Green Party

On Friday 5th May 2023, I attended my first local election verification and count as a political candidate, and it was a brilliant, yet clarifying experience. Brilliant to be a deeply active part of the current process as we know it. Clarifying to see the common patterns across local politics…

Tomorrow is local election day in the UK, Thursday 4th May 2023. It is wild to think that this is the first time that the UK public have had their chance to say how they feel about how the country is run since before the pandemic kicked off! (and since…

4–14–23, US congressional race, 2024, Green Party and Democratic Party, immigration reform, district 2, WA. So, I’m a Green Party member. The bias present in the following discussion is sincere, however, and I’m not afraid to disagree with my party. I am also a member of the state of Washington’s…

Once upon a time there was a political party that opposed all the shitty nonsense of another political party. It was, as they say, “easier in those days” and “you knew where you were” etcetera. Except, of course, it wasn’t really. It was the same old shite but with fewer…

How long the German government can remain as subservient to the United States as it has now promised to be is an open question, considering the risks that come with Germany’s territorial closeness to the Ukrainian battlefield — a risk not shared by the U.S. After conversations with German parliamentarians…

[Max Sawicky was the editor when I was a cub reporter for the Rutgers Targum. We both were student radicals and then lifelong leftist activists. Back in the day he knew that the Democratic Party is more a part of the problem than a part of the solution. …

When you’re trying to express or examine an idea, you want your terms defined and moored so that you’re not talking at cross purposes but this is a thorny issue in politics since what a term means, depends on to whom you’re speaking and what is the context. Over the…

I join many groups of interest in order to see the newsletters … at least for a while. I joined Nick Brana’s Peoples Party initiative for a while; Andrew Yang’s Forward Party initiative; Working Families Party; etc. During my twenties (1970s) I identified as a Trotskyist and joined both the…

The Greens are the second party in the coalition government that got elected two years ago. The government is heavily backing the US/NATO military intervention against Russia in Ukraine. Annalena Baerbock, of all people, is the Foreign Minister who’s leading the militaristic charge. The Green Party of Germany used to…