Guest Post: Donald Collins’ article on the “population bomb” and the history of birth control is an intriguing look into how we must consider family planning in the grand scheme of our problem of population growth. Collins, a long time advocate of women’s reproductive health rights, discusses the importance of assuring family planning capabilities not just ...

I had been agonizing over current national and international events this weekend and found myself in need of a change of environment as I prepared to write my latest blog. I slipped a copy of H.L. Mencken’s Chrestomathy into my backpack and took off for the Cafe Di Vetro.  And there, over one of the world’s finest ...

The IFSPP team spent some time in Dallas last week attending Earth Day Texas, a huge event that took place at the Fair Grounds. I wandered around with my camera and shot some video of folks that were displaying there. This video probably isn’t for the faint of heart, but hey, not taking care of ...

PANEL DISCUSSION ON CURRENT EVENTS, TRENDS, ENVIRONMENT, POLITICS IN SOCIETY WITH RENOWNED AUTHORS AND COMMENTATORS (Watch video below.) Lancaster, March, 09, 2017 – Five nationally-known experts on social and environmental sustainability will speak in Lancaster, Pennsylvania this month in a live-video telecast. James Howard Kunstler, outspoken critic of suburban sprawl, and Frank Morris, champion of minorities passed over ...

This summit brought together an amazing panel that consisted of John Michael Greer, James Howard Kunstler, Chris Martenson, Frank Morris, and Dmitry Orlov to talk about issues ranging from politics, the economy, the food we eat, immigration, labor, poverty, minorities, war, and much more. Please be sure to stay tuned for more dynamic events from ...

“The ability to understand a question from all sides meant one was totally unfit for action. Fanatical enthusiasm was the mark of the real man.” Thucydides Taking a line from Michael Moore’s latest movie, when pondering “where to invade next,” the average citizen need only march to the sound of the rhetoric. As impoverished countries with values ...

So, a week ago I was driving up to the Barnes & Noble in Lancaster, PA when I noticed a fellow holding a sign on a street corner advertising the local Kmart was going out of business and offering up to 60% discounts on merchandise. I’d seen someone with the same sign a while back ...

This coming Tuesday, March 7th, the citizens of Los Angeles will be voting on a county and city ballot measure. They are Measure H and Measure S. Measure H Under Measure H, the Voters of Los Angeles County are being asked to increase their sales tax by one-quarter percent (0.25%) to put a dent in homelessness. Sadly, ...

Reprinted with Permission of Progressives For Immigration Reform The term protectionism as it is generally accepted these days tends to conjure up associations with nativism and reactionaryism. Last week, I read a book by Colin Hines in which he introduced the concept of “Progressive Protectionism” (PP). PP is a counterbalance to practices such as neoliberalism, in ...

I raged when the London paper, The Guardian, reported several hundred peaceful protesters were injured during the standoff with police last Sunday at Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, on a bridge near a site where an oil pipeline is planned to cross under the Missouri river. One of the protestors, 21-year old, Sophia Wilansky ...

Dear Mr. President Elect Trump: Congratulations on your recent election victory. Yours was a fascinating and brilliant victory over the Washington Establishment, perhaps the most brilliant such victory since Andrew Jackson. Now begins the hard work of uniting an angry and divided nation. You have inherited a nation whose people have been artfully kept apart by the establishments of both ...

For Hillary Rodham Clinton, I pray she return to her conservative Methodist roots that urge congregants to do all the good they can, for all the people they can, in all the ways they can, as long as ever they can.” I believe at one time in her life she burned with a desire to ...

Donna Conroy of Bright Future Jobs shares the “secret” behind the abuses done to white collar workers under the H1-B Visa Program.  After watching this information packed video, please like and share it.

Last Friday, the Billy Bush tapes from eleven years ago featuring Donald Trump trash talking soap opera actress, Arianne Zucker, were leaked to the public just two days before the second presidential debate. The content as well as the frenzy of media attention it received had the desired effect of capturing the attention of the ...

In last week’s blog I shared my reaction to the environmental theme of the Rio Olympic’s opening ceremonies in which I opined, it would have been more effective to pass out condoms to the athletes as they paraded into the stadium than seedlings to be planted after the event. As expected, I did receive a ...

Last Friday evening I pulled into a bar to watch the opening ceremonies of 2016 Rio Olympics. Although viewership was down from the London Olympics four years prior, it is estimated that some 30 million people across the country watched. Although much of the entertainment took the form of a great big party, the underlying ...

Los Angeles County is attempting to revise the Altadena Community Standards District (CSD) with minimal community input. The new CSD will allow condominiums and drive thru businesses on Lake Avenue, demand that all fences, hedges, gates, arches, Tori and so on over forty two inches tall in the first 22 feet of front yard either ...

This is a video we recently completed for a sister organization that at a high level speaks to ways in which the US H1-B Visa prorgram is being abused.  Enjoy! Kevin Lynn

In couple of days, July 30th to be exact, it will be my fifty-fourth birthday. A while back I was in an antique store in Reno, Nevada, and happened across a stack of old Readers Digest magazines and found one from July 1962, the month of my birth. I quickly perused it, purchased it, took ...

 Ventura’s 4th of July Street Fair continued its proud 41-year-old tradition today with its PUSH EM PULL EM Parade and street fair. The fun thing about the parade is anyone can be in it. In fact, participants far outnumbered spectators. Today as in years past, adults and children were encouraged to dress up, bring bicycles, little red ...