Controversy rages in America over the seemingly ceaseless killing and assault of unarmed individuals by police officers nationwide. An ongoing investigation by The Guardian shows that as of today, 116 of 5334 unarmed people have been killed so far this year by the police and that police agencies are killing people at twice the rate […]
What’s the going price for racism these days? In Arizona’s Maricopa County, “$40 million taxpayer dollars is what Maricopa County supervisors say Valley residents must pay for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s racial profiling lawsuit” according to a Monday news report by KPHO. Unfortunately, that figure is only a rough estimate of the costs needed in order […]
A recent study by Princeton University shows that American democracy is under attack by rich people and corporate interests that have an ever increasingly powerful grip on U.S. government policy, that public opinion has “near-zero” impact on U.S. law. The study, entitled Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens, was published […]
The problems in Baltimore didn’t begin with the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old man who suffered a spinal cord injury earlier this month after being arrested by city police. As widespread violence, chaos and looting overtook the city in the wake of Gray’s funeral service on Monday, civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson stated […]
Anyone my age or older surely knows about the iconic 1960’s movie “Easy Rider.” Written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, and produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper the movie was released to great critical acclaim in 1969. A landmark counterculture film and a “touchstone for a generation that captured the national […]