In a landmark front page feature, the Los Angeles Times has made a powerful argument for shutting California’s last two atomic reactors.
The forty-year-old Diablo Canyon nukes are being subsidized by statewide ratepayers to the tune of nearly $12 billion in over-market charges slated to enrich Pacific Gas & Electric through 2030. PG&E’s CEO, Patti Poppe, was paid more than $40 million in 2022. The company has been convicted of more than 90 federal manslaughter charges stemming from fatal fires in San Bruno in 2010, and in northern California in 2017
Taking up a quarter of the Times’s November 25 cover, the feature by Melody Peterson reports that a “glut” of solar-generated electricity is regularly shipped out of state at enormous losses to California rate payers. Green energy capable of powering more than a half-million homes is regularly “curtailed.”
As the Trump administration prepares to confront China's growing influence, it is critical to base strategies on accurate assessments of domestic capabilities. Misleading narratives, such as those propagated by conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, risk undermining government efficiency by spreading falsehoods about federal telework practices. Kirk's claims on X that 85% of federal employees telework minimally, suggesting a "looting operation" at taxpayers' expense, misrepresent the reality of remote work in government and threaten to weaken the United States in its strategic competition with China.
President Biden has never wavered from approving huge arms shipments to Israel during more than 13 months of mass murder and deliberate starvation of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Biden’s crucial role earned him the name “Genocide Joe.”
That nickname might seem shrill, but it’s valid. Although Biden will not be brought to justice for serving as a key accomplice to the horrific crimes against humanity that continue in Gaza, the label sticks -- and candid historians will condemn him as a direct enabler of genocide.
Biden could also qualify for another nickname, which according to Google was never published before this article: “Omnicide Joe.”
In contrast to the Genocide Joe sobriquet, which events have already proven apt, Omnicide Joe is a bit anticipatory. That’s inevitable, because if the cascading effects of his foreign policy end up as key factors in nuclear annihilation, historians will not be around to assess his culpability for omnicide -- defined as “the destruction of all life or all human life.”
On Saturday afternoon November 23 a spirited group of local Black church congregations and other activists marched through the Short North after last week’s gross and sad display of hate. They wanted the community to know their response was not based out of anger or vindictiveness. Instead, it was based on compassion and love for each other and their community – and sadness towards those who hide their own personal misery behind hate symbols, masks and guns.
Rev. Victor Davis from Trinity Baptist Church who helped organize the “Jericho March” told the Free Press afterwards that he preaches social justice “every Sunday” and you can’t “preach the Gospel without that message”, and that there is a sense, at this time in American history, progress has been made. Nevertheless, in many ways the song of hate remains the same. Both him and his congregation were shocked and rattled by what they saw on the news and social media from the previous weekend.
With Thanksgiving just over a week away – and initial preparations for the holiday feast already underway in homes across the country – it has perhaps never felt more important to pause, take a breath, and reflect on the meaning of the season.
The American Empire, supported by of it's mainstream media propaganda mouthpiece, appears to be supporting both Biden's escalation in Russia and his continuing support for genocide. The American people, still in shock from the recent election of a narcissistic, racist, misogynist, rapist traitor to be the next President, apparently have no ability to change the course of the Empire's wars. To a large extent, mainstream media continues to be relevant, although many Americans are learning how to dig deeper into current events. Is it possible that President Bully Boy Dump could end the madness of the American Empire’s wars? He claims to want to end the wars while he appoints neocons to his cabinet. But maybe?
My view of the conflict in Russia and the genocide in Gaza is different from that of most Americans. It is informed by several great reporters and observers who are mentioned below. It is not informed by the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, or any of the mouthpieces of Empire.
The Empire provokes the war in Ukraine.
