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The Kern County Board of Supervisors Remains Tone-Deaf and Out-of-Step
By Gonzalo Santos, Published on 10/28/25 as an OpEd  in The Bakersfield Californian . Last Tuesday, October 21, a large number of Kern County citizens from every walk of life – young and old, of all ethnic backgrounds, U.S.-born and immigrant, veterans and lawyers, educators and community advocates, and faith leaders – turned out to the county’s Board of Supervisors (BOS) meeting to call on the supervisors to rescind their September 23 resolution opposing Proposition 50, pass
Gonzalo Santos
Oct 273 min read
THE ORIGINS & CHALLENGES OF THE TERMINAL CRISIS OF THE U.S. DUOPOLY
There's a flagrant asymmetry between the dual collapse of legitimacy and efficacy of both U.S. liberalism, firstly, and subsequently its...
Gonzalo Santos
Jul 24
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
TRUMP ANNOUNCES 25% TARIFFS ON ALL MEXICAN/CANADIAN IMPORTS "ON DAY ONE"
Here's Trump's answer to the Mexican government's polite, diplomatic, confident, announced intention to send a delegation to Washington...
Gonzalo Santos
Nov 25, 2024
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
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