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 In the 1920s, Wolfgang Pauli was one of a handful of young physicists who helped overturn our understanding of the physical world with the development of quantum physics. This knowledge quickly beget radical technologies, first the atomic bomb, immediately followed by the transistor. Known for his acerbic commentary,
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Subscribe now I recently finished two books on the same topic written a century apart. The first was written at the end of the 19th century by Russian aristocrat turned revolutionary Peter Kropotkin, entitled Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902). The second written last year by English psychologist, Nichola
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With a very great people, Tanzania is an extraordinarily beautiful country in East Africa. It is most famous for some of the planet's last great wildlife populations, including the magnificent Serengeti savanna and Gombe, the forest home of the chimps made famous by ecologist Jane Goodall. In the
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Subscribe now There's a nauseating sense of deja vu permeating the land this side of the Atlantic. In 1981, the Reagan Revolution arrived in DC. The military budget doubled in his first term, passed by a Democratic Congress. The always inane Cold War rhetoric was pushed up decibel
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Subscribe now “Young people especially have been angry, depressed, or just apathetic because, they’ve told me, we have compromised their future and they feel there is nothing we can do about it. But while it is true that we have not just compromised but stolen their future as we
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Subscribe now As oil nears the magical $100 a barrel price, the Wall Street Journal unprecedentedly publishes a piece on the limits of shale. The price is magic because the presently structured global economy doesn't run on a $100 barrel. Sisters and brothers, as someone who has followed
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Subscribe now I'm a rabbit from East Germany I was sort of happy I became an immigrant and went to North Britain I was sort of happy I could frolic around all night in the green grass I was sort of happy Hop Hop Hop Hop Hop Hop
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ALL THE FINANCE FIT TO PRINT Within ten minutes, two people sent me an article on US debt reaching $30 trillion. I guess the response is hooray!? I do like a couple of the quotes in the NYT though: “Some economists contend that the nation’s large debt load is
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Subscribe now Today, citizen identity is nebulous at best, even though questions of “identity” define a great deal of American politics, such that it can be called politics. Popular or unpopular as the case may be, identity issues overwhelmingly concern matters of social and cultural definitions, horrendously loose sand to
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Subscribe now Citizen derives from the Old French, meaning a resident of a town or place. The word gained the notion of political enfranchisement from the American and French Revolutions, especially, with some help from Jefferson, from Lafayette's, “Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.” One
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Subscribe now Funnily enough, the NYT has a good piece on the current politics of the California electric industry. I remember back in 2000, the entire California electricity industry was collapsing on my head, the number of articles anywhere about what was actually going on were few to none. A
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Subscribe now Cast your minds back fourteen years, I know it's difficult, to the Great American Bank Bailouts. There sat Jamie Dimon at the top of JP Morgan, doing “God's work” as one of his colleagues called it, accepting billions in bailouts for all the worthless