An opinion piece in The Guardian by Robert Reich reminds us where corporate allegiance lies, regardless of the current headlines:
"CEOs only acted after the Capitol attack because Democrats took...

From The Intelligencer on December 4th:
For much of the pandemic, Harvard epidemiologist Michael Mina has been just about the country’s biggest and most enthusiastic proponent of mass testing. For...

Thank you for this background on mRNA vaccines and on Pfizer's role in the Nigerian debacle. I wonder if anyone is developing a test to determine whether an individual actually needs this vaccine, or...

I Lived Through A Stupid Coup. America Is Having One Now

You’ve already lost. This is what Americans need to understand

From Medium an unexpected voice explains . . .

From the July/August edition of Mother Jones, a historian's perspective:

How Do You Know If You’re Living Through the Death of an Empire?
The fall of an empire is supposed to be a dramatic...

Tonight I read two commentaries by immigrant writers who are very alarmed by recent trends in the United States. They claim to have been where we are now, and both are trying to shake us awake. An...

I read this article first when David Barsamian interviewed Noam Chomsky in mid-2003, when powerful interests were trying to control the particulars -- the shape and context -- of data so it became...

No trace? I can hear their footsteps, every day closer . . . Trump, Trump, Trump . . .

Nah, IMHO you're taking it way too personally. It's not just your pain. It's collective. You're just paying attention!
He's called forth by conditions which have gotten way out of balance. He's...

From TURN, The Utility Reform Network . . .

July 2, 2018

Get ICE Out of Our Refrigerators: YES on AB 2788 (Gloria, D-San Diego)

Farfetched as it seems, smart meters can give away an...

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Very good news from the Lakota People's Law Project:

This morning, District Court Judge James Boasberg ordered the...

The keys are now at the Sebastopol police office.

Keys found Monday afternoon under a bench by the bocce court at Wilfred Libby Park -- between the duck pond and Pleasant Hill Road.

I'm inclined to support Medicare For All. Here's an interesting view:https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/11/11/we-asked-simple-question-what-we-received-was-shocking

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It's an interesting example, Barry, though in a well designed test, failing completely would be just as unlikely as succeeding all the time. If there were enough trials, a significant deviation from...

Take everything you've heard about Julian Assange from MSM sources and see how those impressions square with the observations of the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or...

Thanks so much for posting this and for providing the link to Bernie Sanders' full speech; it's very thoughtful. I'm encouraged to see him articulate a vision to work toward.

Ann Hancock at the Center for Climate Protection sent a message today, asking us to request that our local representative vote against AB 56, for the following reasons:

AB 56 grants far too much...

Norman Solomon tries to set Joe Biden's record on fire . . .

"Recent criticism of Joe Biden for praising Dick Cheney as “a decent man” and Mike Pence as “a decent guy” merely scratches the...

Scott Ritter was the UN chief weapons inspector in the search for Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) in Iraq in the 1990s.

Author’s note: The 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq by a...

Nice idea, but the PO Box number is not the same as the number on the key. The PO staff can assist with seeing that the keys are returned to the PO Box owner.

The PO should be able to identify the owner of the PO Box.

I'd also ask Congressman Jared Huffman for prompt help in resolving your dilemma, ErikaLynn. It's amazing how a little political assistance can be very helpful in encouraging people to do the right...

Podfish, I'm curious about your comment
" . . . but it seems way more likely there's a quite visible informal cabal of those who profit by your fears."--

Please name and describe the actors in...

Robert Scheer at Truthdig.com consistently has interesting interviews of knowledgeable national political writers. This one...

If you've been swallowing the media hype about Venezuela, please read the linked article by Lee Camp on Truthdig . . ....

I don't shop at CVS in Sebastopol or elsewhere, except as a last option. Our local Rite Aid has improved their array of merchandise, perhaps in response to the CVS' new store downtown. If TJ's moved...

Thank you for your cartoon posts and refreshingly open attitude. Cartoons often use exaggeration to make a point humorous, and though I'm often on the other side of your political aisle, I enjoyed...

This story isn't just about our diminishing access to independent news. It's about how the Democratic Party leadership is a principal part of the failure of progressive politicians to be elected.
...

Three years ago I had a similar experience, and found that it is not just Safeway offering very reduced drug prices if you have a coupon to use. A coupon reduced the price of my prescription from...

Thom Hartman describes the link between the increase in fascism and the death of the middle class . . . and the downhill slide we're on in the US. Our founders recognized the danger of unregulated...

Turning off the transmitter in the Smart Meter will stop the RF radiation of the transmitter, but will not stop the power line transients produced by a switched mode power supply (SMPS) in the meter....

Think you're safe because you know the plastic recycling codes? Look again:
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/9/11/17614540/plastic-food-containers-contamination-health-risks

In case you hadn't heard . . . the evidence continues to mount, showing that the herbicide glyphosate, used in Roundup, is, to put it mildly, a major health problem.
...

What better time to realize how we've been bamboozled. In an essay published today at https://foreignpolicy.com, Canadian author Stephen Marche explains how, "Seventeen years after the 9/11 attacks,...

Printer manufacturers make most of their money by selling ink, just as blade razor companies make the most money
by selling new blades. New printers are generally pretty inexpensive, compared with...

Keep track of those phone calls; they certainly CAN "count." Make a written record of the number you called, the time and date, who you spoke with, and the substance of the conversation, particularly...

I commend to your thoughtful contemplation this article from the Daily Kos:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/19/1773436/-American-Values-Then-and-Now

In it, author John B. Alexander offers...

George Monbiot, in the Guardian, tells us why:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/13/trump-nafta-g7-sunset-clause-trade-agreement

A choice remark from the article:
Trump was...

George Lakoff strikes again, to the heart of a media crisis that threatens to aid and abet the overthrow of what used to be American democracy. Here's a link to his article in today's Guardian:...

In today's Truthdig opinion online, Chris Hedges offers his usual scathing commentary on the current slide towards the end of the USA. Not the USA we used to know . . . that USA is already gone . . ....

This German perspective on T shows the discomfort of one of our major allies:
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/editorial-trump-deals-painful-blow-to-trans-atlantic-ties-a-1207260.html

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If you or one of your parents ever served in a branch of the US Armed Forces, you can get insurance from the United Services Automobile Association. They give exemplary service and probably the...

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Net Neutrality has been a recurring topic, especially with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's public stance on the subject seeming to benefit the large companies rather than individual users. Pai has...

You may not realize how the label "Organic" is devolving into an advertising gimmick. This article was an eye-opener for me . . ....

A day after the firing of FBI Director James Comey, Bill Moyers and Michael Winship state that Trump is hiding something extraordinary and lying as reflexively as the rest of us breathe

Here are a...

I've had restless legs at times, and can trigger the condition by consuming sugar, particularly if I'm less than fully hydrated.

The first time it happened to me was many years ago, as an...

Would you mind presenting the facts behind your allegation? Otherwise, I'm going to reluctantly assume you are talking through your hat . . . or someone else's. Over the past several years, Sandi...

I find it important not to let frustration get me down . . . well, it does get me down, though I hope not permanently. Here's hope for the effectiveness of change tactics which refuse violent means:...