By George B. Kauffman My head is literally spinning! I simply can’t keep up with the frantic pace of events. The news is filled hourly or even at more frequent intervals with the hysterical, [...] Continue Reading
National & International
From the Editor – July 2017
By Hannah Brandt Nostalgia is the name of the game right now. All of our favorite TV shows, movies, books and, even video games are getting the reboot treatment lately. Everything from Gilmore Girls [...] Continue Reading
Trump Announces New Plans to Harm the Cuban People
By Leni Reeves It is hard to forgive someone after they have done evil things to us. In 2014 and 2015, the U.S. government resumed diplomatic relations with Cuba, took Cuba off the list of state [...] Continue Reading
Ire for Democrat Who Pulled Plug on California’s Single-Payer Bill
By Jon Queally Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Common Dreams at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/24/ire-democrat-who-pulled-plug-californias-single-payer-bill and is [...] Continue Reading
Legal Defense Funding: In Defense of Immigrants’ Civil Liberties
By Daniel O’Connell In June 2016, Donald Trump launched his bid to be President of the United States with an extraordinary discriminatory anti-immigrant statement: “When Mexico sends its people, [...] Continue Reading
Would Anyone Else Also Not Believe Trump Under Oath?
By Halima Aquino As Americans, we dare to dream of a better future. Although we often experience grizzly disagreements between and within our political parties, at the root of it all, we share a [...] Continue Reading
Michegoss: Donald J. Trump
By George B. Kauffman, Ph.D. American political commentator, talk show host and author Chris Matthews, best known as host of the nightly hour-long talk show Hardball on MSNBC, has characterized [...] Continue Reading
Group Ties Interior Nominee/Westlands Lobbyist to Arctic Refuge Scientific Fraud
By Dan Bacher Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the Daily Kos and is republished under its terms and [...] Continue Reading
Exploring the Absence of Asghar Farhadi
By Rubén Casas Editor’s note: This article was originally published by Fresno Filmworks (https://fresnofilmworks.org/blog/exploring-the-absence-of-asghar-farhadi) and is republished with [...] Continue Reading
Cuba’s Fresh Perspectives
By Bill Braun Twenty-five of us, 19 from the United States, joined together for 10 days during January in Cuba. Billed as “Fresh Perspectives,” our tour was that, plus many entirely new and somewhat [...] Continue Reading
A Past Resurfaced: Memories of Survival and Escape from the Khmer Rouge
By Vanna Nauk Editor’s note: This article was originally published with references by the Valley Public History Project at Tropics of Meta: [...] Continue Reading
Working from the “Grassroots Up”
By David Derby My wife and I witnessed something during the first week of the Trump administration that sent us reeling with outrage as we witnessed an evil that some say had constituted the most [...] Continue Reading