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“Up, Up and Away in my beautiful, my beautiful balloon.” [Going above and...

Thanks to the revelations of Edward Snowden [who has just had his residency permit in Russia extended for three years where he hopefully will be safe from vicious persecution for his heroic...

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“War on Drugs” plus “War on Terror” coming to a town or city near you!

A lot has already been written about the police shooting of unarmed 18 year old Michael Brown in the street of Ferguson Mo, on Saturday, August 9th.  And the story isn’t over  yet. Today US Attorney...

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National Hazing Prevention Week: A Review of Press Play

The week of September 22-26 has been declared National Hazing Prevention Week, with the purpose of raising awareness of this destructive and frequently dangerous practice. Young people endure emotional...

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Bipartisan Concurrence

I frequently read the columns of right wing people such as George Will, Cal Thomas and others. I would say this left leaning person agrees with most of them as much as five percent of the time, and in...

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Dakota Access Pipeline: environmental racism, broken treaties, state...

Since the spring of 2016, when a small protest and prayer camp was set up near the proposed pipeline route north of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation there has been a momentous struggle going on – on...

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Lost Your Democracy? How Long Will It Take to Get It Back?

[A longer version of this piece appeared on my blog, which you can read here.] We don’t know exactly what will happen after January 20, 2017. This could turn out to be an ordinary election in which I’m...

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A Translator in Trouble

Tonight I attended a holiday party sponsored by the PEN American Center, an organization of writers committed to freedom of expression. Each year, this New York City-based organization hosts the event,...

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Artists and the Resistance: A Report on the “Film and Media in a Time of...

Many of my writer colleagues and I are debating our roles going forward. It’s hard to predict what will happen when the new president and his party take over the levers of power. To get some ideas, I...

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All Too Human

Very much to the point of current political news, the following headline showed up in my local paper on Monday under an AP byline (the actual author being Lisa Lerer): “Trump’s Actions Similar to Those...

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Films for the Resistance: Burning Bush

Now that I no longer have cable TV, I’m watching movies on Netflix and YouTube, among them films from other countries with English subtitles. And I’m learning a lot — not only new languages but also...

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Ramparts? What are Ramparts?

Or the Fifth Amendment?  Or habeas corpus?  Or a state assembly? I certainly am aware of anecdotal experiences that I have had or seen in the media that indicate Americans are shockingly uninformed...

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If You Like Your Cable Company, You’ll Love the End of Net Neutrality

By the end of 2017, the internet will enter uncharted territory. Barring a surprise vote by another Republican-appointed commissioner or an act of Congress, former telecommunications industry lobbyist...

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The Battle for the Internet Continues, Led by Millennials

Thursday December 7 saw nationwide rallies to protest Federal Communications Commission director Ajit Pai’s promise to end Net Neutrality at the FCC’s monthly meeting on December 14. Most of the...

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The Carnation Revolution and the Struggle to End Authoritarianism

I had planned to write a different blog post today, but, running late, I saw that today is the 44th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, the event that ended 48 years of a repressive...

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Random Thoughts

Not really random.  I am writing disparate comments on many issues being discussed in public these days. For example, there is the issue of gerrymandering.  My main point is that it is not simple as a...

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The EU Elections and a Message from Portugal to the World

I’ve spent the past month in Portugal, and while there, I witnessed the elections for the European Parliament. Over the period of four days, the 28 countries of the EU voted, among them the U.K. due to...

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The Amazon, and Democracy, Are Burning

The Amazon is burning. Years of efforts to conserve the “lungs of the earth” have gone up in flames, abetted by wannabe dictator Jair Bolsonaro, one more in the parade of right-wing “populists” who use...

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Graphic Novel Memoir of a Freedom Struggle: Banned Book Club

As promised, and just under the wire for my deadline thanks to my computer overheating in a Zoom meeting and having to wrangle a substitute , I offer my second summer reading book recommendation. This...

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