A list of the reforms needed by the U.S. election system could fill, and has filled, many a book. But the fundamental reforms without which no others will have the needed impact are:

• Eliminating bribery,
• Providing fair media coverage -- not incessant, costly campaign ads.

The people of the state of Maine just voted overwhelmingly to limit the amount of money an individual can give to a Super PAC. While there are serious limits on what an individual can pay to an electoral candidate's campaign, a political action committee called a Super PAC can spend unlimited money promoting a candidate and can take unlimited money from individuals -- or can in the state of OH but not any longer in Maine.

In a landmark front page feature, the Los Angeles Times has made a powerful argument for shutting California’s last two atomic reactors.

The forty-year-old Diablo Canyon nukes are being subsidized by statewide ratepayers to the tune of nearly $12 billion in over-market charges slated to enrich Pacific Gas & Electric through 2030.  PG&E’s CEO, Patti Poppe, was paid more than $40 million in 2022.  The company has been convicted of more than 90 federal manslaughter charges stemming from fatal fires in San Bruno in 2010, and in northern California in 2017  

Taking up a quarter of the Times’s November 25 cover, the feature by Melody Peterson reports that a “glut” of solar-generated electricity is regularly shipped out of state at enormous losses to California rate payers.  Green energy capable of powering more than a half-million homes is regularly “curtailed.”

Tuesday, November 26, 4-5:45pm
Wexner Center for the Arts [Heirloom Café] [lower level], 1871 N. High St.

This event will be a “table talk” session during which visiting Scholar Essam Elkorghli [Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington] will share and learn of the role of education in imperialism.

Join us on Tuesday, November 26, 4-5:45pm, at the Wexner Center for the Arts [Heirloom Café] [lower level], for a “table talk” on Imperialism.

Use this link to read “Black Agenda Report” articles by Essam Elkorghli.

President Biden has never wavered from approving huge arms shipments to Israel during more than 13 months of mass murder and deliberate starvation of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Biden’s crucial role earned him the name “Genocide Joe.”

 That nickname might seem shrill, but it’s valid. Although Biden will not be brought to justice for serving as a key accomplice to the horrific crimes against humanity that continue in Gaza, the label sticks -- and candid historians will condemn him as a direct enabler of genocide.

 Biden could also qualify for another nickname, which according to Google was never published before this article: “Omnicide Joe.”