Bruce Farrell Rosen

Author of books and articles, retired portfolio manager

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Nov 11, 2024, 6:19 AM

The Article That I Had Hoped to Never Have to Write

The election to a second term of Donald J. Trump has proven that if a lie is told often enough and convincingly enough it can be perceived to be Truth. Throw in the fact that the prices for eggs...

Nov 5, 2024, 2:40 PM

My Ardent Prayer For November 5 : Survival of American Democracy

"Democracy is the worst form of government ever invented, except for all the the forms that have been tried from time to time." Sounds like something Plato might have said in his Republic but it comes from Sir Winston...

Nov 1, 2024, 7:20 AM

It is time to vote in the most important election since 1860

William Galston, political philosopher and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, in his opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal on October 29, entitled Democrats Despondency May Be Premature, seeks to provide perspective to the millions of voters --...

Oct 16, 2024, 12:35 PM

The Media is the Message: the Dangers of Distortion and Partisanship

I listened today--I had never heard her program before, though I am quite familiar with her work as a journalist on the Murdoch family owned extremist conservative media company Fox News about eight years ago--to the Megyn Kelly Show...

Oct 8, 2024, 1:16 PM

October 7 2024: the plot is being written and the ending unknown.

It is October 7, 2024, and as I sit at my desk looking out my window at the San Francisco Bay--the water almost tropical in its blueness, the air hot and still, the effect of an Indian Summer day...

Sep 5, 2024, 7:02 AM

Kamala Harris: The Quest to retain Dignity and Compassion in the Presidency

Former President Donald Trump has dominated, consumed, and unleashed a virtually steady barrage of vitriol upon the American psyche for about nine years. And recently he has literally stated that if elected President again he would use Federal Prosecutors to...

Aug 19, 2024, 9:08 AM

The Startling Transformation in the Race for President of the United States

Donald Trump has dominated, consumed, belligerently attacked, and perniciously unleashed malevolence and lies upon the American psyche for about nine years. During this period of time he astonishingly became a twice impeached president of the United States. And after being...

Jun 29, 2024, 3:40 PM

American democracy needs the re-election of President Biden

During the June 27 presidential debate, Donald Trump threw Molotov cocktail after Molotov cocktail of lies. It is a shame that President Biden had a virtual inability to make his case, because he has a strong case to make. Crime under...

May 28, 2024, 1:05 PM

Peace can only arrive through overcoming racial hatred and false narratives

On May 10, the United Nations General Assembly declared as the result of a substantial majority vote that the authority representing Palestine qualifies for Full Member Status, the precursor to a decree that awards the delegation a State. In April...

May 14, 2024, 8:03 AM

God Willing, There Is Peace Out There Someway, Somehow

It is unfortunate that US President Joe Biden during an interview May 8 with Erin Burnett on her CNN program, Erin Burnett Out Front, made the global headline grabbing comment that he would "halt some shipments of American weapons...

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About Me

My understanding of politics, economics, geopolitics, political theory is grounded in my undergraduate and graduate study of philosophy and international relations. I recently retired from managing investment portfolios for over Forty Years. I have also always been a writer, and have published two books of non-fiction: Bombed In His Bed, the Confessions of Jewish Gangster Myer Rush', and " If you Ever Need Me, I Won't Be far Away". I have done television and radio for these books. I have authored numerous articles on various subjects, such as international affairs, politics, economics, culture, music, sport for various newspapers, magazines and journals. I live in San Francisco California.