Texas Longhorns with newborn calf in Bluebonnets

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Alan Maki

Alan Maki
Doing research at the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas

It's time to claim our Peace Dividend

It's time to claim our Peace Dividend

We need to beat swords into plowshares.

We need to beat swords into plowshares.

A program for real change...

http://peaceandsocialjustice.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-progressive-program-for-real-change.html


What we need is a "21st Century Full Employment Act for Peace and Prosperity" which would make it a mandatory requirement that the president and Congress attain and maintain full employment.


"Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens"

- Ben Franklin

Let's talk...

Let's talk...

Friday, May 1, 2020

Stop the China bashing!

My opinion is that Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party are making great strides towards correcting the problems as they continue to build a just and democratic China.


Instead of all this China bashing we should be focused on creating a just and sane peaceful foreign policy working in cooperation with China.


I would encourage everyone to read the book, “China Hands,” to understand the sordid and corrupt modern history based on the most perverted reactionary anti-Communist Big Lies behind our own country’s foreign policy towards China.


I also find it very encouraging that Xi Jinping has encouraged all the people in China to take up the collective studying and discussion of the “Communist Manifesto;” because, as our own Frances Perkins who as Secretary of Labor responsible for shaping the New Deal reforms pointed out, the “Communist Manifesto” has many very important ideas contributing to building a socially just society and she said people should not be afraid to read it lest these good ideas remain on the pages of an old pamphlet.


So, like our own Constitution and Bill of Rights along with the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights... the “Communist Manifesto” helps us shape the kind of movements required in our struggles for peace, against racism, and for socially and economically justice society.


Working people everywhere should be studying the “Communist Manifesto” right along with our fellow workers in China who need our solidarity, not this China bashing they are getting from Wall Street’s over-paid capitalist Sooth-Sayers passed off as pundits and bribed corrupt politicians.