Category: From Where I Stand
FROM WHERE I STAND: Notes from the desk of peace activist Polly Mann (b. Nov. 19, 1919)
FROM WHERE I STAND: Notes from the desk of peace activist Polly Mann (b. Nov.19,1919)
FROM WHERE I STAND: Good news
FROM WHERE I STAND: Notes from the desk of peace activist Polly Mann (b. Nov.19,1919)

A wrongfully-convicted man’s vision During these depressing “Days of Trump” a little positive news is helpful. Therefore with anticipation I began to read the Oct. 6 New York Times article entitled “An Innocent Man Who Imagined the World as It Should Be.” His name was John Thompson, a resident of New…
FROM WHERE I STAND: Notes from the desk of peace activist Polly Mann (b. Nov.19,1919)

Worldwide hunger It’s happening right now—day after day—hunger is threatening the lives of 20 million people according to the U.N. Of course they’re not Americans. We wouldn’t stand for it. It’s one thing that could produce a drastic decline in the military budget if we voters forced officeholders to legislate for…
FROM WHERE I STAND: Noam Chomsky holds the U.S. accountable
FROM WHERE I STAND: Plight of Yemen and Gaza needs to be exposed
FROM WHERE I STAND: Who should take care of the radioactive leaks in Washington State?
FROM WHERE I STAND: The promise of greatness—the American F-35 airplane

BY POLLY MANN It is a magnificent but somewhat ugly flying machine called the “Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, the Joint Strike Fighter,” a U.S.-built “fifth generation” stealth jet with super-advanced avionics, which has been under development for over 20 years at a cost of many billions of dollars. Over…
FROM WHERE I STAND: Short observations
FROM WHERE I STAND: Wealth inequality

BY POLLY MANN According to research on wealth by the Boston Counseling Group, by 2021 only 1% of American millionaires and billionaires will control 70% of the nation’s wealth. Currently more billionaires and millionaires live in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world, with two out of five millionaires…