William B Daniels

William B. Daniels is an attorney and mediator practicing in Monterey County, California.

Op-Ed

Drone Strike Justice

The individual focus of President Obama's assassination drone strikes suggests that the United States has an alternative criminal justice procedure for al-Qaida terrorists. Unlike one-on-one assassination, drone strikes eliminate …

By: William B Daniels ,; SpeakOut

March 4, 2013

Op-Ed

Legislators Who Sign the Anti-Tax “Norquist Pledge” Are Enemies of the People and the Constitution

Grover Norquist. (Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr) A recent lawsuit mounted by former UCLA chancellor Charles Young and former Ninth Circuit Appellate Justice William A. Norris brings …

By: William B Daniels ,; Truthout

February 16, 2012

Op-Ed

Fundraising Addiction and the Private-Money Corruption Machine

(Photo: espensorvik / Flickr) A lot of the cynical hopelessness in progressive media and cyberspace these days is about the private money corruption machine that dominates American …

By: William B Daniels ,; Truthout

December 3, 2011

Op-Ed

My Vision of the 99 Percent Street Protests: A Balanced Empowerment Society

The 99 percent protests are telling us that electoral politics are dead. They are telling us a coup is occurring in which deliberative democracy is being replaced by a …

By: William B Daniels ,; Truthout

October 25, 2011

Op-Ed

Cynical Fundamentalism: The Threat to American Evidence-Based Traditions

When Rick Perry falsely claimed that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 created “zero jobs,” the response of enlightened commentators was to point to easily accessible evidence …

By: William B Daniels ,; Truthout

October 14, 2011

News Analysis

Throw the Bums Out

Grover Norquist, president of a taxpayer advocacy group, Americans for Tax Reform, speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) With recent polls announcing the …

By: William B Daniels ,; Truthout

September 17, 2011

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