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1. The death of more than a thousand innocent people in Israel by Hamas on a Jewish holy day and and the holding of hostages is a heinous action with no justification or plausible explanation. 2. Context can shed light…
(Last weekend I attended a celebration of Pat Fry’s long and eventful life in her hometown of Detroit. It was a fitting tribute to a beloved friend and comrade who died in August after a long illness. Everything was done…
I was the state leader of the Communist Party of Michigan from 1977-1988. During that time, I followed and commented on the contract negotiations between the UAW and the Big 3. The late 70s marked the beginning of an era…
Many of the 50th anniversary retrospectives on the Popular Unity government in Chile (1970 – September 11, 1973) in recent weeks argue that if President Allende and his supporters had only done this or that the coup would have been…
I never envied the rich and wealthy, except for moments when I open a bottle of wine and pour some into my glass. I don’t drink Ripple any longer. I upgraded as I got older. But I suspect that the…