Another World Is Possible
While looking forward to a new year, I remembered a poem called Ojalá by the late Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano. The Spanish word “ojalá” means “if only.” I feel lucky to have attended a lecture by Eduardo Galeano in 2013, two years before he passed. His many books included The Open Veins of Latin America, […]
Florence Nightingale, social reformer, statistician (!), and the founder of modern nursing, said, “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.” Her “no excuses” policy seems like a great lesson for everyone, but don’t get me wrong. I know very well there are reasons — systemic reasons — that affect […]
Billions of people want to “Go Green.”The confusion is, just what does that mean? What can we do? It’s not hard to deduce:we can reuse and recycle but the key is REDUCE! We’ve heard from Thoreau, “As you simplify your life,”you’ll undoubtedly have less toil and strife. But can we be happy, and still “save […]
A well-known slogan from Latin America is “El pueblo unido jamás será vencido,” which translates to, “The people united will never be defeated.” Unfortunately, some people have way too much concentrated wealth and power, and they often try to “divide and conquer” the rest of us. Latin America is important to us for this reason. […]
“How will we pay for it?” That is their question. This past month, I recommended The Deficit Myth, Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy, by Stephanie Kelton (2020), in my “Great Reads for Our Times – with a Dose of Hope” blog. I received some push back, and I felt compelled […]
Please consider reading The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton! It’s enjoyable and eye-opening. Have you ever wondered exactly why the US federal government supposedly has huge, terrible deficits, so they cannot fund healthcare, education and infrastructure, and then suddenly the US finds enough money to bail out Wall Street banks, wage wars and foreign interference, […]
The Personal My blogs are almost always purely political, but this one is a little more personal. My Facebook page is also mostly political, but the post that got more likes and comments than any other post was personal: the selfie you see of me and my daughter, musician Natalia Rogovin. It makes me smile. […]
This article about Daniel Ortega reverses the typical order, it starts with the question of “What can we do?” and ends with a bit of history, Nicaragua’s and mine. As you read, if you find yourself asking, “Really?” please consider checking some of the many links. WHAT CAN WE DO? (1) RENACER Act in Congress […]
Even when we’re being lied to by almost every available source across the media and political spectrum, we can still become better lie detectors. This piece focuses on Latin America, and so a good question is, “Why is Latin America important?” The reasons are that we do care about how the US treats other people, and we need hope that things […]
Hello everyone! I love my country — the US land and people — but it could be a lot better. And it will be, when we dump our sense of US supremacy! I just returned from two-weeks in Nicaragua. When I received the email announcement about this political delegation, which was coordinated by Friends of ATC and Sanctions […]