New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, a scholar, and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras… Continue reading
OCTOBER 19, 2021 (democracynow.org) GUESTS Clarence Lusane author, activist, journalist and professor at Howard University, where he is director of the International Affairs Program and former chair of the Department of Political Science. Roberto Lovato award-winning journalist and author. We look at the life and legacy of Colin Powell, who… Continue reading
Eric Ting, SFGATE Oct. 19, 2021 Updated: Oct. 20, 2021 (SFGate.com) The second campaign to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin is done collecting signatures, though organizers have not provided a progress report on how many signatures they received in over two weeks. To trigger a recall election, organizers must… Continue reading
Few Events – NOT back posting on a regular basis Please include Accessibility and ASL info in your events! And if your action is ‘child friendly’ *** ASL interpretation – Let me know if your event needs this service .*** Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12 See Indybay for many other listings of… Continue reading
I Love Docs On 26 September 1983, the computers in the Serpukhov-15 bunker outside Moscow, which housed the command center of the Soviet early warning satellite system, twice reported that U.S. intercontinental ballistic missiles were heading toward the Soviet Union. Stanislav Petrov, who was duty officer that night, suspected that the… Continue reading
Thursday 12:00PM (theonion.com) WASHINGTON—Calling the smoldering ruins in downtown Des Moines a potential preview of 2024, pundits theorized Thursday that Donald Trump could be testing the waters for another presidential run by inciting Iowans to burn the state capitol to the ground. “While he has yet to formally announce his… Continue reading
CVS is spending a scary amount of money to undermine Medicare for All — and this October, we’re taking action in a big way to hold them accountable. At CVS stores across the country, hundreds of activists and nurses are bringing our CVS style “receipts” and attaching them to the front doors of… Continue reading
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Stanislav Petrov Petrov at his house in 2016 Born Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov7 September 1939Vladivostok, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union Died 19 May 2017 (aged 77)Fryazino, Russian Federation Known for 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident Spouse(s) Raisa Petrov (m. 1973; died 1997) Children 2 Military career Allegiance Soviet Union Service/branch Soviet Air… Continue reading
Randy Knox Oct. 15, 2021 (SFChronicle.com) As a prosecutor under San Francisco District Attorney Arlo Smith in the ’80s and ’90s, I watched as the crack epidemic, gang violence and rising murder rates made the city feel chaotic and unsafe. Later in my career, as a criminal defense lawyer, I… Continue reading
Michael Moore Steven Donziger has spent the last 800 days under house arrest with a government tracking device around his ankle. His crime? Well, Donziger is the lawyer who successfully sued the oil giant Chevron on behalf of the people of Ecuador for deliberately discharging 16 billion gallons of toxic… Continue reading
