by Jeff Klein Originally published in the Dorchester Reporter Recently, US Rep. Ayanna Pressley voted against an additional $1 billion in military aid to Israel that was rushed through by the leadership of House of Representatives without a hearing or even a meaningful debate. For […]
by Jeff Klein Originally published in Dorchester People for Peace Update, August 13, 2021 As the corrupt US-installed government and its pretend army collapses even faster than predicted, the roots of the current crisis, which go back much further than the US invasion of 2001, […]
By Jeff Klein The Irish know something about colonialism. Long before there was a British Empire on which “the sun never set,” Ireland was the testing ground for English conquest and confiscating land from the natives. Modern day European settler colonialism had its start in […]
by Jeff Klein There is some good, if tentative, news regarding the Biden administration’s changes in Middle East policy that may lead to a long-term decrease in the US military footprint and may lessen the threat of new armed conflicts in the region. (Unfortunately, it […]
by Jeff Klein On December 4 this year, a Palestinian boy, Ali Abu Alia, was shot and killed by Israeli security forces as he watched a protest in his West Bank village of al-Mughayer. Unarmed villagers were demonstrating against the confiscation of their farm lands […]
by Jeff Klein I’m happy to be retired. After decades working as a machinist in New England factories and shops, I can’t say I miss having to clock into the job at 7am. I don’t miss the sweaty, dirty and sometimes dangerous work I had […]
By Jeff Klein Accepted for publication in the Dorchester Reporter The holiday we mark as Veterans Day on November 11 was originally called “Armistice Day,” commemorating the end of the First World War on November 11, 1918. The slaughter of 1914-1918 was then called “the […]
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