by Nick Patricca | Nov 3, 2023
In June, at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago, Governor JB Pritzker signed legislation banning book bans in Illinois public libraries. This legislation, initiated by Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, passed the Illinois House and Senate in March by...
by Nick Patricca | Oct 20, 2023
Friday 27 October 2023 at 6:00 pm at HAYMARKET HOUSE 800 W BUENA AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60613 FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Fifty years ago on September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet, Richard Nixon and the CIA executed a coup d’état against the...
by Nick Patricca | Sep 5, 2023
The Covid pandemic threw a harsh spotlight on higher education in America, exposing forces eating away at the foundations of college and university learning, calling into question the traditional purposes of such education in our post-modern, high-tech society. The...
by Nick Patricca | Jul 20, 2023
The two primary issues in the Writers Guild and SAG/AFTRA strikes are streaming and artificial intelligence. In my judgement, the AI issue, in the long term, is the fundamental issue. But, let me begin with streaming. STREAMING. In the 1950s, Screen Actors Guild (SAG)...
by Nick Patricca | Jun 20, 2023
In 2022, 407 billion US dollars of the Pentagon budget – representing half of that year’s funding – were obligated to private contractors of which a significant number were Private Military Companies (PMCs) involved in combat operations. According to the Congressional...
