top of page
All Blog Posts
Search


AI and National Security
President Trump's AI Policy On January 20, 2025 , President Trump issued Executive Order 14148 , revocation of the Biden-Harris AI...
Rick Bonetti
Jul 134 min read
Â
Â
Â


OBBB and the Oregon Environment
The OBBB is the most anti-environment and anti-climate bill in history.
Rick Bonetti
Jul 52 min read
Â
Â
Â


A New Planetary Nationalism?
While I am encouraged by The Center from Christogenesis' support of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's notion of the noosphere, I am disturbed by a techno-optimist push toward planetary nationalism
Rick Bonetti
Jun 173 min read
Â
Â
Â


46 Programs Trump Wants to Eliminate
"Trump is running the Republican Party and asserting presidential power in ways unseen in American history. His requests are taken...
Rick Bonetti
Jun 34 min read
Â
Â
Â


Civil Resistance
"It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising. It’s time for Americans in universities, law, business, nonprofits and the...
Rick Bonetti
Apr 182 min read
Â
Â
Â


Panicans
On April 7, 2025 President Trump posted on Truth Social: "Don't be a PANICAN (a new party based on Weak and Stupid people.)" The name is...
Rick Bonetti
Apr 161 min read
Â
Â
Â


India - Between China, the West, and the Global South
Presented via Zoom by WorldOregon, in conjunction with the annual Great Decisions series at Portland State University, March 14, 2025...
Rick Bonetti
Apr 121 min read
Â
Â
Â


The Current U.S. Trade War with China
I write about the current U.S. trade war with China in order to try to make sense of the incomprehensible. Will we ever again have an...
Rick Bonetti
Apr 123 min read
Â
Â
Â


Earth Community
David Korten , in his 1995 book When Corporations Rule the World , tried to make a case for the unworkability of current economic systems...
Rick Bonetti
Apr 75 min read
Â
Â
Â


Responding to Cruelty, Bullying and Chaos
On March 17, 2025 Aspen Initiative (Wisdon From the Top of the World) offered a free webinar with some of the foremost non-dual...
Rick Bonetti
Mar 292 min read
Â
Â
Â


Revenge/Tribute Politics & U.S. Hegemony
Some are dealing with the current crisis and chaos in American politics by taking a break from media. I choose the opposite approach by...
Rick Bonetti
Mar 152 min read
Â
Â
Â


Not Talking about Climate Change
Reference to "Climate Change" is being scrubbed from Federal government websites. Politico reported on January 31, 2025 that according...
Rick Bonetti
Feb 62 min read
Â
Â
Â


The Politics of Science
How do the policies of Project 2025 Â reflect the published RNC Platform? How does the Heritage Foundation's blueprint for changing the...
Rick Bonetti
Aug 26, 20244 min read
Â
Â
Â
![[Inside] The Movement](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3a5833_b0db2f4adc824e708c48cc4c39f49e52~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_35,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/3a5833_b0db2f4adc824e708c48cc4c39f49e52~mv2.webp)
![[Inside] The Movement](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3a5833_b0db2f4adc824e708c48cc4c39f49e52~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_95,enc_avif,quality_auto/3a5833_b0db2f4adc824e708c48cc4c39f49e52~mv2.webp)
[Inside] The Movement
Inside the Movement (ITM) is "a team of climate activists and journalists - the folks at EarthRise, Fossil Free Media, One Earth, The...
Rick Bonetti
May 17, 20242 min read
Â
Â
Â


Oregon's 2024 Legislative Session
According to Alan Journet, "SOCAN's Federal and State Project Team survived a rather bland 2024 Oregon Legislative Session." during which...
Rick Bonetti
Apr 9, 20242 min read
Â
Â
Â


National Week of Conversation
April 15-21, 2024 is National Week of Conversation - "An opportunity for Americans to show up for each other and for the country we love....
Rick Bonetti
Apr 2, 20242 min read
Â
Â
Â


Merchants of Doubt
There are deep connections between politics and the fossil fuel industry and campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established...
Rick Bonetti
Mar 22, 20243 min read
Â
Â
Â


State of the Union
On March 6, 2024, President Biden delivered his 68-minute State of the Union address to Congress. It was a partisan message intended to...
Rick Bonetti
Mar 13, 20242 min read
Â
Â
Â


An Ecospiritual Hub for an Ecological Civilization
Wikipedia defines "ecological civilization" as "the hypothetical concept that describes the alleged final goal of social and...
Rick Bonetti
Jan 7, 20242 min read
Â
Â
Â


The Fight Is Not Over
On December 20, 2023 the Oregon Court of Appeals found that Oregon’s cornerstone Climate Protection Program was "invalid on procedural...
Rick Bonetti
Dec 22, 20232 min read
Â
Â
Â
bottom of page