The surprising blockbuster success of Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER comes to the 145th zoom of the Green Grassroots Election Protection Coalition. 

We hear from legendary music and political journalist GREG MITCHELL, whose op ed on the Bomb appears in the Los Angeles Times.

SETH SHELDON from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons joins us from the United Nations.  Seth’s work is derived from the global treaty to abolish atomic weapons continues to demand global attention.

From Long Island, KARL GROSSMAN recalls his lifetime of activism against nuclear extinction, including his detailed critique of this important new film.

LYNNE FEINERMAN wonders why we would ever bother with this film.

“A 4-year-old girl passed out in 100-degree heat after she was pushed back toward Mexico by Texas National Guard personnel. A pregnant woman became trapped in razor wire and had a miscarriage. A state trooper said he was under orders not to give migrants any water.”

Yes, these are scenes from something called “Operation Lone Star,” but the director isn’t John Ford; it’s Texas Gov. Greg Abbott — and this is real life, as reported by USA Today.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog added nothing of great value in his speech at the United States Congress on July 19. 

 His was the typical language. He spoke of a ‘sacred bond’, touted the shared experience between both nations as “unique in scope and quality”, and celebrated the great, common “values that reach across generations”. 

 But this theatrical language was meant to hide an uncomfortable truth: the relationship between Israel and the US is changing at a fundamental level. 

UPDATES: Issue 1 – RMLA – Courage in Cannabis launch

Several months have passed since the Ohio General Assembly decided to force its absolute power over statewide ballot initiatives with Issue 1, slated for an August 8th special election. This move is so foundationally important that it deserves tracking and updates. Here we go:                                            

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Reading the fascinating, apparently counter-intuitive report “Parched Peru is restoring pre-Incan dikes to solve its water problem” (Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, Dec. 12, 2022) helped me to crystalize and partially redirect more than 50 years of critical thinking as a scholar.

As a comparative historian, I taught, lecture, and write about the centrality of contradictions across many topics, in particular, the past and present of literacy, children and youth, cities, and interdisciplinarity. Among my books on those subjects are, for example, The Literacy Myth (1979 and 1991), The Legacies of Literacy (1987), and Searching  for Literacy (2022); Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America (1995); The Dallas Myth, 2008); Undisciplining Knowledge: Interdisciplinarity in the Twentieth Century (2015).