Joe Costello has decades experience in politics, energy, environment, and communications. Traveled and worked across the planet. Long a student of democracy, its demise, possible revitalization.
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Subscribe now Mesdames et Messieurs, Bon Soir, this is Joan of Arc, Tonio has asked me to personally deliver a rather special message. He say he just cannot get enough of my 15th-century wisdom. After many a Saturday night of doing ze funky western civilization together I know for a
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It’s important that unlike Afghanistan, the National Security State’s recent 20 year misadventure, Ukraine not be allowed to slip from the American mind, though most likely we will not have that luxury. Since this travesty began, if you’ve read the NYT, Post, all other text media, watched
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, San Diego, 1990 to be precise, I ran a Congressional campaign in the Democratic primary. My candidate, Byron Georgiou, checked all the boxes of a good Democrat of the time, including being Pro-Choice. However, he was an extreme outlier in
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Subscribe now Pliny the Elder was a Roman writer from the first century. His voluminous Natural History is his one surviving work. It concerns the science of life, such that it was understood at the time. Pliny wrote, parva si non fiant quotidie, loosely translated; things that would be trivial
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Subscribe now Anger is an energy, so said Mr. Lydon. That's absolutely true. Anger is a very important emotion with deep roots in the human animal. Instinctively social animals, a sense of fairness is hardwired within us. Anger bubbles up for a number of reasons, maybe most importantly
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Subscribe now You can make anything a currency. I've long advocated avocados, at least if there's a money collapse you'd still be left with something good to eat. A couple days ago, the NYT ran a piece titled, “How Trustless is Bitcoin, Really?” It
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Subscribe now Would that those now in friendship bound, We whom Love's thread circles round, Death's cruel edge might see! Since good on earth is insecure, And all things must a change endure In dark futurity! Nezahualcoyotl of Texcoco, 15th century I first discovered Prescott'
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Subscribe now To think in 1966, five Mexicans from Bay City, Michigan created one of the defining pop tones of the second half of the 20th century. So, it’s funny, staring into and listening to the rhythms of one of the waterfalls of El Chiflon, that electric organ pops
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Oh, God save history God save your mad parade Oh, Lord, God have mercy All crimes are paid When there's no future, how can there be sin? We're the flowers in the dustbin We're the poison in your human machine We're the
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Subscribe now In one decade, William Greider wrote three excellent books on three defining issues of our time—money, failing politics, and corporate globalization. I should add a fourth. Until recently, I’d forgotten in that time he also wrote a book on the military industrial complex, and maybe there’
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Subscribe now Looking across history, two periods shine as examples of democratic political evolution fostering tremendous societal advantage. One would be the founding of the American Republic, which proved highly advantageous for the yeoman farm majority until industrialism literally steamrolled the entire political and economic landscape. The second is Ancient
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Subscribe now …are soon parted. So goes the old saying, but experience of the last few decades would more accurately say the more money makes the bigger fool. Just start at the top and go down the list. You can even cut off at a billion, the fool things said