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WHAT IS MISSING FROM THE (PAROCHIAL) PROJECT 2028
The Project 2028 supported by the 50501 People's Movement is excellent as far as it goes, restoring & deepening American democracy, extending the social contract, reining in the plutocracy, and restoring the free press; but it is not as comprehensive, audacious and bold as it needs to be - it falls short of including audacious proposals on two urgent, unavoidable, strategic sets of issues: (1) the international geopolitical & geo-economic questions of peace and just global go
Gonzalo Santos
4 days ago3 min read
WHAT IS MISSING FROM THE (PAROCHIAL) PROJECT 2028
The Project 2028 supported by the 50501 People's Movement is excellent as far as it goes, restoring & deepening American democracy, extending the social contract, reining in the plutocracy, and restoring the free press; but it is not as comprehensive, audacious and bold as it needs to be - it falls short of including audacious proposals on two urgent, unavoidable, strategic sets of issues: (1) the international geopolitical & geo-economic questions of peace and just global go
Gonzalo Santos
4 days ago
THE TRUE CAUSE OF THIS LATEST ACT OF DOMESTIC TERROR
It has become quite the habit for the Hater-in-Chief to smear all immigrants as violent criminals for the crimes of a few, and use it to justify the ongoing cruel, violent, illegal campaign of mass detentions and deportations we have been witnessing, and his callous shutting down of most refugee and other legal admissions programs - even reversing and nullifying all temporary legal statuses. This sharply contrasts Trump's and his acolytes' ho-hum reflexive deflecting and avoi
Gonzalo Santos
Nov 30, 2025
MAY DAY: A LOCAL & NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY
First, a local history. Going back to its earliest history, Bakersfield, California, had a well-earned reputation of being a bastion of...
Gonzalo Santos
Apr 29, 2025
YOUR IMMIGRANT MOTHERS, AND OURS, SHARE THE SAME HEROIC STORY!
This is a letter to all my beloved U.S. communities, but especially to those whose forefathers and foremothers came from Europe: Unless...
Gonzalo Santos
Mar 10, 2025
SO MUCH FOR APPEASING THE TRUMPIAN BEAST- WHAT'S NEXT FOR MEXICO AND CANADA?
The news is all over the place: the Trump's 25% tariffs on Canadian/Mexican imports, it has been announced, will commence as of 12:00pm...
Gonzalo Santos
Mar 3, 2025
LAS REVOLUCIONES TRAICIONADAS DE CENTROAMÉRICA - ¡PERO LA LUCHA SIGUE!
NYT: Salvadoran political journalist Oscar Martinez wrote after Mr. Funes’ death, “and when I explored the question of what happened to...
Gonzalo Santos
Jan 30, 2025
THE SWAN SONG OF LIBERALISM IN THE MAGA TRUMP ERA
This article describes the wonderful liberal philosophy for a just and stable society by American political philosopher John Rawls, who...
Gonzalo Santos
Nov 24, 2024
NOBODY IS CALLING IT TERRORISM IN THE U.S. MEDIA
Just think for a second what the entire U.S. mainstream media and the entire political class in the U.S. duopoly would have called the...
Gonzalo Santos
Sep 18, 2024
Whose Freedom? A XXI Century Update
I highly recommend this excellent essay in The Guardian by one of the foremost historians of the United States today, Eric Foner,...
Gonzalo Santos
Aug 29, 2024
THE "ABANDON HARRIS" V. THE "VOTE UNCOMMITTED" WINGS OF THE PEACE MOVEMENT IN GAZA - WHERE THE HELL ARE THE REST OF YOU?
Interesting evolution of the movement, that went from pressuring the Dems and working within the DNC to bring Palestinian voices to the...
Gonzalo Santos
Aug 24, 2024
THE WORLD'S CHAOS IS "COMING HOME TO ROOST" - THE BROADER MEANING OF THE CAMPUS ANTIWAR PROTESTS
This NYT article mentions how the world is now watching the dramatic unfolding of a new antiwar movement in the United States from their...
Gonzalo Santos
May 3, 2024
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