Effective Learning Report
by Courtenay Barnett Personal recollections As a student in London, I occasionally marched and protested against that which I thought was unjust or simply wrong. Racism in general and Apartheid in particular in South Africa provided cause to venture into…
by Richard John Stapleton Some US white supremacists according to Facebook posts are finding out with DNA tests they have some African genes, and some African Americans are finding out with DNA tests they have European genes. I think this…
August 21, 2017 Did you watch and hear the speech Trump read from a teleprompter on TV tonight to captive soldiers in his physical audience at a military base and to many millions of people like you and me in…
Posted in the Intrepid Report on August 2, 2017 by Richard John Stapleton Donald Trump may be the most accomplished Game-playing president in US history. In real games there are clear rules; all plays and moves are transparent, not only to referees…
by Richard John Stapleton In industries in which there is inelastic demand, in industries in which people have to buy a product or service regardless of prices charged, free competition does not work in the best interest of customers. Prices charged…
July 16, 2017 The cost of not having a national single payer healthcare system in the US I’m not sure the cost is $1.7 trillion per year for US citizens, as this article asserts, but I would be willing to…
By Richard John Stapleton I have read several posts lately written by people on the Internet averring we are heading for another civil war in the United States, this one between conservatives and liberals. It appears violence or the threat…
Following is a podcast by Richard Wolff showing how to make small businesses and countries fairer and more productive using a democratic case discussion process. This discussion process is similar to what I used thirty-five years in my business school…
US neocon and neoliberal warmongers have once again gotten their way with no hard evidence justifying their illegal action. As usual the US people are about equally split on the issue, fifty percent in favor of the bombing, fifty percent…
By Richard John Stapleton Humans are voyaging in the infinitesimally short time of their lives in the infinity of time and space. The human race has been happening around Spaceship Earth probably about a million years. Earth itself has been…