Journal of Peace and Freedom

By Jim Smith

There is no joy in Whiteville, tonight — the mighty Mitt has struck out.

Across America there are roving gangs of white men, disappointed, angered and on a rampage, after the defeat of their champion, Mitt Romney, and the greater defeat of their nostalgic vision of the country.

They were defeated by a skinny defender [...]

By Jim Smith

The title is a homage to Hunter S. Thompson who, in my opinion, was one of the most astute political observers of the 20th Century.

The quadrennial game of choosing a new president, or allowing the old one to continue, is underway. In one corner is Barack Hussein Obama, who inspired a new generation [...]

By Karl Abrams
Presidential Candidate Roseanne Barr is coming to Venice. The former comedienne, TV star and role model for millions of working class women is the candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party. Barr and long-time activist Cindy Sheehan won over the majority of delegates at the Peace and Freedom (P&F) Party’s exciting Los Angeles [...]

By Jim Smith
We live in a world shaped by history. It is hard to escape our personal history – parents, aunts, uncles – and others who want to shape us in their molde. One means of escape that has likely been practiced by many readers is to run away to Venice. Here, at the end [...]

By Jim Smith
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.  ~Aldous Huxley

Silly Hillary. Did she really think the internet was a safe place for her deepest, darkest secrets? She’s not alone. The geniuses of the military end of the Empire also put its secrets – massacres in Iraq and [...]

By Jim Smith
No matter what happens in Congress this year, the fight for real health care reform is just beginning. This year we are likely to see a bill that only the health insurance corporations can love. It will give them windfall profits by creating a true monopoly where everyone in the country is forced [...]

By Jim Smith

Jane Harman, our Congressional representative, is in trouble. Before you rush off to save her, consider this. She was caught on a wiretap agreeing to try to get espionage charges reduced for two foreign agents. A 12-year prison sentence has already been handed down for a former Defense Intelligence Agency official, Lawrence [...]

By Jim Smith
Down (abajo) goes the economy. In comes Barack Obama. Can he charm the economy into reviving? Is he embracing Corporate America while turning his back on the left-leaning people who elected him? Is it a trap that the rich have cleverly lured him into?
Half way through his first hundred days in office, [...]

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By Jim Smith
In the days to come, Barack Obama may look back on his election victory as a mixed blessing if the economy continues its nose dive.
At least, readers of the Free Venice Beachhead who heeded my article, last year, on the economy [...]

By Bill Callison
As economic power continues to concentrate in fewer giant corporations and banks, working and living conditions continue to deteriorate. The Democratic Party mimics the Republican, in order to qualify for the same corporate funding. The working classes of all ethnic groups go virtually unrepresented as their futures are destroyed, and their [...]