Monday, April 23, 2018
Puritans vs Indians
President Trump’s Anti-Indian agenda reflects Vice President Pence’s Christian Dominion holy war against socialism and Indigenous peoples. Denying American Indians health care, guaranteed by treaties and the U.S. Constitution, is just the first step. Ron Allen — former president of the National Congress of American Indians — says the Republican attack on Medicaid will devastate the Indian Health Service.
Monday, April 16, 2018
We Can Do Better
As opined by historian Ted Widmer, Robert Kennedy's trip to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation--during the primaries of his 1968 presidential campaign--was an act of leaving the known political universe, almost like leaving the United States.
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Stormy Weather
We regret to inform you that the President of the United States has been caught with his pants down. In the latest twist of the Stormy Daniels affair, the FBI raided Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen's office--confiscating records related to the President's illegal $130,000 payment to the 39-year-old porn star in exchange for her silence about having sex with him. As reported in the Tribune News Service,
Experts noted that the raid bodes badly for Cohen — and, perhaps for Trump as well.
Monday, April 02, 2018
Cowboys vs Indians
The American West--home to the Cowboys vs Indians psychodrama--is mustering for a final confrontation, this time over the looming extinction of the iconic Pacific salmon. While the original conflict featured action-packed, blood and gore slaughter of millions of bison and massacres of the Indigenous peoples whose lives depended on them, this time around it is a slow-motion train-wreck.
As major salmon stream polluters such as the Farm Bureau and Cattlemen's Association--along with state attorney generals and white newspaper owners--line up to attack the treaty rights of Northwest Treaty Tribes like the Swinomish, the apathetic citizenry is being asked to take sides.
Will so-called progressive moral authorities speak out, or maintain silence out of fear?
As major salmon stream polluters such as the Farm Bureau and Cattlemen's Association--along with state attorney generals and white newspaper owners--line up to attack the treaty rights of Northwest Treaty Tribes like the Swinomish, the apathetic citizenry is being asked to take sides.
Will so-called progressive moral authorities speak out, or maintain silence out of fear?
Sunday, April 01, 2018
SHOCK--NO AWE
With the 1945 Victory in Europe and the Victory over Japan, the United States went on the offensive to control oil reserves worldwide. With the 1973 OPEC oil embargo, the American Empire went into defensive mode. With the cannibalization of US oil reserves for export in 2014, the light at the end of the tunnel was extinguished.
