Anyone who’s read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States with an open mind knows the score, but we do need to be reminded from time to time, particularly those of us who live inside the affluence bubble. (And please note that my concept of affluence includes a 10-year-old car, no cable, a healthcare strategy […]
I should think it sufficient – and sufficiently marketable – that GSO music director Edvard Tchivzhel defected from Gorbachev’s Soviet Union not quite a year before it collapsed, but maybe sufficiency isn’t the issue. Maybe, times being what they are, Tchivzhel’s patriotic bona fides will need to be trotted out at regular intervals until further notice, lest the Putin-wary […]
I saw a cartoon today. In it, a military recruiter says to the young man seated across from him, “And you’ll be murdering peasants who could never possibly hurt anyone in the U.S., all in order to further corporate interests.” Quite the opposite of what recruiters actually say, I’m sure. Similarly, centuries before science harnessed […]
