VOICES

COMMENTARY - There are elements in this country pushing to make it a Christian nation even though America’s founders crafted a constitution that specifically separated church from state.

COMMENTARY - President Biden starts off his second year in office with a press conference, and is raked over the coals on his answers.

MARC'S ANGLE - So the Golden State Warriors billionaire decided to have a moment of honesty and say he doesn’t care about the Uyghur situation in China.

ANIMAL WATCH - In the past few months, there has been major progress in the fight against the torture and killing of dogs and cats in South Korea, in the Dog Meat Trade. 

LABOR VIEW - There is one last hope for the United States. It does not lie in the ballot box.

MEDIA WATCH - Right before our eyes, an invaluable American species is fast disappearing from view: Kartoonus Amerikanas.

WOMEN'S RIGHTS - Within the next few months the Supreme Court will decide on Mississippi’s challenge to Roe V. Wade. No Court in the past 50 years would have taken this case,

THE DOCTOR IS IN - It's quite obvious that many (perhaps most) of those who read (or at least write for) CityWatch believe that the one-party ruling system of Los Angeles and California is just great.

POLITICAL GAMESMANSHIP - Sporting events have been seen as virtually sacred by many.

CONFIRMATION PROCESS - Last Wednesday, January 12, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmed the nomination of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to be the next U.S. ambassador to India.

RACIAL RECKONINGS - If you got burnout from circulating the same book list on how to be an antiracist to your white colleagues and friends, here’s a story that might just restore your hope in the definition and practice of true allyship.

REMEMBERING MLK, JR. - We celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day not only to commemorate King’s historic role in overcoming racism and other injustice, but because his work and vision remain relevant.

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

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. 

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.

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.:

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

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.

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).

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. 

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.