114 Articles

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Too Old and Brain-dead
(4 comments) Imagine McCain aging as all other presidents have in office. It is a frightening prospect. Something akin to some horror movie that shows a transformation from a normal human being to some frightening alien life form. It is time for more Americans to face the truth about the two-party plutocracy that has robbed our political system and weakened our democracy: both McCain and Obama support it.

Friday, June 27, 2008
The Audacity of Arrogance
(14 comments) The ruling class and the politicians that serve them exhibit horrendous hubris. Can suffering citizens rebel against the plutocratic political and economic system? Apparently the ruling class does not fear this. They should.

Sunday, June 15, 2008
The Key Question About Tim Russet's Death
(5 comments) I hope it finally gets revealed whether Tim Russet ever got an angiogram. Nothing I have heard about his treatment for coronary heart disease makes complete sense.

Monday, June 9, 2008
NYU Invades Brooklyn
The giant and arrogant New York University wants to acquire the much smaller Polytechnic University; it wants the land it owns in downtown Brooklyn. Only the New York State Board of Regents can stop this travesty.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Poisonous Plutocracy Pushes Economic Inequality
(4 comments) The biggest political issue receiving no attention by the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates is the powerful plutocracy that has captured the government to produce rising economic inequality. Both major parties have enabled, promoted and supported this Upper Class plutocracy.

Monday, May 19, 2008
What Are We Waiting For?
(5 comments) A huge fraction of Americans have bought into the Obama candidacy because of his polished and effective rhetoric. But Obama does not offer the changes I have been waiting for, or the ones the public needs. A great speaker does not necessarily have the courage or intent to fight for deep political reforms. The right question is not whether this African American can win the general election, it is SHOULD he be president?

Friday, May 9, 2008
After Hillary, Voting With Conscience and Pride
(11 comments) This general election more than most will test the courage of voters to avoid lesser-evil strategic voting that has propped up our two-party plutocracy. People with intelligence and conscience must resist peer pressure and the temptation to vote against John McCain by voting for Barack Obama. if you feel compelled to vote, then vote for Ralph Nader. He has a distinguished record of working solely in the public interest.

Friday, May 2, 2008
How to Get Universal Health Care
Both Clinton and Obama believe that Americans have a moral right to universal health care. If this is correct and if this is what you believe, then achieving universal health care that covers absolutely everyone by making health care affordable to absolutely everyone, as it is in many other nations, requires a different kind of government action.

Saturday, April 26, 2008
Obama's Crotch Itch Problem
(8 comments) Considering that Obama has made his candidacy more about himself than ideology or policy positions, it is fair to be concerned that he is too cerebral. I want a president that knows how to scratch his itch. If he cannot act on his pain, how can he act on my pain and the pain of many millions of other Americans?

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
How Hillary Can Knock-Out Obama
(3 comments) Now is the time for Hilary Clinton to take a bold position that in one brilliant, courageous stroke shows the nation that she is more willing to pursue true reforms of the two-party plutocratic political system than Obama is. With this single position she can transform herself from status-quo politicalestablishment candi date to a true believer in what the Founders gave us in the Constitution.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
The Most Powerful People in America
(10 comments) Now is the time for all the millions of Americans that make up the 81 percent who see the nation on the wrong track to take action, to think like patriotic revolutionaries and take the power that now only exists with their spending. The most powerful people are US, American consumers that account for over 70 percent of the economy. It is exactly now, when the economy is in the toilet, that consumers hold the maximum power.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Consumers Abused by Default Choices
(4 comments) Companies have learned to trick consumers by offering free deals and burdening people with automatic future purchases.

Thursday, March 27, 2008
Film Review: The Reflecting Pool
Whether you see yourself as a truth seeker, patriotic American, independent thinker or voter, or just someone with bad memories of 9/11, you should make an effort to view The Reflecting Pool, a new independent movie. It is not about 9/11. It is about the credibility of the official government story about 9/11.

Friday, March 21, 2008
Open Letter to John McCain
(7 comments) Every few days I get yet another mailing begging me for money for your campaign. There is always explicit language about my being one of your supporters. But I do not support you for president. You are an abomination, because of your support for President George W. Bush and his unjustified, immoral and illegal Iraq war.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Time to Fight Junk Mail
(12 comments) The U.S. Postal Service is our enemy. While countermeasures have been created to deal with the invasion of telemarketing phone calls and spam emails, we continue to be bombarded by junk mailings. The solution that the USPS is opposing is a do-not-mail list or registry that households could choose to join.

Thursday, March 13, 2008
The Real Spitzer Lessons
(1 comments) Once you accept as normal the dishonesty of politicians you have defined our delusional democracy. Simply saying that all politicians lie and have always lied is no justification for keep believing their lies.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Mending Broken Hearts with Cardiac Rehab
(2 comments) The odds are great that you or someone you care about will have a heart attack and survive it. But until I had a heart attack I was totally unaware that after surviving one there is a critically important option that far too few survivors take advantage of. It is called cardiac rehab, a medically supervised and monitored program of exercise with counseling, dietary and other features.

Thursday, February 28, 2008
God Bless Ralph Nader
(8 comments) In many ways, the Nader candidacy is not about him becoming the best president possible, but rather in pushing any Democrat who becomes president to be a far better one by serving the public interest in the noble Nader tradition. A vote for Nader is always a vote for rebooting American democracy.

Thursday, February 21, 2008
Delusional Hope: The Obama Rapture
(16 comments) Barry Obama has accomplished semantic alchemy, turning justified but grim distrust and outrage with government and politics into hallelujah hope. But most hope never materializes and is a terrible predictor of reality. Obama has produced an epidemic of contagious delusional hope for a population rightfully disgusted with ordinary politics and politicians. Welcome to the Obama rapture.

Thursday, February 14, 2008
Obama Hope Beating Clinton Help
(1 comments) Hillary Clinton is selling Day-1 help to victims and sufferers. Barack Obama is selling effervescent hope to yes-we-can dreamers. This media hyped horse race is like a fight between diet Coke and diet Pepsi, artificially sweetened candidates devoid of real nourishment.

Friday, February 1, 2008
The Evolution of Evil
(10 comments) Perhaps a global political apocalypse has already arrived. Evil forces and tyrannical governments have evolved. By learning from history and using new technology they have smarter tools of tyranny. The tools of real rebellion are weak. Most corrupt and legally sanctioned forms of tyranny hide in plain sight as democracies with free elections. The toughest lesson is that ALL elections are distractions.

Thursday, January 17, 2008
False Gods Create False Hope
(16 comments) When people rally behind false change agents something worse than being disappointed and having their hopes killed happens: the national energy for real change is wasted. In the end, false change agents protect the status quo political establishment.

Saturday, January 5, 2008
Change Yes, Ron Paul No
(44 comments) Americans want a real political leader, a real change agent. Ron Paul has never been a change agent. He is a change-talker. His claim to fame is voting against legislation, not writing bold legislation to produce change that actually became law. Despite Paul being flush with money and having a large number of workers in Iowa, he was solidly rejected as the leading change agent.

Thursday, January 3, 2008
Vomit Politics
(4 comments) Following the current endless news coverage of this presidential primary season makes me sick. I have never seen and heard so much empty-minded hype and over-exaggeration of so much unimportant political crap. The sole function of the mainstream media seems to be to convince us that we actually have a competitive political system, which is a lie. Welcome to vomit politics in the world's greates

Tuesday, January 1, 2008
David Brooks Almost Said Something Smart
(5 comments) What I first thought smart was the statement that "some would rather remain in control of a party that losses than lose control of a party that wins." But then I started thinking. What both major parties really fear is a nominee for president that would actually work to overturn the political establishment by eliminating the two-party stranglehold.

Thursday, December 27, 2007
As A Dissident, Why Am I Not A Ron Paul Supporter?
(28 comments) It's as if a whole lot of people have caught a virus that I have escaped. People that I thought had correctly rejected the current corrupt two-party controlled political system have flocked to Paul. This is what I most look forward to in coming weeks and months: Enough sanity among Americans so that Paul does not win any caucus or primary and never gets close to winning the Republican nomination.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007
9/11 Truth Manifesto
(49 comments) For evidence that America's political system is a criminal conspiracy, open your mind to piles of new analyses that prove beyond doubt that the official 9/11 story is a lie. Years of a bipartisan cover-up of 9/11 lies make it much more than one horrendous past event. It endures in infamy as a symptom of a corrupt and dishonest government. The 9/11 truth movement must be a political movement to help us take back our nation.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Obama versus Clinton versus Plutocracy
(5 comments) Whenever you hear more chatter about the tight Democratic primary race take a breath. Get back in touch with your cynicism. Talk about change is for campaigns; protecting the status quo is for winners. Plutocrats know who they want and what voters can be conned into voting for. They want Hillary and Obama is needed as VP to offset her negatives.

Sunday, December 9, 2007
Foreclosure USA Revisited
(2 comments) I bet most Americans believe the current mortgage crisis came on suddenly and might even be wondering how so many smart people in the financial sector could be so shocked by the enormity of it. In fact, all of it was seen and predicted by many honest people.

Thursday, December 6, 2007
Washington Post Misses Opportunity
(2 comments) If a city bus driver must serve one year in prison for killing two people, then imagine what jail time Bush criminals should receive for the many thousands murdered in Iraq because there were too few of them and because they did not have adequate body and vehicle armor, for example. Then why haven't we heard any current Democratic presidential candidate publicly reveal their intentions to pursue felony criminal charges?

Friday, November 30, 2007
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Disappoints
(4 comments) Kennedy's endorsement of Hillary just shows how the status quo political establishment can rig the system to get what it wants. Hillary Clinton represents the worst of the Democratic contenders. She is totally committed to take all the corporate money she can get. She really is a hawk when it comes to the Iraq war and even voted the wrong way recently when it comes to Iran. She is incredibly dishonest and phony.

Monday, November 26, 2007
What happened to my country?
(3 comments) A poem of sadness about losing the country I once took for granted.

Friday, November 23, 2007
Unthanksgiving
Most Americans have succumbed to tradition and advertising and stuffed their bellies with unhealthy food and their shopping carts with unnecessary stuff. Now, here are some tough facts about the sad state of the American economy. Research has documented that only 6 percent of children born to parents with family income in the bottom fifth of the income spectrum move to the top fifth. The rags to riches story is garbage.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007
First Woman, First Black, First Latino, or First Honest President?
(6 comments) The phrase honest politician has become an oxymoron. We should not be impressed by the prospect of having the first woman, first black or first Latino president. What would be far more radical would be to have the first honest president. Time to stop voting for liars. Better to not vote at all. Voting for liars only encourages more lies.

Thursday, November 15, 2007
Sane Bush Hatred
(26 comments) The Wall Street Journal gave the top half of its opinion page yesterday to a long essay by Peter Berkowitz titled "The Insanity of Bush Hatred." If anything, it deserves a gold medal for political propaganda – make that political lies.

Saturday, November 10, 2007
The Grand Delusion
(6 comments) Keith Olbermann was praised when he called the Bush presidency a criminal conspiracy. That missed the larger truth. The whole two-party political system is a criminal conspiracy hiding behind illusion induced delusion. Virtually everything that Bush correctly gets condemnation for could have been prevented or negated by Democrats, if they had had courage, conviction and commitment to maintaining the rule of law.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Voting as Political Narcotic
(12 comments) Voting became a political narcotic when it stopped working to improve government and became used to legitimize a corrupt, two-party failed government. Voting lets politicians claim that they represent the sovereign people. It tells the world that our elected government has public support. Voting sends the wrong message to everyone. No matter who you vote for, voting says the political system is fair. It is not.

Friday, October 26, 2007
Ron Paul Reality Check
(12 comments) As self-professed champion of the Constitution presidential candidate Ron Paul has missed a monumental opportunity to educate Americans about the criminal behavior of Congress in violating their oath of office. He has not taken advantage of his 15 minutes of fame to promote the nation's first-time use of what the Founders gave us in case the public lost confidence in the federal government – use of the Article V convention.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007
How to Interrogate Terrorists: Colonoscopy
The Bush administration obviously lacks true out-of-the-box thinkers. There is an absolutely creative way to get the truth out of captured terrorists. Give them a sophisticated medical procedure designed - a colonoscopy - as an early detection measure for colon cancer. is highly unlikely that terrorists have had the good fortune to have had a colonoscopy and so we would be performing a terrific service at no cost to them.

Sunday, October 21, 2007
Does Larry Sabato Really Want A Constitutional Convention?
(5 comments) The nation needs its first Article V convention to reform our political system, but people who just talk about constitutional amendments do not necessarily support a convention.

Thursday, October 11, 2007
Illegal Immigration Spurs Constitutional Amendment
(7 comments) Americans that laud the Constitution and the rule of law, and want more effective actions to address illegal immigration – surely a super majority of citizens – should tell their state legislators that they support South Carolina's Senator McConnell's call for the nation's first Article V convention.

Monday, October 1, 2007
Time to Boycott Voting
(21 comments) Stop playing THEIR game. Take back control. Take back YOUR nation. Time to boycott voting. Just imagine if voter turnout was cut to 25 percent or less! Let the whole world see Americans boycotting a broken and corrupt political system. To keep voting in an unjust political system makes us willing political slaves that the rich and powerful elites exploit.

Thursday, September 27, 2007
Movie Review: The Kingdom
(1 comments) If you want a new picture of our fight against terrorism, at your first opportunity go see The Kingdom.

Saturday, September 22, 2007
Next Step to 9/11 Justice
(1 comments) Everyone thinks of terrorism and homeland security for lessons learned from 9/11. There is another opportunity. Make our government trustworthy and truthful. The 9/11 truth movement is stronger than ever, though it is generally derided by politicians and ignored by the mainstream media. It is fueled by people passionate about sensible alternative explanations to the official 9/11 story.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Painful 9/11 Truth
(35 comments) Analyses by many experts reveal the collapse of three WTC buildings was not caused by the two airplanes exploding into the two towers. The general view is that the buildings were brought down by controlled demolition. Can Americans support a reinvestigation and rethinking of the 9/11 event? Or would they rather avoid even more pain and preserve the official account that places all blame on Al-Qaeda?

Friday, August 24, 2007
Why Has Congress Failed Americans?
(13 comments) Hundreds of members of Congress – in the House and Senate – are mental midgets, embarrassing blowhards, chronic liars, outright crooks, corporate lackeys, and elderly buffoons. They are plutocracy protectors more than democracy defenders.

Friday, August 10, 2007
Why the Government Tests Few Chinese Imports
(4 comments) Cheap Chinese products are a powerful and insidious destructive force. Free trade globalism more than violent terrorism or military attack is bringing America to its knees. The Chinese have us by our budget-deficit balls. Our government depends on China for loaning us money and for not dumping the vast hoard of over one trillion dollars it has accumulated by financing our huge deficits and selling us virtually everything.

Sunday, August 5, 2007
Removing A Failed President
(9 comments) We no longer can trust Congress to impeach and remove a terrible president. The Washington Post has published an op-ed piece that proposes a constitutional amendment to allow "ouster by the people" for removing a president other than by impeachment or because of incapacity. Considering the dismal performance of George W. Bush and his administration and the difficulty in obtaining impeachment, this is a fine idea.

Thursday, August 2, 2007
A Metallurgist's Insights Into the Minneapolis Bridge Disaster
(10 comments) The incredible collapse of the Minneapolis bridge will send a message to the nation that has been repeatedly sent for decades, but that our political system has refused to effectively respond to. America's physical, engineered infrastructure has been in desperate need for massive spending to repair and replace, but the multi-trillion-dollar cost has been rejected by local, state and federal politicians.

Monday, July 30, 2007
Americans Stuck In Political Stupor
(14 comments) There is historic political pessimism and cynicism. But something is more troubling than new data on the dire views of Americans about their elected representatives and government. It is that 72 percent of voters still believe that "voting gives people like me some say about how the government runs things." Unbelievable! Such confidence in a system that has failed them.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Maria Made Me Cry
(1 comments) I unexpectedly found myself crying over the Iraq war as I read the obituary of Capt. Maria Ines Ortiz, a highly praised Army nurse. What I read broke my heart. I don't know what Maria thought of the Iraq War. But her death has done more than anything else to make me despise what our disgraceful, delusional and dumb President George W. Bush has done.

Thursday, July 12, 2007
Seeking Political Reform Through Solidarity
(3 comments) All over the Internet are sincere efforts to reform and improve America's political-government system. The downside is fragmentation of the subpopulation that has escaped brainwashing, cultural distraction, and self-delusion. Strategy solidarity is missing.

Friday, July 6, 2007
Senator Specter Fights for Constitution
(13 comments) On the Friday before July 4 Republican Senator Arlen Specter showed his respect for the U.S. Constitution and his anger about President Bush's repeated pissing on it by introducing the Presidential Signing Statements Act of 2007. What happens to this crucial bill will test both congressional integrity and courage.

Thursday, June 28, 2007
Thanks for Dick Cheney
(5 comments) Dick Cheney is the leading practitioner of the ends-justify-the-means mentality, where only his vision of the desired ends counts. Serving corporate interests rather than serving the people is Cheney's brand of patriotism. Our Constitution should not allow the government to make us victims and our nation hated by so much of the world. That's what Cheney should teach us. Now, it's up to us.

Sunday, June 24, 2007
Political Attention Deficit Disorder – New Psychiatric Condition
(2 comments) According to a report not yet released, the Council on Science and Public Health of the American Medical Association has recommended that a chronic and widespread affliction of Americans be officially declared a psychiatric disorder. It has been named the Political Attention Deficit Disorder (PADD). The psychiatrists unanimously concluded that George W. Bush is a PADD victim.

Thursday, June 21, 2007
Are Americans Unready to Boil?
(29 comments) Sometimes the greed and arrogance of Ruling Classes makes them careless and social waters heat too quickly. Sensing doom, alert citizen-frogs escape or revolt. Or they stay complacent and boil. In colonial America the greedy British motivated our Revolutionary War, but with oppression now coming from within, will Americans wait too long?

Thursday, June 14, 2007
Americans Unready to Revolt, Despite Revolting Conditions
(37 comments) The latest NBC/Wall Street Journal national poll results vividly show a population incredibly dissatisfied with their nation's political system. In other countries in other times such a depressing level of confidence in government would send a signal to those running the government that a major upheaval is imminent. But not here in the USA. Why?

Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Open Letter to Congressman Ron Paul
(12 comments) In last night's debate among Republican presidential candidates you proudly described yourself as a "champion of the Constitution." However, you are missing a major opportunity to demonstrate your courage and allegiance to our constitutional republic. More than virtually any other member of Congress, you should appreciate the wisdom of the Framers in giving us the Article V convention option.

Saturday, June 2, 2007
The Evils of Lesser Evil Voting
(23 comments) With many progressives regretting giving Democrats a majority in Congress and many conservatives regretting putting George W. Bush in the White House, it is timely to refute lesser evil logic. The deadly decline of American democracy results in large measure from lesser evil voters electing lesser evil politicians. We will only get the best government by voting for the best candidates. Otherwise, we get what we deserve.

Thursday, May 10, 2007
Finding Hope In A Dismal World
(2 comments) For so many, hope is down the drain. Hard to fault them. Abundant evidence shows our insane world sliding down a global cheese grater.

Monday, April 23, 2007
Economic Armageddon Is Coming
(9 comments) Unjustified and mounting economic inequality is planting the seeds for global economic conflict. What the future holds: Lower Class economic slaves fighting to survive in a medieval, ugly and bleak world that so many science fiction stories have portrayed. In that hell their best option will be to rise up and revolt against the rich and powerful Upper Class.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Time to Write A Gingrich Wrong
(2 comments) Few Americans have heard of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. In 1995 under pressure from the pompous and nefarious Newt Gingrich the small agency was de-funded. Clearly, Gingrich wanted to eliminate good science and objective thinking from policymaking and George W. Bush has carried on that mindset. Spend a few minutes looking into OTA and then tell your Senators and Representatives to restore OTA.

Thursday, April 5, 2007
From Economic Apartheid to Political Revolution
Do most Americans really believe that the game is not rigged by rich powerful elites to preferentially benefit them? As certain as the law of gravity, the game IS rigged, and more than ever. When will the stranglehold of the Upper Class on the political system that criminally distorts the economic system be busted? When will Lower Class consumers that drive the economy revolt?

Friday, March 30, 2007
How Bloomberg Can Become President
(5 comments) Running as an independent, third party candidate and relying solely on his own money, Michael Bloomberg definitely can win the presidency in 2008 – if he follows my advice. With his own vast wealth and honesty he can single handily revitalize America's political system. We need a breath of fresh air after the bipartisan stink that has fouled our nation for far too long.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Democracy Dreaming
(4 comments) America was given a representative democracy within a constitutional republic where laws that protect all people trump majority rule. Standing between majority-won elections and government power are elected representatives: writing, overseeing and implementing laws. But when you can no longer trust the elected representatives what happens to American democracy? It becomes an oxymoron.

Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Taking Democracy Seriously
(2 comments) Voting is the heart of a healthy democracy. With our persistent low voter turnout, the heart of American democracy is barely beating. Five reforms can dramatically re-energize voting in America. They could be placed in one constitutional amendment and ratified by the states in time for the 2008 presidential election.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Economic Inequality Is Real (Bad)
(11 comments) Rising economic inequality has received attention by Senator Jim Webb, presidential candidate John Edwards, CNN's maverick Lou Dobbs, and others. The middle class has not shared in rising national prosperity, because the nation's wealth has been siphoned off to the richest Americans. Some elites are nervous. Why would Democrats attack those fighting economic inequality?

Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Delusion Destroys Democracy
(8 comments) The delusional Bush has survived because delusion runs rampant across the nation. When a political system no longer deserves trust, citizens must trust themselves. Considering how doggedly our unrepresentative democracy stays under the grip of moneyed special interests, more direct democracy is desperately needed. ALL WILL NOT BE WELL AFTER BUSH IS GONE. AS AWFUL AS BUSH IS, HE IS A SYMPTOM OF WHAT AILS OUR NATION.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Healthy Political Faith
(4 comments) Dissidents exist because placing faith in mainstream politicians is as delusional as George W. Bush believing that sending more American soldiers into the Iraq cauldron is justified. It flies in the face of reality, experience and sanity. The great paradox is that so many people still desperately place faith in politicians. There are better things to place your political faith in.

Monday, January 22, 2007
Obama: The Democratic Messiah?
(7 comments) Is Obama, the self-professed progressive, the real thing? Is he something other than a conventional politician? I have read many of his speeches and other statements. Obama says "America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes." Then please tell us soon what are YOUR big dreams and big hopes hopes for America and be specific. We do not need another political false idol, from the left or the right.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Runaway American Brainwashing
(9 comments) Politically engaged people have no good reason to side with power elites. They have every reason to support the nation's second constitutional convention. The first convention was a runaway and was totally successful. A second convention could revitalize American democracy.

Monday, January 8, 2007
Open Letter to John Edwards
(1 comments) Congress has steadfastly ignored a clear provision in Article V of our Constitution that empowers the states to have Congress call for a convention of state delegates to consider proposals for constitutional amendments. Become the first presidential candidate to take a stand on this issue, defend OUR Constitution.If as you say "tomorrow begins today," then take on the Article V convention issue.

Friday, December 29, 2006
A New Year's Resolution for ALL Presidential Candidates
(3 comments) Our Founders were acutely aware of the need to create a mechanism for we the people to, when necessary, circumvent the political power of the federal government. They built in a critically important form of direct democracy that our elected MISrepresentatives in Congress have refused to implement. It is the option for states to obtain a constitutional convention to consider proposals for amendments.

Monday, December 18, 2006
Class War Weapon of Choice – For the Holidays and All Days
(7 comments) The motto of the United States of Consumption is "In More We Trust." The contribution of American culture to humanity is consumption obsession. Mass consumption is a distraction from the self-inflicted defeat facing working- and middle-class Americans in the class war they are losing. Americans are enslaving themselves with their spending and delusional prosperity.

Monday, December 11, 2006
Economic Apartheid Kills
(1 comments) To be successful in overturning our elitist plutocratic system we should add economic apartheid to our semantic arsenal. Every day, according to UNICEF, 30,000 children die due to poverty – that's over 10 million children killed by poverty every year! Global economic apartheid is killing people. As compulsive consumers, Americans are spending their way deeper into economic apartheid.

Monday, December 4, 2006
Honest Centrism for Populist Democracy
(7 comments) The United States has lost its center through destructive centrifugal politics. America seems spinning out of control. It has become a non-populist, dollar-driven, elitist democracy. Centrism can be a powerful metaphor and tool for national renewal, if it is also populist. The majority of Americans have decided. A democracy with too little political competition provides too little incentive to vote.

Monday, November 20, 2006
Third Parties Fight for American Democracy
(7 comments) A great democracy offers citizens sharp political choices. That's what gives political freedom meaning. With two-party control of America's political system, political options and discourse are stifled. We badly need more visible third-parties that can fully participate and reach the public with information about their platforms and candidates. And BTW, third party candidates helped the Dems win the congress.

Sunday, November 12, 2006
Direct Democracy Lost in Florida and Colorado
(6 comments) With all the hoopla about the big Democratic win, little attention has been given to the assault on direct democracy. A ballot measure in Florida to make it more difficult for citizen-driven ballot measures to pass was victorious. A measure in Colorado to expand citizen initiatives failed. In both cases, corporate money fueled the war against direct democracy.

Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Field of Screams - The Real Election Winners and Losers
(7 comments) Forget political correctness. The revolution has NOT arrived! Bush is still president. The corporate state is safe. The Upper Class has little to fear. Lobbyists will be writing different names on checks. Winning Democrats will entertain more than they will produce historic restorative reforms. Did Republicans deserve to lose? Of course! Let us not forget that a MAJORITY of Americans did NOT speak with their votes.

Tuesday, October 31, 2006
The Election to Nowhere
(8 comments) Even worse than a taxpayer financed bridge to nowhere is a much ballyhooed election to nowhere. If we have an election to nowhere, then why contribute to the legitimacy and credibility of the political system by voting? There are alternatives worth considering.

Thursday, October 26, 2006
Foreclosure USA
(2 comments) We the people once owned our democracy. It was foreclosed by wealthy and power elites that corrupted our "representatives" who literally sold us out. Our current new twist on Foreclosure USA: Millions of Americans have experienced, or will soon experience, foreclosure on their homes. Money and greed have ruined our country. Money and citizen re-engagement can save it.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Bill Clinton's Integrity Challenged
(1 comments) Louisiana Congressman William J. Jefferson, a Democrat, has been under a black cloud since it was revealed that the FBI videotaped him accepting $100,000 from an FBI informant and then found $90,000 in marked $100 bills stored in Jefferson's freezer. In our culture of corruption, when so many Republicans have been nailed, let's see top Democratic politicians condemn the scum in their own party - especially Bill Clinton.

Thursday, October 19, 2006
U.S. Corporate Mafia Fighting Chinese Efforts to Help Workers
(4 comments) Greedy and powerful American companies not content with using economic inequality to devastate working- and middle-class Americans are now using their clout to fight efforts in China to combat economic inequality there. They want to keep wages low there so they can drive wages down here and everywhere else. Big-time American corporations are threatening to shut down their extensive Chinese operations.

Monday, October 16, 2006
Democracy Battle in Florida
(3 comments) If the bad guys win in Florida, all Americans lose. Circumventing corrupt state legislators with direct democracy threatens the corporatist state. Business interests want to up the percent of votes required to pass citizen ballot initiatives from the current majority requirement to a supermajority of 60 percent. If this tactic succeeds in Florida, corporate interests will work to do the same in other states.

Saturday, October 14, 2006
Progressive Civil Disobedience
(4 comments) Two forms of civil disobedience suit these times and the nature of the political and economic repressive forces that now reign supreme in America. First, Americans should NOT vote in any election for either Democraps or Republicrooks. Bipartisanship is just a ploy to make the two-party conspiracy more palatable. Second, millions of Americans should suspend their discretionary spending for critical times.

Sunday, October 8, 2006
Untapped Citizen Power
(2 comments) Just 15 percent of eligible voters went to the polls for primary elections. Fine. We cannot vote ourselves out of our current delusional democracy. We will not produce major change simply through writing and protesting. That leaves other strategies to be pursued, including de-legitimizing the current corrupt, delusional system by not voting for Democraps or Republicrooks, and turning consumer spending into political power.

Thursday, October 5, 2006
Think Strategy and Tactics for a Second American Revolution
(20 comments) Please, stop already with all the bitching, ranting and screaming about all the screwed up aspects of our current national calamity. Anyone that is ready to join a revolution already knows about all the political, economic and social crap that has brought our beloved country down. Start to focus on strategy and then on specific tactics. We must fight a war and win it with smart strategies and tactics.

Wednesday, October 4, 2006
When Winning Is Losing - Democraps Are A Political Placebo
(4 comments) All the momentum for revolt built up during years of the Bush disaster is about to evaporate. When one of our two-party demons goes to extremes the duopoly partner stands ready as a pressure release valve. The biggest downside of Democraps winning this November is how it will diffuse and deflate all the public pain and disgust generated because of the outrages of Republicrook control of our government.

Monday, October 2, 2006
House Democraps Helped Pass a Terrible Bill
(1 comments) An amazing 37 House Democraps voted in favor of HR 4772 Private Property Rights Implementation Act of 2006 that passed on September 29. In a nutshell, the legislation serves corporate interests with significant financial resources who are unhappy with unfavorable local zoning decisions.

Saturday, September 30, 2006
Post-election Recession – More Republican Chicanery
Right now you are being fed a load of economic propaganda by both the Bush administration and most mainstream media. The goal of the establishment is to keep American consumers happy about the economy so that they keep doing the patriotic thing – SPENDING AND BORROWING. In reality, many sharp people see a likelihood of serious economic recession coming soon. When will you hear the truth? After the coming elections!

Thursday, September 28, 2006
Kinky Friedman Can Devastate Bush
(5 comments) There is a great way to punish Bush and also send a much needed message to the Democratic and Republican establishments. If you are a Texan, vote for Kinky Friedman for governor. If you live elsewhere, contribute to Kinky's campaign and get Texans you know to get out and vote for Kinky. Don't just be mad, get even.

Monday, September 25, 2006
Political Fallout From The Housing Bubble Bust
(1 comments) The hot news is that the much talked about housing bubble has finally burst. So what is this housing bubble bursting saying about the political fortunes of Republicans and Democrats this November? Bottom line: the net economic story is a positive for the Republicans this coming November, because many more Americans will benefit from lower gas prices.

Sunday, September 24, 2006
Warming Up to Heating Up
Public distraction is a terrific way to understand why real problems are not solved. The people most engaged with American politics are too distracted by a host of terrible conditions to give priority to a looming super-problem. Set aside your passion or depression about the sad state of American politics to make room for a global catastrophe. Two courts will be making profoundly important decisions about carbon dioxide.

Saturday, September 23, 2006
Economic Inequality in the Nation's Wealthiest County
The lead story in today's Washington Post Style section is about the many desperate people living in Loudoun County, Virginia that go through the agony of getting free food. I hope that New York Times idiot-columnist David Brooks also absorbed the economic horror of people interviewed for the story

Friday, September 22, 2006
Forbes 400 Richest Americans No Embarrassment!
(4 comments) No one seems angry that for the first time all 400 are billionaires. In the streets of America there are no mobs of unemployed and low-paid workers demanding government action and economic justice.

Monday, September 18, 2006
POLITICIZING CONSUMER POWER
(2 comments) The most potent political power of Americans to provoke major reform is not through their votes anymore, but as consumers. That means as spenders – not just consumers of things, but also as consumers of services and borrowed money. Consumer spending must be made a political tool by which to obtain political and economic concessions – to fight the plutocracy and the economic inequality it fosters.

Thursday, September 14, 2006
A Fat Tax For Fat Cats
(1 comments) A few years ago a wonderful little book – Top Heavy – caused considerable angst among Republicans. A compelling case was made for the federal government attacking economic inequality by imposing a wealth tax. A well designed wealth tax will have no effect on most Americans, but it would raise a large amount of money. The next congress should make a fat tax a high priority. And progressives should get behind this idea.

Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Criminally Negligent Federal Officials
(10 comments) If no person is above the law, then I would like to see a special federal prosecutor investigate President George W. Bush and many others in his administration for criminally negligent homicide. The anniversaries of Katrina and 9/11 have made me think again about what is sorely missing in our nation – holding senior federal officials truly accountable for their worst actions, misdeeds, and errors.

Sunday, September 10, 2006
David Brooks: Spokesman for Economic Elitists
(1 comments) There are many reasons for the New York Times to be ashamed of what it publishes. A major one is giving space to columnist David Brooks. His values, opinions and worldview should be despised by most Americans. His latest attack on objective truth was the column "The Populist Myths on Income Inequality." Brooks has a knack for turning reality upside down, inside out and getting away with it. Time for the Times to stop it.

Friday, September 8, 2006
Neo-progressives
(14 comments) I can understand the considerable passion to hand Republicans a defeat this year. But we have a whole lot of "neo-progressives," people who have no hesitancy in supporting mainstream Democrats in the name of defeating Republicans. What troubles me is the outright excitement and vocal support for Democrats, as if they will be the salvation for the nation.

Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Do Democrats Deserve Your Vote?
(3 comments) Keep asking yourself: Is your deep confidence in Democrats driving you to vote for them or is it your hatred of Republicans? Consider ten reasons for resisting the "lesser evil" temptation. Bipartisan incrementalism will not restore greatness to our country. Tweaking by Democrats will not do the necessary job.

Monday, September 4, 2006
Labor Day Lament – Where is Our Economic Shame?
Let the bad economic data keep coming. Eventually, the economically screwed will finally stop consuming enough to send a shudder through the system that reaches the economic aristocrats.

Saturday, September 2, 2006
For Labor Day: A Look At America's Upper Class
(1 comments) A look at how the people who fly in private jets spend their money. Maybe it can help push us a little closer to class warfare.

Friday, September 1, 2006
Wake Me From This Dream
When our political reality becomes so oppressive sleep and dreams provide escape.

Sunday, August 27, 2006
A Progressive and Populist Position on Illegal Immigration
(3 comments) Illegal immigration is a symptom of a deeper problem - illegal employers. Illegal immigrants are pawns in our growing economic class war pitting corporate interests against we the people.

Monday, August 21, 2006
The Populist Paradox
Populist is often being used as a slur because we have forgotten the true, positive meaning of it. America will only be restored to greatness when true populist politicians win elections. Together with distractive consumerism, corporate controlled mainstream media and dishonest politicians create a culture where populists working for we the people are unable to achieve mass popularity.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Delusional Democracy Breeds Delusional Prosperity
(9 comments) Rising economic inequality is on its way to precipitating major social upheaval.

Friday, August 11, 2006
President Kinky Friedman's Performance From a 2010 Perspective
(2 comments) An assessment of Kinky Friedman's presidency, as seen in 2010. The nation has undergone remarkable change - for the better.

Wednesday, August 9, 2006
Fake Progressives Will Not Save Our Democracy
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Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Kinky Politics to the Rescue
(1 comments) Molly Ivins has stimulated excitement about Bill Moyers for president. This is a bad idea and is inconsistent with progressive politics. Kinky Friedman would make a better candidate.

Tuesday, July 25, 2006
American Democracy's Decline Ignored by the Washington Post
(1 comments) Bush's use of signing statements is just one of many signs of American democracy's decline, but the Washington Post does not think that this is an important issue for the 2006 elections.

Monday, July 24, 2006
Dissident Kinky Friedman - Just What Our Delusional Democracy Needs
(4 comments) Here is the creative fix for our delusional democracy - first elect Kinky Friedman as Texas Governor, then as President of the United States.

Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Business Allies for Defeating the Two-Party Duopoly and Corrupt Corporate State
(1 comments) The progressive movement must find buiness leaders if it wants to turn around our political and economic system.

Saturday, June 17, 2006
Americans Should Reject Bipartisanship
Consider the case for why Americans should reject bipartisanship and boycott both Democrats and Republicans.