VOICES

WORKERS STRUGGLE - An analysis released this week shows that many of the employees of the nation’s largest grocery chain, Kroger, workers who manage and sell food, are themselves scrambling to get enough to eat, struggling with bills because of part-time and unpredictable schedules and contending, as front-line workers do, with the COVID threat

CORPORATE MALFEASANCE - In its ranking of business values, corporate America proudly provides a special place for elevated moral behavior. That place is the trash can.

THE DOCTOR IS IN - Unfortunately, human history has proven endemic both to regional (and now global) pandemics and to human trafficking (both slave/servant sales and sexual trafficking-- and child trafficking at that).

NUCLEAR POLITICS - Some countries claim that nuclear weapons exist to deter aggression—when in fact they are the most egregious aggressive threat to all of humanity. 

DEMOCRACY WATCH - One year ago, the foundation of our democracy was jeopardized in a full-blown coup attempt by seditionists egged on by former president Donald Trump. People died.

PROGRESSIVE POLITICS - Over the past several decades, the progressive Left has successfully fulfilled Antonio Gramsci’s famed admonition of a “long march through the institutions”.

THE CAPITOL - In retrospect, the attempted insurrection at the Capitol was about a great deal more than an angry expression of disappointment by the populist side of gun culture America.

MARC'S ANGLE - Americans are finally getting hip to the mass manipulation by the media.

RANDOM LENGTHS NEWS - Tens of thousands of Trump supporters attended the so called “Save America” rally on Jan. 6, 2021.

COMMENTARY - Since their inception, there have been many arguments both for and against charter schools. 

DEMOCRACY WATCH - As we approach the first anniversary of the attack on the United States congress, it is imperative to understand that the threat to democracy is not over.

INSURRECTION ANNIVERSARY - The defeat of Donald Trump in 2020 was supposed to put an end to America’s delusional national politics.