By Jeffrey Sachs | August 18, 2021 (tikkun.org) Photo by Mohammad Rahmani on Unsplash The magnitude of the United States’ failure in Afghanistan is breathtaking. It is not a failure of Democrats or Republicans, but an abiding failure of American political culture, reflected in US policymakers’ lack of interest in understanding different societies. And it is… Continue reading
18 AUGUST 2021/SF POLITICS/JAY BARMANN (sfist.com) District Attorney Chesa Boudin got a writeup in the Times for charges he’s bringing against three online retailers of “ghost guns” in California. And the Chronicle finds that he’s charging more cases this year compared to his first year in office. In conjunction with… Continue reading
San Francisco League of Pissed Off Voters Hey Leaguers —Here’s your Pissed Off Voter Guide for the September 14, 2021 Governor Recall Election: Question 1: Hell NoQuestion 2: No Endorsement Vote NO on the recall (to keep Newsom in office, *sigh*) and tell everyone you know to do the same. For the second question… Continue reading
Limit CIA RoleTo Intelligence By Harry S TrumanCopyright, 1963, by Harry S Truman INDEPENDENCE, MO., Dec. 21 — I think it has become necessary to take another look at the purpose and operations of our Central Intelligence Agency—CIA. At least, I would like to submit here the original reason why… Continue reading
Henry A. Wallace, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s vice president and Secretary of Commerce under Harry Truman, delivered this speech to a gathering of leftist and liberal groups in New York’s Madison Square Garden in 1946. In it, he urges taking a more conciliatory approach in America’s foreign policy toward the Soviet… Continue reading
Greenwich Entertainment IN THEATERS AND ON DIGITAL AUGUST 20 An intimate portrait of Congresswoman Barbara Lee, a pioneer on behalf of racial and economic justice and the lone voice in opposition to the authorization of military force after the September 11th attacks. Featuring: Barbara Lee, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cory Booker, Van… Continue reading
What the United States and other settler societies can learn from South Africa’s push to create a nonracial democracyNelson Mandela with students at a non-segregated high school in Gauteng, South Africa, in 1995. Photo by Ian Berry/Magnum Mahmood Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University in New York City… Continue reading
August 17, 2021 (info@sfdemocrats.org) San Francisco Democrats, ballots have dropped and voting has started for the September 14th recall election. Please join Democrats throughout the state in voting NO on the first question of whether Governor Newsom should be recalled. The people behind the recall are national Republican interest groups and big… Continue reading
by ELENI BALAKRISHNAN AUGUST 17, 2021 (48hours.org) Police Chief Bill Scott and District Attorney Chesa Boudin presented a united front in addressing perceptions of high crime and lowered public safety in San Francisco during a Monday evening panel conversation moderated by Mission Local’s Joe Eskenazi. During the Zoom event, both speakers… Continue reading
Cinema Insiders From a 1942 Paramount documentary short titled “Paramount Victory Short No. T2-3: The Price of Victory” In it, Vice-President Henry A. Wallace narrates a patriotic, propaganda short designed to boost morale in the the early days of World War II. The film was nominated for Best Documentary at… Continue reading
