Scahill & Greenwald: What If All Victims of War Received the Media Attention...
"What about the victims of US supplied bombs, weapons, "military actions" and wars?"-Peace and Social Justice Center of South Central KansasFrom Democracy Now:In Britain, police are expanding their...
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Trump in Europe- NATO is a major part of US imperialism
By SJ OttoPresident Donald Trump was in Europethis week to face other members of NATO. Trump was right earlier in his campaign when he called NATO obsolete. He has back tracked on that, realizing how...
View ArticleMemorial Day —honoring those who fought for imperialism
By SJ OttoIt's this time every year that I post something about Memorial Day. And every year I hear on the TV that we should celebrate the lives given for our freedom. But the idea that people are...
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US Representatives from Kansas, Roberts Moran and Estes, ignore town hall...
By SJ OttoIt was the Wichita Women's March Town Hall Meeting, last night here in Wichita, and three of our elected representatives were invited to come. When I first found out about it on Facebook, I...
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Wichita River Festival is just a giant advertisement
By SJ OttoEach year we have the Wichita River Festival and every year I don't attend. Part of that is because it is nothing more than an elaborate advertisement for the city's businesses. Everything...
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Single payer health care and electing local DSA members discussed at monthly...
By SJ OttoSupport for a Single Payer system in the USwas part of a strategy and goals session held by Wichita's Democratic Socialist of America (DSA), last Saturday. Goals and strategies were planned...
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The 8th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. George Tiller
FromJulie A. Burkhart, Founder and CEO, Trust Women Foundation:__._,_.___Wednesday, last week, we marked the eighth anniversary of the assassination of Dr. George Tiller. As I reminded staff at the...
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Conservative commentator, Susan Brown, longs for brutish politics
By SJ OttoWhen I fist saw the headlines for Susan Stamper Brown's article, "It’s time for Democrats to get real," I expected to see the usual conservative advice the Democrats always get: -drop...
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Islamic hate march is unsuccessful in Wichita
By SJ OttoAn anti-Islamic march fizzled today, as less than thirty marchers, from ACT For America, went in front of the Islamic Society of Wichita, according to the Peace and Social Justice Center of...
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Wyoming mayor defends his decision to remove town hall Trump portrait by...
From Daily Kos:By Walter EinenkelJackson Wyoming Mayor Pete Muldoon ruffled some feathers after he took down a portrait of unpopular President Donald Trump last week and replaced it with Chief...
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Slacker Ron Estes wants to let the banks swindle us
By SJ OttoIt's hard to say if slacker US Representative Ron Estes wrote his own article that was carried in the The Wichita Eagleor if he had some one else write it for him. Estes avoids any real work....
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Scalise shooting is the latest in US political violence—it's the "chickens...
By SJ OttoThe latest shooting of Republican House Whip Steve Scalise is a logical reaction when a political party simply pushes certain classes of people to their edge. The Republican Party now runs...
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It's Father's Day—This one is special for me!
By SJ OttoIt's Father's Day. I'm a father myself, with a son who is almost 40. He lives in PortlandOregon. I still have my father, but I won't have him much longer. He has lung cancer and has about six...
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Daily Kos tries to stop Trumpcare (AKA Don't care)
From Irna Landrum, Daily Kos:Mitch McConnell will force a vote on the as-yet-unwritten, super secret Trumpcare bill this month, come hell or high water. There is internal strife among Republicans...
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Sign the Petition to investigate Donald Trump
Posted By: Common Cause (campaign leader)President Donald Trump is refusing to adequately address his unprecedented conflicts of interest and put his assets into a blind trust. And Republicans in...
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Another Fourth of July holiday- light the fireworks- shut off the jingoistic...
By SJ OttoSo another Fourth of July will come in a few days. That is a holiday I have mixed feelings about. No doubt that there will be plenty of jingoistic TV shows and commercials on TV and radio...
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Prison riot (or some kind of event) raises questions on state and local funding
By SJ OttoJust recently I heard about the incident at the El Dorado Correctional Facility, at their maximum-security prison. It amounted to a group of prisoners refusing to go back to their cells after...
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The founding myth of the United States
Posted in Facebook by Peace and Social Justice Center of South Central Kansas:The Boston Tea Party (Wikimedia Commons) This article was originally published on Political Violence @ a Glance.Tomorrow,...
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