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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.
Thursday, July 22, 2010 Why Socialism by Albert Einstein (4 comments)
This article not is not only amazing because of when it was written, it's amazing because of who wrote it.
As long as there's a diproportionate gap between the rich and everyone else, "everyone else" will compete to become rich in place of working together to become safe and productive. As long as the rich are able to nonchalantly release people to the streets, "everyone else" may never feel secure during their lifetime.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 The Story of Bottled Water by Annie Leonard Those who say we no longer manufacture anything in The Former United States of America are wrong. We probably lead the world in manufacturing demand, especially for stuff we don't need.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 An Election Without Meaning
I've written several articles about the upcoming 2008 presidential election. In those articles, I've submitted that there, indeed, is no upcoming presidential election, at least not in the sense that the people are going to choose who the next leader of The FUSA will be.
There are several reasons I have given to back up that claim.
I feel vindicated by Peter Phillips's article at Project Censored.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Look at What We're Up Against (1 comments)
It's important to read what we're up against. These are the opinios of "your average Joe" about the arrest of legitimate members of the press. This is as sick as the actions themselves. As long as citizens feel this way, freedom will always be in the balance.
Monday, September 1, 2008 Amy Goodman Arrested (3 comments)
Amy Goodman arrested by FUSA Gestapo
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Thanks For The Support by Roy Zimmerman "Got that yellow ribbon stuck on your H2, thanks for the support."
Once you listen to Roy Zimmerman, you'll keep listening. Most of his stuff is satire and very humorous, but "Thanks For The Support" is a bit different.
Monday, May 19, 2008 "Workers Sticking Together to Challenge Corporate Power" David Johnson makes an excellent case why middle and lower class Americans should cease cheering for Corporations and begin to join their fellow workers in reviving efforts by their fellow workers to organize.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight (2 comments)
Jill Bolte Taylor experienced, first hand, the energy that connects you to me, you to the tree in your back yard, the tree in the back yard to your Golden Retriever and your Golden Retriever to me.
You've heard of dark humor? Jill Bolte Taylor experienced a sort of "bright darkness" and, though wondrous, there is nothing really humorous about it.
Be amazed!
Thursday, May 1, 2008 Want to Win the Immigration Debate? Start Talking About Illegal Jobs A group of heavily armed Hispanics breaks in causing good, law abiding American workers to abandon their jobs.
Of course, the next logical step is for the illegals to put down their weapons, change into the hotel room service uniforms and begin doing the work. Right?
Isn't that how one "takes" a job from someone else?
Joshua Holland of AlterNet clarifies the real "crime".
Sunday, October 7, 2007 'A Coup Has Occurred'
Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department analyst who leaked the secret Pentagon Papers history of the Vietnam War, offered insights into the looming war with Iran and the loss of liberty in the United States at an American University symposium on Sept. 20.
Below is an edited transcript of Ellsberg's remarkable speech:
Saturday, September 15, 2007 John Stauber's Interview With Democracy Now!
John Stauber, Executive Director for the Center for Media and Democracy, gives his impression of a plethora of groups starting to spring up to promote The Regime's criminal occupation of Iraq, including the group Freedom's Watch led by former White House Press Secretary Ari Ari Fleischer.
Also, John Stewart's review of the Congressional performance of General David Petraeus.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 Why Germans Supported Hitler (13 comments)
Read this article and ask yourself if you see yourself in its "mirror". If you don't, then you have the courage to know that what our government is doing in Iraq is wrong and that The Regime was overjoyed by what happened on September 11, 2001, knew about it ahead of time and let it happen or, if you have real balls, question if The Regime may have even been complicit in carrying it out.
Friday, August 10, 2007 Their War (new song) No matter what name they give it/it's nothing but war.
Thursday, July 19, 2007 Saved the Whale This is a story from 2005 and the link is to a place to which we don't link very often. Yet, the main character in this true story reminds us of how we're all connected by energy, that we're all one. It makes one question why anyone would want to fight that connection.
Monday, July 16, 2007 Zeitgeist The Movie (1 comments)
And they're imperfect humans.
And they spill into shadows.
And their yen for their yearning
is now a serendipitous existence.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007 The New iRack from Apple For those who need explanations broken down into their simplest forms.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 .Adultery Becomes Ho-Hum (1 comments)
The era of the Scarlet A (Adultery)in politics seems so long ago, especially today, as the three top candidates for the Republican presidential nomination are confessed violators of the commandment, yet their sins are relegated to surprisingly low positions in news stories about their prospects.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 .His Own Worst Enemy (1 comments)
While he is still as dangerous as any cornered animal, Cheney stands brightly revealed as the main culprit in cherry-picking the evidence to make the case for a stupid, failed war. He has been exposed as a vindictive, inflexible ideologue, who attempts to destroy all who publicly disagree with him
