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On Leaving Alabama and the Future of Humanity and Nature

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Sunday Reader – By Glynn Wilson – You must know by now that I read a lot. Always have. When I was a kid I went through the school library and left little unread. In the summer months, back when there was a such thing as a book mobile, very little escaped my attention. I…

Bernie Sanders and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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“The necessaries of life for man in this climate may, accurately enough, be distributed under the several heads of Food, Shelter, Clothing, and Fuel; for not till we have secured these are we prepared to entertain the true problems of life with freedom and a prospect of success.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden The Big…

Don’t Miss the Bus

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By David Underhill – The American South is conservative. This is repeated so often that it resembles church liturgy uttered without thought to display adherence to a creed. But it won’t bear examination. The civil rights movement sprang from the South and convulsed the whole country, which quivers still from the effects in this presidential…

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Social Media

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Social media. What is it? What good is it? Does it help the public become more informed and enhance democracy? Or does it just help spread fake news, misinformation and disinformation and help the spread of authoritarianism and fascism? Is it a good way…

President Joe Biden Delivers Super Hero State of the Union Address

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The moment could not have been more critical for American democracy and the future of the planet. President Joe Biden rose to the occasion, seeming to summon a Super Hero power in standing up to the anti-democracy forces sitting in the United States Capitol building sneering, and jeering…

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Trump’s Immunity Appeal

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The god damn United States Supreme Court announced its agreement on Wednesday to take up the case of whether former President Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution on charges of engaging in a seditious conspiracy and inciting a violent insurrection in a corrupt plot to overturn the results…

The Tenth Anniversary of the New American Journal May be the Last

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Have we reached the ‘singularity’ from science fiction when computer robots take over? – The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  WASHINGTON, D.C. — This is no longer science fiction. The computer robots are taking over, if they haven’t already. In 2007, the year Steve Jobs announced that Apple had invented the iPhone and…

Federal Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Claim of Absolute Immunity

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal appeals court has rejected former President Donald Trump’s claim that he was immune to charges of engaging in a seditious conspiracy to subvert the results of the 2020 election, ruling that he must go to trial on a criminal indictment accusing him of seeking to overturn…

The Osgood Files: When the Cutting Edge Becomes Obsolete

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — When the news broke in the New York Times this past week that Charles Osgood Wood died, I knew there would be a retrospective on CBS’s “Sunday Morning” show. I made it a point to get out of bed at 9 a.m. in time…

When the Press is In League with Nazis

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It would be nice to wake up one winter morning in America and turn on the news to find out that the world is at peace, prosperity abounds. How about this for a lede story banner headline? THE WORLD IS AT PEACE, THE ECONOMY…