Workers in in the U.S. strike for higher wages

As I was traveling down Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee, right where the main library sits, I noticed a protest. A protest by workers and their supporters in favor of raising wages for fast food workers. There must have been about 100 people, easily, out there.Protests happened...

$1 trillion wasted on the war on drugs, time to end it now

Since the start of the drug war we have spent over $1 trillion dollars on the drug war and the rates of drug addiction are just as high as they were in the 1960s. Simply, what a waste of money. Waste of lives. Innocent men and women killed by police who search the wrong...

Fundamentalists won't let men/women pray together

"The moment we allow these groups a foothold, then tomorrow they will start to restrain us in our own synagogues, in the name of democracy, in the name of liberalism and in the name of pluralism," says one Shmuel Poppenheim, an Israeli ultra-Orthodox activist. What he was...

Senator Paul rightly opposing mandatory minimums on drug sentence

I don't agree with Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky on every issue, but I sure agree with him that the War on Drugs is destroying our liberty, our Constitutional rights and our freedoms. It is awful public policy. It leads to SWAT raids on the wrong houses in the dead of night...

MILITARY VETERANS: COP-FUSION CENTER 'GANGSTALKING' ELITE FORCE?

* Too many unemployed veterans carrying a grudge against "hippies" and "dissidents" -- cannon fodder for police-fusion center extrajudicial persecution Gestapo?GET POLITICAL w/ VIC LIVINGSTONOn Saturday, March 30th, within an hour's time,  I was stalked on foot and in...

Why do anti-gay opponents think they are persecuted?

Well, I was listening to conservative talk radio (and calling into some shows) on the issue of marriage equality for gay couples, as this issue is before the U.S. Supreme Court right now. Now, one of the hosts stated that those young people who think of their elders...

How can a DUI arrest lead to two years in jail without a trial?

Some interesting things happened in the news. I. A Republican legislator in Oregon is stating that there should be increased taxes on bicycles, because bike riders produce more global warming gases than cars. While I have my doubts that he even believes in global warming, I...

JOURNO EXPOSE OF RADIO WEAPON ATROCITIES TAKES DOWN S.S. CHIEF?

GET POLITICAL w/ VIC LIVINGSTON Those readers who follow my internet journalism know that I have long held the belief that extrajudicial targeting by the U.S. Secret Service, stemming from my many years as a major market newspaper and television journalist, is the root cause...

The Guardian - Icon of the left, or too close to UK Intelligence

Threats in the name of His Royal Highness, a car rammed into our house, and menacing phone-calls to our children –  This all happened to my wife and I following a meeting we had back in 2005 with journalists from the Guardian at their office in Manchester, England. We...

JOURNO TO 'T.I.' PSYOP AGENT re: MIL COUP AGAINST 'GLOBAL ELITE'

GET POLITICAL w/ VIC LIVINGSTONVETERAN JOURNALIST'S RESPONSE TO A PSYOP AGENT EMAILER POSING AS A 'T.I.' (TARGETED INDIVIDUAL), A MONIKER THAT STIGMATIZES INNOCENT AMERICANS PERSECUTED FOR THEIR BELIEFS OR BACKGROUNDS:There is only one problem with your advocacy of the...

JOURNO'S DECADE OF U.S. RADIATION WEAPON TORTURE: IS THIS WHY?

GET POLITICAL w/ VIC LIVINGSTONIt was just speculation on my part that my observation of two men setting up an antenna rig on an RV-type vehicle parked at an overlook along Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park on September 9th, 2001 may have had something to do with the...

Suggestion to Justice Usha Mehra Inquiry Commission by IMC

 Bhubanewsar: Odisha-based rights organization has suggested Justice Usha Mehra commission, inquiring sensational Delhi gang rape case, to recommend more power to National Commission for Women. The India Media Centre (IMC), which is also a petitioner before NHRC in Delhi...

Would Bruno Mars be safe walking streets of NYC with police

If you are a young black or latino man in New York City, like the star singer Bruno Mars, the 4th Amendment does not really apply to you. It does in theory, and arguably it still does somewhat in part, but not really on the streets of the city. That is not to say that a young...