Ed Felien

Ed Felien is the editor of newspaper Southside Pride.

The Dangers Of Leftists Joining The Popular Front Against Fascism

We know the dawn of November 9 will bring a new crisis. We don’t know which one and we don’t know how severe. We know the history that brought us to this point. We are calm. We have our eyes wide open.

Ed Felien
By Ed Felien
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. participate in a panel discussion during a campaign stop at the University Of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H., Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016.

I think it’s worth it. It’s a gamble and it will probably end badly.  But I like the idea of Bernie and Elizabeth in the Senate and Keith and Tulsi in the House.  I want to support their leadership.  Hillary can have the Presidency if we can set the domestic agenda in Congress. That means, of course, that we’re all part of the anti war

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The Three State Solution

“It is useless to engage in negotiations with Israel. Palestinians have nothing Israel is interested in. Meaningful negotiations take place from positions of mutual strength and respect”

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By Ed Felien
Mideast Israel Palestinians

“Israel has a right to defend herself,” Obama. As long as Hamas and others use violence to achieve their legitimate aims of independence and statehood, they continue to play into Israel’s hands.  The collective guilt of the holocaust will always force Americans and Europeans to support Israel if it is attacked.  The pathetic rockets fired into

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Straight Talk Express: The Crimean Railroad To Hell

A global, and historical, perspective has largely been devoid of the Crimean question thus far.

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By Ed Felien
Ukraine Russia

Crimea is a dangling appendix to the Ukraine.  It is connected by a narrow patch of land barely ten miles across.  The total area of the Ukraine is about 233,000 square miles.  The total area of Crimea is about 10,000 square miles, so  Crimea represents only 4.3% of the total area of the Ukraine. Russia has based its naval fleet at Sevastopol in

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Manifesto Of The Farmer Labor Association

“American capitalism failed because it succeeded. As a productive force creating goods and services, it was no longer essential. New industries were being created in foreign countries, and even old industries were sending customer service calls abroad. “

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By Ed Felien

“Capitalism has failed and should be abolished!” “We mean to establish a Cooperative Commonwealth!” That’s the Preamble to the 1934 Farmer Labor Party Platform, and the party that believed in those principles went on to elect Floyd B. Olson governor and win a majority in the Minnesota State House of Representatives. Do those ideas have any

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A Good Man With A Gun

“The only thing that stops a bad man with a gun is a good man with a gun.”

—Wayne Lapierre, National Rifle Association

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By Ed Felien

  Paul Anthony Ciancia believed he was that good man. He believed he was a warrior against the traitors who were taking over our government, bankrupting our currency, and trying to establish a new world order. On Friday, Nov. 1, Ciancia walked into Los Angeles International Airport and began firing an assault rifle, killing

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“Race For The Cure” Or “Race To Obscure?”

Last year the Komen Foundation, the chief sponsor of Race for the Cure, the world’s largest fundraising event for breast cancer, pulled $700,000 in funding from Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening and service grants as part of the right-wing attempts to defund and destroy Planned Parenthood. A storm of protests against the Race forced […]

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By Ed Felien

Last year the Komen Foundation, the chief sponsor of Race for the Cure, the world’s largest fundraising event for breast cancer, pulled $700,000 in funding from Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening and service grants as part of the right-wing attempts to defund and destroy Planned Parenthood. A storm of protests against the Race forced

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