Social Justice Magazine
Is there more to the Tea Party movement than the birthers, tenthers, and Obama-as-Nazi-ers? More than fervent followers of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and FOX News? Is it a real "movement" or deceptive corporate Astroturf? Do Tea Partiers possess an authentic libertarian taxed-enough-already approach to taxes and spending, or do these heavy users of Medicare and other federal programs just … [Read more...]
We are so screwed. We simply don’t get it in the USA and EU. After three weeks spent travelling around the globe, I see that the Chinese eat our lunch while we busy ourselves in silly ideological Left vs. Right fights over control of Washington, Westminster, and Brussels.We’re in a wrestling match and the Chinese have us slipping out of consciousness in a sleeper chokehold. We’re … [Read more...]
Now what?The only thing missing was Simon Cowell sneering and sighing last night. Welcome to déjà vu all over again. The UK seeks to one up Florida’s 2000 election with the specter of a hung Parliament, charges of polling site malfeasance, and strict, almost slavish adherence to procedure over common sense. Big Ben chimed 10 pm last night and, according to the rules, “polling closed”. … [Read more...]
General Election “speed-dating” best characterises the 31-day sprint to the UK’s 06 May finish line. Forget the hoopla surrounding 1st ever televised leadership debates, SPIN rooms, 3D graphic holograms and breathless pundits. All 650 UK House of Commons seats serving 60 million people (a 92,000:1 ratio) are up for grabs (compared to 435 US House seats serving 330 million or 760,000:1). … [Read more...]
As US healthcare reform passage draws near, my mailbox fills with incoherent Right Wing hate screed and rage. Meanwhile the Obama Administration and Democratic-controlled US Congress seem unwilling to buck the echo chamber and do the right thing.The public located outside the 24 sq. miles of fantasy surrounded by reality known as Washington DC want fairly priced healthcare coverage for … [Read more...]
As we have seen in the blizzards in Washington and New York, hundreds of crews of snowplows and front-end loaders work feverishly to open roads, airports, and railway tracks. But, what if you lived in the Cheyenne Sioux Indian Reservation of South Dakota and there were only three snowplows to clear an area nearly the size of Connecticut?Most of the reservation is covered with rural two-lane … [Read more...]
Welcome to the toughest first year in the loneliest job in the world. Good that you have a dog and you’re not in Kansas anymore, Mr. President. You approached the utter disaster left by the previous occupant with a determination, grit, grace, and pragmatism that has long been missing.Now, sir, you have to lead from the front. You let Congress have the ball for a year. You gave them their … [Read more...]
If you hold a passport from Cuba, Iran, Sudan, or Syria, countries considered “state sponsors of terrorism,” or similar “countries of interest” such as Afghanistan, Algeria, Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and Yemen…don’t plan on making your connecting flight any time soon to your final destination inside the US.The attempted underwear bombing was, … [Read more...]
Good riddance to the noughts! It was a decade where snarkiness, fear and division triumphed over almost everything else. I say almost because when one reviews 2009’s top stories, Barack Obama’s ascendancy to the US presidency was inspiring, challenging, and filled us with globally healing headlines.Yet the internal tone and level of anger inside the USA was frighteningly acidic, … [Read more...]
Recently, ’08 Obama campaign strategist David Plouffe on The Daily Show he said “the president is a chess master in a town full of checkers players.” When host Jon Stewart pressed him further, asking if he knows how to move reform in a more active way? Plouffe responded quietly, “He knows when to turn the light sabre on.”Saturday night, the light sabre was on as his healthcare reform … [Read more...]
Many read my article on how the Mind Body Spirit world is established to financially hook one into spending lots of money. Now, the industry’s tactics have expanded into luring former US Presidents into pimping -- errr, fronting for them.George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States has passed on the Council of Foreign Leaders and other high-brow presidential forums to shill for the … [Read more...]
If you thought President Obama’s speech was about healthcare reform, you were wrong. It was about twin elephants in the room. The United States is literally tearing itself apart at the seams socially because the leader of the free world remains a black man and… its citizens seem incapable of concentrating longer than an 8-second sound byte on an issue bankrupting the nation.It fell … [Read more...]
The US healthcare debate is about cost. It should be about ensuring coverage for all. Commit, as the 22 other richest nations in the world have, to ensuring everyone is covered and you can then make tough “how-to” choices.This is the real healthcare debate.Not the big money ‘ginned’ death panels, pull the plug on Grandma, rationing silliness we hear about. The real question is why, … [Read more...]
In a firestorm of repudiation against Republican special interest backed ‘Astro-turfing’ (covering over real issues with pretty green carpets) and shouting down Democratic Congress members in boisterous town hall meetings, the just released Gallup National Poll shows only five states in the US can be listed as solidly or leaning Republican while 37 are ‘solidly’ or ‘lean’ … [Read more...]
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. -Margaret Mead While many would correctly argue this campaign was not world altering, for one 78-year old man, his grandson, and family, 3:00 p.m. EDT yesterday afternoon marked a moment when their daughter, mother, and friend to so many arrived safely back home in … [Read more...]
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