Today's quote of the day is a simple plea from Samantha Harvey for us to not only find peace with one another but to also find peace with our planet. Even if we find a way to avoid a deadly third world war and a second civil war, we are ignoring the warnings of scientists that we are pushing our planet toward both local and worldwide collapse.
Every day seems to bring more depressing news making everything seem hopeless. It feels like we are on the brink of a world war, ocean currents are collapsing much more quickly than was predicted, and hate seems to the new guiding light of our country. Herman Melville tells us that
W.E.B. DuBois points out that unregulated capitalism always leads to "a few participants coming out with more wealth then the could possibly use, while the vast number emerge with less than can decently support life".
Today's outrage of the day comes to us from Texas, courtesy of ICE. A 53 year-old women who has spent her life helping others was arrested by ICE, deprived of her needed medications, and deprived of food and water for the first 24+ hours of her detention. She
Mikhail Bakunin reminds us that "whenever a chief of State speaks of God,...be sure that he is getting ready to shear once more his people flock". And for this, you can look no further than his upcoming cuts to all the programs Americans need so that our