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Author's Biography Eugene Elander has been a progressive social and political activist for decades. As an author, he won the Young Poets Award at 16 from the Dayton Poets Guild for his poem, The Vision. He was chosen Poet Laureate of Pownal, Vermont for his poem Pownal People. His three new verses for America the Beautiful:September 11, 2001 were widely acclaimed and read into the Congressional Record by U.S. Senator Chris Dodd. Dr. Elander has authored four volumes of poetry: The Right Click, The World Click, Journeyings, and Philosophy over Fika, all written from 2004 to now, in the U.S. and Sweden -- as well as two published novels: The Goat of God, and Turning the Tides, both available via Signalman Publishing on Amazon.com in Kindle and electronic pdf editions. A self-help book titled Empowerment:Taking Charge of your Life was recently completed and is available via Amazon.com KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing. Dr. Elander is a freelance columnist who published a newspaper for ten years in New London, CT. He is an economist and college lecturer, and has been an agency executive director, emergency management consultant, investigator; and former animal control officer, deputy code enforcement and health officer for Farmington, New Hampshire. He and his wife Birgit, who co-authored The World Click, divide their time between Georgia and her homeland, Gotland, Sweden. Several other books are underway, including a sequel to The Goat of God, and a public version of his doctoral dissertation on Cooperatism, a new economic system he developed which includes all stakeholders (workers, consumers, and the public as well as stockholders) in crucial decision making. Dr. Elander has been a member of the Stonepile Writers group in Georgia and the Poetry Society of New Hampshire. He is president of his own Elander Press.
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010How a TV station distorts the facts and the truth in Georgia! Atlanta's TV channel 11 Alive uses its so-called Bullfighters to distort the gubernatorial campaign in Georgia by ignoring major violations by Republican Nathan Deal while criticizing a harmless analogy used by Democrat Roy Barnes. That's most unfair and inappropriate for Channel 11!
Thursday, August 22, 2013What next, the guillotine for Whistleblowers? Just as the French Revolution had the awful guillotine mass beheadings to terrorize the population, America now has such terror tactics as the vastly excessive sentence of Bradley Manning for merely telling us facts we need to know. President Obama should commute his sentence, in common decency and simple humanity, now.
Wednesday, October 7, 2015Shades of Vietnam: The Horrors of COLLATERAL DAMAGE Once Again! The latest war crime in Afghanistan is the bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, killing more than twenty staff and patients and injuring many other severely. Such atrocities will continue until America ends its longest-running war, once and for all, and holds those who have perpetrated or ordered such atrocities fully accountable for them.
Thursday, October 29, 2015"Holding the Powerful Accountable" -- At WXIA-TV 11 Alive in Atlanta! Television so-called News Coverage has become more and more lurid, as this article attests, while often taking on elements of hypocrisy as well. In the case of WXIA TV in Atlanta, which calls itself 11 Alive News, judging from recent coverage, they have yet to learn this lesson: All crime may be news, but all news is not crime.
Friday, August 12, 2011Understanding Mitt Romney Since Mitt Romney may be the leading Republican presidential candidate, at least in some polls, his views need to be scrutinized thoroughly. His espoused view that Corporations are People is one that needs to be challenged, particularly given the Supreme Court -s similar thinking.
Saturday, July 3, 2010For Once, Michael Steel Got It Right! Republican Party Chair Michael Steele, for once, makes sense in his comments that the Afghan war is unwinnable, as has been the case with foreign powers making war in that nation for centuries. We should begin to pull out now.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013The Relative Irrelevance of Barack Obama! Now that the high hopes for the Obama presidency have been dashed by Barack Obama himself, what remains is largely a legacy of irrelevance, and a study in how a president can make himself a premature lame duck. Here is hoping for 2016!
Friday, April 5, 2013Don't betray America's elderly, Mr. President! The Obama Administration's renewal of pandering to Republicans in Congress by proposing adverse changes in Social Security and Medicare is both shameful and counter-productive. The Republicans will merely see these proposals as signs of Obama weakness.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011Two Miscarriages of Justice Two murder cases, that in which Amanda Knox was first convicted of killing a roommate, and then finally freed, and that of Troy Davis, who was executed in Georgia for killing a police officer decades ago, have many parallels but vastly different endings. Troy Davis, like Amanda Knox, was very likely innocent. America must stop all executions so that Troy Davis will be the last person subjected to this barbaric ritual
Friday, September 27, 2013Our Kamikaze Congress! The Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives is clearly willing to shut down the federal government unless its ridiculous demands to end Obamacare and take other improper actions are met. Like all forms of blackmail, those demands must be resisted, fought, and defeated.
Monday, December 14, 2009That's life, Tiger! Tiger Woods travails are of his own making, but also have a broader lesson for all of us at this Holiday season.
Sunday, July 31, 2011A Bad Deal With The Devils President Barack Obama has reach a Deal with the Right Wing Devils in order to get the public debt limit increased. America will come to regret this Deal, which is unwise, unreasonable, and unfair.
Friday, August 30, 2013The Triumph of Evil in Syria The three-year humanitarian crisis in Syria, now culminating in a documented poison gas attack on innocent civilians, requires appropriate actions at once. To continue to do little or nothing would indeed be the triumph of evil.
Friday, November 13, 2015Does FCA stand for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles or for Failing Customers Always? By highlighting the utter failure of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to fix a safety failure affecting many Jeep Grand Cherokee owners, this article also highlights the decline of the once-proud American auto industry into a morass of failure to produce safe vehicles, and to keep those vehicles safe. That is shameful.
Friday, June 4, 2010Israel- s Irony of Ironies Ironically, Israel chose the worst possible option in handling the flotilla of ships headed for Gaza, and that choice will haunt Israel for years to come. This article covers those ironies.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009Blaming the Victims of the Credit Card Companies Senator Chris Dodd has proposed an interim freeze on credit card rates and fees until the new law limiting those costs takes effect. We should support Sen. Dodd's efforts to prevent the further victimizing of those already victimized by the greedy issuers of credit cards.
Sunday, March 17, 2013The Ides of Yahoo! The shortcomings of Yahoo! are outlined as its new CEO Marissa Mayer attempts to take charge of this innovative high-tech firm in a very heavy-handed and counterproductive manner. She is heading for a fall, which will be bad for her, and bad for Yahoo as well.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011Tragedy and Truth in Tucson The tragic shooting of Rep. Giffords and nineteen others in Tucson on January 8 -- six of whom died, inclduing a Federal judge and nine-year-old girl -- points up once more how violent America has become. There are steps in this article which will reduce that violence and such tragedies. They must be taken now.
Thursday, January 31, 2013Rep. Doug Collins -- Off to a Very Bad Start! Judging from his early vote in favor of a failed amendment to require vital Hurricane aid to be offset by cuts in discretionary federal spending, newly-elected U.S. Repesentative Doug Collins from Georgia's Ninth District is off to a very bad start in the United States Congress. The fact that his office is making widespread robo-calls blasting President Obama is not helping, either.
Friday, November 19, 2010The Pot and The Kettles The House Ethics Committee's censure of Congressman Charles Rangel is vastly disproportionate to his minor infractions, and indeed lacks the mercy for which Rangel pleaded. The shame lies with the Congressional hypocrites, not with Charlie Rangel.
