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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 Wand'rly, Truthout, Op/Ed News, the Democratic Underground, Counterpunch, Cynic, and Hippocampus Magazine. 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."
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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.
Saturday, March 5, 2011Balance 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.
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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?
Sunday, May 2, 2010Free 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?
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Monday, January 4, 2010
George Carlin's Last Standup Book review of George Carlin's posthumous memoir, Last Words.
Monday, January 4, 2010George Carlin's Last Standup Book review of George Carlin's posthumous memoir, Last Words.
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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?
Friday, December 4, 2009So 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?
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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.â€
Monday, September 7, 2009Obama 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.â€
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Top Ten Ways to Fight Corporate-Criminal Complex How to fight back against multinational corporations that play American citizens for chumps.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009Top Ten Ways to Fight Corporate-Criminal Complex How to fight back against multinational corporations that play American citizens for chumps.
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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).
Tuesday, March 3, 2009Will 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).
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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.
Saturday, December 6, 2008Time 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.
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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!
Saturday, November 1, 2008Will 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!
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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!
Wednesday, October 1, 2008Didn'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!
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
The Great Financial Bubble Scam: How Wall Street Plays Average Investors for Chumps Ever wonder why there are so many price spikes and bubbles in the financial markets? It's because big investors and hedge fund operators manipulate the market more than you think.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008The Great Financial Bubble Scam: How Wall Street Plays Average Investors for Chumps Ever wonder why there are so many price spikes and bubbles in the financial markets? It's because big investors and hedge fund operators manipulate the market more than you think.
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Saturday, August 2, 2008
Goodbye and Get Lost! The Devolution of the Baby Boom Generation Baby boomers have no one to blame but themselves for the terrible shape the country is in.
Saturday, August 2, 2008Goodbye and Get Lost! The Devolution of the Baby Boom Generation Baby boomers have no one to blame but themselves for the terrible shape the country is in.
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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.
Monday, June 2, 2008Who 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.
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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.
Friday, May 2, 2008Economic 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.
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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.
Thursday, April 3, 2008Time 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.
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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.
Thursday, January 3, 2008Top 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.
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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.
Sunday, December 2, 2007The 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.
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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.
Friday, November 2, 2007Hillary 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.
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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?
Sunday, September 2, 2007What 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?
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Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Enablers of Fascism: Fatalists, Corporatists, the Uninformed Fascism exists in the U.S. today because there are millions of Americans who won't stand up for democracy.
Tuesday, August 7, 2007Enablers of Fascism: Fatalists, Corporatists, the Uninformed Fascism exists in the U.S. today because there are millions of Americans who won't stand up for democracy.
