Cristoforo Propagando

Every year in October, against the backdrop of the Columbus Day/ Indigenous People day duality, I remember a singular event in my grammar school history. With lots of Italian-Americans (me included) in my class, a girl named Georgina was invited to sing a song about Cristoforo Columbo. “Christopher Columbus didn’t have a compass, didn’t have

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You Stink, Israel!

In what has become an annual event, Israeli settlers are hard at work this week destroying Palestinian olive trees, stealing harvested olives, and attacking unarmed Palestinians with knives, rocks, sticks and pepper spray, items which Palestinians are forbidden to use for their own protection. Over the past year these West Bank Israelis, with the support

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Citadel of Hypocrisy

Continuing its campaign of screaming hysteria over the January 6 riots, today’s New York Times features a front-page article, “90 Seconds of Rage on the Capitol Steps.” Moreover, the paper had the sliminess to refer to a woman who “lay dying” in the incident without mentioning that she was unarmed and shot by Capitol Police

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ZERO Years

We regularly read discussions and opinions on the topic of how many years remain for bold action on climate change.  What this profusion of rhetoric  neglects or ignores is the sad fact that, in fact, we have ZERO years to act to attenuate or reverse ecocide, the decrease of animal or plant populations and wholesale

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