I write to suggest a new major initiative to move us forward on climate action: Another march across the US! As a veteran of six long marches, I’m confident a well-organized, well-funded climate march of up to 1,000 participants from the West Coast to the East Coast could accomplish much. Continue Reading →
Republicans just handed Democrats a winning issue: EMINENT DOMAIN! With nearly 2,000 miles of Iowa farmland in the crosshairs of three CO2 pipelines, most rural Iowans are concerned that their land could be taken by force.
The Poobahs of the Iowa Republican Party — Reynolds, Branstad, Grassley, Ernst, Rastetter — are all on board with CO2 pipelines.
What about rank-and-file Republican lawmakers? Hard to say, but it doesn’t look like legislative leaders have the guts to buck the Poobahs. Continue Reading →
Money. Politics. Religion. Those are everyone’s top-three choices for Thanksgiving dinner conversation, right? Ok, not so much.
But maybe they should be, since each has a role to play in fueling the endless growth paradigm — which is neither physically, economically, nor spiritually sustainable.
On this week’s program, we tackle the confluence of those three forces. Mark Clipsham (architect, builder, DJ) is my in-studio guest. We’re joined by five callers who share differing and provocative perspectives. Continue Reading →
Big-Ag and Big-Oil are behind these CO2 pipelines, and they’re making the same empty promises made by DAPL. This time, a lot more farmers and landowners aren’t falling for it.
Regarding this week’s Fallon Forum, thanks to all the listeners who called in. If you want to join us next week, we livestream the program on Monday at 4:00 p.m. CT. Here’s the flow of our conversation, with time stamps:
(1:29) MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Some Republicans like to quote King to imply he’d be against teaching about racism in the schools. Yet you never hear the same apologists use more provocative quotes from King. Leonard Pitts has an excellent column about this, and I reference it extensively in our discussion. Continue Reading →
Dear Friends, Here’s one simple thing you can do this week for our planet: Check out the New York Times’ “Postcards From a World on Fire.” Meeta Agrawal of the Continue Reading →
We humans. We’re a mischievous bunch. When one says “don’t,” our natural response is “do.”
Thus, my thinly-disguised attempt at reverse psychology WANTS you to look up … or more, specifically, to watch Don’t Look Up. More on that next week, because …
I also want you to look down … down at the 1,600 miles of Iowa farmland that could be torn apart by two proposed CO2 pipelines. Here’s the quick-and-dirty as to why the Summit and Navigator (Valero) pipelines are wrong, wrong, and wrong. Continue Reading →
Last week, a mentally disturbed homeless guy lit the Fox News Christmas tree on fire (fake tree, I might add). The arson wasn’t politically motivated, but that didn’t stop Fox News’ Tucker Carlson from saying, “Torching Christmas trees is an attack on Christianity, obviously. It’s an assault of religious observance. By current standard, destroying someone’s religious symbol would be called a hate crime.”
Oh, please. The War on Christmas is as phony as Fox’s tree. It’s merely a self-serving tool to advance one’s political and economic agenda.
No one has mastered that tool better than Donald Trump. Continue Reading →
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“Given the facts on the 2020 election, I’m surprised no leading Democrat wants to debate Trump. Well, when the bully Goliath taunted the Israelites and none would face him, David stepped forward. Let’s do this, Mr. Trump. Bring on your strongest arguments as to why you think the election was stolen. Like Goliath, you’re going to lose. If I can hang tough when Joe Biden pokes me in the chest and grabs my lapels, I’m certainly not afraid to debate Donald Trump,” said Fallon, referencing the January 26, 2020, incident when Biden told Fallon to “go vote for someone else” after Fallon questioned him about climate change and the Dakota Access Pipeline. Continue Reading →
Dear Friends, THIS WEEK’S PROGRAM: Cities Embrace Climate Action, Big Oil Embraces Greenwashing I’ve got four requests for you this week. Come on, do at least two of them. Think of Continue Reading →