VOICES

AIR TRAVEL - If you’re heading to heaven, you really should fly out of Palm Springs.

GUEST COMMENTARY - I still remember the poster on the wall at Bell Gardens Intermediate School back in 1987: “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.” 

GUEST COMMENTARY - Photos of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) are circulating online as a side-by-side profile in courage.

GUEST COMMENTARY - I almost never cease to be stunned by the white racist violence of the U.S.-American criminal justice system.

COMMENTARY - War has begun in Ukraine and where it heads next is uncertain.

RUSSIA WAR ANALYSIS - Despite the impressive TikTok feeds showing the Russian phalanx heading in formations across the Ukrainian frontier and the missile extravaganza across the country,

COMMENTARY - Only threat, pain and inflicted hell preserve peace, right?

WINDS OF WAR - Putin’s tanks had barely crossed the border into Ukraine before the American Petroleum Institute (API) was out on Twitter attempting to exploit the crisis.

OPINION - Dear America: Donald Trump is no more your savior than Hitler was Germany’s savior.  Regain your consciousness. 

MY THOUGHTS - This was not the article I was planning for this week’s column. 

POLITICS WATCH - Republicans are gerrymandering themselves into entrenched minority power, unless we stop them now.

COMMENTARY - A few months ago, I was accused of micro-aggression because I refused to post my pronouns in a zoom meeting.

AGAINST MANDATES - Thousands of truckers are being hijacked by anti-vax loonies and encouraged to parade through red state America in search of any remaining Covid-19 restrictions to protest.

MILITARY AGGRESSION - On 2 August 1990, Saddam Hussein ordered the Iraqi army to invade and occupy Kuwait in an operation that led to Iraq’s defeat in war,

VOTING RIGHTS - The attacks on our democracy are moving into the 2022 primary elections.

The Doctor is IN: As the physical, mental, economic, and certainly emotional health of each and every one of you reading this goes down, welcome to a Presidents' Day that draws us to the question of what happened to the man in the White House being a leader we can look up to.

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE - Feb. 19 marks the 80th anniversary of when Terminal Island’s residents became the first Japanese Americans on the West Coast to be forcibly removed from their homes.

COMMENTARY - Media hype helped drive the United States into the failed wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. 

PERFORMERS’ RIGHTS - Neil Young’s recent decision to pull his music from Spotify, the world’s largest streaming service, has sparked important questions about how streaming services operate.

WOMEN’S RIGHTS - Earlier this year, a small group of women and I gathered to post artwork around Washington, D.C. We were celebrating the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which protected women’s constitutional access to abortion.