VOICES

OIL DEPENDENCY - Climate campaigners worldwide called out major oil and gas companies this weekend for fueling conflict around the world, including Russian President Vladimir Putin's ongoing war in Ukraine, and demanded a shift to renewables.

WAR & DEMOCRACY - The attack on Ukraine focuses the mind on a most critical question for humanity:

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Being honest is something we avoid.   This is not at a time when we need be honest whether Heidi Abramowitz was fat. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was certainly not a surprise and has unambiguously exposed the West’s weakness.

LOCKED AND LOADED - Last August, only a week after Onnie Brown had moved into a rust-colored, ranch-style home in Phoenix.

GUEST COMMENTARY - Wanting to express my inability to do anything about man’s self-destructive inclinations manifested in the drum-beating leading up to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and the subsequent suffering of its people, I cast around for great anti-war imagery. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - Supreme Court Justices were appointed for life under the assumption that these were righteous men. 

THE DOCTOR IS IN - Vladimir Putin? Not a fan. Xi of China? Not a fan. Kim of North Korea? Not a fan.  

TRUCKER PROTEST - Amidst pictures of the new war in Ukraine, the U.S. is anticipating photos of truck convoys arriving in the Washington D.C. area, protesting many issues including vaccine mandates.

AIR TRAVEL - If you’re heading to heaven, you really should fly out of Palm Springs.

GUEST COMMENTARY - I still remember the poster on the wall at Bell Gardens Intermediate School back in 1987: “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.” 

GUEST COMMENTARY - Photos of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) are circulating online as a side-by-side profile in courage.

GUEST COMMENTARY - I almost never cease to be stunned by the white racist violence of the U.S.-American criminal justice system.

COMMENTARY - War has begun in Ukraine and where it heads next is uncertain.

RUSSIA WAR ANALYSIS - Despite the impressive TikTok feeds showing the Russian phalanx heading in formations across the Ukrainian frontier and the missile extravaganza across the country,

COMMENTARY - Only threat, pain and inflicted hell preserve peace, right?

WINDS OF WAR - Putin’s tanks had barely crossed the border into Ukraine before the American Petroleum Institute (API) was out on Twitter attempting to exploit the crisis.

OPINION - Dear America: Donald Trump is no more your savior than Hitler was Germany’s savior.  Regain your consciousness. 

MY THOUGHTS - This was not the article I was planning for this week’s column. 

POLITICS WATCH - Republicans are gerrymandering themselves into entrenched minority power, unless we stop them now.