#  VOICES

   ##  [ Why There Are No George Floyds or Valentina Orellanas Killed by Police in Cuba](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23565-why-there-are-no-george-floyds-or-valentina-orellanas-killed-by-police-in-cuba "Why There Are No George Floyds or Valentina Orellanas Killed by Police in Cuba")

      Details    Mark Friedman    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     January 16 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2022/005k.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23565-why-there-are-no-george-floyds-or-valentina-orellanas-killed-by-police-in-cuba)

COMMENTARY - Police brutality, inadequate healthcare, mass incarceration, inferior education are the ‘knee on our necks.’

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   ##  [ We Are Not a Democracy, Nor Should We Become One!](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23555-we-are-not-a-democracy-nor-should-we-become-one "We Are Not a Democracy, Nor Should We Become One!")

      Details    Richard Lee Abrams    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     January 12 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2022/004w.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23555-we-are-not-a-democracy-nor-should-we-become-one)

THE VIEW FROM HERE - America is a nation which runs on lies. Worse yet, we are a nation where each group manufactures its own lies.

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   ##  [ Fukushima Takes a Turn for the Worse](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23547-fukushima-takes-a-turn-for-the-worse "Fukushima Takes a Turn for the Worse")

      Details    ROBERT HUNZIKER    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     January 12 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2022/004i.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23547-fukushima-takes-a-turn-for-the-worse)

NUCLEAR WASTE OF TIME - Tokyo Electric Power Company-TEPCO- has been attempting to decommission three nuclear meltdowns in reactors No. 1 No. 2, and No. 3 for 11 years now.

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   ##  [ The Myth Of The Good War ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23543-the-myth-of-the-good-war "The Myth Of The Good War ")

      Details    Robert C. Koehler    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     January 12 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2022/004l.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23543-the-myth-of-the-good-war)

COMMENTARY - Love thy enemy? I get a chance to do so on a regular basis, thanks to the email (or nasty-mail) I sometimes get in response to my column, e.g.:

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   ##  [ New Report Reveals Kroger Grocery Workers Struggle to Afford Healthy Food](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23539-new-report-reveals-kroger-grocery-workers-struggle-to-afford-healthy-food "New Report Reveals Kroger Grocery Workers Struggle to Afford Healthy Food")

      Details    Bobbi Murray    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     January 12 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2022/004p.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23539-new-report-reveals-kroger-grocery-workers-struggle-to-afford-healthy-food)

WORKERS STRUGGLE - An analysis released this week shows that many of the employees of the nation’s largest grocery chain, Kroger, workers who manage and sell food, are themselves scrambling to get enough to eat, struggling with bills because of part-time and unpredictable schedules and contending, as front-line workers do, with the COVID threat

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23539-new-report-reveals-kroger-grocery-workers-struggle-to-afford-healthy-food)

   ##  [ How Corporate Greed Fuels Killer Tornadoes](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23537-how-corporate-greed-fuels-killer-tornadoes "How Corporate Greed Fuels Killer Tornadoes")

      Details    JIM HIGHTOWER    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     January 12 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2022/004s.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23537-how-corporate-greed-fuels-killer-tornadoes)

CORPORATE MALFEASANCE - In its ranking of business values, corporate America proudly provides a special place for elevated moral behavior. That place is the trash can.

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   ##  [ COVID-19 Might Be Overcome, But Epstein/Maxwell-Style Child Trafficking...Not So Much! ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23521-covid-19-might-be-overcome-but-epstein-maxwell-style-child-trafficking-not-so-much "COVID-19 Might Be Overcome, But Epstein/Maxwell-Style Child Trafficking...Not So Much! ")

      Details    Ken Alpern    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     January 10 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2022/003t.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23521-covid-19-might-be-overcome-but-epstein-maxwell-style-child-trafficking-not-so-much)

THE DOCTOR IS IN - Unfortunately, human history has proven endemic both to regional (and now global) pandemics and to human trafficking (both slave/servant sales and sexual trafficking-- and child trafficking at that).

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   ##  [ Nuclear-Armed Nations—Including the US—Must End Their Hypocrisy](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23516-nuclear-armed-nations-including-the-us-must-end-their-hypocrisy "Nuclear-Armed Nations—Including the US—Must End Their Hypocrisy")

      Details    Robert Dodge    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     January 10 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2022/003w.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23516-nuclear-armed-nations-including-the-us-must-end-their-hypocrisy)

NUCLEAR POLITICS - Some countries claim that nuclear weapons exist to deter aggression—when in fact they are the most egregious aggressive threat to all of humanity.

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   ##  [ Selling Out Democracy For Political Influence ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23513-selling-out-democracy-for-political-influence "Selling Out Democracy For Political Influence ")

      Details    Kyle Herrig    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     January 09 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2022/003o.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23513-selling-out-democracy-for-political-influence)

DEMOCRACY WATCH - One year ago, the foundation of our democracy was jeopardized in a full-blown coup attempt by seditionists egged on by former president Donald Trump. People died.

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   ##  [ Is This The End Of Progressive America?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23511-is-this-the-end-of-progressive-america "Is This The End Of Progressive America?")

      Details    JOEL KOTKIN    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     January 09 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2022/003p.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23511-is-this-the-end-of-progressive-america)

PROGRESSIVE POLITICS - Over the past several decades, the progressive Left has successfully fulfilled [Antonio Gramsci’s](http://carldavidson.blogspot.com/2006/04/strategy-hegemony-long-march.html) famed admonition of a “long march through the institutions”.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23511-is-this-the-end-of-progressive-america)

   ##  [ January 6. A Year Later](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23510-january-6-a-year-later "January 6.  A Year Later")

      Details    RICHARD FALK    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     January 09 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2022/003l.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23510-january-6-a-year-later)

THE CAPITOL - In retrospect, the attempted insurrection at the Capitol was about a great deal more than an angry expression of disappointment by the populist side of gun culture America.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23510-january-6-a-year-later)

   ##  [ Silent No More: The Left Loses Its Monopoly on Narrative Setting](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23504-silent-no-more-the-left-loses-its-monopoly-on-narrative-setting "Silent No More: The Left Loses Its Monopoly on Narrative Setting")

      Details    Marc Ang    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     January 09 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2022/003i.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23504-silent-no-more-the-left-loses-its-monopoly-on-narrative-setting)

MARC'S ANGLE - Americans are finally getting hip to the mass manipulation by the media.

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   ##  [ The Rise Of Oligarchy In America](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23500-the-rise-of-oligarchy-in-america "The Rise Of Oligarchy In America")

      Details    James Preston Allen    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     January 06 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2022/002z4.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23500-the-rise-of-oligarchy-in-america)

RANDOM LENGTHS NEWS - Tens of thousands of Trump supporters attended the so called “Save America” rally on Jan. 6, 2021.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23500-the-rise-of-oligarchy-in-america)

   ##  [ Are Schools for Learning or for Profit?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23499-are-schools-for-learning-or-for-profit "Are Schools for Learning or for Profit?")

      Details    Liz Amsden    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     January 06 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2022/002z5.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23499-are-schools-for-learning-or-for-profit)

COMMENTARY - Since their inception, there have been many arguments both for and against charter schools.

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   ##  [ How to Fight the Next Coup](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23496-how-to-fight-the-next-coup "How to Fight the Next Coup")

      Details    OMAR DAHBOUR – ASHLEY DAWSON    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     January 06 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2022/022z.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23496-how-to-fight-the-next-coup)

DEMOCRACY WATCH - As we approach the first anniversary of the attack on the United States congress, it is imperative to understand that the threat to democracy is not over.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23496-how-to-fight-the-next-coup)

   ##  [ The Party Of January 6](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23490-the-party-of-january-6 "The Party Of January 6")

      Details    John Feffer    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     January 05 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2022/002f.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23490-the-party-of-january-6)

INSURRECTION ANNIVERSARY - The defeat of Donald Trump in 2020 was supposed to put an end to America’s delusional national politics.

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   ##  [ Poisoning Ourselves With War](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23484-poisoning-ourselves-with-war "Poisoning Ourselves With War")

      Details    Robert C. Koehler    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     January 05 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2022/002g.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23484-poisoning-ourselves-with-war)

WAR MACHINE - War spews hell in all directions.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23484-poisoning-ourselves-with-war)

   ##  [ Is the LA Times Manipulating Racism Facts?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23481-how-the-la-times-encourages-racism "Is the LA Times Manipulating Racism Facts?")

      Details    Richard Lee Abrams    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     January 05 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2022/002c.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23481-how-the-la-times-encourages-racism)

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Bad things, horrible things, happen to people of all race, creed, and color in the United States.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23481-how-the-la-times-encourages-racism)

   ##  [ Former President Jimmy Carter Warns US Democracy 'Teeters on the Brink' ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23479-former-president-jimmy-carter-warns-us-democracy-teeters-on-the-brink "Former President Jimmy Carter Warns US Democracy 'Teeters on the Brink' ")

      Details    Brett Wilkins    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     January 05 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2022/022w.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23479-former-president-jimmy-carter-warns-us-democracy-teeters-on-the-brink)

COMMENTARY - "Without immediate action, we are at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing our precious democracy," the former president writes. "Americans must set aside differences and work together before it is too late."

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   ##  [ You Say Goodbye, and I Say Hello](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23471-you-say-goodbye-and-i-say-hello "You Say Goodbye, and I Say Hello")

      Details    Dennis P. Zine    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     January 05 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2022/002a.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23471-you-say-goodbye-and-i-say-hello)

RantZ and RaveZ - As we arrive at 2022, I want to welcome back the readers of RantZ and RaveZ.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23471-you-say-goodbye-and-i-say-hello)

   ##  [ Our Democracy Has Not Recovered from January 6th](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23470-our-democracy-has-not-recovered-from-january-6th "Our Democracy Has Not Recovered from January 6th")

      Details    Alon Ben-Meir    [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices)     January 05 2022       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2022/002b.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23470-our-democracy-has-not-recovered-from-january-6th)

COMMENTARY - Unless the Republicans and Democrats put the nation above their party and personal interests, our democracy will face the gravest danger in more than a hundred years.

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1. [ Long-Overdue 2022 Resolutions: Make 'Em or Break 'Em!](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23463-long-overdue-2022-resolutions-make-em-or-break-em)
2. [ JFK Revisited: Oliver Stone and the New JFK Fact Pattern](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23459-jfk-revisited-oliver-stone-and-the-new-jfk-fact-pattern)
3. [ J. Edgar Hoover’s Legacy: Spying On Democracy](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23458-j-edgar-hoover-s-legacy-spying-on-democracy)
4. [ Chinks in the Dems’ White Bashing!](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23457-chinks-in-the-dems-white-bashing)
5. [ Twitter Permanently Bans Marjorie Taylor Greene's Personal Account Over Deadly Covid Disinformation](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23447-twitter-permanently-bans-marjorie-taylor-greene-s-personal-account-over-deadly-covid-disinformation)
6. [ Creativity in Nonviolent Resistance](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23443-creativity-in-nonviolent-resistance)
7. [ Justice For All?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23442-justice-for-all)
8. [ California's Keenest Competitors For Tech Jobs Are Blue Western States](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23435-california-s-keenest-competitors-for-tech-jobs-are-blue-western-states)
9. [ A Perfect Storm Has Elon Musk Paying $11 Billion in Tax](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23432-a-perfect-storm-has-elon-musk-paying-11-billion-in-tax)
10. [ PEN America and the Betrayal of Julian Assange](https://mail.citywatchla.com/voices/23429-pen-america-and-the-betrayal-of-julian-assange)

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