Kenneth Kales

As we move through our economic recovery process we must realize that many of those who have been restored to the ruling class seem to be resorting back to their old ways, only this time more strategically with planned discretion and public staging.

You've probably heard about the...

Progress such as the U.S. military beginning training forces last February on the new law that allows gay people to serve openly and recently Washington governor coming out in favor of gay marriage in that state, makes it reasonable to raise our expectations of the bigots...

We are witnesses to one of the most dramatic periods in our country's history and that of the world. Not only is the tumultuous nature of The Great Recession affecting us to the core of our stamina and faith, in a practical sense it is affecting how well we eat,...

Many of those who comprise the top portion of the nation's wealth live in their own climate of power, privilege, comfort, and excess. Their climate is portable, so no matter where they go, its sunny. And if by chance its raining, odds are their next day will be mostly sunny...

The sound of protestors for economic justice resonates as distinctively as a heartbeat with those who can hear heartbeats. This brings up two questions. What are the protestors about? And, why can some hear them and others cannot?

The protestors are about class discrimination. They are standing up for themselves...

Collecting state sales tax from online retailers would help with the national budget. There is currently pending legislation in Congress to do just that and several individual states, for example New York and California, are pressing forward to do the same. Texas tried but got bullied to back down by...

Economic wealth that the corporations and investment bankers have been reaping for over a year and continue to enjoy today are a direct result of you and me giving our tax dollars to them via our elected officials. The plan was to help the power brokers who would then in...

I've just returned from an uplifting author tour with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi for her new book The Golden Cage, to be met with a near opposite experience at the death of Osama bin Laden.

Whereas Dr. Ebadi is a moderate Muslim seeking equality...

Two Mondays ago, at United Nations headquarters in Geneva, some guests had a quiet lunch together. Apparently encouraged by our ambassador there, Maria Nazareth Farani Azevedo, the luncheon sent a signal to the world. But as these signals go in diplomatic circles, it was a calculated risk to...

Dr. Shirin Ebadi -- the first Iranian and the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize -- will release a memoir in April entitled The Golden Cage.

She is a remarkable woman because of her keen intellect, but even more so because of her inbred commitment...

I've been working much harder these days, and my friends and colleagues say they are too. Are you? One colleague told me she doesn't know anybody who isn't "super busy." She lives in Colorado but works at a New York City pace. I thought for a moment, and said I...

The end of a decade is usually marked by some kind of retrospective. Yet, in the media and amongst friends I see less than usual of this discussion. I wonder if we are in a state of denial that ten years has passed from what we thought was going to...

Last week, a suicide touched this local community and by chance, touched the nation for those who follow popular culture. Julien Hug, a bachelor on the popular television program The Bachelorette, committed suicide. He was 35.

My wife was acquainted with Julien and saw him a few months...

The working people of this great nation are fighting with our hearts and souls to salvage what we can of an older Industrial Age society, and forging ahead to a newer Information Age society; just as our grandparents and great-grandparents fought through the transition from what was then a withering...

Bless the souls lost on 9/11 and those of our soldiers and allies who have sacrificed their lives to defend the free world.

A related catastrophic casualty has also been suffered by us, though it cannot measure in any way to the loss of innocent lives, and the grief their...

The current economic boiling-over had already been simmering on too high of a flame since the 1950s after World War II. That was the beginning of an era when the approach was, "What is good for General Motors is good for America."

Since that time, the people's inherent powers have...

Hope is beautiful unless it is fantasy, in which case it can be ugly. You and I have struggled through years of this recession with promises that keep our hopes alive. To some extent our hopes have been rewarded. To a larger extent though our hopes tied with the government...

The vast majority of our woes in the present can be attributed to one mindset: that men rule and, in particular, that white men rule. The current worldwide upheavals, from economics to the environment, rest solidly at the centuries-old doorsteps of men hoarding power.

Part of our evaluation of what's...

The winds are blowing mildly off of the Pacific Ocean here today in San Diego. I love walking along the beach in nearby Del Mar and just a little further down the coast is majestic La Jolla. A few miles south are my old stomping grounds, for the forever young,...

His wife made this comment upon learning of her husband's brutal death, brutal by any standards even for those condemned to hell. April 28th marks the anniversary of Benito Mussolini's execution in 1945. I had a particular rationale at the time several years ago when I decided to publish My...