This week's Covid Relief Bill was a disappointment to those who wanted to the bill to be about Covid Relief, not a pork barrel deal for Big Business and the Military Industrial Complex. Here are the details.

Also, if we are going to win the fight for a stable climate, we need to demand that CARING for others be the number one priority of our public policy.

The proposals in these episodes are derived from the DSA's Ecosocialist Green New Deal -- Is there another kind? Some of these ideas are local in nature and specific to Louisville.

Some people blame our climate woes on capitalism, and I agree. But capitalism means different things to different people. It think it's more helpful to characterize our politico-economic system as a plutocracy, the rule of the rich. It's the golden rule. Whoever has the gold makes the rules. This is, of course, just the opposite of democracy, equality and freedom.

Most of us across the political spectrum recognize that government probably should not micromanage our lives, our communities or our businesses. However, government emphatically should occupy the commanding heights in every sector of the economy. That's what justice looks like.

Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are among the worst corporate citizens and among the worst emitters of carbon, methane and nitrous oxide. We would do well to take a hard look, and then resolve to restructure our food system to favor small, local organic family farms.

We Americans are supposed to be free, but we really don't have a lot of control over our time. This is partly because we don't have a lot of control over our family budgets. Let's look at major public policy items that impact the family budget and explore how we might unburden ourselves.

Ronald Reagan is the patron saint of "conservative" politics. But have his actions or his ideas stood the test of time. Specifically, was his war on Nicaragua necessary, or ethical, or legal? Empire is the most unethical enterprise in history, and we will not survive if we continue on this trajectory. It is sometimes helpful to have a few decades of perspective. So let's look at what Reagan had to say on May 9, 1984.

Fracking is only the most destructive of all the methods of fossil fuel extraction. But it is worthy of study because is recent and it is widespread. Plus, it is local. Therefore, it can be outlawed locally.

If we continue to make war, we can kiss our climate good bye, along with the rest of the natural world. The Vietnam War is only the most despicable US sponsored genocide in my lifetime. And the power elites continue to be in complete denial about it, while systematically indoctrinating generations of students and media consumers.

Solar panels and windmills are sexy, but regenerative farming is a higher priority. For one thing, no other industry in the world is so aggressively making war on nature than our industrial food system. There is a better way. Let’s call it regenerative farming.