a poem by Jason Kishineff If we want your oil, we’ll take it. If your country can be useful, we’ll break it. Don’t blow the whistle on our crimes or you’re the only one who will do any time. Everyone knows that ALL must obey our laws. Those that trade with Venezuela or Iran are…

Social media platforms have seen an unprecedented amount of censorship the past few years. Even before this started happening, we saw, on cable news channels, that people who questioned the story the government had put forth disappearing. For instance if you went on a mainstream news show in 2016 and…

Anokye “Greetings, Yaw Okoto!” said the old man, warmly, to the boy (who was really more of a young man than a boy nowadays). “Greetings, Anokye!” cried the enthusiastic boy, embracing the wrinkled old man. “The Abron were not expecting us. We were successful. And I received not a scratch.” “I…

It is somewhat understandable to grow into adulthood and find the history you were taught as a child was incomplete. We teach our children whitewashed history that celebrates Christopher Columbus, for instance, even though he led a genocide of the Arawaks and allowed his men to take sex slaves as…

Authors note: Before I get into it, please be advised that this article might just challenge what you believe is reality. If that happens, chances are pretty good that you’ll get angry with me or decide that I’m just a fool. While it may be the case that I’m a…

What happened to our country? During World War II there were a huge number of conscientious objectors- people who refused to fight for moral reasons- 43,000 according to Howard Zinn[1], four times the number of conscientious objectors during World War I, as well as 350,000 official cases of draft evasion…

The Democratic Party thinks that you have found equality and equal access, as long as the Democratic Party is making the decisions, instead of the Republicans, whom they accuse of outright racism. Yet the Democratic Party practices a form of racism, too- a more subtle, insidious racism, but it is…

Dear [your name here, long time Democrat or Republican voter], I understand that the title, alone, of this article has you skeptical, but I sincerely beg you to please give me a few moments of your time. You see, I do sincerely believe, as stated in the above picture, that…

9:30 PM on a Tuesday night, the streets wet and dark with the rain from earlier this evening, the streets of downtown Vallejo are quiet. A car drives down Georgia Street every so often, but little else stirs. Under the eaves of the City Hall rest several homeless people, one…