Luxury Tours France Frauds Enlighten Banking Industry Frauds (6 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Robert A. Leishear, PhD, PE, ASME Fellow)
   A series of Op Eds document the crimes committed against my wife and I by Luxury Tours France, where I was threatened with false imprisonment if I did not succumb to extortion. More importantly, as I performed an investigation of these frauds, I determined that the FBI does not investigate any frauds that are less than $100,000, and the banking industry endorses such frauds through their policies.    Banks endorse criminals by accepting false claims as fact, even when customers object. Also, banks rename these frauds as billing disputes and scam acknowledgements, where such actions are, in themselves, acts of fraud.    Per Merriam Webster, fraud is defined as 'deceit, trickery specifically: intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right'. This definition pervades this series of articles, where bank actions have been clearly described.    There were two purposes for these Op Eds. The first purpose was to recover stolen funds, and this effort was nearly 90 percent effective. The second purpose is to prevent such thefts against other people, and the success or failure of this effort is yet to happen.     To parallel this investigation, the following email was sent to Luxury Tours France.    'As a thief and a liar, you are rather insignificant, but you may have some minor importance to describe international internet [frauds] and credit card frauds. A series of Op Eds clearly documents the lies and crimes that you committed against my wife and I. My most recent Op Ed describes how thieves like you are robbing people in the U.S. and across the globe. There are so many thieves like you that law enforcement cannot keep up with your crimes. This new Op Ed is titled 'U.S. Banks and the FBI Harbor Criminal Fraud Enterprises'. Perhaps this new Op Ed will stop a few thieves like you.'    As usual, Luxury Tours France did not respond to this letter of complaint, nor did they answer another 20 complaint emails before this complaint.               

Dalai Lama (6 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Meryl Ann Butler)
  

Covid-19 (4 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Mike Zimmer)
   Articles on the Covid-19 Pandemic  

Pulling Back Conservatism's Curtain (6 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Richard Girard)
This is going to be my all out, heavily researched attack against the Conservative movement; both now and in the past. My first articles are on Capitalist Libertarianism, because so many people are clinging to it, like survivors of the Titanic to wreckage, as a way to maintain their freedom, and get ahead economically. They must be disabused of their delusion.

Greek Economics (4 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Scott Baker)
Articles on the Greek Economic crisis  

A Fight to Stop Nuclear Power Plant Explosions (3 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Robert A. Leishear, PhD, PE, ASME Fellow)
   An eleven-year-long fight to stop nuclear power plant explosions still meets incredible resistance. False statements, lies, and cover-ups are typical by government agencies, such as the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency. To protect this multi-trillion dollar industry, even the so-called protectors of nuclear safety - The American Nuclear Society - make false claims to censor nuclear safety information. An incoming nuclear power plant explosion before 2039 can be stopped, and smaller, ongoing nuclear power plant explosions can be stopped as well.    Two of the numerous 2011, explosions at Fukushima Daiichi, Japan are shown, where radioactive dust blasted around the globe. Identically caused, but smaller, hydrogen explosions occurred at Three Mile Island in 1979, and the ensuing US government cover-ups hid the scientific information needed to prevent these subsequent Fukushima explosions. In short, the Fukushima explosions could have been prevented.       Even though explosions were covered-up after the melting of the nuclear reactor core at Three Mile Island, nuclear power plant construction was stopped for decades due to an extremely negative public perception of nuclear safety, where protests against nuclear erupted all over the world. As nuclear energy has gained more public support, the appearance of nuclear safety has become more important than nuclear safety itself. Accordingly, my research findings are vehemently fought, and the end result is that small explosions continue, and the next major nuclear power plant explosions is ignored. Stop the next Fukushima-type nuclear power plant explosion!  

Randy Rainbow (6 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Meryl Ann Butler)
   Randy Rainbow  

TPP (5 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Scott Baker)
Trans Pacific Partnership and Trans Atlantic Partnership

Human Trafficking (3 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Joan Brunwasser)

Korea (3 articles.) (# of views) (Created by David William Pear)
   These are my article on Korea  

Helena Norbert Hodge-- Answers to Globalizaiton, Economics of Happiness (4 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Rob Kall)
a collection of interviews and transcripts  

green new deal (6 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Jack Lindblad)
   First Nations Peoples Wisdom considers 'green new deal' as colonizing capitalist opportunismJACK LINDBLAD WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 201817 ReadsTen years ago, the term 'green new deal' was coined by myself in my oped news article. Indigenous First Nations Peoples took exception and expressed contempt for the term, rightfully so, since inferred was an imposition of a new deal with First Nations Peoples supposed inability to shepard their flora and fauna.      That point was not considered in my coinage though it is my belief that we must learn from First Nations Peoples if there is a scintilla of hope to avoid #neartermhumanextinction.My coinage was intended to take after FDR's new deal to emphasize the world war ii level of effort needed, ten years ago. Arguably, it's too late now to sustain a resilient civilization in this 6th Great Extinction of all life as we know it.My urging of obama to move on transforming the oil based economy to a circular steady state economy, in a world war ii level effort fell on deaf ears, outside of token lipservice paid immediately prior to leaving office in 2016.Current scientific consensus is too cautious in stating the inexorably coming extinction.   It's much sooner than 10 years out.A needed now system change to collectivism, cooperative groupings, and communalism stands in polar opposition to current governance by nazis, simply an advanced state of uber capitalism that brought us to unstoppable extinction and complete destruction of inhabitablity on this planet.Capitalism and its tools of societal conformance and order, being democracy and voting representative governance has failed. Unless we make a system chance and attempt to address #neartermhumanextinction, we will all go, subservient and obedient to the ism that extinguished all life on earrh.Running repeatedly as a registered and endorsed green found no real assistance from the green apparatchik, my 2010 campaign for California assembly ran up to 22% with significant support from Fernando Espueles.It was my realization in 2015 that running national green campaigns was a conscious act of enabling nazism. Four states that tipped the election to drumpf would not have, if greens did not run a presidential candidate as it became obvious nazi drumpf would snag the rethuglicon nomination.System change to collectivism      Sorry to say, the capitalist system that we vote and layer over with pretensions of democracy with representative goverance is the ism that led us to #neartermhumanextinction.      Nazism, that is uber capitalism, is the nail in the coffin of planetary habitability.      A system change is needed for a scintilla of hope.      The blue wave, as expansive as it is becoming with every new flip from red to blue, means simply we have only entertained a not yet crystallized glimpse of the enormity of the system change that urgently requires the First Nations Peoples guidance to survive as a species.https://www.facebook.com/notes/jack-lindblad/first-nations-peoples-wisdom-considers-green-new-deal-as-colonizing-capitalist-o/10156786001487118/  

Wasted by Design (1 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Dan Zhang)
   Our world is drowning in waste, not by accident, but by design. This column dissects the systemic flaws in our production models-- from fast fashion to consumer electronics-- and explores the innovative designs and conscious choices that can lead us toward a more sustainable future.  

US/NATO Imperialism (5 articles.) (# of views) (Created by JACK DRESSER)
   'Western' imperialism is directed from on high (the long-established transnational 'deep state') and protected by its military legions is ever active in naked warfare, covert warfare, 'color revolutions' and coup d'etats, economic warfare, propaganda warfare, cyber warfare, corporate predation, resistance suppression, and 'pacification' of target populations including our own by any means necessary.  As a retired psychologist, Vietnam-era veteran and national vice-chair of the Veterans for Peace working group on Palestine and the Middle East, I write about this here and elsewhere as well as my weekly radio show at www.kepw.org on Thursdays at 7pm Pacific.   

Why Everything You Know about Your "Self" Is Wrong (6 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Robert Fuller)
This series explores how our understanding    of selfhood affects our sense of individuality, our interpersonal    relationships, and our politics.

Peacefare (10 articles.) (# of views) (Created by P. Orin Zack)
This series of short stories, set in the world created for my novel, 'Burnout Fever', follows the activities of members of the activist group called Constitutional Evolution.

What are we doing to our kids and ourselves? (3 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Robert Adler)
   The environment is awash in thousands of chemicals, many known to have a wide range of toxic impacts on fetal or infant development, on growing children and on adults. Researchers are just starting to study the effects of the 'cocktails' of these compounds that we carry in our bodies and blood.  

Humor (5 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Meryl Ann Butler)
  

Ian Ruskin (4 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Meryl Ann Butler)
     

Healthcare, Drugs, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Hospitals, Health Insurance, Medical (4 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Rob Kall)
  

Frans de Waal Interview; Primate Evolution of Morals, Fairness, Kindness (3 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Rob Kall)
  

safety (3 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Joan Brunwasser)

Black Lives Matter (4 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Eric Z Lucas)
   This series of articles explores the problem of citizenship for Black Americans.  The articles will address the general problem of citizenship and acceptance, the issue of voting rights and the ideal of citizenship.  Hopefully, this presentation will serve to improve the lives of all citizens in America.    

debt (3 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Joan Brunwasser)

Credit Rating Agencies (6 articles.) (# of views) (Created by David Fiderer)

Cui Bono? Who Benefits? (4 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Rob Kall)
   Often the best way to understand why things happen, why the system works the way it does, is to see who benefits. Cui Bono is latin for 'to whose benefit?'Wikipedia says, 'It is the key forensic question in legal and police investigation to find who has a motive for a crime.'it works well when looking at politics, corruption, influence, laws, injustice, media and more.   

Raising Happy, Healthy Empowered Children (5 articles.) (# of views) (Created by David Kanegis)
   Raising children that will grow into empowered adults who believe they will succeed and are not afraid of failure doesn't just happen.It takes active participation and leadership by parents.Empowered children wil become adults who are not easily intimidated or become prey to the anti-social behavior of others.  

rallies and demonstrations, mostly in DC (5 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Marta Steele)
     

Mexican Border Diary (3 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Mike Rivage-Seul)
   Today in the middle of my 80th year, I'm off to Tijuana to work for a couple of weeks with refugees and immigrants at the border. I'll work with Al Otro Lado (AOL), a Tijuana-based social justice and legal services organization whose task is to help asylum-seekers in their quest to find refuge in the United States. I want to take readers with me on this particular expedition of first-hand observation and discovery.  

Defeating Trump: Election 2020 (5 articles.) (# of views) (Created by JACK RANDOM)
   An ongoing analysis of the presidential election from the debates to the primaries to the conventions to the general election.  We begin with 23 Democratic candidates and the process of narrowing the field.  At every stage we will recalibrate the analysis.  The object is not just to predict the survivors and winners but to guide the electorate to reach an informed decision.  That decision should not be guided by the lesser of evils or some foolish notion of electability.  The next president will be critical not only to the survival of democracy but also to the survival of the species.