thoughts from podunk

Leave a twig for the birds to perch on... don't let the capitalists do your thinking for you... if you are in the neighborhood, stop on in; the coffee is always hot and the cookie jar is full... looking forward to the day when the real decisions in America are made by working class families gathered around the kitchen table... new postings daily...Yours in the struggle...Alan L. Maki

Friday, March 30, 2018

John Bolton, warmonger and devil incarnate... tell Trump to fire him

Jimmy Carter gave Trump good advice: Fire John Bolton. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/03/23/john-bolton-policy-views-you-should-know...

Housing for people, not for profit.

Should private developers like Legend Communities be allowed to intentionally create and shape entire communities into racially and econom...

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Stop violence in the schools... there is a lot more to this than just guns.

I made this post (in blue) on FaceBook and have been getting quite a response and thought I would provide some further thought, below: Th...

Thursday, January 18, 2018

Student debt and collections... another "enemies list."

Many U.S. student debts have been turned over to a Nazi run German bank. Deutsche Bank AG is a German global banking and financial services ...

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Another false nuclear alert... this time in Japan; coincidental or planned with sinister intent to get us prepared for a nuclear war?

Japanese media outlet NHK has apologized for issuing a false report of a North Korean missile launch Tuesday evening local time. ...

Racism has been running rampant in this country long before Trump's racist comments but Trump is making racism acceptable in formulating public policy.

Trump has made racist public officials all across this country think they can get away with racist discrimination in formulating public poli...

What do you know about the billionaires running this country and what they intend to do?

Too many people fail to research what is going on in this country. The influence of even the most influential political strategists is i...

Monday, January 8, 2018

For solidarity with the Iranian people and the Tudeh Party

Four important statements from the Tudeh Party of Iran: http://solidnet.org/iran-tudeh-party-of-iran/tudeh-party-of-iran-statement...

Cecil B. DeMille

A lot is being made of Oprah Winfrey receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award. But... Did you know that Cecil B. DeMille was a thoroughly ...

Oprah Winfrey won't be getting my vote

Oprah Winfrey Receives Cecil B. de Mille Award at the 2018 Golden Globes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN5HV79_8B8 Oprah Winfrey talk...

Why I will never again give my one precious vote to a Democrat

The Democrats are obviously going to be running a full field of candidates for the presidential primaries for the 2020 Election. T...

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Is Nuclear Winter the antidote to global warming?

Could it be Trump, who lets us know how smart he is at every opportunity and constantly tells us how much he loves all of us, is thinking...

What Happened

I find it interesting so many people would like us not to discuss Hillary Rodham Clinton's new book, " What Happened ," eve...

Friday, December 22, 2017

Tax the rich, end the wars and cut the military budget--- tax problem solved

The Democrats and all of these phony liberals, progressives and leftists will now start talking about "taxing the rich" as the 20...

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Why can't we keep trains on their tracks?

This is supposed to be the most industrialized and technologically advanced nation in the world and we can’t keep trains on the track. And ...

Unemployment down and poverty soars.

Trump’s big boast is unemployment is down. Unemployment is down only because so many people have been under-employed and unemployed for...

Monday, December 18, 2017

George McGovern and Lyndon Johnson

The people must assert their voices for peace.

Trump is in the process of updating the U.S. "strategy" for when nuclear weapons will be used... Once the nuclear bombs are d...

Another phony "leftist"

I have been meaning to comment for quite sometime about this “writer” referring to herself as a “rogue journalist” pretending to offer the ...

Sunday, December 17, 2017

Hey Dumb Donkeys... Its all about guns and butter.

Democrats still don’t get what the liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith tried to explain to them: You can’t have both guns and butte...

Friday, December 15, 2017

The FCC ruling repeals Net Neutrality

New York Times: F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/technology/net-neutrality-repeal-vote.html?...

Sunday, December 10, 2017

Convicted ex-coal boss Blankenship to run for Senate

This begs the question: Why aren't workers running for office in opposition to the employers? http://thehill.com/policy/energy-envir...

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About Me

Alan Maki: United States; I have been involved in the peace, labor, civil rights, and environmental movements for over 30 years, and I am a socialist. I would encourage everyone to get involved in promoting the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which came into existence on December 10, 1948; we should strive to use the yearly anniversary of this document to popularize it. We need to struggle to create a more progressive, socially just society where all working people receive real living wages and have a voice at work, and in their communities. I have worked with casino workers across Minnesota who are trying to organize a union. I have worked with people in northern Minnesota struggling to save the Big Bog, the primary freshwater aquifer--- this bog is being mined for peat. In my spare time during the spring and fall you can find me fly fishing on the Dark River, a pristine designated trout stream;in the winter ice fishing on Lake-of-the-Woods. I look forward to hearing from you. Nothing human is alien to me.

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