Flying to Dublin
The huge plane seemed to float over the Irish coast and then over the outskirts of Dublin, a beautiful capitol city, at 8:30 AM. It was light outside. The people in the large middle...
Tagged: Social Justice
John Brown’s Raid: Harpers Ferry
It is Saturday, April 28, exactly 4 days after I landed at Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington, D.C. Today, Maria, my 14-year old niece, and I are traveling, by car, on a short trip...
Inequality Dooms Us All
How much more money do billionaires need to be happy? The patterns of behavior in the global economy are disturbing. Those who manipulate the economy are helping themselves to more wealth all the time...
Change Our Diet, Save Our Planet
The foods we eat and the way we produce them not only are killing ourselves. They are destroying other forms of life on Earth. For years, scientists have warned that our way of life...
Scientists’ Second Warning to Humanity
The future holds large-scale death and destruction, and misery for the survivors, if human beings fail to solve a long list of environmental problems growing steadily worse on Earth today. It is the second...
Food Crisis Looms As Bees Die
Bees, the great pollinators enabling many crops to grow, play a vital role in making food for human beings. They pollinate 71 of the 100 crops which account for 90 percent of the food...
Food Fight: India and the U.S.
In India, the National Food Security Act, or NFSA, is feeding the poor. Indian officials say the food program saves lives. American officials say it violates agreements made at the World Trade Organization (WTO)....
Xi Jinping’s Dirty Air
Xi Jinping can’t put off cleaning up the environment any longer, even if he has to give up economic growth to do it. The 64-year-old ruler of China has a problem. He wants clean...
Faceless Chinese Workers
If the problems in China’s financial sector are the most serious issues in the nation’s economy today, the problems in its massive factory workforce aren’t far behind. The workforce, composed of almost 300 million...
Xi Jinping Rejects Human Rights
Xi Jinping and his communist party officials execute more people in China than do government officials in all other nations of the world combined. The researchers at Amnesty International estimate the number of executions...