Free verse worry about the human future. No worries, mate. She be good. Fair dinkum.
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Parasites-poem-Future_Parasites_Poem_Worry-240226-704.html
On this day in art history, March 29, Madeleine Knobloch's artist-lover died in Paris. She was born in 1868, and was a working class woman and artist's model. Her artist-lover was, at 31, was nea...
The American social psychologist Jonathan Haidt (born in 1963; Ph.D. in social psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 1992) of New York University's Stern School of Business has published a dist...
After 30 years, Western democracies need to reaffirm the results of the Cold War. To do this, democracies need to really defeat Russia! But to do this, residents of Western democracies will have ...
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Two-steps-to-save-Ukraine-Russia_Ukraine-240328-535.html
This is an interview with journalist Hussein Askary to get his take on the various issues surrounding Iraq today.
With his perfect tan and slicked-back hair, California Governor Gavin Newsom stood at a podium at Sacramento's Cal Expo in late September 2020 and announced an executive order requiring all new p...
This is the introduction to a new series, that is the serialization of the third version (2013) my 1996 book: "The 15% Solution: How the Republican Religious Right Took Control of the U.S., 1981-...
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Introduction-to-the-2024-S-Republican-240327-923.html
Can you draw a map of your bioregion? When does your rainy season begin? In your region, where does rainfall go? Where does your kitchen and bathroom wastewater go?
Part of the problem, according to experts, is that Haitian armed groups have grown more autonomous, and force alone will not resolve the growing security crisis.
Not so good news for modern man. Are you sitting down. Of course you are.
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Easter-2024-poem-Breakdown_Easter_Faux-News-240314-277.html
"The Old World is dying and the new world is struggling to be born: now is the time for monsters" wrote Antonio Gramsci But Arundhati Roy adds "Another world is not only possible, she is on her w...
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Points-of-inspiring-light-Hope-240327-533.html
The 60s was my holocaust. It burned up my childhood to a cinder. But like the protagonist in The Giver, at the end of the 60s, my spirit was rescued by the color red. .
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Reflection-on-my-poem-See-Pacifism-240327-921.html
Poor tenants and landlords constantly living in debt do not affect the real estate market. The current situation in the rental market depends on the federal and local governments. But these force...
Who are the new Russian agents in America and what is the proof?
The shrinking map of Palestine first drawn by my son in 1998 is now ubiquitous. This flood of information and memes grew in the past 6 months despite the whitewashing and hiding of information in...
An Easter sonnet for Easter, Jwsus plays the blues. It's gettin hard to be a savior of a world that don't want none.
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Jesus-s-Serious-Last-Doubt-Blues_Easter_Jesus_Poem-240326-153.html
It's been a week since the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue outside Moscow. According to Russian investigators 139 people have been killed 137 of them gunned down indiscrimi...
https://www.opednews.com/articles/One-week-after-terrorist-Terrorist-Attack-240326-29.html
The White House released its budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2025 on March 11th, and the news was depressingly familiar: $895 billion for the Pentagon and work on nuclear weapons at the Departmen...
Even "Democracy Now," even Amy Goodman are not immune from disseminating Russophobia. They too can be fooled by the Grand Wurlitzer of U.S. propaganda.
A bookie was owed a lot of money, apparently, and Ohtani did, or didn't try to pay him off for his interpreter, but didn't notice a bunch of money missing from his bank account. Or something.
Situation in Gaza makes life hell for the residents. In this mixture of items the Happiness Index shows the U.S. slipping below 20 for the first time. Lastly an update on climate change.
I've been describing this world of ours, such as it is, for almost 23 years at TomDispatch. I've written my way through three-and-a-half presidencies -- god save us, it could be four in November!...
This article describes the author's proposals to two U.S. presidential candidates for the 2024 election and their responses.
This is an interview with Palestinian activist Jafar Ramini to talk about the latest Israeli aggression on Gaza
If I had a nickel for every time I have heard a Black friend, associate and even relative loudly complain that all these illegal immigrants pouring into the country are taking jobs from Blacks an...
This is an interview with Alexander Markovics, the chief of the Suworow Institute in Vienna, to talk about the latest developments between Russia and the West
Would Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Candidate Sherlett Hendy Newbill confront the status quo and fight for the vulnerable students who depend on the District to provide the Special ...
https://www.opednews.com/articles/LAUSD-Candidate-Sherlett-H-Los-Angeles-240323-245.html
In this wide-ranging and associative and digressive and lengthy essay, I commemorate my memorable year of living in Manhattan and teaching English at City College/CUNY in 1975-1976. I focus of fo...
"Race, racism, and political activism will always be flashpoint issues in America," says political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson. The proof he says is American Journalist, the YouTube Documentary...
It's world water day. And I feel like flipping a cheerleadr high in the sky! Okay, it's a day or so lter. I forgot. Imagine being a water creature and forgetting water day, f*ck.
Everything that is ours is yours. / Be sure to bring your Prozac and your Zantac and your kayak
https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-exuberant-invitation-Poems_Poetry-240322-659.html
Monotheism and nationalism are far from opposites in how they use propaganda. Both use sacred texts; mark social time with special occasions; mark social space with territories and each expects p...
32,000 confirmed civilians murdered in the genocide on Gaza till now (and thousands more missing under the rubble). Genocide by US sponsored Israeli junta military both by carpet bombings and by ...
The prospect of a Donald Trump presidency poses a threat to our democracy. Adding to that danger, surveys show that many Americans are craving for an authoritarian leader. Sadly, they don't under...
A sonnet on Sakman Rusgdie in preparation for a review of his memoir on his recent stabbing by a fatwa guy,
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Sonnet-Morbidly-Obese-Wa-Fatwa_Memoir-240321-861.html
This article talks about the latest developments on the starvation of the people of Gaza
This is an essay/review on the film American Fiction, with a particular concern about its message.
The Left and Progressives in Congress will go along with this ban because they're spineless political jellyfishes, and because they've all lined up like good little minions -- meek and mild -- be...
Trump is clearly a fascist threat. And, especially if Republican fair-election-cheating flourishes, he could become President once again. But Trump would not make it there on his own, no matter h...
We should already be talking about what it would be like, if Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, to live under a developing autocracy. Beyond the publicized plans of those around him to gut the ...
This war has messes with my immune system / (I think this war it has shortened my life) / This war is like a strong wind blowing through my brain
https://www.opednews.com/articles/This-war-Poems_Poetry_Violence-War-240320-283.html
Like disastrous ideas arisen from the panic of war that become hard to shake off (nuclear weapons, the humvee, Henry Kissinger), we're burdened with this clock-switching routine, even though it's...
https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Pro-Peace-Case-to-Stop-Germany-240320-69.html
To garner votes for Biden in the face of Gaza, there needs to be a new bargain about how to reclaim our foreign policy to realign it with our democratic ideals.
Even with instant approval, the long life of the average car means that ADB headlights would take years to completely supplant "traditional" headlights ... and NHTSA pettifogging keeps pushing th...
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Frozen-In-The-Headlights--Transportation-Safety-240319-678.html
New photos clearly prove that explosions ignited inside the Fukushima nuclear reactors during the 2011 disaster. Authorities now pretend that there are new questions to be answered. The American ...
Here's a pristine example of acting without caution: A few years ago, while my neighbor and I talked near my strawberry patch, a swarm of ants suddenly appeared. "I have a can of poison on my por...
We're moving toward a Nov. 5 presidential election to decide between a malevolent psychopath and a cognitively impaired genocide supporter. What is the right thing to do for a rational Democrat w...
Judge Scott McAfee in Georgia ruled that Fani Willis could continue to prosecute Donald Trump. He also required her to step down or fire her former lover, Nathan Wade.
The fact that even in 2024, a dictator like Putin can get away with attacking another sovereign nation, killing his own people, holding a sham election, and yet still have a seat in the United Na...
None of the candidates, nor anyone else, is qualified to rule "the United States," or the people who live here.----That's true regardless of HOW the ruler is chosen, and it doesn't really matter ...
Democrats and other supporters of Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, must make clear that it helps all Americans, not just the poor and other new enrollees.
Donald Trump's use of the slogan "America First" to describe his approach in foreign and domestic policy is remarkable because, over the past century, "America First" has acquired some very unsav...
American Journalist is a YouTube Documentary that chronicles the literary and political activism of Earl Ofari Hutchinson who Wikipedia labels "American Journalist."
It's been almost two months since the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to stop killing Gazans and destroying their means of subsistence. So let's look back and ask (1) how Israel has...
Monday night (video here), three of five City Council Members in Charlottesville, Virginia, voted No on a resolution (in agenda packet here) in support of a ceasefire in Gaza.
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Charlottesville-City-Counc-Ceasefire_City-Council-240318-803.html
Pupunu and Trotto represent the resilience of the Maui community, which has been rebuilding since last August's wildfires.
This is an article in support of justice in Gaza and in the US--the country encouraging and funding genocide.
In an age when American presidents routinely boast of having the world's finest military, where nearly trillion-dollar war budgets are now a new version of routine, let me bring up one vitally im...
A group of "loving" and "kind" activists clutch their pearls over the label of "bigots" while they angrily denounce the LGBTQ community at a meeting of the Northridge East Neighborhood Council Ed...
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Hate-on-a-Saturday-Morning-Hate-Crimes-240317-213.html
We remember our friend Rachel Corrie, an American student murdered in Rafah 21 years ago (see rachelcorriefoundation.org). Like the 150,000+ Palestinians murdered by the Israeli colonial regime o...
I remember/The day my youth ended / When my brother asked me / Have you thought about the draft?
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Seeing-red-Pacifism_Violence-War-240317-229.html
SUNDAY REFLECTION: I'm sorry. I find it impossible to comment on "God's word" that has been invoked so cynically to justify the sadistic slaughter of far more than 31,200 innocents, more than hal...
https://www.opednews.com/articles/My-Homilist-s-Writer-s-Blo-Israel-240316-293.html
A celebration of all things ancient Boston St. Paddy days of yore. Go Broons!
https://www.opednews.com/articles/St-Paddy-s-Day-2024-Bloody-Sunday_Day-Of-The-Dead-240314-545.html
Do the stupidest, shallowest, most self-centered or delusional, narrow minded, sickest people make the most history?
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Greg-Braden-on-the-Psalms-Peace_War_Prophecy-240316-872.html
The article describes German positions on human rights and the country's democratic values, and questions the country's inconsistencies in this area, particularly with regard to its relations in ...
Among the slew of similarities and differences between the U.S.'s FARA and the Russian "foreign agent" law, there's one thing that these two have in common - the stigma they produce. While the U....
The proposed TikTok ban isn't about "national security," nor is it about your privacy.----It's about cultivating short-term moral panic for their political benefit.----It's about establishing the...
This article talks about the latest tension between the Syrian army and radical islamc terrorist groups in Idlib
It didn't matter that I'm a political genius; the AI was against me, and that was all that mattered.
"Real-ID", with nationwide agency information sharing, still presents a grave danger to privacy.
Would LAUSD Candidate Karla Griego confront the status quo and fight for the vulnerable students who depend on the District to provide the Special Education services that they need?
https://www.opednews.com/articles/LAUSD-Candidate-Karla-Grie-Los-Angeles-240315-204.html
Article notes the birthday of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and his idealism. How far is the peace away from his dream?
The US government isn't telling us everything it knows about UFOs. And we can be certain that at least some of what it IS telling us is untrue.
https://www.opednews.com/articles/UFOs-Don-t-Expect-The-Tru-UFOs-240315-261.html
At the end of February European Union member countries agreed on a 13th round of sanctions against Russia though they face mounting criticism that the restrictions already in force are failing to...
1200 words reminding us that people's God-given role is to protect life, not to destroy it as is being done in Gaza. Based on work of Robin Wall Kimmerer and Charles Eisenstein.
In Pope Francis' new 2024 book Life: My Story Through History, with the Italian journalist Fabio Marchese Ragona, translated from the Italian by Aubrey Botsford (HarperOne/ HarperCollins), the fi...
The existence of Anti-Semitism, goes back to before the Common Era. It was first organized, under the "Jews Killed Christ" mythology, by St. Augustine in the 5th century. A contemporary anti-Semi...
Muslims, Christians, Bahai, Druze, many Jews and others (some 15-16 million people) see Palestine as their COLLECTIVE home, to be shared in a secular democratic state. But Zionists Jews (4 millio...
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Timely-quotes-then-seven-i-Genocide-240314-756.html
Poem inspired by a streaming view of The Fabulous Baker Boys. Mose Allsion is missed.
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Remembering-Mose-Allison--Poem-240226-550.html
"The Souls of Black Folks" originally written as a novel by W.E.B. DuBois is now a poem, more or less, for the 21st century as the struggle for egalitarianism and freedom continue, perhaps, even ...
In reading letters from World War II, the author discovered that NOW is as it was THEN (80 years to the day) with authoritarian rejection of the natural and universal principle of EQUALIY. Today ...
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Now-and-Then-Now-as-Then-Ukraine-240314-213.html
I escaped yesterday into small-town America and enjoyed it even as a Martian in a MAGA venue.
Recently my partner and I had brunch with some old comrades, folks I first met in the 1996 fight to stop the state of California from outlawing affirmative action. Sadly, we lost that one and, al...
People elect representatives of their choice so that their wishes are carried out. They would expect their day-to-day life needs to be fulfilled. In addition, simple folks would wish people in th...
Sherlett Hendy Newbill has the knowledge and experience needed to be the passionate leader that the students of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) BD1 deserve for their member of the Sch...
https://www.opednews.com/articles/LAUSD-BD1-School-Board-End-Los-Angeles-240313-782.html
Plastic pollution is everywhere, in the air, in streams and in the ocean. It is in our water, food and fish. We must reduce plastic pollution or the human species is doomed.
Making a electoral choice may be difficult for some voters.
Such power objects are not fake./--Especially if they call you to them,
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Magical-protection-Poems_Poetry-240312-439.html
Empires don't just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the...
Apparently the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) "has placed a special emphasis on hiring employees w/ a severe intellectual disability, as well as vision and psychiatric disability. These in...
URGENT observations on current news re: Trump's former staffers turning on him
Physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) are at the heart of patient care in Appalachia, often taking the lead in managing pain and prescribing medications. Their role is signific...
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Include-Physician-Assistan-HEART_Training-240312-823.html
How can humanity allow an openly ongoing continuous mass murder of children, captive children at that, for over four months time, with the criminally insane maniac ordering the mass murder promis...
The prioritization of these areas reflects a desire to protect and enhance the nation's security, prosperity, and democratic values.
As his poll numbers stagnated and it became conceivable Donald Trump could return to power, Joe Biden needed to shake things up. His best opportunity to do so came up: his final State of the Unio...
Please consider the below article in lead up to 2024 World TB Day. All barriers to accessing TB prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care services, are manmade - not natural disasters. If governm...
February was Black History Month, and so is every month that follows! This fictional story is based on an actual lynching, and it reminds us how pernicious, horrible, and hateful white people in ...
And that's really the point, people. Not how old Biden is, but how capable and competent he is compared to the other guy, "my predecessor" as Biden cleverly put it.
America is going through an identity crisis. Will we be Christian nationalist fascists or will we choose to be Americans who believe in freedom and equality? This identity crisis is written in th...
Unless the US wants foreign takeovers to occur, the federal trade commission needs to pay attention to business deals.