Jobs, jobs, jobs: A fireside chat By Will Shonbrun Estimates of jobs lost since the beginning of the recession in 2007 range between 8 to 11 million depending on the source. Whatever the actual number there is no doubt that the cause for the most massive unemployment since the Great Depression can de laid directly […]
By Guest Blogger Terry Morrone The good old USA has added another country to its empire. It was an earth quake assisted takeover. The major media as usual have the story all wrong. While a few stories in the major media covered the ineffectiveness of US aid, most focused instead on the poor, miserable and […]
People are dying in Haiti because they can’t get out, Dr. Green said. Shala Dewan, New York Times, January 29 Many of us wanted to think that the dreadful behavior during the Bush administration was some sort of aberration. We had a relatively clean election and ended up with a more intelligent and compassionate president […]
In President Obama’s acceptance of his Nobel Peace Prize, he defended the use of military force on humanitarian grounds, to preserve peace. He spoke of a “just war.” I remember a “just war.” It was to stop Hitler and his genocidal takeover of Europe. The war in Afghanistan is nothing like that. A bunch of […]
I give up. There is no common ground. I just tried to reason, in my head, with a close friend who exists on the other side of the great partisan divide that has arisen in this country. It doesn’t work. I doubt if he has ever even seen a food stamp or collected unemployment. I […]