John Funiciello

Trump has consistently taken the side of those who would trash the rule of law and promote values that are clearly in violation of the U.S. Constitution.

In “the only democracy in the Middle East,” Palestinians have few, if any, rights in Israel. And, in the U.S., the self-proclaimed center of democracy in the world, the rights of the people are abrogated anytime they get in the way of profits and the power of the political and economic elite.

the president comes from a rich and powerful family, or at least, that class. And, even if a groundling should be elected president, he or she must be vetted by the rich and powerful and will follow the guidelines set by those who are the rulers of the realm.

The powerful are not heeding the dangers presented by vast inequality of distribution of the earth's riches over generations.

Destruction of Peru's rainforests is very much a part of the climate change that is devastating or threatening the world's seacoasts and its inland food production regions.

the hacking affected the election that gave the world Trump, an often-failed billionaire businessman who had no interest in politics, other than how and when it affected his businesses and curbed or enhanced his bottom line. Not a very auspicious way to enter the political field.

They call the shortened time between the filing for a union election and the election itself “ambush elections,” as if there were no tradition of U.S. workers joining unions and that federal law since President Franklin D. Roosevelt has encouraged workers to exercise their franchise and vote in union elections.

More than 46 million Americans live in poverty in the U.S.

In recent years, the FAA has even tried to convince veteran expert controllers to stay on past their retirement dates, but who wouldn’t want to leave a place with such a burden of responsibility for thousands of lives and very little acknowledgment of their vital work or its importance?