Category: Political Discourse
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Thanksgiving? No, We’re Living On Borrowed Time
Unless you’ve living in a cave in Mongolia without any form of connection to the outside world, you have to realize that we, you, me and virtually everyone on earth, are living on borrowed time. It doesn’t matter what your philosophical views are, or your political or economic beliefs. The world is rapidly becoming sick,…
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Where is the West’s Line in the Sand?
I cannot help being disillusioned, but more-so worried for Ukraine in its war with Russia. The war has now become a major international conflict that has implications for the future of Europe in its entirety. North Korea is more than willing to send 100,000 soldiers to Russia, in an effort by Kim Jong Un to…
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Pride of Ignorance
The average American youth who graduates from high school in 2024, may well have never read a complete text. That’s a fact. Think about that for a moment. They may have read a chapter, or perused an article or two, maybe a synopsis, or simply skimmed the text. Some will even have the temerity to…
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Netanyahu Is A War Criminal
Benjamin Netanyahu’s pursuit of Hamas has led to a conviction by the International Criminal Court in The Hague. His actions, irrespective of what transpired that led to alleged war crimes, were, and are, crimes against humanity. It has been as Netanyahu’s behest that the (IDF) Israeli Defence Forces, systematically obliterated Gaza, along with 44,000 Gazans,…
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Unwittingly Ignorant
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The Presidential election in America this month, was to me, incomprehensible. How is it that a majority of Americans, including many minorities, blacks and hispanics, voted for a man who is publicly, knowingly, a racist. They are voting for a man who uses immigrants, minorities, especially latinos and blacks, as political scapegoats in order to…
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Reflections
I wrote this a few years ago, reflecting on how at one point it my life, I was both the protagonist and antagonist of this poem. It could have gone either way. I often wonder how many others stood on that bridge and made the alternate choice. This is for them, and the men I’ve…
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A Public Service Message for the Alienated
When did we lose our perspective? I am but an observer to the protagonists and antagonists of this expose, as I do not reside in the United States. But I am not simply an observer, for whatever befalls America will spread like a contagion, infecting; first its neighbours, and then the world. So having said…
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From American Dream to American Nightmare
I grew up watching John F. Kennedy on the nightly news, on what was a circular RCA Black and White TV whose picture quality approximated looking through a mayonnaise jar, empty but not yet cleaned. I grew up poor, but never saw myself as disadvantaged. I could change that. I knew I had the means…
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Hope…is an ephemeral thing.
Reflections on aging, and how lies have destroyed trust. Trust once lost, is almost impossible to regain. And so it is in this election in the United States that one man, without credibility, has destroyed peoples belief in facts. Throughout my entire life, in fact, until the 2015 U.S. election, I never doubted the media’s…
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The Gathering Storm
Tomorrow, America will decide its future, and Americans will either seek to continue the great democratic experiment of America or decry democracy in favour of an amorphous and dangerous future. A future not only filled with uncertainty, but one without stability or predictability. Not since 1861 has America been so divided. Slavery was the issue…