In the woods If you stop on the bridge And roll your window down You can hear a far off thunder That’s it and if you park Just off the shoulder And follow the path That will appear You will soon see A brightness through the trees Not the water hole itself But a patch …
To paraphrase Yogi Berra: 'It's 2016 deja vu all over again'
Corporate Media’s Trashing of Bernie Sanders Starts Anew
In 2016, we learned that the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton Campaign, even before the primary season began, conspired to sabotage the campaign of her leading opponent for the presidential nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). The conspiracy, that ranged from obtaining campaign debate questions in advance for Clinton and front-loading primaries in states …
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Hong Kong and Puerto Rico:
Two Colonies Doomed to 2nd-Class Status and Remote Central Government Control
Two photos speak volumes about the striking similarity between Hong Kong and Puerto Rico, one an island and peninsular former colony of Britain, which conquered and held onto it since the Opium War in 1841, now returned to China, but still existing in a kind of neo-colonial relationship to that country, the other an island …
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Calling out lying media and Establishment Dems like Harris and Biden
The BS about Medicare-for-All Has to Stop!
It is increasingly clear that the wagons have circled both in the Democratic National Committee and in the news media to shut down any possibility of a national health plan as proposed by Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) or Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. The media for their part, keep touting — almost …
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How I got to be the greatest show on Earth
I did it by being a jerk, By not caring. By telling the truth, The real truth, which is That everything is a lie. Try it. It works. Truth? Lie? What’s the difference? Life is nothing but a foggy mirror. I just plowed ahead like china in a bull-shop. There was nothing sheepish about it. …
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Climate change
Remember those mischievous monkeys? They decided to begin dismantling civilization. They had the power because chaos was close. And all they had to do was help it a little. But first they decided to talk to a human being And ask a few questions. They found a man picking his nose And reading a book …
Climate change
Remember those mischievous monkeys? They decided to begin dismantling civilization. They had the power because chaos was close. And all they had to do was help it a little. But first they decided to talk to a human being And ask a few questions. They found a man picking his nose And reading a book …
Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
The Central America US Border Blues
I saw the masked men Throwing truth into a well. When I began to weep for it I found it it everywhere. – Claudia Lars I was raised an atheist and remain an atheist, but I came to appreciate Jesus Christ after several trips to Honduras and El Salvador during the Reagan Wars there. In …
Revenge masks robbery
MOVE: Injustice Ignites Excessive Costs
The recent release of three inmates from prisons in Pennsylvania – persons considered political prisoners by many worldwide – is a poignant reminder of how the costs of injustice ravage not just those directly targeted for persecution but also the taxpayers who unwittingly pay for that persecution. The 40-years of unjust, revenge-driven imprisonment endured by …
What if millions of citizens checked the box saying you're not citizens?
How to defeat the Trump Administration’s Racist, Republican-Rescuing Census Corruption
President Donald Trump, thanks to a perhaps congenital inability to stop running his mouth, may ultimately undermine his administration’s effort to corrupt the integrity of the upcoming 2020 Census. His latest blurting out that the reason for his wanting to add a controversial question about citizenship status to the Census form is for “redistricting” could …