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Michael Bonanno is an associate editor for OpEdNews.
He is also a published poet, essayist and musician who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Bonanno is a political progressive, not a Democratic Party apologist. He believes it's government's job to help the needy and that leaving the people's well being to the so called "private sector" is social suicide.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 SPUSA Presidential Candidate Has a Big Plan In the spring of 1968, presidential candidate Richard Nixon led the effort calling for the U.S. Congress to adopt a system of income guarantees. It was publicly presented by President Nixon in August 1969, adopted in April 1970 by a large majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and was later rejected in the U.S. Senate.
Monday, October 17, 2011 Occupying a "Street" Will Ultimately Fail (3 comments)
I remember Mr. Swanson saying something like, "If you've never been arrested for protesting against inequality, you're not trying hard enough." Really.
Saturday, September 3, 2011 Here's Tea in Your Eye (7 comments)
Unlike the clueless teabaggers, I want a government that governs.
Monday, August 29, 2011 Teabaggers; Children of the Sixties? (15 comments)
...teabaggers have hijacked the spirit of the protests which took place in the 60s and early 70s...
Saturday, February 26, 2011 Dedicated to Unions, the Saviours of the Working Class (1 comments)
The following is a song.
However, I'm hoping that this can be published in the OpEd section of this fine news outlet because it's an opinion held in 1936 by Alfred Hayes and Earl Robinson and famously expressed in 1969 in Woodstock, New York by Judy Collins.
Monday, February 21, 2011 Confessions of Frustration (1 comments)
I read the book WHEN CORPORATIONS RULE THE WORLD written by a man named
David Korten. I became even more incensed.
Saturday, January 29, 2011 I Soon Shall Find My Ki (Song) (2 comments)
The lyrics to the following song were dependent upon the outcome of California's marijuana proposition.
Sunday, December 5, 2010 The Masterpiece of Masterpiece Theater (1 comments)
Who could have been making meaningful progress happen since January of 2008? Barack Obama! If things have to happen quickly, he should have morphed into President "No More Mister Nice Guy" a long time ago.
Saturday, November 13, 2010 The Bending Cross (5 comments)
I've been learning since 1998 or so that there is no Democratic Party or Republican Party. There is only The Corporatocracy
Thursday, October 7, 2010 What Obama Should do in the Next Two Years (6 comments)
In fact, if his bill is voted down, I want him to use a signing statement to push it through anyway.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 Buy Nothing Day and the "Spirit" of Christmas (1 comments)
What Greg Gerritt does in Rhode Island and a few have begun doing elsewhere is the kind of "celebration" that Jesus Christ, as portrayed in most of the New Testament, would have wanted to see.
Monday, July 26, 2010 Waiting for Life's Next Move (poetry) (1 comments)
Meanwhile,
just lying back,
brain racing,
mind spacing
and
waiting for life's next move.
Sunday, July 4, 2010 Independence Day Wish (1 comments)
I've published this poem every year since it was first published in 2004. This year will be no exception.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 Who Does The Killing? (1 comments)
"No, I will not kill these people anymore. My mission is murky at best and I refuse to kill to support an obscure or illegal mission."
Saturday, May 29, 2010 Why Rand and Ron Libertarianism Could Also be a Disaster (6 comments)
One thing that I believe is certain about the Pauls is that they are not part of the political theater. They mean what they say and that, in conclusion, is what frightens me more than anything else.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 This is What They've Done to Us (3 comments)
I could never really understand trickledown economics... I never could understand how a rising tide could lift all boats if people can't even afford boats.
Saturday, February 27, 2010 Gods Of The Factory (song) "The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists""
Thursday, January 28, 2010 Serenading the Corporacracy (music-songs) President say he gonna help us pay for healthcare/as long as the insurance corporations rake in their share
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 Liberty Tree Releases Appeal for Move to Amend Constitution They've gone after our tax dollar. Our public services. Our jobs. Our schools. Our military. Our votes. Our future. Our freedoms. And the federal courts have helped them every step of the way.
Sunday, January 24, 2010 1984=2004? Our "Newly" Born Corporacracy If more people were aware of The Corporacracy in 2004, would The Supreme Court have made such an egregious decision on Thursday, January 21, 2010?
Sunday, January 10, 2010 Our Goal For 2010; Disprove Corporate Personhood (1 comments)
Ultimately, the answer is for us, the real human citizens of the US, to not fear the corporations, but to remind them that they should fear us. Without us, they couldn't exist.
Monday, December 28, 2009 This Blindness Can Be Cured (5 comments)
Please, people, this is no conspiracy theory. This isn't 9/11 truthers or birthers or Kennedy assassination investigators or alien invasion followers. I'm not judging those. Those may or may not be real.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 “Patriots” in the Health Care Debate What are some of the things these “patriots” complain about in opposing health care reform?
Saturday, September 26, 2009 Gerritt Kicks Off 2009 Buy Nothing Day Year in and year out for the past 12 years, Green Party national delegate Greg Gerritt has done for people what far too many members of Congress are contemplating not doing in the debate over health care reform. For the past 12 years, Gerritt has been asking people to put aside their obsession with self wealth and think of others who may be less fortunate.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 The People's Health Insurance Company (1 comments)
Universal health care is something the US government should be providing for American citizens.
Sunday, September 13, 2009 Taking the Trash to Task Before Barack Obama was even inaugurated in January of 2008, there was already one well organized web site dedicated to impeaching the then president-elect.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 Message to a Racist (2 comments)
This is fun, you know? And I'm not even finished yet.
Thursday, August 20, 2009 Let Them Have It (3 comments)
What I've written in this short article is simplistic. I realize, however, that whichever way it would work would be much more complicated that I've made it seem.
Thursday, May 7, 2009 Children Of God (9 comments)
One concern I had when writing Children Of God is that it would be too long. However, I wanted to make sure that I covered all of the "biggies". It's 7 minutes and 35 seconds long and I haven't even scratched the surface.
Sunday, April 19, 2009 And Then There Was This Two Year Old (7 comments)
A lot of the real estate upon which tax hating, tea bagging racists held their "passionate", "grass roots" protests were state or federal parks paid for with taxes. It would have been neat if Obama showed up at one of those so called rallies and said, "All of you tax haters, get off the grass."
Friday, April 3, 2009 Caution- Only you can prevent battle fires.
Monday, March 16, 2009 Democrats Can't Even Win Successfully Could it be possible that, even though these Capitalist greed heads didn't listen to their constituents, they actually have heard and heeded a message? Maybe these self-serving lawmakers have understood with even more clarity the message sent to them by The Corporacracy.
Friday, March 13, 2009 Bless Me Father (1 comments)
Bless me father for I have sinned.
Monday, March 9, 2009 EFCA - End of Factory Gods Returning to the Employee Free Choice Act, the myth that it takes away an employee's right to a private ballot isn't the only problem that our letter writer has.
Monday, March 2, 2009 Jamie (6 comments)
...priceless...
Sunday, March 1, 2009 And Then....... ...then dies your mind in hate...
Monday, February 23, 2009 Thread Does Not a Nation Make By the way, "Emblem makers offer sleeve flags in "right" and "left" configurations. The same should hold true for decals or other representation of the flag on the sides or windows of automobiles."
It's good to know, I guess.
Monday, February 16, 2009 Eugene Debs was a Socialist (3 comments)
The closest The United States has ever come to having a Socialist president was in the 1908 presidential election when Eugene Debs collected 450,000 votes and again in 1912 when he received 900,000 votes.
Monday, February 9, 2009 Is Fox Still Guarding the Thought House? (3 comments)
The writer gives no hint whether or not he'd been on an interplanetary vacation for the past eight years...
Monday, February 2, 2009 Fighting Tolerance (2 comments)
According to the letter writer, "it has not been proven that one's sexual orientation is something a person is born with."
Monday, January 26, 2009 More Disinformation Was the writer insinuating that President Obama's statement to Stephanopoulos was a prelude to reneging on that campaign promise?
If so, she obviously miscalculated.
Monday, January 26, 2009 Our Mother's Empire Never underestimate the power of Nature.
Monday, January 19, 2009 Don't blame it all on President Bush (4 comments)
As you recall, the PNAC is the neoconservative "club" which worked on answering the question, "Now that The Cold War is ended, what excuse can be used to continue to finance and build America's military?"
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Extreme East ...landing on their reason for existence.
Monday, January 12, 2009 Is Isolationism All Bad? "You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."
Monday, January 5, 2009 Societal Irrelevance (3 comments)
Right now, however, if all goes according to plan, there will be an Obama administration starting at 12 noon on January 20, 2009 and that administration will have much to prove and much with which to prove it.
Monday, December 29, 2008 What Goes Around (1 comments)
Taking care of those who do not work is but one entitlement which it seems the writer of this letter would "remove".
Monday, December 22, 2008 It's OK to say "Merry Christmas" (5 comments)
Let me say right up front that it is not my intention to marginalize and disparage any religious belief in this article.
Monday, December 22, 2008 The Liar Enter the drifter, soft soap intact...
Monday, December 15, 2008 Stupid Criminal Auditions What kind of criminal would go back to the scene of a crime to steal the rest of the booty?
Monday, December 8, 2008 Obama Will Revive FDR's "Failed" Policies (11 comments)
I find hoping that one's government will fail before it's even inaugurated among the most despicable and unpatriotic stands an American can take.
Monday, December 1, 2008 Why Can't Americans Learn? (5 comments)
It seems to me that, if The Depression and The New Deal taught us anything, it taught us, if the people in the middle and at the bottom cease to have money, then the people at the top will ultimately cease to have money.
Sunday, November 30, 2008 "Obama's Expectations Unrealistic" (compared to what?) (1 comments)
CEOs of large, multinational corporations are starting to crawl out of the woodwork in order to go to Washington and beg Congress for money.
Thursday, November 27, 2008 A Matter of Space? (1 comments)
I realize that newspapers limit letters to the editor to a specific number of words. This might be the reason why Obama opponents never seem to find enough space for facts. However, like the couple from Boise, many seem to find enough space for poorly veiled racism.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 all you need is pr and wood then theres that
impressionist portrait
of
jesus
in
my
kitchen
Monday, October 6, 2008 Only the Privileged Need Apply In 2000, the citizens of California voted to exclude same sex couples from the super special marriage club.
Sunday, September 28, 2008 What's in a Name (2 comments)
Anybody know anything about The Democrat Party?
Thursday, September 25, 2008 Debatable Opinions; Letters to the Editor (1 comments)
A tornado is nobody's fault. A hurricane is nobody's fault. An earthquake is nobody's fault.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 Debatable Opinions; Letters to the Editor As it turned out, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi forgot the bring the table and, thus, had no place to put impeachment.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 Debatable Opinions; Letters to the Editor (1 comments)
If those who wrote and approved The Constitution wanted The United States to be a Christian theocracy, it would seem that they would have been certain to include that fact in the law of the land. Alas, they did not and for good reason.
Monday, September 22, 2008 Debatable Opinions; Letters to the Editor In his latest ad, Barrack Obama notes that John McCain doesn't know how to use a computer and doesn't know how to send an email.
Sunday, September 21, 2008 Debatable Opinions; Letters to the Editor The debates can be very interesting, even without talking about lipstick, pigs and Paris Hilton.
Saturday, September 20, 2008 Appetite (2 comments)
Is it just that we are led by eating machines?
Friday, September 19, 2008 Debatable Opinions; Letters to the Editor If you think that this man's letter, which was entitled "Obama math", is about Obama's tax plan, then the brilliance of the letter has been realized.
Thursday, September 18, 2008 Debatable Opinions; Letters to the Editor What I do is to go to Online Newspapers. Despite the name, these newspapers aren't solely online papers as, say, OEN is. These are newspapers whose main audience might purchase them in print form, but also have an online site as well.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 Debatable Opinions; Letters to the Editor (1 comments)
All letters to the editor are debatable. Not many hot stories are broken via letters to the editor. They're almost always based upon opinion and even the opinions aren't always solidly covered by factual information.
Friday, July 4, 2008 A Letter to a Retired Activist I admire John both for what he did for all those years and for what he's doing now...
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 Independence Day Wish I have published this poem every year around this time since it was first published in 2004. This year will be no exception.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 The One True Political Party (3 comments)
...there is merely one more political party than Iraq fielded under Saddam Hussein.
Monday, June 23, 2008 Apathy (1 comments)
...although I'm not particularly fond of the format, I am passionate about the content.
