Here is a link to another piece on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. The main point is that the official media and politicians make such events and individuals like […]
Hypocrisy of the Year Award
“The world has had enough war. One of the things we have learned over the years, regardless of the region of the world, is that wars can’t resolve differences.” Chuck Hagel, US […]
Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don’t
by John Reimann An article in today’s Wall St. Journal confirms the theory of the tendency towards overproduction. Entitled “Stagnant Wages Are Crimping Economic Growth”, the article explains that at the “end” […]
I Remember the March on Washington
by John Reimann My parents took me to the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. I was 17 at the time and the memories will be with me for my […]
Every protest on planet
Here is a link to a map that shows every protest on the planet since 1979. It shows the protests as little “blips” that go off. If you watch this through to the […]
US Soldier Convicted for Murder in Afghanistan: Looking Back on that Crime
Mass Murder in Kandahar: Tip of the Iceberg in Afghanistan; Warning for US Society by John Reimann Staff Sergeant Roger Bales has just been condemned to serve life in prison for the cold-blooded […]
100 years since the Lockout and resulting general strike in Ireland
It is one hundred years since the Great Dublin Lockout of 1913. This was a seminal event in the development of the Irish trade union and labour movement…. Today’s trade union movement […]
A Drunken Psychopath At the Wheel: Fukushima Revisited
by John Reimann Like a psychopathic drunk driver careening down a busy street, capitalism on its last legs is creating untold disaster in its wake. One of the most serious is the […]
Why I’ll Never Make a Good Business Person
Here’s one of a number of reasons why I hate capitalism: Recently I had a roofing contractor put a new roof on my house. I tried to relate to the contractor (a […]
Julian Assange and His Right-wing Politics
Julian Assange with associate, right-winger Israel Shamir Further information is coming out about Julian Assange as a right-wing libertarian. This is not relevant to the allegations of rape against him, nor to […]