Back in the USSA: An ElegyOn this very day four years ago in 2021, United States vice president Mike Pence, presiding over the U.S. Congress, certifies the official tally of Electoral College votes in the 2020 election campaign of Pence’s boss, U.S. president Donald Trump... Jan 06 25January 06, 2025Article at LifeTimes
Dancing with Democracy, Flirting with FascismThese many long months of campaigning for president of the United States of America have now come to an end this day as voting begins tomorrow, 5 November. The world has been shown two very different sides of this thing called “America” over the... Nov 04 24November 04, 2024Article at LifeTimes
Gaza Protests: The Students are Not WrongThe long, hot spring season of 2024 has passed into history, and along with it the most heated of the university campus protests in the United States and other countries over the state of Israel’s ongoing war with Hamas, the politico-military... Sep 22 24September 22, 2024Article at LifeTimes
As the Flames Rise Ever HigherA former president of the United States of America occupies an uncomfortable seat at the defendant’s table inside the New York... May 05 24May 05, 2024Article at LifeTimes
To Pilger or Not to Pilger: Honoring a LegacyAs a journalist, author and documentary filmmaker, John Pilger has long stood as an unapologetic and determined foe of governments... Jan 11 24January 11, 2024Article at LifeTimes
The First 9/11, a Half-Century OnIt is early morning on a Tuesday, September 11, a day like any other day. Soon that feeling of ordinariness and calm will be shattered by two planes attacking iconic buildings. By the end of this day many people’s lives will be destroyed, a nation... Sep 11 23September 11, 2023Article at LifeTimes
Mr. B’s Great Adventure and the Power of YesIt is an autumn day in October 2002, and I strain to hear the radio in the county bus above the roar of the engine and the chatter of the other passengers, including my young son sitting next to me. As the bus winds its way through downtown Eureka... May 06 23May 06, 2023Article at LifeTimes
The Real Heroes of an Unjust WarTwenty years ago today, a United States president declared war and launched an invasion against a sovereign Middle Eastern nation, Iraq, citing an imminent threat to the American Way of Life (AWOL) and all that it stands for. President George... Mar 20 23March 20, 2023Article at LifeTimes
Going Indigenous: A Choice for the PlanetExtreme climate change continues to wreak havoc across the Earth, from crumbling coastlines to deadly droughts to killer hurricanes to flash floods to out-of-control wildfires, and beyond. The signs of a planet in distress are there for all to see. Dec 22 22December 22, 2022Article at LifeTimes
On the Trail of the CowardsBack in the 1960s, following the assassination of then-president John F. Kennedy, the district attorney of New Orleans, Louisiana, Jim Garrison, began casually looking into a few local leads in his city related to the Kennedy killing. Those local... Sep 23 22September 23, 2022Article at LifeTimes
Defying the Media Mantra of a ‘Great Leader’In death as in life, the late prime minister Shinzo Abe divides the nation of Japan. Following Abe’s assassination on a public street in... Aug 23 22August 23, 2022Article at LifeTimes
The Coat Hanger Diaries — America’s New Abortion StoryAnna Yocca was 31 years old when she tried to abort a fetus in her womb that she did not want to carry any longer. In an act of sheer desperation, she used a coat hanger rod in a bathtub full of water to try to end her pregnancy, which was 24 weeks.. Jun 21 22June 21, 2022Article at LifeTimes
When Tyrants of a Feather Flock TogetherThe world watches in horror as an act of genocidal war unfolds before our eyes, with Russian president/dictator Vladimir Putin unleashing his country’s full military might against the sovereign eastern European nation of Ukraine, located next door. Mar 21 22March 21, 2022Article at LifeTimes
A Supreme Teacher Continues On...A Native American brother weeps hot tears of rage as he recalls his time in “that mess” that was the American war in Vietnam in the... Jan 25 22January 25, 2022Article at LifeTimes
Free Peltier — This Time for RealSix years ago, I joined with many around the world in appealing directly to Barack Obama, president of the United States, for executive clemency for Native American activist Leonard Peltier — the longest-serving political prisoner in the USA. Our... Jan 22 22January 22, 2022Article at LifeTimes
Accolades for the ArchbishopIt is early morning somewhere in rural South Africa, the sun not yet rising over the horizon. In the dim morning light, through the slowly lifting fog — or is it smoke from the nearby shacks? — I am walking up some makeshift steps on the side of a... Jan 05 22January 05, 2022Article at LifeTimes
The Great American War Hero Who Wasn’tNews media worldwide are awash now with stories about the recent death of Colin Powell, a towering figure in the world of American military matters and diplomacy, at the age of 84 due to coronavirus-related causes. Past presidents of the United... Oct 23 21October 23, 2021Article at LifeTimes
Salute to a Soul SisterJanice Mirikitani and a friend are walking down the sidewalk, as the friend’s recollection goes, in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, California, USA — one of the city’s poorer and more merciless areas. Coming down the sidewalk toward them... Sep 23 21September 23, 2021Article at LifeTimes
Disinfectant Don & the Magically Downsizing DemocracyA half-year after the greatest crime against the USA that the universe has never seen — to borrow a Trumpish superlative — it bears... Jun 21 21June 21, 2021Article at LifeTimes
The Real American CarnageThe violent insurrection on the United States Congress a few days ago in Washington DC, urged on by no less than the Fake President himself, Donald Trump, intended to reverse by force a free and fair election. More than that, the insurrection... Jan 09 21January 09, 2021Article at LifeTimes
