Sitemap - 2022 - Second Bill of Rights, Greened

Ukraine "on the ropes" again, as the U.S. defers to Putin's bombardments: his War Crime attacks on civilian life...

"'What the Hell, America?'" - Thomas Frank speaks to activists in Kansas, May of 2022.

A "Mere Citizen" Takes Issue with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs on Ukraine going to the negotiating table now. And the lessons from WWI. Where we also disagree.

The Decline of Democracy: the 1980's Hostile Corporate Takeovers, and the Rise of Trump

When the Republican Right/Libertarians & Conservative Dems put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block...see you at "Little Round Top"

"The Place of this war in Human History"

Labor Day 2022 - A Remembrance of Things Past - The White House regrets to announce that once again, Labor Law Reform has been "postponed," as it has since the late 1940's...

Is The Inflation Reduction Act really "Civilization Saving"... or, tragically, far too Little, far too Late?

It's Time to send "surplus" U.S. A-10 Warthog Aircraft, and our own Volunteer Pilots, to aid Ukraine

Joe Manchin, once again, runs the Table on a bewildered Joe Biden...

Don't look now President Biden, Jake Sullivan: Ukraine is barely hanging on, if not losing.

Liberty State Park, NJ, under threat once again, from the oligarchic side of the Democratic Party. The Park's as close to a secular shrine as we come...the Statue and the New York City Skyline.

A personal note, aka "biographic" for Second Bill of Rights, Greening

America on the Brink of Civil War (wish I could have written "revival")

Coming soon

The Pause Before the Storm? Ukraine is not doing well, despite the propaganda, and domestically, the U.S. is on the brink of dysfunction, if not Civil War.

To the "Eastern Front" via two Russian movies, a brief tour of culture under Putin & flashbacks triggered by the siege of Mariupol...and my own displacements.

Mariupol in ruins, sacrificed as a Ukrainian "Alamo," thousands packed off to Russian "filtration" camps; may I ask: Just what are Pres. Biden's and NATO's war goals in Ukraine now?

Why Pres. Biden should visit Ukraine, his moral debt...and why it probably will never happen...

Brave Ukraine, Cities Buried in Rubble, with Less and Less of a Nation to Bring to the Proverbial "Bargaining Table."

An Air Drop to Save the Citizens of Mariupol, Ukraine, from starving, freezing...and surrender?

The People vs the Parties: Reuters Poll shows 74% of Americans favor a No Fly Zone over Ukraine, stopping Russian oil imports....

The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, attacks NATO's (and Biden's, by inference) decision against a No-Fly Zone and putting Boots on the Ground, as "Weak and Insecure."

The Ukrainian People are showing more courage than Economic "Sanctioning" American Officialdom and NATO combined...time for a No-Fly Zone over Ukraine.

Why the Voting Rights Bills Miss the Mark, Badly; Part II: An Exchange of Views on Biden, Manchin and the state of the Democratic Party, Jan. 1, 2022