Author, Doctor, Speaker, Joseph Bentivegna

Doctor Bentivegna is an ophthalmologist living in Connecticut. He has written numerous op-ed pieces for The Hartford Courant and The New York Times regarding health care, tort reform, and the political situation in Haiti.

The Women’s Tennis Association Stands Up to China

        The approach of our media, corporate elite and grossly overpaid athletes is to ignore China’s atrocities in return for huge profits from having access to the Chinese marketplace and exploited workforce. But the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has found the courage to call out outrageous Chinese behavior, even if it costs them hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties.       Chinese national, Peng Shuai, is one of the highest ranked women tennis players on the planet winning the women’s doubles at both Wimbledon and the French Open. Recently, she accused former vice-premier Zhang Gaoli of forcing her to have sexual relations. Since then, she has disappeared only to reappear in carefully choreographed settings. But independent human rights groups aren’t buying it: “What we have here is essentially a state-controlled narrative: only the government and its affiliated media are generating and distributing the content about Peng's story," said Maya Wang, senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch (HRW).”       Former … [Read more...]

The Climate Change Agenda – Making Rich White People Richer

        The twenty-sixth climate change conference in Scotland has come to a charitable end and the 400 private jets that inundated the area are leaving. To the casual observer, nothing was accomplished other that the du jour apocalyptic warnings that the planet is heating up due to the man-made production of greenhouse gases. Even the patron saint of the climate change movement, Greta Thunberg, characterized the meeting as “Blah, blah, blah.”       But this meeting was successful in that the framework has been developed to transfer more wealth to rich white people - woke CEOs, hedge fund owners, scientists and bureaucrats - at the expense of poor countries populated by Asians, Blacks and Indians along with the poor and middle class in Europe and the United States. Because of the political power of the climate change movement, major financial institutions are being instructed to finance the climate change agenda.       China and India have wisely told the rich white countries where to go. … [Read more...]

The Capitalist Freeloaders

        Bronx Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) became a cultural icon after upsetting an entrenched Democratic incumbent in 2018 and subsequently becoming the face of American liberalism. There is even a cartoon action figure based on her. Recently, she turned heads by appearing at Metropolitan Art Museum gala (ticket prices at $35,000 a head) wearing a gown inscribed with “Tax the Rich.” She also recently posed in an ad for an outfit that cost over $3,500.       Republicans like to portray her and her admirers as “socialists” and “communists.” But that is not what they are. These people are actually “capitalist freeloaders.”       Socialists believe that the government should control the means of production and distribution of food, energy, natural resources, health care, financial services etc. Communists take it a step further, also advocating the abolition of private property. But both communists and socialists, as misguided as they are, believe people should work; they just view their … [Read more...]