Apr 02
Today’s decision in the McCutcheon case allows you and me to join the 650 individuals who felt frustrated at only being able to spend $123,200 for access to national politicians in the last election cycle. We maxed out donating to only 18 Congresspersons! Horrors! Thanks to the 5-4 Supreme Court majority in McCutcheon, we can …
Mar 28
On the theme of the invasion of the body snatchers, artist Sandy Sanders of the Berkeley Post Office Defenders has created this postcard (below) showing corporate invaders snatching the Post Office and the jobs that go with it. The downtown Staples store, along with dozens of other Staples elsewhere, now hosts an ersatz Post Office …
Mar 27
Growing up in the fifties and sixties we generally heard the phrase “overthrow the government” linked with communists. That’s so ancient history! In more recent times we’ve seen a white guy be the best rapper and a black guy the best golfer, and now the capitalists are the best at overthrowing governments. The capitalists overthrew …
Mar 20
This week’s Scientific American asks “Can U.S. Fracked Gas Save Ukraine?” The article points out that Ukraine depends on Russia for about two thirds of its natural gas, which gives Putin and his oligarchs a big hammer. So, naturally, the oligarchs in Washington are angling to replace Russian gas with American gas, if they can. …
Mar 18
Lethal but Legal by Nicholas Freudenberg (Oxford U. Press 2014) takes on one of the great paradoxes of our time: we have the scientific capacity to support healthier, longer life spans for the earth’s population, but in fact we see the spread of novel plagues more devastating than the medieval Black Death. In place of …
Mar 13
Accidental Death of an Anarchist, which opened at the Berkeley Rep this evening, is both the funniest and the most serious show I’ve ever seen at this theatre. The author is Italy’s famous Dario Fo — Nobel Prize for Literature, 1997 — and the setting is 1970 Milan, but the Rep has tweaked the script so …
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