MELINDA BURRELL – If we’re hoping for connection rather than conflict this holiday season, we can start with ourselves. We can learn to pay attention to our bodies, our emotions, our words, and our thinking. Self-awareness might be the best gift we can give our relationships this holiday season.
The LA Times Makes the Case for Shutting the Diablo Canyon Nukes
HARVEY WASSERMAN – A lot is packed into this commentary – addressing in particular the myth of needing “baseload power” from nuclear along with renewables, storage etc., and how ratepayers lose when deciders pursue long range, risky and expensive nuclear over what is available and cost-effective now
Oregon Sanctuary Laws Protect Migrants, with Caveats
ISOBEL CHARLE – As word has spread about President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans, advocates for immigrants in Oregon are working to educate people about their rights.
The Emperor Has No Clothes: COP29
SAVAIDA MA’ANI EWING -t is time to courageously and humbly acknowledge that our COP system does not work and to boldly reimagine a new system for stemming global warming. In this endeavor we would do well to heed the following words of Robert Schuman uttered in 1950: “World peace cannot be safeguarded without creative efforts commensurate with the dangers that threaten it”.
White House Tree-Lighting Vigil Centers Christ in the Rubble
LAURIE GOGNE – While the Biden administration proclaims “a season of Light and Peace” as the theme of its Christmas celebrations this year and thousands gathered in Washington on December 5th to view the lighting of the White House tree, a group of around 50 activists held another kind of commemoration of Jesus’s birth.
The Collapse of Syria’s Dictatorship Poses Many Questions
MEL GURTOV – Rebel groups that seize power invariably get caught between conflicting aims on the use of their new authority: revenge or governing? HTS (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham) could wind up being another jihadist regime, bent on eliminating enemies and building an authoritarian state; or it could focus on human security and friendly relations with all its neighbors. We’ll probably find out soon enough which path HTS is going to take.