As I listened to him, looked at him, I just felt like crying. "When an Ebola epidemic in West Africa, in 2014, the United States and China, the world's two largest powers, responded in starkly different fashions. The Obama administration dispatched the 101st Airborne and other troops to build treatment hospitals, and donated more than half of the 3 ( Read more... )

Friends and readers,

This week's important story: in the New York Times how Bloomsberg poured hundreds of millions into philanthropic and other causes, to individuals and institutions to build a web of influence, power, patronage:  Nicholas Kulish and Alexander Burns: now too big to offend


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I prefer to think not just  what was happening to his own stone home, but several stories significant for different reasons and of different weight or emotional temperature occupied the mind of our gargoyle this week ( Read more... )

Sometimes the week's truly important story is one which throws a new kind of light onto what we knew already. I think for this week it's the story printed by the Washington Post as written by Marc Fisher, with Michael E. Miller ad Karen Heller contributors. I'll cut to the chase so that if you don't want to bother read the details, you can get at ( Read more... )

It is immensely important to keep Martin Luther King's words and life career before us today. What the man did, what he attempted, what successes he had.  Honor him and all he stood for. Listen up ( Read more... )

I don't which is more important: the tax scam, Trump "mulling" over plans to create a new private CIA and army to do his bidding or the open contempt for democracy seen in forbidding the use of seven words in all official documents. Already no one can say aloud "climate change" in various departments lest they lose their job. Here's  a definition ( Read more... )