Category: Articles
Peers for Peace: Professional Policing in a Free Society Los Angeles Daily Journal - February 5, 2015
Why are police officers shooting so many people? Are they out of control? Why do they look like soldiers?
As a young Los Angeles Police Department officer in 1968, I coul
Committees of Correspondence: To Defend Freedom and Secure Good Government
Information Clearing House - November 12, 2013 ~
Two hundred and fifty years ago the people of America were subject to an unrepresentative government controlled by powerful commercial interests. They rebelled and f
Paying the Toll On the Economic Highway
Consortium News - November 6, 2013 ~ The political coma of the U.S. government induced by Congress and its failure to represent those who elect it can ultimately be traced to the unfair and complex system of income
The Failure of War as an Instrument of Foreign Policy: A More Effective Solution
Counterpunch - October 4, 2013 ~
Making war against nation states and their people no longer works. Unstable and undemocratic countries are usually controlled by individuals and cabals against whom military force
We Can Stop the Slaughter of Children Truthout - December 20, 2012 ~All Americans, not just the president, weep at the image of 20 little children gunned down as they hid in their classrooms in Newtown, Conn. What can be done to avoid such slaughter in the
The Power of the Mormon Church Over Mitt Romney Global Research - September 24, 2012 ~
An excerpt from Mitt Romney and the Mormon Church: Questions.
The election of Mitt Romney as president of the United States would represent the culmination of a century-and-a-half
The Separate Security Interests of the United States and Israel The Intrepid Report - September 17, 2012 ~
An excerpt from Target Iran: Drawing Red Lines in the Sand.
A balanced analysis of the security interests of the United States vis-a-vis Israel requires a careful review of th
A Law Enforcement Alternative to War in Syria Nation of Change - August 5, 2012 ~
Once again the United States is engaging in a war it is destined to lose. Add Syria to the long list of nations where the United States has unnecessarily used military force to its
A Real Job for the Vice President: Leading Congress Truthout - February 25, 2012 ~
The vice presidency has been a joke for most of the nation’s history. The first vice president, John Adams, said it was "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man c
Airport Screening Policy: Repression or Discretion? Counterpunch - August 23, 2011 ~
Google “TSA stupidity” and you will find that almost one-and-a-half million websites have something to say about the subject.
If the United States is to avoid another major te


