August 6 and 9, 1945: Two Days that Shook the World…and the Earth
Back in March 1976, while working as a young journalist for the Evening Outlook, a conservative family-owned daily paper published until 1998 in Santa Monica, California, I wrote an article about...
View ArticleLet’s Rename the Misnamed GOP the BLP
We need to start calling the Republican Party by a new nickname that more accurately reflects what it has degenerated into. For well over a century the party of Abraham Lincoln has been referred to as...
View ArticleWhat Would a Real Opposition Party of the People Do?
We are currently at the mercy of a cabal of self-righteous Christian zealots with a 6-3 grip on the US Supreme Court and on Congress, thanks to an arcane structure designed by slave-owning wealthy men...
View ArticleHard-Fought Freedoms on the Line
The 6-3 ruling last week by the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade is both the culmination of a decades-long strategy by the Republican Party and the religious right to which it long ago tied its...
View Article‘Brave’ SWAT Squad Races to School, Then Waits 40 Minutes as Parents Scream...
In the Uvalde Elementary School mass shooting of 19 children we had on display the true nature of SWAT units, those Special Weapons and Tactics cops trained to take on the most dangerous of criminals...
View ArticleWar Secretary Austin Wants a Long War in Ukraine, Not a Quick Peace
We’ve moved into crazy town, with President Biden, who cannot get Congress or even his own Democratic Congressional caucus to back continued aid to families with children through the expanded child tax...
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The Bias in the Ukraine War Coverage
As Russian forces were closing in on a bunker on April 21 in the heavily bombed and surrounded Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, preparing on an assault on the “fortress-like” underground bunker where...
View ArticleDefending Ukraine’s Draft Dodgers
Back in 2015, when I was driving from Kuopio Finland up to the country’s far north to write an article on global warming and how it was affecting the Sami indigenous people of Lappland, I found myself...
View ArticleWhy Hasn’t the US Been Kicked Off of the UN Human Rights Council?
The United Nations General Assembly voted 93-24 with 58 abstentions to drop the Russian Federation from membership on the UN Human Rights Council, based on allegations and grisly videos and photos...
View ArticleRadical Elders to Organizational Meeting Next Saturday, March 26
Are you a veteran activist or a veteran organizer of progressive organizations and are over age 55? If so, here’s some exciting news. We all know American is moving into a dangerous period of...
View ArticleNATO is Not a Defensive Alliance
Reading US reports on the deadly Russian rocket attack on the so-called International Peacekeeping and Security Center in western Ukraine, one could be excused for thinking that the Russians might have...
View ArticleGermany Deserves a Big Share of the Blame for the Ukraine Disaster
Nobody is talking about the blame that must be shouldered by the German government for the crisis and humanitarian disaster in Ukraine. Sure Russia is guilty of a huge war crime in invading Ukraine....
View ArticleIf the US or NATO Put Fighters in the Air Over Ukraine We’d Have World War
“Clearly, in the absence of a U.N. resolution, which Russia would veto, a strong coalition of like-minded nations should step in and seriously consider a no-fly zone over the Ukraine.”...
View ArticleTime for the US to Take the Lead for Peace in Ukraine
The sad state of what used to be the peace movement in the US is on display today in the nation’s capital and on the highways leading to it. As a bloody and dangerous war is raging in Ukraine between...
View ArticleWelcome to the New ‘New World Order’
The Western nations and especially the United States awoke today to a new world today. After decades of hearing US politicians boastingly describe the US as the “exceptional nation,” justifying its...
View ArticleDon’t Be Too Mad about MAD. Somehow, It’s Kept Us from a Nuclear War for 77...
The latest events in Ukraine have demonstrated the ugly but effective operation of Mutual Assured Destruction — the frightening and incredibly costly state of affairs in this world that arrived in...
View ArticleHow Can the US Accuse Any Nation of Violating ‘Rules-Based International Order’?
Sometimes the hypocrisy of the US government, especially when it comes to foreign affairs, is just too much to let pass. The latest example of this is the Ukraine crisis, where the US pretty much...
View ArticleCapitalism and the Profit-Motive Didn’t Create the James Webb Space Telescope
We have two good examples of economic systems and individual scientific workers doing what they do that offer a good illustration of why the US is so screwed up, and why it doesn’t have to be that way....
View ArticlePentagon Fails Audit (Again!)
That’s what should have been the biggest news of 2021. Instead, the story, which broke on November 17, was largely ignored or buried. The nation’s two main newspapers, the Washington Post and the New...
View ArticleThe LAPD Murder of a 14-Year-Old Girl
The shooting death by Los Angeles Police of 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta, who died in a changing room of a Burlington Outlet store while with her mother trying on a dress for her coming 15th...
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