In Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, the World Finds Hope – The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C. — The fight to save democracy and the planet is coming to a head. It may very well come down to whether Russia’s dictator-president Vladimir Putin lives or dies. If he lives, within days we…
Connecting the Dots
As the World Turns Toward Autocracy, A Chance to Turn it Around Toward Democracy
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — This country and the world seemed to be perched on the edge of a precipice, a double edged sword. While the world has appeared to be lurching toward autocracy in recent years, it appears quite possible that there is actually a way, a chance,…
When the News Gets Weird, the Conspiracy Nuts Turn Pro
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” – Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C. — When the news gets weird, the conspiracy nuts turn pro. It was Twosday, 2-22-22, at 2:22 p.m., 22 hours ago according to Facebook, when…
Time Flies When You’re Having Fun: New American Journal Celebrates Eight Years Online
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — They say time flies when you’re having fun. Of course that has become a cliché. The Roman poet Virgil first alluded to this phenomenon in Latin, in Georgics Book 3, using the line “fugit inreparabile tempus” which means, in proper English, “time escapes and…
Lessons from Frederick Douglass and John Brown: Lock Trump Up!
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Let’s face facts and tell it straight, never mincing words. That’s what we do here at the NAJ, which is why we have a loyal following — and also why we have detractors and even outright enemies who would at the very least put…
Another Big Chance to Slay the Elephant in the GOP Room: Codger Power
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sometimes you wake up in the morning, make the coffee, check the news and feel all hope is lost, like Frodo Baggins near the end of The Two Towers in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. That’s kind of how I felt on Sunday…
Joe Biden Says China Will Eat Our Lunch: Are Americans a ‘Silly People’ Devolving into Tribalism?
Also, Facebook Finally Peaked and Meta Lost $230 Billion in Value – “So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people – greedy, barbarous, and cruel…” — T.E. Lawrence in ‘Lawrence of Arabia‘ 1962 The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C.…
The Big Picture: On Winners and Losers
“Winners and losers, which one will you be today?” — Social Distortion Winners and Losers Video The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The California punk rock band Social Distortion summed it up in this song by Michael Ness. “We’re all good and evil … there’s cowards and heroes … lovers…
Creating a Blank Slate With Snow, the Year of the Tiger and a Federal Court Ruling with Implications for Climate Change
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — What would you be thinking if you woke up in the woods at dawn, with the ground covered in white snow, the world all quiet and the air clean and clear? It reminds me of a blank slate, a chance for a new beginning.…
The Big Picture: Who Do You Trust for News?
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If our democracy is so under threat, Covid is still surging, workers and the economy are still suffering, climate change due to global warming is all around us and we’re about to be at war with Russia, why are these talking heads on TeeVee…
The Fundamental Lesson from Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — I’ve got to write this fast. So listen up. A massive winter storm named Izzy is on the way from the west, or really swirling in from the southwest. When did they start naming winter storms like hurricanes? Anyway it will hit this afternoon…
One Year After Jan. 6, 2021: If Democracy is to Survive, Trump Must Be Tried and Convicted for Insurrection
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 6, 2022) — Not long after the sun came up on Jan. 6, 2021, while we got ready to watch Congress affirm the Electoral College results showing Joe Biden the winner in the presidential election of 2020, we found out that two Democrats had…
Letters to Santa: The Number One Wish is to See Trump Behind Bars for Christmas
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C. – We have exclusive, breaking news to report on the Eve of Christmas Eve. Inside sources with Santa’s elves tasked with reading letters to St. Nick and compiling the results for the jolly old man at the North Pole say the number one wish from…
More New Evidence Surfaces That Police and Military Officials Side With Trump Against American Democracy
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – If Donald Trump and his so-called “conservative” Republican followers — especially police officers and members of the military — really want to do away with any semblance of American democracy and install a white nationalist dictatorship here in the United States, I really wish…
Winter Solstice 2021: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Do not go gentle into that good night – Dylan Thomas, 1914-1953 Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning…
Democrats Govern by Raising the Debt Ceiling, Republicans Bash Them for Not Governing
What’s Wrong With This Picture? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – In this continuing fantasyland of two realities we find ourselves living in these days in the United States of America, no controversy sheds more light on the absurdity of it all than the battle to keep the government…
How Winter Could Replenish Us If We Could Get a Break from Crazy News
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – So I woke up Sunday morning as I often do, listening to the show “On Being” on NPR. While spirituality is the subject of the show, it is a far cry from all the noisy preachers on radio and television pushing their denominational brand…
It’s the Worst of Times, the Best of Times, a New Gilded Age
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it…
The Last Thing We Need is Another Day Which Will Live in Infamy
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – No one should aspire to being in a state of infamy. Yet it seems human beings have a genetic predisposition to end up there whether they plan it or not. On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl…
The Only Constant in Life is Change: Watch the National Christmas Tree Lighting for Inspiration
“When you are finished changing, you are finished.” – Benjamin Franklin The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – I must not be finished, because I feel a change coming on, a change in the way I feel about America’s national holidays. For most of my adult life, I tended to feel…
