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April 15, 2019 The Mound of Sound

The Disaffected Lib: If You Want a Future, You’ll Have to Fight Power to Get It – Monbiot

The political class, as anyone who has followed its progress over the past three years can surely now see, is chaotic, unwilling and, in isolation, strategically incapable of addressing even short-term crises, let alone a vast existential predicament. Yet a widespread and wilful naivety prevails: the belief that voting is

October 10, 2014 Donna Thomson

THE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: Anger

Anger Anger that my son has pain. Anger that my husband is away on business. Anger that the caregiver didn’t show up for my Mom. Anger that the milk is sour in the fridge. Anger that the doctor smirked when I asked a question. Anger that an old colleague’s career

September 18, 2014 The Mound of Sound

The Disaffected Lib: Shove Down. We Need to Set a Lot More Places at the Table.

It seemed like a grim consolation prize in the global overpopulation sweepstakes, the notion that mankind’s numbers would peak at somewhere in the vicinity of 9-billion before eventually ebbing to a more sustainable level. Well, so much for that. A new study says we’re heading for 11-billion by 2100 and

February 28, 2011 Peacenik

punditman: Wake Me, Shake Me

Jim Kunstler is giving Saudi Arabia three weeks before it blows. Then $10 a gallon diesel fuel will end civilization as it is presently known. Peacenik says plant your garden now. And tune up your bicycle. Time for communities to get their acts together because working together is the only

February 28, 2011 Peacenik

punditman: Wake Me, Shake Me

February 28, 2011 Peacenik