John Funiciello

This is the time for reckoning, domestically and in the rest of the world where the U.S. has held sway for generations, for the rising up against the impunity and cruelty of Trump and Bolton and those who think and act as they do. Despite the trainloads of lies that rise from this White House, the reckoning may already have started.

The younger generation has seen what the 'free market' has done to their parents within the general structure of capitalism and they don’t like what they see and the 'free market' has passed its 'benefits' to them.

As long as people like Donald Trump occupy the White House and his fellow Republicans control both houses of Congress, there is likely to be no effort to wipe out poverty and inequality, let alone create an atmosphere of tolerance and kindness. It will be left to others to create that atmosphere; civil society and, possibly, the Democratic Party, although it seems to have lost its way in that regard.

The use of dangerous chemicals in the manner that Israel has used them and still uses them and, for the purposes they intend, is nothing less than a human rights violation and a violation of international law, but neither Israel, nor the U.S., its big brother in such operations, pays much attention to such laws and conventions.

Right now, the country is headed back to the time before the NLRA, a time when disputes in the workplace were settled by work stoppages, strikes, and street battles. Often, organizations of workers (including unions) were considered criminal enterprises or the workers involved were aliens or worse.

Even with the problems of inequality and racism in some unions, the union movement provided a lift to all workers. That's what the Janus decision is about: stamping out even the potential power of organized labor, because a powerful union movement means less for the rich and corporations, while providing a more equitable share for all workers.

While Trump reigns, it can go in no other direction but down. Yet, as has been noted here before, Trump did not cause what is happening in America, but he is a vile symptom of the long-term decay of the ideals of America.

As far as the approximately 2,000 children ripped from their parents and sent to caged holding warehouses, there is only one word to describe Trump's behavior: Terrorism.

as the peoples gather to demand an end to poverty and deprivation in America, they need to read the Alston report to the U.N. and therefore, to the world, which shows that, among the so-called developed world, the U.S. is not doing well and its direction is downward, especially with an erratic and unpredictable narcissist at the helm.