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

Sunday, July 7, 2019

The role of fear in promoting war

Have you noticed how Trump is trying to prevent people from going to certain countries? They first make people fear the people in these c...

How patient are you?

How many generations must we wait for real health care reform? Can your health wait?

Consumer debt in the United States hits...

$13.6 trillion dollars

Hong Kong

The problems in Hong Kong have their roots in British colonialism but you would never know this from the mainstream media.

Health care for all the people not for profits for the few.

When I asked Ted Kennedy back in 1972 when Democrats were going to enact Medicare for All he told me that we had to be patient. Well, bac...

Monday, June 24, 2019

Iran

It's like these idiots won't be satisfied until they are in a war with Iran.

Let’s Talk About the Politics and Economics of Livelihood and what we socialist can do

So, Facebook has denied me the right to create a new page entitled, “Let’s Talk About the Politics and Economics of Livelihood.” I set u...

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Form the "New Deal" to the "Great Society"... now is the time for socialism.

We have had “The New Deal” with Franklin Roosevelt. Most Democrats and Republicans opposed the New Deal reforms... it took huge coalition...

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

A thought about democracy from Canada

Glen Wreggitt from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada wrote this comment on Facebook which I think we need to discuss very widely. I would encour...

Tolkien

We just saw the movie “Tolkien.” It was a good, but slow moving and often boring, love story and anti-war movie. There was only a very ...

Will jobs ever "return?"

Trump has lied about “bringing factories back from China.” In fact, the Chinese own at least 51% of these factories. So, what this mean...

Steve Bannon

Steve Bannon continues to speak for the Trump Administration when it comes to trade with China and the guy has a few loose screws upstairs.

The Hollywood scene

Since Weinstein stopped producing movies it seems the quality of movies regarding any social content has severely deteriorated. Hollywood...

Something all socialist working class activists might want to think about...

People are wasting a lot of time with the Democrats. We should be putting some efforts and our limited resources into building socialist c...

Friday, March 22, 2019

Democracy is for those who can afford to pay on Facebook

Facebook only allows you to “boost” your posts and pages if you pay them but they don’t tolerate digital leafleting; repeatedly sharing p...

The wealthy have their kids working as legislative assistants for members of Congress

Did you ever wonder why when you contact your member of Congress you end up getting some arrogant creep on the line? Well, it turns out ...

Democracy U.S.A. style...

Democrats in Texas and around the country are complaining because they have been out gerrymandered by the Republicans. And these Democrat...

Hands off Venezuela!

The imperialist think tanks never stop thinking about their next “humanitarian intervention” and war... its the Allen and John Foster Du...

Monday, March 11, 2019

Pompeo peddles lie after lie

Today Mike Pompeo held a press conference to attack Venezuela and Cuba. It was nothing but a litany of lies. Lie after big lie and the lies ...

Sunday, March 10, 2019

What's new? Another day another scandal; another reason to impeach Trump.

Now there is a new scandal brewing around Trump with a madame who used to manage a brothel claiming she has been selling Chinese investor...

A discussion were Bernie Sanders' supporters

A Sunday morning thought... I will vote for Bernie Sanders when he is actually running for president but the Democrats will never allow...

Friday, March 8, 2019

Cuba's Ambassador to Canada responds to this CBC News

Cuba's Ambassador responds to this CBC News tendentious and manipulative article, "Canada at odds with Cuban 'ally' over M...

"Dictator"... or anti-imperialist working class leader?

CNN and the rest of the media continue to refer to Nicolas Maduro and Kim Jong-un as “dictators” and Donald Trump as “President” even thoug...

Stand with Omar!

Stand with Illhan Omar... she has the courage to tell the truth. No more money for the Israeli killing machine to slaughter Palestinians. En...

“What if there are new elections and Maduro wins again?”

Isn’t it interesting that when these over-paid Democratic Party hacks turned media pundits like CNN’s Jake Tapper question John Bolton a...

We need a Peace Dividend

Is there a better use for all this money? businessinsider.com American Military Dominance In One Staggering Chart Def...

Bernie Sanders and militarism and war and the Peace Dividend we are entitled to

After voting for defense budget after defense budget Bernie Sanders now declares as he announces another bid for the Democratic Party nomi...

5G

A top executive of Cisco has admitted the world can’t move forward with 5G without the participation of Huawei.

“Left of Liberal” with hosts Alan and Debbie Maki

Coming soon: “Left of Liberal” with hosts Alan and Debbie Maki... stay tuned. Our theme song will be: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b...

U.S. household wealth posts record loss in fourth-quarter amid stock rout

Business News March 7, 2019 / 11:14 AM / a day ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. household wealth fell by a record $3.8 trillion, ...

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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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