Censoring scientists is not new in human history, but some would say that its reached another level, in Russia, but especially in the United States. Russia When I first started traveling to Russia (at the time it was the Soviet Union), a world of dissidents was real....
Global Arms Export Leaders Filling the World With Lethal Weapons Last month, the US Government's President signed into law the 2019 Fiscal Year budget coming in at $1.5 Trillion. The Defense Department got the lions share of the budget at nearly $700 Billion, or...
Seeking new knowledge and answers to pressing questions about the nature of world are obligations of a free and democratic society. Answers, data, and indeed, new questions should be shared around, and discussed in the context of societal questions and problems....
FY 2018 Budget: War and Peace Yesterday, I mistakenly used data submitted by the Trump administration in March for the FY 2018 Federal Budget. I think I have the correct figures, and a link to the House Appropriations Committee which lists how much of the funding is...
Last night Ed Johnson suggested I listen to a podcast, Jennifer Berkshire interview Nancy MacLean, on the subject “The Long Crusade against Public Schools.” I did, and thus is post. You can click on the graphic and listen to it yourself. It's well worth 30 minutes...
The Principle of Tolerance: Curing Ourselves of the Itch for Absolute Knowledge & Power I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ: Think it possible you may be mistaken.’ We have to cure ourselves of the itch for absolute knowledge and power. We have to close the...
