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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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
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Subscribe now Money is a political construct. It doesn't matter if it's controlled by government or in some brave new world, a corporation. The key power of any money system is who controls its creation. The ability to create money has never been democratic. Currency is
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Subscribe now “We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.” Martin Luther King Jr. 1967 The American historian Gore Vidal always pointed to passage of “The National Security Act of 1947” as a great turning point for the American republic. The Act institutionalized the Central Intelligence Agency,
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A recent idea floated by an English professor reveals our complete lack of understanding in all regards to the politics of technology. The FT writes, Professor Richard Susskind, technology adviser to the Lord Chief Justice and a director of think-tank LegalUK, advocates an independent body necessary to “spot gaps in
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Be My Baby And 40 years later, doing a smack-down cover of one those premier junky-songs, there’s a lot more than one thinks You Cant put your Arm around A memory AND, she married and LIVED with phil for 4 years — God Love Her
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Note: I'm not going to be chasing events, future predicting, or getting near the American political shit-show. This letter is meant to be entertaining education or educational entertainment, whichever pays more. I need a much bigger audience to continue for any length of time, so please feel free
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The Industrial Era was forged by Newtonian physics, a simple understanding of the movement of matter. The technologies derived from this understanding, fired by abundant and relatively inexpensive coal, oil, and natural gas, reshaped the ecology of the planet. Our understanding of ecology, that is biology, is relatively new. Technologies
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Art is a very nebulous term, artist even more so. Many years ago, I was at a party talking with an interesting fellow who was a research neurobiologist. Someone walked up to us and introduced themselves as an artist. The biologist replied, “Such that we all are.” That was both