James Preston Allen

The Déjà vu of American Politics and Empire

Its death throes & a new civilization is struggling to be born      The problem with living a somewhat long life…

2 weeks ago

Port of LA Pipe Dream

MOU to Replace Vincent Thomas Bridge is Signed, But Why?   On a hot, sunny July 30 afternoon on the…

1 month ago

The Causes Against Tyranny of the Orange King

I took my brother for a birthday drink at Think Prime restaurant, where a good number of Republicans hang out.…

2 months ago

And the Clown Can’t Even Throw a Party—Fate would have it that the 250 celebration was canceled by heat and thunder storms

Not to be overshadowed by the FIFA World Cup or Taylor Swift's marriage—both global spectacles—the Orange Felon pressed ahead, defying…

2 months ago

Democracy is Still a Radical Idea

  I remember having to say the flag salute in high school and thinking, “What hypocrisy, liberty and justice for…

3 months ago

The Orange Felon Booed at Madison Square Garden ― More Circuses to Come for the Clown Show

NBC owes the country an apology and, out of fairness, should give equal time to the opposition to counter all…

3 months ago

War Objectors and Civil Disobedience

In the 1960s, I was introduced to a book by Henry David Thoreau, which included an essay titled On Civil…

4 months ago

Do You Ever Wonder How We Got Here?

In the 1980s, there were some 60,000 blue-collar workers, men and women, working on or near the waterfront. Before the…

5 months ago

Earth Day at 56 Years

And our future could have been so much better Earth Day originated in 1970 as a grassroots response to industrial…

5 months ago

The Profits of War

A conscientious objector is an individual who refuses to perform military service or bear arms due to deeply held religious,…

5 months ago