Category: OtherWords
You’re Fired!
YOU’RE FIRED Not with a bang, but a boot. By Khalil Bendib | January 20, 2021
Injustice Barrett
Injustice Barrett “Give me your Roe v. Wade, your wretched ACA…” by Khalil Bendib October 28, 2020
Orange skies in blue states
ORANGE SKIES IN BLUE STATES What’s wrong with a healthy orange glow? By Khalil Bendib | September 16, 2020
Back To Normal?
¿BACK TO NORMAL? “I can’t breathe.” By Khalil Bendib | July 29, 2020
Pandemic no more
By Khalil Bendib | July 22, 2020 Khalil Bendib is the OtherWords.org cartoonist.
Another Hated Symbol
There are some edifices the Trump administration is perfectly willing to topple. By Khalil Bendib | July 1, 2020
BLOOMIE AND TRUMP
BLOOMIE AND TRUMP A bipartisan effort. By Khalil Bendib | February 26, 2020
Get the feds out of the way of cannabis reform
The House just took a huge step toward repealing the marijuana prohibition. What’s next? by Paul Armentano Wednesday, December 9, 2020 When it comes to marijuana policy, it’s time for the federal government to get out…
This holiday season choose a new food future
What better symbol of agri-industry’s vision of “food” than the ubiquitous Butterball turkey so many ate for Thanksgiving? By Jim Hightower Wednesday, December 9, 2020 America certainly has an abundance of food, even though many Americans…
Corporations paying lawmakers to outlaw protest is a crime against democracy
More communities are standing up to pipelines. The fossil fuel industry wants to make that a felony. We need to push for “Protesters’ Bills of Rights” in state legislatures to codify the right to protest. by…
Low-income voters showed up for Biden. Now they need relief.
People didn’t turn out in record numbers in a pandemic to vote for a return to normal. By Sarah Anderson, Margot Rathke November 12, 2020 Joe Biden is headed to the White House, and he has…
After Boosting Low-Income Voter Turnout, Poor People’s Campaign Mobilizes for Covid Relief
People did not turn out in record numbers in the midst of a pandemic to vote for a return to normal. They want policy change based on a moral agenda. by Sarah Anderson, Margot Rathke Tuesday,…
Why your CVS prescription is taking so long
The drug store giant’s CEO has been cutting corners while rewarding himself handsomely. By Jim Hightower Wednesday, October 21, 2020 Sometimes I don’t know whether to weep uncontrollably, laugh hysterically, or just throw up. I recently…
How taxpayers funded “consulting fees” for Ivanka Trump
The president reduced his tax bill by writing off large payments to his daughter. He calls it “smart” — tax lawyers call it criminal. By Sam Pizzigati | Sunday, October 11 The warmest and fuzziest phrase…
I was tear gassed in Portland — and not just by Feds
Police departments are over-militarized at the local level, too. Here’s one way to change that. By Robert P. Alvarez July 30, 2020 The smell of tear gas is hard to describe, but it’s horrifying. It pinched…
Unmasking the mask profiteers
A former Trump staffer with no experience landed a $3 million federal contract for medical masks, masks he couldn’t deliver, so the Navajo people didn’t get the help they urgently needed. By Jim Hightower June 17, 2020 Everyone…
We hold this truth to be self-evident: it’s happening before our very eyes
The man in the White House has taken all the necessary steps toward achieving the despot’s dream of dominance. by Bill Moyers Saturday, June 6 At 98, historian Bernard Weisberger has seen it all. Born in…
Keep your eye on what’s important: Ending police brutality
We don’t know who’s carried out violence and vandalism or why. We do know police keep killing unarmed black Americans. by Jill Richardson June 3, 2020 The grocery store across from my old house in…
I can’t breathe
Call it political brutality. By Khalil Bendib | June 3, 2020
How pro-Trump millionaires robbed small businesses of coronavirus aid
Thanks to a specially carved loophole, one multi-millionaire claimed 339 times more than the average small business received. by Jim Hightower May 20, 2020 Monty Bennett was just another faceless right-wing millionaire on the long list…
CEOs aren’t Pigs. That’s unfair to — to pigs —
—Pigs are intelligent animals with a sense of social responsibility. CEOs are looting taxpayers funds meant for small businesses. by Jim Hightower Wednesday, May 13, 2020 There’s a general sentiment today that multimillionaire corporate chieftains…
I’m a frontline nurse in Arizona. We need masks, not a border wall.
Wall construction threatens to put our rural hospital systems in the borderlands at a much higher risk. By Alex [Withheld] Tuesday, May 5, 2020 I work as a nurse at a trauma hospital in southern…
Rural America deserves a real Covid-19 response
Rural residents are more likely to be older and uninsured, while 350 rural hospitals are at risk of closing. They can’t afford neglect now. By Gloria Oladipo April 29, 2020 As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, many…
