SHARE        Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Practice the One Percent Movements People! One percent of adults is about 2.5 million Americans spread throughout 435 Congressional Districts. In the Sixties, it took a lot less than that level of organized and committed people.

(11 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 1, 2022
Biden Democrats Are 'Deer In The Headlights' Against Dishonest GOP Onslaught Democratic political operatives are frantic and down in the dumps yet they cling to their corporate conflicted consultancies that are making it worse for themselves.

SHARE        Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Everyone Loses in the Conflict Over Ukraine It is too late to revisit the accords to stop the invasion but it should be proposed to introduce a climate for waging peace.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, January 24, 2022
Lost Opportunities In Joe Biden's News Conference When Biden signals his acceptance of only pieces of his proposals being passed he pre-signals defeat and weakens his negotiating leverage in advance.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, October 27, 2021
GOP Senators Reduced to McConnell "Mush"! McConnell is a daily, snarling obstruction of justice. It is not just political. He has psychological problems. As an elderly, pouting dictator he revels in being called "the Grim Reaper" and "the Guardian of Gridlock."

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Ralph Nader: What Gives With Newspapers' Graphic Artists? Pint newspaper editors alarmed over the shorter attention spans of readers who are moving to online news outlets. Editors have ushered in a golden age for graphic artists giving them huge chunks of newspaper space formerly devoted to reporters and news.

SHARE        Monday, August 30, 2021
A Beacon Rises from Capitol Hill The Congressional Progressive Staff Association (CPSA) has its historic work cut out for itself. It will take calm dedication, stamina, and wisdom while keeping their eye on the major objective - a functioning democracy.

(10 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Perfidy Meets Putty - Congressional Democrats Betray Voters Do you remember the promises made by the Democratic Party's presidential and Congressional candidates on universal health insurance? You can forget their pledges and somber convictions now that your votes put the Democrats in charge of the House and the Senate..

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, February 5, 2021
The Struggle Inside Senator Mitch McConnell's Brain We can't be the "law and order" Party if we don't accept that "no one is above the law."

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 9, 2021
Can Justice Finally Overtake Trump, Its Most Defiant Fugitive? If there is anything Trump dislikes more than being a loser (the election) it is being a two-time loser. Perhaps he will back down, play the victim again and with the help of a stable of defense attorneys hope that he can wear a pin-striped suit instead of an orange jumpsuit while wistfully watching Fox News behind bars.

SHARE        Friday, January 1, 2021
Georgians - Go Vote for a Long Overdue Raise! The GOP controlled state government has closed voting locations and is up to its usual chicanery and voter suppression.

(5 comments) SHARE        Friday, November 27, 2020
Biden Needs To Report Trump's Wreckage in Executive Branch as Marker The Biden Transition team is about to connect with the Trumpsters running federal departments and agencies into the ground. The Biden staff should prepare for serial shocks. Biden's people will be observing the first glimpses of staggering wreckage and corruption. They need to tell the American people what they find.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, September 28, 2020
To Democratic Voters - Up Your Demands To Trump Voters - See How He Didn't Deliver for You Before you cast your ballot let's toast your informed self-respect as clear-minded voters who can see an immoral, law-breaking, greedy Trump regime full of plutocrats who couldn't care less about America and the people they've exploited.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, August 29, 2020
Democrats Must Demolish Trump's Delusional Law-Breaking Dystopia Donald Trump continually breaks multiple laws. Yet the serial lawbreaking, lying Trump is playing the "law and order" card against street protestors reacting to fatal cases of police brutality.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Shouldn't our elected representatives be on the job providing essential services? Some lawmakers want a remote Congress so they can remain AWOL and pretend to deal with the many crises remotely.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, February 16, 2020
"Democratic Socialism" -- Bring it on Corporate Socialists! Crooked Donald Trump, the erstwhile failed gambling czar and corporate welfare king, is assailing Bernie Sanders for his "radical socialism." How ludicrous given Trump's three-year giveaway of taxpayer assets and authorities to giant corporations a perfect portrait of crony capitalism.

SHARE        Monday, February 3, 2020
Misleading Categories and Trump's Swamps Trump has continued the endless, illegal, brutal wars in several countries - wars that he pledged to end. He defies all Congressional subpoenas for witnesses and documents from committees that are investigating corruption, including his administration's regulatory responsibilities to America. His actions are harmful to all Americans.

(4 comments) SHARE        Friday, July 26, 2019
Only Civic Driven Voter Turnout Can Defeat Tweeter Trump Well-funded, vigorous voter turnout drives in ten states that are driven exclusively by the civic community. Freed of the shackles of the serial loser DNC, this independent civic drive can easily turn the tide in these key electoral swing states.

(8 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 5, 2019
Boeing's Homicide Will Give Way to Safety Reforms if Flyers Organize o understand the enormity of the Boeingcrashes (Lion Air 610 and Ethiopian Airlines 302) that took a combined total of 346 lives, it is useful to look at past events and anticipate future possible problems.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Let's Start a Kavanaugh Watch to Check All Five Corporate Judges A new Kavanaugh Watch group -- lean and sharp -- needs to be created to publicize the Five Corporatist Judges. Their unjust decisions, hiding behind stylized plausibility and casuistry, need to be unmasked and regularly relayed to the American people. Their speeches to the Federalist Society and other plutocratic audiences need to be publicized and critiqued. Importantly their refusal to recuse themselves must be reported

SHARE        Friday, May 18, 2018
Trump: Making America Dread Again Trump's marauders are raging through one agency after another, revoking, freezing, or suspending lifesaving health/safety protections. Weaker job safety, auto safety, air and water pollution standards, and pesticide protections spell death, sickness, and illnesses with their attendant family anguish and costs, including to taxpayers.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, September 2, 2017
Can the Politicians Heed the Lessons of Hurricane Harvey? While Trump tweets and hopefully reconsiders his earlier cruel budget cuts for FEMA and other life-saving federal agencies -- such as the Centers for Disease Control and the EPA -- the people are swinging into action on the ground. May they swing into wise and just action in the next elections -- both as new candidates and, high horizon, informed voters. For there is a much better America to be had.

(15 comments) SHARE        Thursday, July 13, 2017
A Clarion Call for our Country's Pillars to Demand Justice Given the retrograde pits inhabited by our ruling politicians and the avaricious over-reach of myopic big-business bosses, the self-described pillars of our society must step up to reverse the decline of our country. Stand tall in support of justice in these trying times.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Closing Democracy's Doors Until the People Open Them In 2006 a book was published called Losing Our Democracy by civic leader, Mark Green.

SHARE        Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Trump's Hundred Days of Rage and Rapacity The Lawless-loving corporatists have worked overtime to besmirch the word "regulation" (or law and order for corporations) and edify the word "deregulation," to help bring about their dream state of dismantled or weakened regulation.

(7 comments) SHARE        Monday, October 31, 2016
Why the Democrats Keep Losing the Congress Why isn't the Democratic Party landsliding the worst and cruelest Republican Party in the past 162 years? Just take a glance at their record votes and you'll wonder why the Republican representatives don't just incorporate themselves and be done with any pretense that they are real people.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 18, 2016
Harvard Lawless School and You If you cannot use the law to pursue your rights -- say health coverage -- under fine-print contracts or gain adequate compensation for your wrongful injuries, you are being strapped by lawlessness through the design of the power elites. They, of course, live under their own rules -- monetarily greased through their plunder of the political economy --

(5 comments) SHARE        Saturday, April 30, 2016
The Long-Distance Rebound of Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders is facing the verdict of closed primaries in many states which bar independent voters from voting for any of the Democratic or Republican candidates. Pointedly, Senator Sanders won only one of the five states with primaries on April 26, 2016: Rhode Island. Why? Because that state has an open primary allowing independent voters, heavily pro-Sanders, to carry him to victory.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, November 9, 2015
CEO Richard Master Masterminds Medicare for All Just when the prospects for single-payer or full Medicare for everyone, with free choice of doctors and hospitals, appear to be going nowhere, from Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley comes a stirring that could go national and make single-payer a reality.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, October 3, 2015
In the Public Interest: Monsanto and Its Promoters vs. Freedom of Information As the FOIA approaches its 50th year, it faces a disturbing backlash from scientists tied to the agrichemical company Monsanto and its allies. In March, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified the herbicide glyphosate -- which is sprayed as Roundup on many genetically engineered crops -- as "probably carcinogenic to humans."

SHARE        Saturday, September 26, 2015
Mass Media: Raise Your Expectations for Your Country The mass media, with usual exceptions, have allowed themselves to be pulled down to the level of the political circus. If the Republican Party's early primary campaigns for the presidential nomination had an elephant and a clown car, Ringling Brothers would be in trouble.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, July 31, 2015
Republicans Support Massive Tax Evasion by Starving IRS Budget The taxpayers elected you -- and therefore pay your salary -- with the expectation that you would be responsible legislators, but your behavior as Committee and Subcommittee chairs, along with that of House Speaker Boehner, regarding the IRS has been wholly irresponsible.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 19, 2014
Why US brain drain harms developing countries Nobody is forcing skilled workers from less developed countries to come to the US other than dictators, but if the US wants peace, stability and better livelihoods to have a chance, it has to tell its giant corporations to pull back on their gluttonous appetite to recruit the "cream of the crop" from these countries and invest in American skills.

(18 comments) SHARE        Monday, January 6, 2014
"The Country You Destroyed": A Letter to George W. Bush The Bush/Cheney sociocide of Iraq, together with the loss of tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers' lives, countless injuries and illnesses, registers, with the passage of time, no recognition by you that you did anything wrong nor have you accepted responsibility for the illegality of your military actions without a Congressional declaration of war.

SHARE        Friday, October 4, 2013
Congressional "Mad Dogs" Render the Powerful Powerless Why have all these power brokers suddenly become powerless, including all the business lobbies? One explanation is that hyped-up Tea Party activists can threaten primaries against moderate Republicans. In addition these "mad dogs" are in a feeding frenzy and cannot see any reality beyond their pack.

(21 comments) SHARE        Friday, September 27, 2013
People Want Full Medicare for All You'd think Ted Cruz would have used his time to talk specifically about the suffering that uninsured people and their children are going through, especially in the Lone Star State. Or about what could replace Obamacare other than his repeated "free market" solution, which is to say the "pay or die" profiteering, tax-subsidized corporate system.

SHARE        Friday, June 14, 2013
Obama: Sweat The Small Stuff For Big Justice The imaginative uses of the mighty presidency in American history and its bully pulpit have rarely been much above amateurish when it comes to helping people empower themselves.

SHARE        Friday, February 1, 2013
Serious News: In Low Supply From Mainstream Media While Americans struggle to address profound social injustice, national & local media wallow in trivia & idiotic preoccupations with ball games. It's important to bear in mind that over 90 percent of commercial radio is music and advertisements, all made available to broadcasters for free.

(4 comments) SHARE        Thursday, October 25, 2012
Capitol Hill's Rabid, Ravaging Republicans Has there ever been a more crazed, cruel, anti-people, corporate-indentured, militaristic and monetized Republican Party in its 154-year history? An about-to-be-released list of some of the actual brutish votes by the House Republicans, led by Speaker John Boehner and Rep. Eric Cantor, will soon be available to you from the House Democratic Caucus.

(5 comments) SHARE        Friday, September 21, 2012
Romney Is a Corporation Masquerading As an Individual for President If the Democrats are anything but inept and defeatist, they will wrap Romney around Congressman Paul Ryan, his vice-presidential nominee, and recover the Congress in November. The Romney-Ryan campaign is now hanging by a few threads, unmasked even before those millions of American voters who dutifully vote for politicians who disrespect and betray their economic plight and political powerlessness once in office.

(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.