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The Silent Genocide: How Trump’s America is Choosing Who Lives and Who Dies

The time for polite disagreement and “strongly worded letters” is over. Our lives — and the soul of our democracy…

5 months ago

American Concentration Camps

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

5 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…

5 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…

5 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

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

Shipping Industry Nixes Trump’s China Port Fee Proposals

With few exceptions, industry leaders have nixed the ideas proposed by the U.S. Trade Representative, Jamieson Greer.

6 months ago

Trump’s cruel rampage: why?

There is no reason to despair. Workers and oppressed people have incredible untapped power. Alongside the multitude of legal challenges…

6 months ago