All posts by Chuck Fager
To Be Sure We Remember Dr. King’s Murder, DeSantis Secretly Signs New No Permit Guns-For-All Bill
April 4 is the 55th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1968 assassination in Memphis. To mark this melancholy occasion, Florida governor Ron DeSantis reportedly wanted to do something very special. So . . . . DeSantis signs Florida gun bill in secret as activists demand more guns for all (Only NRA invited to secret … Continue reading To Be Sure We Remember Dr. King’s Murder, DeSantis Secretly Signs New No Permit Guns-For-All Bill
Dyer: Israel and its Democracy Hang in the Balance
[NOTE: In Israel, there’s a brief timeout. Can the resistance maintain its readiness and its remarkable, unlikely coalition to mount another general strike if needed? Or will Netanyahu outlast them, as he has his other opponents for so long?] Gwynne Dyer. — Apr 01 2023 Gwynne Dyer is a UK-based Canadian journalist and historian who writes … Continue reading Dyer: Israel and its Democracy Hang in the Balance
This Is How Some “Good News” Arrives These Days
How we’re getting free survival insurance ‘Precision fermentation’ is food that can be mass-produced without land or even sunshine, Gwynne Dyer writes. By Gwynne Dyer — Contributing Columnist Thu., March 30, 2023 On Saturday, March 25, Asteroid 2023 DZ2 flew by our planet at 27,000 kilometres per hour, closer to us than it was to … Continue reading This Is How Some “Good News” Arrives These Days
Klan Rising: Are The Media (& the Law) Finally Going to Pay Attention? (And, How About Quakers?)
[NOTE: Kudos to the Post & Timothy Egan. The good news here is that when the Klan faced the Law for real, the law won. But in its bloody heyday, in the 1920s & after, it was repeatedly abetted by the connivance, corruption or cowardice of those charged with upholding it. The bad news also … Continue reading Klan Rising: Are The Media (& the Law) Finally Going to Pay Attention? (And, How About Quakers?)