An article appearing in today’s New York Time entitled “End of Babies” describes the world wide drop in birth rates. With simply a rudimentary understanding of the “demographic gap”, which is what the authors are describing , they would know that children in an agrarian society were profitable as workers and essential for securing support in […]
NewsLanc research re Lancaster General Hospital was cutting edge
To: Doug McVay (Editor of Drug War Facts and the forthcoming Health Systems Facts) From: Robert Field (Publisher of the above) Re: Review of Priced Out, written by Uwe Reinhardt and reviewed by Adam Gaffney The above is a great article and very illuminating. I have ordered the book. Interestingly, NewsLanc criticized Lancaster General […]
JOE SESTAK: Why we need defense reform
TO: Robert Field FROM: Joe Sestak, Admiral (Rtd.) and former Congressman Robert, We have lost command of the Western Pacific to China, according to our Pacific Commander. Does anyone else in the current presidential field know how to reform the military to be more effective at less cost, by harnessing cyber and other new technologies? In my op-ed […]
Who Are The Victims Of Perestroika?
By Slava Tsukerman On October 4, 2019, Boris Chernyshov, deputy chairman of the State Duma’s Education and Science Committee, proposed introducing the new preferential category of citizens in Russia – “Victims of perestroika”. He addressed his initiative to the Minister of Labor Maxim Topilin. Chernyshov said the victims who suffered most during the reforms of […]
DOWNTOWN LANCASTER: I would have done it differently but…
By Robert Field, Editor and Publisher A lot of improvements have taken place in downtown Lancaster, some spurred by greed, politics and OPM (Other People’s Money). I had the extraordinary good fortune as a successful real estate developer early in my career. Everything with a single exception was done with conventional financing or our own funds. […]
LETTER: Court Denies Motion to Block Safe Injection Site
From Doug McVay, Editor, www.drugwarfacts.org I was checking twitter at lunch and saw news about today’s decision in the Safehouse trial in Philadelphia. Safehouse is the nonprofit that’s working to set up a supervised consumption site in the Philadelphia area. The US Justice Department filed suit to stop them, alleging that a supervised […]
Statement on Naval Suicides by Admiral Joe Sestak, Ret.
It was with a very heavy heart that I read the report that three young men serving aboard the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush committed suicide last week. The dramatic rise in suicides among our Navy and our military at large — as well as among the whole American population — is deeply troubling and […]
Marijuana Goes to House Floor with Landslide Victory for Safe Banking Act
By Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance September 26, 2019 For the first time since the war on marijuana was declared by President Richard Nixon, progressive marijuana law reform was considered on the Floor of the House of Representatives, and won by a landslide. Now, it is likely to be considered by the Senate. Yesterday, members of […]
HBO Mini-Series “Chernobyl” Makes a Sensation in Russia
By Slava Tsukerman Released this year, “Chernobyl”, the HBO historical mini-series about the explosion that occurred on April 26, 1986 at the Soviet Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the subsequent handling of the accident, received the highest ratings from viewers and critics all over the world. In Russia it became a real sensation, emotionally discussed […]
Fentanyl Isn’t About to Go Away. What Can We Do About It?
Drug War Chronicle » Issue #1080 by psmith In the most thorough review yet of the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, a new study from the RAND Corporation warns that its arrival heralds a new dynamic in illicit drug markets — and that is going to require new approaches for dealing with the dangerous drug. Last […]
Hemp Legalization Is Wreaking Havoc with Marijuana Prosecutions in Prohibition States
by psmith DRUG WAR CHRONICLES: After passage of the 2018 federal farm bill legalized hemp production, states scrambled to pass their own laws legalizing hemp and CBD. But in doing so, they may have inadvertently signed a death warrant for the enforcement of marijuana prohibition. hemp field at sunrise (votehemp.org) Forty-seven states have now […]
Comparison of N Y Times “Bahamas hurricane Dorian relief efforts” with our Hurricane Agnes in the 1970s
By Robert Field “In the Bahamas, Residents ask ‘Where is our relief’” The situation in the Bahamas is indeed tragic. Yet we see how ordinary people, especially momentary leaders, will take matters into their own hands and work together to get essential matter done. Hurricane Agnes in the 1970s that flooded our 264 unit Gateway […]
It isn’t over yet for Admiral / Congressman Joe Sestak
As many of you will already now, former three star admiral and congressman Joe Sestak has been spending the last couple of months campaigning for the Presidency in Iowa. He will likely have shook almost every hand and shared his views on the whole spectrum of issues with the electorate by the time of the […]
Call for end to corporations’ “rule by contract”
By Barry C. Lynn, Open Markets Institute: In an article for The Atlantic titled “There’s More Than One Way to Fight a Monopoly,” Open Markets Institute Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan and co-author Nathan Schneider lay out one way to restore power and true autonomy to people and small businesses. They argue that while efforts break up monopolies are important, […]