John Funiciello

For as long as most people can remember, environmentalists and trade unionists have been on opposite sides of most issues. Since the advent of the great modern environmental awakening of 40 years ago, when many of the modern agencies of government were created to deal with the degradation of the environment, there have been clashes…

In the time of America’s “Occupy” movement, governments are poised to make it illegal for the people to occupy public spaces. That’s what happened in Nashville at the end of last week. Authorities in that city had decided that they could no longer tolerate an encampment near the state Capitol in the capital city, so…

There was an Internet headline this week in a right-wing Washington, D.C.-based publication that said, “One month in, protests yet to topple capitalism.” If its intent was to minimize the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests that have sprung up all across the country, in Europe, and in a number of other countries, it widely missed…

Earlier this month, a farmer in Olathe, Colorado, declared he had made a colossal mistake in trying to hire local workers to pick onions and corn and opined that American workers were getting soft. John Harold, who farms 1,000 acres in western Colorado, told the New York Times that he decided in the past year…

When the State of Georgia killed Troy Davis last week, it demonstrated to the world that there are some aspects of American life that never left the state of barbarism. One might be justified in singling out the individual states that have killed the most people over the past few decades, when many states have…

If the U.S. wants to create jobs, why not send the work to the place that apparently has created the most jobs in the past two decades…China? Notwithstanding that China has been shedding jobs at a dizzying rate ever since the American and European economies began to tank, they still have a lot more jobs…

The past few weeks have been filled with remembrances of the attacks of September 11, 2001, and rightly so. Horrific events such as those, which occurred on that day, stay in the mind. This is especially true for the families of those who died on that day, affecting the lives of the next generation and…