Reading about Roger Casement here took me back over forty years, when I read the collected poems of W.B. Yeats for the first time. Yeats turned out to be one … [Keep reading >>]

Joe Nocera, a new regular columnist on the Op-Ed page of the NY Times, and a business columnist previously, had a marvelous column the other day.  Joe Romm at Climate … [Keep reading >>]

With shouts demanding an end to fossil fuels, hundreds of people marched, biked and scooted down Market Street on Saturday as part of a global Moving Planet day.
Some were dressed … [Keep reading >>]

Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who started out by paying women a few shillings to plant trees and went on to become the first African woman to win a Nobel … [Keep reading >>]

If you’ve ever stood a picket line, leafleted about an unpopular cause, been arrested for civil disobedience, fought and lost against the powerful, if you have raged about the lives … [Keep reading >>]

Frank Rich and Adam Moss talk about what’s really in Ron Suskind’s new book, The Confidence Men.  It’s pretty ugly all the way around.  Reminds me of the incompetence, weakness,  … [Keep reading >>]

Sir Roger Casement is one of the super-heroes of international human rights, and was so before such a phrase existed. As a British Consul he conducted months long investigations in … [Keep reading >>]

Red Brocade

The Arabs used to say,
When a stranger appears at your door,
feed him for three days
before asking who he is,
where he’s come from,
where he’s headed.
That way he’ll have strength
enough to … [Keep reading >>]

KPFA Radio presents:

DANIEL YERGIN
The Quest
Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

Hosted by Brian Edwards Tiekert

Friday, October 14, 7:30 PM
The Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley
$12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com … [Keep reading >>]

KPFA Radio presents:

DANIEL YERGIN
The Quest
Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

Hosted by Brian Edwards Tiekert

Friday, October 14, 7:30 PM
The Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley
$12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com … [Keep reading >>]

Krugman takes on the profound cruelty at the heart of the GOP dream
 CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Representative Ron Paul what we should do if a 30-year-old man who chose not … [Keep reading >>]

The inestimable David Brooks saw fit to bemoan the state of the nation’s youth in his September 12 NY Times column.  Based on a study of 230 young people [230!!] … [Keep reading >>]