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All of Washington is marveling at how Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has the Democratic Party twisting itself into pretzels trying to appease his “moderate” sense and sensibilities. To put it charitably, this is playing out like the idiomatic tail wagging the dog. After all, despite this appeasement, Manchin is pooh-poohing the likelihood he’ll… Read more.
Episode 31: Focus More on Reducing Poverty than Carbon Emissions to Fight Climate Change Related commentaries: Caribbean countries climate change… Climate-gate… Paris Climate Talks… Listen.
Here in part is how The New York Times reported yesterday on this unfolding tragedy: _________ A deadly second wave of coronavirus infections is devastating India, leaving millions of people infected and putting stress on the country’s already overtaxed health care system. Officially, by the end of April, more than 17.9 million infections had been… Read more.
I knew LeBron James’s decision to “take my talents to Miami” would haunt his legacy. And I’m not just saying that today. Because here is how I expressed disappointment and cast judgement, in real time, in “LeBron Abandons Cleveland for Miami,” July 13, 2010. ________ It’s important to bear in mind that LeBron’s all-consuming ambition… Read more.
It’s arguable that Benjamin Netanyahu has been as determined to turn Israel into an apartheid state for Palestinians as Hendrik Verwoerd was to turn South Africa into one for Blacks. This is why I’ve been in the vanguard of those decrying the way Israelis keep voting for Netanyahu. Most notably, former President Jimmy Carter wrote… Read more.
Nomadland, Chloé Zhao’s meditation on grief and the damaged American dream, won Academy Awards for best picture, director and actress at Sunday night’s surreal ceremony, a stage show broadcast on television about films mostly distributed on the internet. It was a sleepy event until the final minutes, when academy voters served up a dramatic twist… Read more.
Yesterday was Armenian Remembrance Day. It commemorates the killing of as many as 1.5 million people in Turkey, by Young Turks, from 1915-23, marking the first genocide of the twentieth century. 106 Years of Denial and Counting… Despite Turkey’s impassioned insistence that there was no genocide, instead labeling the Armenians as casualties of warfare and traitors… Read more.
Episode 30: On Race Matters, America Could Breathe, For a Minute… Related commentaries: George Floyd… Black Lives Matter… Listen.
Earth Day 2020 saw reports of less industrial pollution, less car pollution, less noise pollution, and even less litter on streets. Hell, even India reported pollution so low that blue skies were seen in some cities for the first time in over 10 years. But all of that just raised the obvious question: How will… Read more.
America can breathe. But that first exhale of relief today was like collectively channeling the breath of life Officer Derek Chauvin denied George Floyd on May 25, 2020 – a day that will live in policing infamy. But I hasten to note that it wasn’t just Blacks who exhaled. Because many white Americans felt the… Read more.
