Asynchronous War, defined

April 4, 2026

Here’s what it means to engage in an asynchronous war, using the US/Israel attack on Iran as a case-in-point:
Iran wins if it doesn’t lose; the US loses if it doesn’t win.


Where Do We Go From Here?

April 4, 2026

Donald Trump’s arrogance knows no limits, and his pomposity can be at once comic and terrifying. His administration is indeed a fascist regime bucked up by a minority fascist movement—although the US is not yet a fascist society. And this is where a major conflict emerges.
Trump’s swagger becomes more lethal every day, making him a perfect target for a growing resistance. But the question being contested in the streets—through banners and chants as well as countless face-to-face dialogues—and throughout society is whether this advancing popular energy will be channeled exclusively into the electoral arena by the leaders of the Democratic Party, or whether it can lead us to a more robust conversation and a more thoroughgoing effort to reimagine, repair, and rebuild society on a more fundamental and just basis.
In this regard people are increasingly aware that the crises we’re facing are the result of bipartisan policies for decades: Democrats and Republicans alike built the military behemoth that menaces the world; both parties have been desperately threatening other countries with the goal of holding on to the dwindling US hegemony in the world economy; both parties funded Israel and provided diplomatic cover for Israeli lawlessness; both supported the astronomical growth of prisons, the militarization of domestic police forces, the shifting of public assets to private hands, and any resistance to universal, publicly-funded healthcare.


Episode # 151

April 3, 2026

First serial: Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young

March 30, 2026
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EPISODE #150

March 19, 2026

UNDER the TREE: a seminar on freedom

March 8, 2026

International Women’s Day

March 8, 2026

Celebrate International Women’s Day!
The key to a humane future…


Daylight Savings Time

March 8, 2026

An Indigenous response to daylight savings time:
“Only the white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket.”


I already miss Kristi Noem

March 8, 2026

March 15 at 3:30 in Pilsen

March 7, 2026