On the morning of 09/11/2001 I got up and drive to work across the San Francisco Bay Bridge, just as I had been doing every weekday morning for months. I was working […]
How 9-11 changed everything – but it’s not what you might think
My photos
In working on my soon-to-be-published memoirs, I realized that I have hundreds of photos, made over many years of attending different protests and political events. Many of them were here in Oakland, […]
Looming election crisis edges closer
Elections are a means of checking the worst excesses of the politicians. Just like the right to freedom of speech or free assembly, elections are a vital part of democratic rule by […]
When the need to extricate themselves from their quagmires grips Trump and Putin by the throat !
When the need to extricate themselves from their quagmires grips Trump and Putin by the throat ! by Yorgos Mitralias Those who call themselves “pacifists” and have been fighting for more than […]
Trump, Iran, North Korea, China & Russia: U.S. capitalists can’t be happy
Oaklandsocialist talked with a worker who follows military affairs and also the U.S. security apparatus closely. John Reimann You were talking before about an article from the Financial Times about this guy […]
Is DSA preparing to be the Green Party of 2028?
DSA appears to be gearing up to try to replace the Green Party and run a candidate for president… in 2028. That is the tenor of the circular sent out by DSA’s […]
Ferguson Retrospective
I went to Ferguson in 2014 shortly after Michael Brown was killed. I took hours of video and 100s of photos. Just today I started looking through some of it in working […]
Trump organizing legal version of January 6th, 2020
Donald Trump is organizing a legal version of January 6, 2020. If he succeeds, all other democratic rights will be sharply curtailed. Here is what he is doing: Attack on Mail-in voting […]
Background to Trump’s return to neo-conservatism
On February 28, Trump and Netanyahu went to war against Iran. In doing so, and without even realizing it, Trump is reenacting the failed view of the Neoconservatives. Their first failure was […]
“Progressives” argue for Zionism. Do socialists know how to respond?
In the past, the way was opened for far right domestic policies by starting with the intellectual arguments for them. Now, Israel supporters are concerned about the collapsing support for Israel and […]