The embedded mainstream media, owned by this Military Industrial Empire, has made Socialism synonymous with Communism. That makes the ( sadly) dumbed down public think of the old Soviet Union with its totalitarianism. They are made to believe that Big Brother will run...

Anyone remember the late ' Not so great' Donald Rumsfeld explaining about killing innocent civilians in  our phony wars as ' Collateral Damage'? Then fast forward to today's election cycle and digest the rhetoric being vomited from the mouths of right wing politicians...

Lyrics You poisoned my sweet water. You cut down my green trees. The food you fed my children Was the cause of their disease. My world is slowly fallin’ down And the airs not good to breathe. And those of us who care enough, We have to do something……. (Chorus) Oh…….oh...

The man lived until his 89th year and I never saw him cry until near the end. I will get to that later. Some kids never experience the love for their daddy as this little boy called me did. I can remember playing catch outside with my two pals Roy Edelstein and Johnny...

To all those working stiffs or retired ones, listen to the latest interview between one mega billionaire and another 'Wanabee' billionaire. Working class heroes Trump and Musk took time out the other day to once again stick it to working stiffs. We know they both wish...

If one views the classic 1993 Claude Berri film Germinal one can see what 19th century feudalism was all about. It took place in a mid century Northern France mining region. Here in the USA we had John Sayle's 1987 film Matawan , which portrayed the 1920 Matawan, West...

One has to listen to Jeannie C Riley's 1968 Harper Valley PTA to get the essence of what this MAGA movement is doing to our education system. Jeannie C said it best: Harper Valley P.T.A. Song by Tom T. Hall, made popular by Jeannie C. Riley I wanna tell you all the...

This writer is approaching the same zone that many seniors over 70 face. I too can see me forgetting things, simple tasks that a few years ago were never the case. I also have a 'Fellow senior' empathy for what President Biden has been experiencing. The sad reality is...

Donald was tired. He just gave his best speech in years, or so he thought. Tomorrow the ' Fake News' pundits would criticize him, but he was used to that. It actually emboldened him... and his loyal followers. Now he needed rest. After all, didn't he survive the...

This upcoming election is more than just the usual One Party/Two Party runaround that has dominated our republic for so long. One needs to read Tom Stanton's 2016 book Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball and the Secret Society That Shocked Depression Era...

With the success of the far right wing phony populist movement, orchestrated by the Super Rich, we all, with few exceptions, are heading into what I call Ghetto Amerika. For decades the controlled media and embedded in empire politicians sold us the Lie that segments...

Years ago, maybe 25 or so, this writer joined the Green Party. Most of us who did so had this great dream of pushing through the barbed wire of the Two Party/One Party encampment. We supported, first Ralph Nader, and then anyone the Greens selected, in hopes of...

The fascist Republican Party keeps throwing out daggers, whether it be on a woman's right to choose, worker's rights ( Imagine, they would like to cut beyond recognition FDR's National Labor Relations Board) , Medicare and Medicaid ( which many states have already cut...

How far down the rabbit hole has our nation fallen with the electoral choices we are given? Being a true socialist thinker ( not a dirty Commie Marxist folks, as they label anyone on the ' Left') I am aghast at what has transpired since my college days during the...

Baby boomers like this writer remember how great MAD Magazine was in the 60s and 70s. Funny funny funny! The satire was tremendous. Well, children, we have a new satirical magazine, and funny as hell: MAGA MAGAZINE. I sampled some of it the other day when I went to my...

Unfortunately, for the overwhelming majority of Americans who can vote, not a clue about what those two men and their legions represent. The deck has been stacked by the Super Rich ( Less than 1/4 of 1 % of us) who have controlled things for so long. Perhaps it was...

The Physics guys know it best that for ' Every action there is an equal and opposite reaction'. Well, I guess those who lead us don't know a rat's ass about things like that. Let's look at the end of WW1 and what transpired to aid in the growth of the Nazis. In a...

I was channel surfing last evening and watched the Supreme Court's new case concerning homeless encampments etc. What got me was how the government's lawyer kept explaining how the homeless situation was being handled. HIs retort was that NGOs ( Non Governmental...

In today's America there is no need for a contract for millions of my fellow working stiffs. With many states like mine ( Florida) having 'Right to work laws', unions are few and far between. Duh, like not even 10% of private sector workers are unionized. So, you work...

Sometimes, when I need a good laugh, I go into my inner treasure box of memories. What comes out is hilarious, because it damn well really happened! I'm 19, just got my hack license ,allowing me to drive a NYC Yellow Cab. A few days into the job I find myself at...

Once someone dares to compare today's right wing in American politics to that of the fascist Nazi Party of 90 years ago, the snowballs fly. They tell you that it is utterly ridiculous to even equate such a thing. Oh really? Well, straight from the Hitler/Goebbels...

Being brought up Catholic this writer likes to refer to the New Testament for fuel: Matthew 7:15-20 (King James Version) Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men...

It has become sacrilegious to ever use Adolph Hitler in any comparison of a current political person or group. Sorry children, but we need to give careful scrutiny to our Republican Party and its leadership, meaning people like The Donald, Governor Sanctimonious,...

You got a government that is run by a Two Party con job. You have one side that borders on outright fascism, if not a return to Germany circa 1932. You have the other side, the ' Politically correct' one, that also sucks on the teat of this Military Industrial Empire....

For Baby Boomers like this writer The Honeymooners television show was right on. One of Jackie Gleason's funnier quotes was when, as Ralph Kramdon, he gave it to his wife Alice with ' You're a regular riot Alice!' Looking back after these three years I can serve that...

Disappointing that many of you loyal Trump and Republican MAGA supporters don't understand history. I could ( and may very well do so) create a whole standup comedy routine on this fact. Here we have most, if not all, of the Republican presidential wannabees who...

Students of American history realize that we as a people have experienced quite a few ' Ages of National Anxiety'. Looking back but within 110 years or so we know there was national anxiety during World Wars 1 and 2 and of course, in my boomer memory, during the (...

They're already here! Being a baby boomer this writer has consistently looked at those who lead us as mostly ' Clowns'. This goes in spades for those who run our corporations. Ever hear these folks speak? If that isn't indicative of inviting laughter, I don't know...

Sometimes we do give up that there is still caring for the plight of others. Obviously, when there is known pain and suffering from disasters or crimes against strangers in our midst, there is a higher level of caring that reveals itself. Yet, when it is simply lesser...

I used to love going to The Gallery disco/restaurant in ' The Ridge', which is what Bay Ridge, Brooklyn was called. When I turned 18 my friends and I always headed for The Ridge most Friday and Saturday nights. The Gallery had been our place of choice. Now, there were...

Please go and watch the 2001 film Focus, directed by Neal Slavin and starring William H. Macy and Laura Dern. It is based on the great playwright Arthur Miller‘s novel of the same name. The film takes place in the waning months of WW2 when a man and his new wife are...

Halloween is for kids and crazy pranksters. The little kids show off their costumes and get nice treats... except for the maniacs out there who like to put needles inside the chocolate goodies. Sick people like that belong in prison for life! On the subject of ' Sick...

So, they put the oxymoron of a ' Constitutional Lawyer' into the US House of Representatives Speaker's Chair. Mike Johnson, looking so nerdy with his too neat attire , is ready to take America back into the Dark Ages of Reason. As the late, great Spencer Tracy,...

The $ 64,000 question, especially for all you baby boomers out there, is when exactly did we become a Banana Republic? One should realize that the power of money has always tainted our electoral system. This is why the Super Rich have maintained their position of...

It was late, nearly 1 AM. She was fast asleep in the bedroom, the one he just tiptoed out of a few moments earlier. They were both usually in bed by 11 PM weekdays and  this was just a Wednesday. He blamed the stupid need to have action seven days a week that had him...

Well, this writer may have failed 40 years ago at a standup career. Now I plan to use this new piece as fodder for another attempt to be in front of an audience. Perhaps just in front of a radio audience will suffice. The bottom line is, like the Howard Beale...

He loved his daddy, as he always called the man. Whether he was that little three year old boy or that sixty three year old son, his father was just his ' Daddy'. As he peered into the nursing home room at that emaciated figure, once so broad and full of energy, now...

For all those out there like this writer who consider themselves to be socialists, we are like the Jack Nicholson character in Joseph Brooks' 1997 film As Good As It Gets. Nicholson plays a writer, Melvin Udall, who is suffering from OCD (  Obsessive Compulsive...

It used to be, to this baby boomer, that July 4th was reserved for barbeques and fireworks. We were kids back in the 50s and early 60s, before Vietnam, and we had fun. Well, things changed quickly with the advent of America's latest phony war by 1965. Bob Hope was...

Amazing how it has been almost 20 years since he passed away, and I still refer to him when speaking with my brother as ' Daddy'. Is it just a baby boomer remorse or is it what the man always meant to me? As I grew older and went to college, smoked pot and chased...

Since my governor, Fascism Forever Captain Ron as I call him, just announced for President , allow me to jump into the fray. Of course, I have not much of a chance as anyone else who stands apart from the Two Party/One Party scam to get the support needed without...

  First it was the girl cat, 19, who finally succumbed to old age infirmities. The night she fell to the floor and could not get herself to her feet was too great a shock for anyone to endure. They carried her to the all night emergency vet and the husband waited...

She was fat... and she knew it! She was always, it seems, fat and had to deal with it. For years, when she was growing up, she believed that this is what God had dictated for her. As she got older and perhaps a bit wiser, she began to understand things better. Maybe...

When the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW AKA The Wobblies) was established in 1905, their goal was to see ' One Big Union ' formed in the USA. The Wobblies came from the socialist Western Federation of Miners organization led by William D Haywood. Up to that...

Being an anti empire, anti war Socialist this writer has had countless inner dilemmas concerning the Jackass party. As far as their counterparts, the Republicans, well, they are as close to diabolical ( evil?)  as can be.  It seems forever that I have asked myself why...

{It comes from the English ' To gamble' but was always reserved for the horseplayer}. He came from a family of punters, with his mother's father and his own father who couldn't  go too long without placing a bet. As a kid he was baptized into horseracing before he...

As an informed citizen who has disdain for the Two Party/One Party Scam, I have spun towards the ' Lesser of ' party if only to save my nation from a fascist assault. Yes, it has always been there staring me in the eyes, but since the Trump swamp it has gone off the...

The Nazis loved to prime the pump with their rituals to keep the ' natives' hyped up. They had their mass rallies with hundreds  of thousands attending. They had those brown storm trooper and black SS uniforms... the more the merrier. The Russians had ' Mother...

It was the morning of March 19th, 2003 and this writer was up early. I was eating a bowl of Cheerios as I turned on the boob tube. I can remember vividly the evening before when I was able to watch a Canadian Cable News channel. The news anchor was explaining how all...

His mind rarely ever thought back to who he had been, the same way he never pondered at who he had become. He needed to keep away from the past, if nothing but to keep whatever sense of sanity he had left. His homelessness was a choice, though a part of him knew that...

Well I don't know why I came here tonight I've got the feeling that something ain't right I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair And I'm wondering how I'll get down the stairs Clowns to the left of me Jokers to the right Here I am stuck in the middle with you Yes...

One definition of revelation is: A surprisingly and previously unknown fact, especially one that is made in a dramatic way. This is what many of my fellow working stiffs need to reach: A revelation on how screwed we all have been! Not since the ' Gilded Age' ( 1870s -...

One surmises that the volunteer military system devised after the Vietnam debacle erases what had transpired before. Perhaps we all need to revisit that terrible era, when phony US incursions overseas had such horrific repercussions… on foreign nations and on our...

Living here in ' Death Valley' AKA Florida one can see the results of having a governor like Captain Ron as I label him. One can go back to Weimar Germany circa 1930 when the Nazi Party gained popularity amongst  many working stiffs. It seems that it is always anger...

He was tired, dead tired. It was fifteen minutes to five and he was late. Had to get into the security office, meet up with Ruth and get into costume. Didn't figure on so much traffic. How stupid! It was the week of Christmas you idiot!! He always yelled aloud at...

There are so many out there that would take a few moments to be thankful this holiday. Where shall I begin? All the tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of Iraqi, Afghan, Libyan and Syrian civilians who were displaced by US carpet bombs and other WMD. Those...

Divorce was not easy for him, yet he wanted it and got it, much to the chagrin of his ex. She was happy with how things were going, despite the constant arguments. It was one thing for them to be at each other's throats when they lived alone. Now, with two little sons...

Kudos to Pink Floyd and their 1979 classic ' Comfortably Numb' for inspiring me to write this critique. With the news that it looks like the Democrats will continue to control the Senate ( while most likely losing the House) shouts of joy rang throughout ' Blue...

Well, if you have any sense of the climate of this American culture, you will realize just how far down the rabbit hole we have fallen. As a baby boomer I can look around me and gauge just how ' Dumbed down' the populace is. I am not such a fool that I do not...

He loved his parents more than one would know. So much so, that when he graduated college he decided to forgo getting his own place and stay at home. There was too much constant bickering between his parents and it frightened him. Deep inside he believed that without...

Sitting by my computer this mundane Sunday AM listening to the late George Harrison's classic song ' Isn't it a Pity?' As a 1960s lefty student all grown up into a Baby Boomer socialist columnist the lyrics of this song ring so true: Isn't it a pity? Now isn't it a...

There has to be a heaven, if only by process of elimination. You see, if there is a hell then there has to be the antidote, heaven. To this writer, who has spent his adult life studying many facets of what many call metaphysics, this trip we are all on is nothing more...

I actually come into contact with many of you folks all the time. When I get car repairs, need a plumber or handyman, or go to a store, most of those I run into are MAGA supporters. On a personal basis you folks are usually nice, decent people. Yet, you support a...

He was told long ago about how his brother wanted to feed him some bacon in his crib. He must of been a few months old, three years smaller than his big brother. Their mother had to rush in to save the him from choking to death. His brother was perplexed. " I only...

In most dramatic thrillers they love to use the term of ' The 11th hour' for whatever suspenseful endeavor is reaching its deadline. Detectives or surgeons are running ragged to stop the oncoming negative conclusion from happening. Well, so it is for this American...

Here's what cracks me up on right wing European leaders' anger over refugees flooding their nations. Recently, the fascist head of Hungary, Viktor Orban, gave his address to the CPAC neo fascist conference, you know, the one that Trump and cabal love so much. Orban...

You must see or revisit Norman Jewison’s 1975 film Rollerball, starring James Caan as superstar player Jonathan E. In it, we see a world no longer made up of countries, but of corporations that control every bit of life for the people. There are no longer wars, just a...

No, this is not about baseball, though this writer as a youth participated in many squeeze plays. Sometimes they were actually ' Suicide Squeezes', so apropos to this current political climate. No, this is about  millions of us working stiffs who consider ourselves...

Kudos to the Aaron Neville 1967 song of the same name. Some of the lyrics were so apropos to how this writer feels: Tell it like it is I'm nothing to play with Go and find yourself a toy But I... Tell it like it is My time is too expensive and I'm not your little boy...

Sometimes we can actually recall events that occurred long ago... like even 52 years. This is one of them... as if it happened yesterday. The summer of '70 was literally like no other for this writer, a young college student at the time. My real love, besides that of...

The vagabond who's rapping at your door Is standing in the clothes that you once wore Strike another match, go start anew And it's all over now, Baby Blue Those are lyrics from the great Bob Dylan song It's All Over Now Baby Blue ( 1965). How appropriate they are now...

Well, not quite yet. Not so much are we referring to actual witches, rather us Americans who believe in true equality and fairness. This current ultra right wing culture that has seeped into our Supreme Court is terribly dangerous. They have most of the churches...

His old man really never had it good, as if karma dealt him a dead hand. Losing his teeth at a young age ( periodontal disease) and struggling along with his parents during the height of the depression would be enough of a rope to hang on him. Then, being an honor...

You turn on any recent professional sport competition and you see the obscene propaganda. Before the game starts they call out the honor guard ( many times dressed in camouflage) carrying the flag, as they have the singer belt out our anthem. Where is this ' War' that...

Ironic how more of these white on black or brown killings are appearing. In 2011 Renaud Camus wrote a book The Great Replacement, focusing on the white population of France. He warned that the ' Powers that be' , especially Jews, were consciously allowing more and...

In previous columns I named our country ' MoronAmerica', not just for those who run things and rule us, but for the public in general. Now, I say ' in general' because obviously with over 300 million of us, there are many wise souls, who shall we say bluntly, ' Know...

Apathy!! Add that one to the list of: Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy and Pride. Sadly, the dumb down nature of our country lends for the nurturing of apathy. Travel through the supermarkets, Main Streets, malls and just about anywhere that Americans...

Sitting here by my keyboard listening to Pink Floyd's ' Comfortably Numb'. It flows into the recesses of my sad and tired mind... Like the joke of the horse sitting at the counter of the bar and the bartender saying to him " Why the long face?" The only way to escape...

We have memories, like flashes of lightning from afar- now we see them, now we don't. Yet, one can almost call upon them at will, these bits and pieces of our lives, once so vivid, once so real, filed forever as  nostalgia. So it is for me, 60 plus years after the...

Remember Captain Renault ( Claude Rains) in Casablanca when he had them close Rick's Cafe Americain. Rick (Humphrey Bogart) runs to him and says " Why are ya shutting me down?" Renault shouts back " There's gambling going on here." At that moment the croupier runs...

In the land of the ignorant. The dictionary defines ignorant as ' Lacking knowledge, information or awareness of a particular thing' . It seems, regardless of the level of education obtained by many of my fellow citizens, we have always been a nation of ignorance. How...

As the clairvoyant escorted me down the stairs to her office, the first impression that tickled me was the crystals. I mean, her desk's  table top housed the biggest crystal I had ever seen. It had a prism of colors contained within it that seemed to set the mood for...

Obviously, what the Trump Thumpers attempted to do on January 6th one year ago was a form of 'Coup de tat'. Such actions should be met with every means legally available to our federal government. lmagine if those of us in the Anti War/Anti Empire community, or those...

There's a new group in town, or should I say throughout this nation. Splintering off from the gang of white supremacists who called  themselves Vanguard America in 2017 (after one of them ran over an anti fascist protestor in Charlottesville, Virginia) we now have The...