III before Trump’s State of the Union Address. The grandson of Former Attorney General Robert Kennedy and so called rising star of the Democratic Party has been tapped to make the opposition’s response to the President’s annual speech. Are we really ...

Late afternoon on Monday, January 22nd, The Pennsylvania Supreme Court released a ruling on a lawsuit regarding partisan gerrymandering in the State’s congressional map during redistricting in 2011. The court ruled that the redistricting “clearly, plainly, and palpably violates the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and, on that sole basis, hereby strike it as ...

Progressives have always moved society forward, for better or worse. It has always been the label of political pioneers: Abraham Lincoln, Lyndon Johnson, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt to be politically progressive – though they were from different political parties – one for his abolition of slavery, another for granting African Americans the right to vote, ...

The is our take on Charles Hugh Smith’s (oftwominds.com) perpective on how to visualize the magnitude of a trillion vs a billion vs a million.  It is a very important thing to get our heads around given that budget deficits liabilities of our country and others are measured in trillions of dollars! Video editing by Kevin ...

The other day my wife and I had the morning off together – a rare occurrence. To celebrate we decided to go to a different Coffee Bar from our usual haunt, one located on the far more affluent side of town. The place has a new owner, and since she took it over has  a ...

For the longest time, Bitcoin, the Internet’s largest cryptocurrency, slowly puttered along as essentially a libertarian thought experiment. That is, “why rely on the American Dollar, which is backed by a federal reserve, when a community can collectively create a separate currency?” Years ago, Bitcoin users were lucky to purchase pizza with their independent coin, ...

In the dead of night, democracy died with a whimper. Withered husks of humanity, driven only by the demands of their monolithic donor base, voted to gut the middle and working class in order to transfer over a trillion dollars to the richest percentage of our society. These wolves, cloaked in the rhetoric of populism, ...