You have to wonder what is going on with the United States. I know that Europeans and friends in the Americas do, if the few I correspond with are any indication. They think Trump is nuts. I keep wondering, too, what my Trump friends are thinking; I shudder to think that they might still support…

Without the several videos of the recent killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis her murder would have been quickly denied and covered up. And if you don’t believe this, look back on the tragic unprovoked murder of the young black man, Ahmaud Arbery, in Georgia February 2021. The case made the national news, and I…

This morning’s editorial entitled “The ICE Shooting in Minneapolis”* in The Wall Street Journal is the usual disingenuous attempt by Republican apologists to assuage Republican guilt. Time and time again after terrible tragedies they trot out their sanctimonious laments about “both sides being wrong.” The biggest fool among us knows that sending armed paramilitaries into…

Wait a day and another atrocity occurs brought about by Trump and his MAGA sycophants. What is happening plain and simple is the desecration of our country as we have known it. The ICE killing in Minneapolis was murder by Trump’s out of control personal militia and should be a wake-up call for all of…

Way back in 2016, those of us who did not vote for Trump did so because we believed he was not only unqualified but also that he was emotionally and mentally unfit for leadership. Above all, we suspected that he might do something crazy like start a nuclear war or perpetrate chaos in this country….

The first time I went to Venezuela, I had to pay a bribe to get back. It was December 1978 just before Christmas and the airlines were swamped with passengers coming and going. As I checked in at the VIASA counter, I was told I had no reservation though there I was holding a ticket…

Hang in there and RESIST!

This year I decided to forego my own New Year’s Resolutions and instead suggest some that others might make for the new year. The idea is that the possibility of many making promises – rather than my often failed attempts – just might bring about some good for more of us. Americans might want to…

This holiday I came down with a rather bad case of the flu. After a visit to the ERgent Care and a follow-up with my doctor, I seem to be getting better. During this time I took leave from television, newspapers or even thinking about the state of our union. Upon my return to reality,…

The recently released National Security Strategy of the Trump administration to the uninformed or casual reader might sound plausible and positive, but it is nothing, if not disingenuous and shallow. It is a “slight of hand”attempt to deceive the American people, what one of my professors would have called “a smoke enema.” What the Document…