Five Cartoons & A Comment On The Warming Oceans
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Category Archives: Signs of the Times
Say Hello to The New “Antiwar” Movement: It’s Already Winning
Back in the day, the Vietnam years, resisters against the military draft could muster an occasional bit of whimsy. A favorite button was about beer. But if truth is the first casualty of war, for many of us whimsy and a sense of humor were soon missing in action too. Draft resistance became a mass … Continue reading Say Hello to The New “Antiwar” Movement: It’s Already Winning
Alfred McCoy on the Rise of China
[NOTE: In 2008, Al McCoy was a main speaker at a conference on U. S. torture that I helped organize. Both his talk and his academic record marked him as a scholar to reckon with on matters of foreign policy and empire. This record drew me to this new analysis of the rapid shifts of … Continue reading Alfred McCoy on the Rise of China
Aiming for the Roots: Anti-Racism and A Failed Attack on Racist Culture
It was in the second session of our anti-racism class, if I remember right, that the teacher drew a diagram on the big flip chart. I’m going to call it TUD, for The Unforgettable Diagram. I’ve forgotten a lot about the class, but not that. Definitely not that. The class met in the library at … Continue reading Aiming for the Roots: Anti-Racism and A Failed Attack on Racist Culture
Gwynne Dyer on AI: An Emergency?
[NOTE: A couple months ago, when ChatbotGPT was new, I privately gave it a personal test, by prompting it to prepare a concise overview and assessment of my own writing. Generous samples of this work, covering fifty-plus years are either online, or discussed online.