Fifteen days and counting from Presidential Election 2020 reveal many lessons to glean from Pennsylvania starting with its longest serving U.S. Senator and former Senate Judiciary Committee chair. Arlen Specter, who began politics as a Democrat in 1951, switched to the Republican Party during the height of the Vietnam War in 1965 and back to the Democrats at the beginning of…
Author Archive for Michael A. Peck
Michael A. Peck, MAPA Group
Religiously American
Drinking its own partisan bathwater as celebratory bubbly, an infected United States risks missing opportunities to secure a holistic, systemically fair, universal access vaccine.
Please Put the Fires Out
We can only build back better when predatory markets value all humanity as precious, beloved currency and when stakeholder aspiration for the many supersedes the ambition, privilege and pretension tithed by an all-powerful shareholder few.
Wag the Dog & Punk the People
Labor Day 2020 To “Wag the Dog”, first you agitate and amplify the problem. Then you prototype and stage it in the nation’s capital in front of the People’s House. Once tested, you incite domestic white grievance terrorism in your opponent’s most vulnerable locations. In your case you infect majority minority neighborhoods belonging to cities, counties and states run by…
No Healthy Economy Without Healthy Workers
The facts are in, clear and simple, for all to see. “USA, USA”, the planet’s richest, most self-promoting country measured in individual consumption power with five percent of the world’s population, has let its guard down. Mismanaging its way to producing 25% of the world’s infected victims, “America the Pitiful” daily magnifies and exposes top-down structural defects of its “winners take all”, commoditizing and…
Who CARES?
The U.S. debate over pandemic unemployment benefits serves as archetypal cause and effect first, for how structural inequalities asphyxiate victims, and second, how forty-four million and rising unemployed plus over thirty million about to be evicted from their homes form a critical mass organizing opportunity to renegotiate. This second story, the overriding socioeconomic “elephant in the room” proves that demand for…
Let Them Eat Masks
Hard to imagine one news cycle completely capturing the existential “reducto absurdam” of our self-infected times. How America’s tone-deaf, tin-ear and tin-pot elected, appointed, self-appointed and anointed “influencers” mirror the “winners take all” culture they serve starting with its virus twins: lethal socioeconomic inequalities and omnipresent COVID-19. Within twelve hours and seven time zones of each other, the mountain toppers and…
Celebrating the Seventh Bankruptcy on July 4th 2020
Independence Day, July 4th, 2020: this year an oxymoron commemorating freedom to infect others. How to celebrate a country self-captured and self-defeated first by its big pharma-induced opioid crisis mostly impacting lower economic caste victims and now by a mutating bio-virus intravenously self-injected with elected and appointed leaders using polarizing civic tissue and cell cultures? A capitalist autocracy, liberal democracy no…
How to Hope to Breathe in America’s Epicenter Pandemic Economy
In normal times, the average adult human tries to breathe twenty times per minute. Under the pandemic’s lung-crushing shadow, exacerbated by reoccurring acts of white police violence resulting in more unarmed and undeserved black deaths, the simple act of breathing cannot be taken for granted. America’s Epicenter Pandemic Economy (EPE) inextricably links embedded economic inequality and racial injustice. It repurposes the most economically vulnerable from…
“The Right Normal” – From Russia with Partisan Love
For more context, start with How Trump’s Idea for a Photo Op Led to Havoc in a Park from the New York Times. Recent events show that the current and impeached President of the United States not only takes the word of Russia’s Caudillo over the word of all U.S. intelligence services, but also prefers his counsel to America’s elected…
