Jack Jones articles

Jack Jones writes for Democracy Chronicles from Chicago’s south suburbs where he grew up. He is a union electrician Local 134, certified minister from Berean University, AYSO board member and coach, basketball coach, Cub Scout leader, husband, father and social participant. Jack considers himself a gourmet junk food chef, political writer, musician and likes to contribute to the world around him. A former deacon and chaplain at Cook County Jail in Chicago, he feels that our out-of-control corporate, religious and political environment is to blame for many of the problems in the world today. Jack believes we need to get money out of politics and that the church should take care of people instead of trying to get hypocrites elected to public office.

Undercurrents of Mitch McConnell’s call for states to file for bankruptcy

By Jack Jones - May 6, 2020 4 Comments

Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) suggested states should file for bankruptcy. The underpinnings of his recommendation rehash our current predicament.

Trump demonstrates questionable judgement

By Jack Jones - April 12, 2020 4 Comments

Trump has further demonstrated lack of judgement by allowing Steve Mnunchin $550 million in relief plan with no oversight. We must choose leaders wisely.

Here’s why William Barr should be Barred

By Jack Jones - February 25, 2020 4 Comments

U.S. Attorney General William Barr has been a fixer for the Republican Party but he is not alone in making an unethical contribution to Justice.

China is Training the Mexican Army and Americans are not Aware of it

By Jack Jones - February 22, 2020 4 Comments

Americans are not aware that China is training the Mexican army. The presence of China on our border is the result of lack of planning and self-interest.

Truth as the best chance to dismantle pack mentality

By Jack Jones - January 25, 2020 9 Comments

While it’s always been there, self-interest has upped pack mentality – disinterest in crucial societal issues. Embracing truth is how to undo the dynamic.

The World that cried wolf! Ignoring and sanitizing American foreign policy in Bolivia

By Jack Jones - December 28, 2019 1 Comment

When our country overthrow’s the government of another country, we just ignore it and our press sanitizes the putsch. It’s time to engage and cry wolf!

I Can’t Breathe, And Neither Can You

By Jack Jones - December 9, 2019 2 Comments

Captains and lieutenants have the duty to keep the peace but often see this as a carte blanche to “get rid of the riff-raff”. That’s what happened on that fateful day.

When A House Is Not a Home

By Jack Jones - December 7, 2019 6 Comments

For both the Palestinians and Kurds, violence continues to happen in their houses. These wars being fought because of old grievances.

“The Kurds Were not in Normandy”: Distortion and Genocide in the Middle East

By Jack Jones - November 25, 2019 3 Comments

That Kurds were not in Normandy is a shameful distortion of truth. We abandoned our Kurdish allies for dubious motives, now they are facing genocide.

Ready to Impeach

By Jack Jones - November 18, 2019 3 Comments

The day that Donald Trump installed Stephen Miller as Senior Advisor for Policy in his administration, we should have been prepared for impeachment.

Exclusive: Trump, GOP Wrestle for Dollars in Florida

By Steve Schneider

Florida recently let WWE televise wrestling matches from the Sunshine State, calling the sport an essential activity. Here is a fun way to discuss it.

An Atheist Perspective of Our Current Illness(es)

By David Anderson, J.D.

Understand, this is a critique of a set of values, myths and rules, not believers. It isn’t bigotry either. Objecting to a set of beliefs is all fair game.

Uncle Sam Needs Your Help Again

By Steve Schneider

I suspect a Democratic or Republican leader may tell us that “Uncle Sam Needs Your Help Again” before I leave this planet. And, chances are, many Americans will support that war.

Growing Up Learning Importance of Registering People to Vote

By Steve Schneider

In an excerpt from her unfinished, unpublished memoir, Ruth Carter-Lynch discusses the time of Martin Luther King Jr. and fellow Civil Rights leaders.

Ai Fen: The Whistleblowing Doctor Missing in China

By Thomas Manning

It is time that the world unite and hold China responsible for the abysmal human rights record it enforces in the second biggest global economy.

Parkland School Shooting, Coronavirus Pandemic Bookend Hixon’s First Run for Office

By Steve Schneider

Steve Schneider interviewed Debbi Hixon on her first run for office on the Broward County School Board. Debbi lost her husband, Chris, in the Parkland school shooting, Valentine’s Day 2018.

Conservative Religious Army Rids White House of Rats, Snakes and Demons

By Steve Schneider

Delusion is the new coronavirus strategy of the Executive that has hired an evangelical movement to the task. It’s a good thing this is just satire.

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