John Funiciello

The rich will always eat. Even in the worst of times, the rich have rarely felt the pinch of hunger in their bellies. Whether in the U.S., Asia, or Africa, they have the money to buy as much food as they want, in good times and in bad. They are not ever “food-insecure,” a modern…

As the nation’s health care debate winds down and a vote on some kind of package is taken, the question remains: Who will be in charge of the lives of millions of Americans as they struggle to maintain their health? Even many of those who have exposed the manipulations of the health care industry, and…

When anything threatens the status quo, powerful institutions shift into gear to knock down the threat and nothing illustrates that better than the recent attack on ACORN by the Republicans and others on the right. ACORN – the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now – has been in the sights of the right wing…

Modern societies have reached a time when just about everything about all systems are not just interrelated, but are intertwined. A problem in one is likely to have an effect on all of the other systems. While this has been true over time, modern societies have reached the state we are in now because the…

One of the great tragedies of the past year is the failure of our national leaders to take care of old business that should have been addressed a half-century ago – health care for all. It doesn’t matter that the politicians are of one stripe or another. They didn’t do the job and the people…

Probably no one ever has expressed such contempt for something that he was about to become the head of as the 40th president of the United States. Although the drumbeat of anti-government sentiment has rolled across the land for a few hundred years, emanating from the power centers of commerce and politics, Reagan knocked a…

The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on “free speech” for corporations in political campaigns and elsewhere has stirred up a furor among those who believe that the power and wealth of Corporate America already have corrupted the political system. Treating corporations as individuals and, even, as citizens, has indeed corrupted the political system, without even…

It’s hard to say that “only in Texas could this happen,” but it’s hard to imagine that in any other state they’d want to remove references to Cesar Chavez, co-founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW) union, from their textbooks. But that’s what the Texas State Board of Education (TSBOE) is contemplating—that and the removal…