Archive for 2019

THE HEROES ARE THE ONES RUNNING TOWARD THE CATASTROPHE: In 1941, Lois Gunden was 26 years old and had a job as French instructor in Indiana. But when the Mennonite Central Committee needed a French speaker to go to Vichy France to help Spanish and Jewish child refugees, she went. In France, it was Lois versus the Nazis. And at least sometimes the indefatigable Lois won, thus saving the lives of children for whom deportation would have meant death.

After the United States entered the war, Lois was interned and eventually repatriated to the United States, where she spoke little of her experiences. But Lois’s courage and resolve were not forgotten by at least one of those whose life she saved. In 2013—eight years after her death—Lois was recognized as “Righteous among the Nations.” Today would have been her birthday.

SURE. THE SYSTEM THAT LIFTED THE WHOLE WORLD ABOVE POVERTY WILL STARVE US. AUTOMAGICALLY. BECAUSE SOMEONE SAYS SO. AND YET, I STILL DON’T THINK WE NEED A TABLESPOON OF SOCIALIST SEWAGE IN THE BARREL OF FREE TRADE WINE:  Unless It Changes, Capitalism Will Starve Humanity By 2050.