Editorials

American Concentration Camps

ICE is swiftly evolving into our homegrown version of the Gestapo or The People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD). It…

6 months ago

Letters to the Editor: On Taxes, Democrats, Eaton Fire, Middleton, ILWU Ride, and the Role of the Journalist-Activist”

Increased taxes are liberation It takes a special kind of genius to take over a party whose main mantras were…

6 months ago

All Governments Lie

We have to sort of lift the bonnet, as it were, and in a way that newspapers aren’t used to…

6 months ago

A Prophet for Change

And while we are on the topic of religion, and this is Easter and Passover, it may be time to…

6 months ago

Climate Refusal, Not Just Denial

Here in the San Pedro Harbor, both ports are eagerly welcoming green transition grants on one hand, while fighting against…

6 months ago

Trump Tariffs Penguins And Taxes The Hell Out of Working- And Middle-Class Americans

But as long as we see this clearly, we can stop him. Public mobilization is working. Today, a few Republicans…

6 months ago

LAX Protests by Flight Attendants, Government Employees and Allies

On another front, Victor Payes, secretary-treasurer of American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 1260 told Random Lengths that the…

6 months ago

One Party’s Selling a Big Lie; the Other Can’t Sell the Truth

The results are “safe,” focus-grouped policies that fail to inspire or move voters. And, even more importantly, don’t change public…

6 months ago

Letters to the Editor: Perspectives on Automation, Mercury Concerns Near Mt. Wilson, Honoring Harriet Tubman and It’s the Economy

  Automation I write to you out of great concern about the job losses and Tax revenue losses in the…

6 months ago

Gutting the Kennedy Center

It’s the Bill of Rights’ guarantee of freedom of expression. Without that protection — that first of our freedoms —…

6 months ago