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John F. Miglio is a freelance writer and the author of Sunshine Assassins, a dystopian political thriller. His articles have been published in a variety of periodicals, including Los Angeles Magazine and LA Weekly. His most recent articles have been featured in Truthout, Op/Ed News, the Democratic Underground, Counterpunch, Cynic, and Hippocampus. He has also appeared on Air America Radio and Radio Power Network.
His novel, Sunshine Assassins, has been called "a bone-chilling political morality fable," "wickedly entertaining," and "unforgettable."
(18 comments) SHARE Friday, May 11, 2018 Did Donald Trump Pay to Have His Research Papers Written for Him in College?
What about the young Donald Trump, the college student? Was he a wide-eyed idealist committed to honesty and the highest academic values? Or was he an unethical student happy to pay to have his papers written for him?
(10 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 2, 2007 The Conspiracy Against Renewable Energy
I hate to use the "C" word, but there is no other way to say it. There is a national conspiracy to prevent renewable energy from becoming the primary energy source in the United States.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 6, 2008 Time to Tax Super Rich and Corporations at 1950s Levels
Since the 1950s, the US has gone from having a very progressive tax system designed to spread the wealth to average Americans to a system that rewards the wealthiest, most well-connected investors and the largest, most powerful corporations.
(18 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 23, 2019 Why Don't We See More MAGA Caps in Public?
If the polls are right and Trump has roughly a 40% approval rating, you'd think you'd see a wide swath of red caps at any public gathering. But you don't. Why not?
(28 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Donald Trump Is the Living Embodiment of his Supporters
Trump supporters (both men and women) like the president because they are just like him--only without the money and power. Like Trump, they have no ethical core, and they frequently lie to themselves and to others.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 5, 2011 Balance the Budget by Taxing Billionaires? God Forbid!!
Recently, I did the unthinkable! At a town hall meeting in Sacramento hosted by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, I proposed an easy way to balance the $26 billion California budget deficit without raising taxes on average citizens and without making any budget cuts.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, February 14, 2020 Socialism vs. Capitalism? It's a Mixed Economy, Stupid!
Essay explains how the Sanders organization can put together a short elevator speech that explains to the mass public the difference between socialism, capitalism, and a mixed economy.
SHARE Sunday, July 1, 2007 Asthma Sufferers Beware!
Once again Big Pharma puts the screws to average citizens dependent on prescription medicine.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 21, 2020 China, the WHO and Donald Trump All Have Blood on Their Hands
The coronavirus is one of many viruses that began in China and wreaked havoc and death across the globe. Unfortunately, the World Health Organization and Donald Trump made the situation worse.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, October 31, 2011 Peaceful Reform Or Violent Revolution?
The upper 1% of the population in the United States has gradually but inexorably destroyed democracy and taken control of the country. Call it plutocracy. Call it corporate fascism. Call it whatever you want. But it's the same old story of the rich and powerful becoming a little too greedy and wanting it all.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, December 4, 2009 So Far President Obama Offers Little Change and Even Less Hope
If you compare Obama now to what people expected of him during the presidential election, he not only comes up short, but he's quickly becoming a major disappointment to the millions of Americans who voted for him. Can he redeem himself?
(9 comments) SHARE Friday, March 5, 2021 Will Trump (Like Manson) Be Tried for Murder?
Article explains how the new Attorney General could use the same prosecution techniques on Donald Trump that LA Deputy DA Vince Bugliosi used on Charles Manson.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, April 26, 2013 A Simple Example of How the Free Market Is Sucking the Middle Class Dry
The problem with our economy today is quite simple: The upper one percent has sucked the middle class dry while they have stashed their money offshore and left the general economy in a depressed state.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Will Barack Obama Confront Corporate-Criminal Complex?
So far, President Obama has called on Congress to pass tough new regulations on financial institutions and corporations, but will they go far enough? And will he be able to stand up to the individuals that helped him get elected, including executives at Citigroup, Lehman Brothers, Credit Suisse, and Goldman Sachs (his number one donor).
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 2, 2010 Free Market Elitists Gone Wild!!
With a financial system as unfair and corrupt as ours, and, until recently, with a populace as deluded about the benefits of capitalism as ours, is it any wonder that free market elitists have gone wild and feel entitled to glom billions of dollars while millions are broke and out of work?
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 1, 2008 Will Barack Obama Be More Like FDR or Bill Clinton?
If Obama and a Democratically controlled Congress do not deliver on a liberal/progressive agenda in the next four years, there will be hell to pay!
(16 comments) SHARE Monday, June 2, 2008 Who Will Try George W. Bush for Murder after He Leaves the White House?
Vincent Bugliosi, the L.A. district attorney who became famous for successfully trying Charles Manson for murder and subsequently writing the best-seller, Helter Skelter, has written an explosive new book that not only lights a fuse under our criminal justice system but challenges the next attorney general of the United States to blow the Bush administration to smithereens.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 1, 2008 Didn't John McCain or Sarah Palin Learn Anything from The Vietnam Experience?
"Like a lot of Vietnam veterans, I believed and still believe that the war was winnable," McCain has told audiences over the years. He feels the same way about Iraq-- and so does Sarah Palin. Two pea brains in a pod!
(12 comments) SHARE Friday, May 2, 2008 Economic Collapse, Huge Disparity of Wealth: Logical Outcome of the Free Market
God forbid the mainstream news media should ever mention this, but there was once a time in America when citizens thought of government as their friend, and no one with any brains took the theory of free market capitalism as espoused by Ayn Rand or Milton Friedman very seriously.
(15 comments) SHARE Friday, November 2, 2007 Hillary Clinton: A Win-Win For Corporate America
It's a done deal. The corporate power brokers who hold the politicians in their pockets like so many nickels and dimes have already hedged their bets and decided that-- barring any unforeseen circumstances-- Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee for president.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 3, 2008 Top 10 Most Disgraceful Democrats of 2007
There's no point in doing a list like this on Republicans. Calling them disgraceful would be an improvement, kind of like calling Hitler misguided rather than evil. Ditto for conservative Democrats, who'll share a special place in hell with their friends from across the aisle.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 4, 2012 The Battle of the Rich White Guys
Where Ben Cartwright was brave, strait-talking and honest, Gordon Gekko was ruthless, manipulative, and corrupt, i.e., a fictional representation of real-life corporate raiders like "Chainsaw Al" Dunlop, "Neutron Jack" Welsh, and of course, the current Republican nominee for president, "Bullshit Mitt" Romney.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 2, 2007 What Would Really Happen if the U.S. Withdrew from Iraq?
The conventional wisdom is that Iraq will descend into chaos, the chaos will lead to regional conflict, and the regional conflict will hurt our interests in the Middle East.
Do you believe it?
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, September 7, 2009 Obama Will Waste Billions To Fight Unwinnable Wars With Taliban and Al Qaeda
Granted, George W. Bush got us into the quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan, but instead of getting us out as quickly as possible, Obama is following the same prescription for Afghanistan as Bush did in Iraq, i.e., more troops, more commitment, and more dissembling language about “winning.”
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 5, 2007 Enablers of Fascism: Fatalists, Corporatists, the Uninformed
So who are these enablers, and why are they doing nothing to prevent the Bush/Cheney regime and their fascist friends from taking over our democracy?
As I see it, they fall into three primary categories.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, September 8, 2006 War on Terror Is Not a War, and It Is Not About Terror
Now that the mid-term election is approaching, the Bush administration is once again promoting the "War on Terror" as the ultimate propaganda tool masquerading as reality.
SHARE Thursday, April 3, 2008 Time for Young Americans to Stop Volunteering for Military
In the late 1960s, there was a famous slogan that emerged during the Vietnam War: What if they gave a war and no one came? The slogan underscores the point that although political leaders start wars and the military/industrial complex profits from them, wars would not be possible if young men and women refused to volunteer for military service, or in the case of the Vietnam War, allow themselves to be drafted.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 3, 2007 Open Letter to Mainstream News Media: Time to Call for Pres/VP Impeachment
Yes, this means you, New York Times, Washington Post, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, Time, Newsweek, and all the other mainstream news organizations that have let the Bush administration off the hook for the last six years!
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 1, 2006 Real Reason George W. Bush Will Not Withdraw U.S. Troops from Iraq
No matter how many times our poor excuse for a president has changed his talking points about Iraq, he has no intention of withdrawing our troops from that war-torn country in the foreseeable future.
SHARE Monday, April 2, 2007 Will the Real Democrat Please Stand up!
Last month, the Democratic contenders for president appeared at a forum on health care. Only one contender favors a single payer universal health care plan and has already co-sponsored a bill on it.
Can you guess which one?