Category Archives: Marty’s Blog

Oct 9, 2017 Chris Hedges Mr. Fish ANDERSON, Ind.—It was close to midnight, and I was sitting at a small campfire with Sybilla and Josh Medlin in back of an old warehouse in an impoverished section of the city. The … Continue reading →

Thomas L. Friedman SEPT. 27, 2017 Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson wrote a famous memoir, “Present at the Creation,” about the birth of the post-World War II order — an order whose institutions produced six decades of security and … Continue reading →

Sept 25, 2017 Chris Hedges Mr. Fish Historians, like journalists, are in the business of manipulating facts. Some use facts to tell truths, however unpleasant. But many more omit, highlight and at times distort them in ways that sustain national … Continue reading →

Chris Hedges Sept 12, 2017 Mr. Fish How many times will we rebuild Florida’s cities, Houston, coastal New Jersey, New Orleans and other population centers ravaged by storms lethally intensified by global warming? At what point, surveying the devastation and … Continue reading →

The unholy alliance of Trump voters Posted: 8 September 2017 in Uncategorized Tags: economics, election, Hillary Clinton, identity, immigration, politics, race, trade, Trump, United States, voters 6 It wasn’t a homogeneous block—whether the white working-class or anti-immigrant nativists or the victims … Continue reading →

 Chris Hedges Sept 3, 2017  Mr. Fish The opioid crisis, the frequent mass shootings, the rising rates of suicide, especially among middle-aged white males, the morbid obesity, the obsession with gambling, the investment of our emotional and intellectual life in … Continue reading →

The nation’s current post-truth moment is the ultimate expression of mind-sets that have made America exceptional throughout its history. Kurt Andersen September 2017 Issue “You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.” … Continue reading →

Aug 20, 2017 Chris Hedges Harlan Fiske Stone’s conservatism was grounded in the belief that the law is designed to protect the weak from the powerful. (Mr. Fish) ISLE AU HAUT, Maine—I drink coffee in the morning on a round, … Continue reading →

Posted on Jul 30, 2017 By Robert Reich The demise of the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act is hardly the end of the story. Donald Trump will not let this loss stand. Since its inception in 2010, … Continue reading →

Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. By David Wallace-Wells Fossils by Heartless Machine In the jungles of Costa Rica, where humidity routinely tops 90 percent, simply moving around … Continue reading →