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Life In Japan: Peace Parade

Posted on May 13, 2024 by johnrachel

As a public school teacher, my wife Masumi belongs to a union and that union supports a truly left-wing agenda. This year’s “peace parade” emphasized their support for Article 9 and ending Japan’s destructive allegiance to America. Continue reading →

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An Open Letter to Dennis Kucinich on Peace in a Military State

Posted on April 30, 2017 by johnrachel

Dennis Kucinich, a man I truly respect and admire, gave a well-crafted, informative speech on April 26th at Cleveland State University. This is my critique as an open letter to this talented, dedicated man. Continue reading →

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Paying For The Peace Dividend

Posted on October 12, 2016 by johnrachel

Be as skeptical as you want, paying for the Peace Dividend with a major realignment of our priorities and tax law, is the easy part. Fighting off the barrage of pseudo-scholarly neoliberal propaganda will be the challenge. The autocrats who now being criminally enriched by the current regime of crony capitalism and pay-for-play politics will battle this with every dirty trick they can come up with. Truth and fairness are on our side. We must not waver. We can pay for this. We can do this! Continue reading →

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How to Become a Target for State Assassination

Posted on March 4, 2016 by johnrachel

The absence of war is not peace. More accurately, in our times the absence of war is a truce. A truce is the abatement of conflict with no guarantee that war will not break out again. Peace is a state where no conflict is ongoing or possible. Continue reading →

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How Bernie Sanders Can Win and Turn America Around

Posted on November 7, 2015 by johnrachel

Here is a video of the announcement Bernie Sanders needs to make in order to win the presidency and turn the country around. Continue reading →

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“We want our money back!”

Posted on May 31, 2015 by johnrachel

We have been ripped off! Now we want our money back. All $4.82 trillion of it! Continue reading →

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The Face of Courage

Posted on February 28, 2013 by johnrachel

On September 18, 2001, the Authorization to Use Military Force was signed into law by President George W. Bush. It had passed 98-0 in the Senate and 420-1 in the House of Representatives. The one dissenting vote against the legislation that has sent this nation headlong into the abyss which we have been brainwashed into embracing as the War on Terror, was cast by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA). Continue reading →

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