We are depriving Americans of clean drinking water, affordable housing, healthcare, and education in order to pay for avoidable wars overseas. Repeat this undeniable fact as often as you have to, until its impact is as great as its utter senselessness. We are depriving Americans of clean drinking water, affordable…

“I know that their strugglin’ over there It ain’t gonna free me, But we all need to be strugglin’ If we’re gonna be free. And don’t you wanna be free?” In 1975, Gil Scott Heron released the song Johannesburg, the first song I’m aware of to bring up the issue…

“Fire! Help! They’re angels, little angels!. What have those innocent babies done? First I’m shot and now they’re being burned! Who is it that’s doing those things? Help! Save my children! Don’t you hear me? You’d take pity on a dog! There can’t be men on earth who’ll let those…

At the risk of being labeled an anti-Semite, I don’t think the answer to dead babies is more dead babies. I’ve never understood the idea of fighting fire with fire. And as Gandhi said, an eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. In what set of…

The truth is, nobody in the West really believed Ukraine would win a war against Russia. And when I say nobody, I’m referring to the decision-makers and not the propagandized masses. The propagandized masses in the West, just like the propagandized masses in Ukraine, were told that Ukraine was going…

I don’t often talk about Republican hypocrisy because it’s just too easy. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel or bombing children in a concentration camp: it just doesn’t seem sporting. But sometimes they get right up in your face and dare you to challenge them. At such times, it…

Democrats and Republicans argue endlessly over who is right. And occasionally, one side IS more right than the other. But it doesn’t matter. Why? Because both sides are insane. Let me give you an example. I’ve worked in heavy metal fabrication for most of my life. When workplace injuries happen…

Essayists make a lot of observations that never make it into essays. We just don’t have the time. If you would like to see any of these ideas expanded upon, let me know: The choice is between coexistence and subjugation and there is no evidence the United States is on…

They’ve rigged it so that if you want to participate in Halloween, you have to hand out corporate candy from basically either Mars, Nestles, or Hersheys. But just as an experiment four years ago, I baked chocolate chip cookies and offered kids a choice between store-bought candy or homemade cookies…