(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, August 4, 2012
Open Letter to RNC Chair Reince Priebus and DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz When your two parties in Congress established this slush fund for the conventions years ago, they tried lamely to justify the use of taxpayer contributions for the conventions by declaring that televised conventions were educational presentations; live democracy in action. That didn't pass the laugh test then or now.

(7 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 15, 2011
Congressional Tyranny, White House Surrender President Obama initially threatened to veto the entire bill and make Congress drop these pernicious dictates that so insult the memory and vision of our founding fathers. He is already signaling that he doesn't have the backbone to reject the false choice "between our safety and our ideals," that he asserted in his Inaugural Address.

(5 comments) SHARE        Monday, September 26, 2011
As The Drone Flies... The fast developing predator drone technology, officially called unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs, is becoming so dominant and so beyond any restraining framework of law or ethics, that its use by the U.S. government around the world may invite a horrific blowback.

(36 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 29, 2011
Sun and Sanity No matter what Mr. Obama does to surrender environmental health and safety to corporatist demands, they will vote for him.

(29 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Obama Gave More than Republicans Expected Got Less Than They Offered President Obama's disaster began months ago when he agreed to tie raising the debt ceiling to a grand bargain with the Republicans regarding deficits and revenues instead of demanding a debt ceiling raise while he was caving on extending Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.

(12 comments) SHARE        Friday, July 22, 2011
Why not corporate patriotism for a change? It is time for American workers and taxpayers to say to corporate America that companies can't always have it both ways -- to receive all the benefits of American corporate personhood and avoid all the expectations of patriotic behavior and the responsibilities that go along with those privileges and immunities.

SHARE        Saturday, May 7, 2011
In The Public Interest From Charity to Justice The launching point for our discourse was my work of political fiction "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!"

(9 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 29, 2011
Why Obama Gets Four More Years in White House Obama is averse to conflict with corporate power and disarmingly expedient in compromising with Republicans, leaving the latter to argue largely among themselves. The political duopoly lets the tactical Obama use the Bully Pulpit to his political advantage, even if his principles perish.

(5 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 18, 2011
Waiting for the Spark How do we break the cycle of despair, exclusion, powerlessness, and endless betrayal by those given the authority to bring down the exploiters and oppressors to lawful accountability?

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, February 14, 2011
In the Public Interest: Civic Institutions Essential for Egypt's Revolution Not only Egyptian democracy is being threatened, but democratic & civic institutions are in danger.

SHARE        Monday, January 17, 2011
King's Gamble Bob King , the new president of the United Auto Workers , whose membership is down under 400,000 from a peak of 1.5 million in 1979 is rolling out an initiative to organize foreign auto plants in the U.S., expand the union's reach overseas and forge alliances with social justice organizations.