The Nation Can’t Wait Any Longer By Lorenzo Canizares 6/1/22 Somebody would have to be willfully blind not to see the crisis of inaction that we are living through. Today, another nationally reported massacre that luckily was smaller in numbers with just five people losing their lives including the gunman. Living in America today is […]
Time to Build a United Front Against Fascism
Time To Build a United Front Against Fascism By Lorenzo Canizares 12/24/21 The Sense of Urgency that I and some others have indicated several times in the past regarding the state of our democracy is finally gaining speed. Many nationally and locally important players in our fight for a better tomorrow, are understanding that we […]
Who Are We Kidding About Our Democracy?
Who Are We Kidding About Our Democracy? By Lorenzo Canizares 12/12/21 President Biden has just finished his Democracy Summit, and not many people noticed. In reality it was sort of a bad joke for President Biden that he gathered other friendly world leaders to discuss an idea that most know is slipping away from us. […]
To Survive : Aim High
To Survive : Aim High By Lorenzo Canizares 11/8/21 There is no doubt that democracy in the USA is hanging by a thread. But sadly, not many people realize that. Not everyone has the time to be following the latest news and be to tie the knots that makes some of us capable of […]
To practice decency in politics you don’t have to be a communist.
In Miami, maybe more than any other place in the nation, people are branded as Communists for being to the left of Hitler. This incredible political distortion is having a tremendous effect in the people of South Florida and has spread around the nation as also an attack on socialism. Republicans have been the […]
Willful Collapse
Today the nation and people on the Blue side of the equation received the bad news that Congressman John Yarmouth from Kentucky is retiring. Cong. Yarmouth is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and is also chairman of the House Budget Committee. This is what he is quoted as saying in an article posted […]
Unable to Think Straight
By Lorenzo Canizares 9/9/21 Tonight, Fox TV was unhinged. Sean Hannity was blasting the President unmercifully because of Biden’s newly announced Covid-19 mandate. The mandate will require all federal employees and government contractors to get vaccinated against Covid-19. According to a 9/9/21 Reuters article, this will affect millions of people. It seems as if Right-wing […]
Cuba in the Peephole
Today (7/11/21) we are witnessing that Cuban people have taken to the streets to protest the harsh conditions they are living under. And there is no denial that living conditions in Cuba are harsh. But the cause of the harsh conditions in its essence has nothing to do with failures of the Cuban government, but […]
The Task is Clear
Mitch McConnell is back to his old ways of making sure Democrats can’t do anything that will help the people of this country. Remember his famous pledge “our task is to make sure that Obama is a one-term president.” Obama was able to get some good things done, but it could have been much […]
If we want peace, justice has to be on the menu
If we want peace, justice has to be on the menu To achieve fairness we have to target specifically. Please make no mistake, fairness and justice are synonymous. Most times when we think about justice most people think about what’s happening to the least among us, and that’s fine. But, justice covers more than just […]