Born into a union family in the Kansas City heartland with a rare genetic lung disease, Barker lived and breathed Democrat. The Democratic Party, she believed, was built to help people like her. But as she rose through the ranks, she saw a movement obsessed with moral posturing and identity politics rather than with the struggles of ordinary Americans. And when she spoke up, she became a target herself. And this led her to write: Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative pull back the curtain behind-the-scenes of the party’s transformation from working-class champion to elite echo chamber. Candid, fearless, and impossible, it’s essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how American politics really works. Rather than prioritizing policies READ MORE

Since China was accepted into WTO in December 2001, It had not fulfilled many of its promises for the entrance requirements yet, even when United States had granted China the most-favored-nation treatments. That is why Trump’s administration had to repeatedly initiate trade war for China to keep up its obligations as promised in 2001. Sadly, we have witnessed U.S Supreme Court’s misjudgement of the obvious problem on the part of China, and blocked Trump’s policy to levy higher tariff as a counter-measurement to the Chinese irresponsibility in trade agreement. In the same token, we had to levy higher tariff to Canada for the same reason that Chinese goods have high possibility to enter into U.S.A through Canada, and thus potentially READ MORE

Charlie Kirk’s assassination a year ago reminds of us why the Renaissance people value freedom of speech to the extent that “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Because that is how a society cultivate exchange of idea, trust, collaboration, and foster creativity. In that environment, there is no need for spy to steal other people’s invention, because true genius come from cosmos, and everyone of us is part of the cosmos. We all have some kind of sparks within each of us. Charlie Kirk is a life cut short, but had ignited so many for searching of truth, as there in great need for inquisition of the mind, READ MORE

As planet Neptune is enter into Pisces as of 2012 and now in the sign of Aries for the next 12 years, the feeling of super nature and surreal of the world is one of the common theme, together with that is the rampant occurrences of fraud and delusions. But as Pluto wading ton Aquarius, a sign of community, humanistic, public-sharing, egalitarian, more corruptions, scam, plots are being exposed under the sun. We need consider culture impacts and strict laws regarding healthcare, AI innovation and startup IPO valuations. Think of it that way: corporations ARE a form of government. Especially since some hold more power than most countries do. Silicon Valley’s most rich and powerful technologists are trying to end READ MORE

On Freedom is another book Professor Timothy Snyder wrote among the prolific outputs of his many works. Professor Snyder is one of the leading minds of our time on history of Europe, and on American politics. As a public intellectual, he has turned that knowledge toward counsel and prediction, working against authoritarianism here and abroad. Another historian, Heather Cox Richardson, praised the book as another magnificent meditation on the nature and meaning of humanity : “he rejects the idea that freedom is merely the absence of restraint, establishing instead that it is the presence of the conditions necessary for people to choose a better future.” Freedom as professor Snyder argued, is the great American commitment, but we have lost sight READ MORE

I am not a politician, I am a total outsider. As a Chinese immigrant, I am so exhausted pushing from both side of United States where I had been a citizen for 30+ years and Chinese government where I immigrated from. We had this good luck to get picked up by both side. My children were being persecuted by Chinese government who send their cronies here in United States to commit organized crime against humanity. Reed Galen is an independent, he left Republican party in 2016, but just did not feel Democratic Party particularly appealing either. He later founded the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump political action committee. Last week he was on the interview by David Sirota who is the READ MORE

Resist his usual penchant for economic and geopolitical analyses, former Greek Prime Minister Yanis posted an article on the heels of America’s 250th anniversary, giving his personal take on the development of United States over the last century with instances he had came to contact with. He recalled the American culture of the 1960s impacts on him: “Those were the times when a communal creative introspection swept across America, redolent of the possibility of catharsis. As Aristotle explained in his ‘Poetics,’ tragedy was never about entertainment; it was a civic courtroom. ” The following is the excerpt: “This is what America’s authors, musicians and filmmakers were doing: they were putting their deepest anxieties on trial. They recognized that authentic tragic heroes READ MORE

You shall not kill… you shall not steal …. you shall not covet your neighbor’s house … nor anything else that belongs to him. – Exodus 20:13, 15, 17 Senator Lindsey Graham suddenly passed away unexpectedly at home this weekend. He just came back from visiting Kyiv, Ukraine and was seen energetically from the media posted pictures with Zelenskyy. This is another shock since Charlie Kirk was assassinated last September (see Megyn Kelly Opens Up About Israel, Charlie Kirk, and the Past Nine Months, with Ana Kasparian) . We do not want to talk bad on people who just died, and I am not familiar with him. But Lindsey Graham is a senior Senator, and the chairman of Senate Budget READ MORE

In the book, Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions, Master Thick Nhat Hanh wrote: ” One of the main causes of our suffering is the seed of anger inside of us. Anger always goes together with confusion, with ignorance. Anger is born from ignorance and wrong perceptions.  You may be the victim of a wrong perception.  You may have misunderstood what you heard and what you saw.  You may have a wrong idea of what has been said, what has been done.   Every one of us must practice looking deeply into our perceptions, whether we are a father, mother, child, partner or friend. The Buddha never advised us to suppress our anger.  He taught us to go READ MORE