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Cal Poly Pomona Sociology Professor. Author of "Globalization and the Demolition of Society," co-editor/author (with Peter Phillips) of "Impeach the President: the Case Against Bush and Cheney." National Steering Committee Member of the World Can't Wait.
Friday, February 3, 2012 Aggressive War: The Supreme War Crime (7 comments)
According to international law, attacking a country that has not attacked you is the supreme war crime. This is what the US did to Iraq and what it and Israel are now doing to Iran.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 The Occupy Movement and the Great Shift (8 comments)
The Occupy Movement represents a momentous shift in the political terrain. "This is a clash that is going to end with one or the other side's values prevailing."
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 Who's Irrelevant Now? (1 comments)
Why the worldwide protests and OWS represent something so significant.
Monday, October 10, 2011 Dear 1%: (3 comments)
The right-wing fulminates in self-contradictory ways about OWS but it's not working. Damn!
Monday, April 12, 2010 If You're Still an Obama Fan... (11 comments)
Even if Obama solved poverty, ended wars, and stopped global warming, if he doesn't hold Bush and Cheney accountable for their use of torture and indefinite detention, then the rule of law is rendered null and void and any future president can do what Bush did and more.
Monday, May 4, 2009 Four Times in Eight Sentences (3 comments)
Condi Rice does her best Hermann Goering impression in front of a class of fourth graders yesterday.
Saturday, March 14, 2009 If You Undermine the Foundation, What Happens to the Structure?
Obama's Justice Department has just dropped another shoe in their ongoing saga of upholding the egregious Bush White House's use of rendition, torture, and denial of habeas corpus rights, reversing what Obama promised as a candidate.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 From the Uncola to Cola: Obama Rebrands the Empire (5 comments)
Obama says detainees can challenge their detention "ultimately." Wait: he only means GITMO. This doesn't apply to Bagram prisoners. Obama: Bush curbed his abuses of power two years after 9/11. His evidence? Hayden and McConnell. Excuse me?
Monday, March 2, 2009 Britain's Secret Plans for Quelling Insurgency, and Turmoil in Ukraine (9 comments)
The British government has plans to dispatch troops to put down any insurgent actions this summer, fearing that "the middle classes... may take to the streets with the disenfranchised." The scope for contagion is very broad across Europe and in the U.S. itself. And in Ukraine, turmoil that threatens to topple the government.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Obama and the Fairness Doctrine: A Rejoinder (3 comments)
Obama's against restoring the 1949 Fairness Doctrine that was abolished under Reagan in 1987. Its abolition has made possible the right-wing media empire. Obama's opposition to the Fairness Doctrine is very, very bad and very consequential if he goes forward with that stand.
Thursday, February 5, 2009 Panetta, Holder, Obama, Torture and Nuremberg (5 comments)
Leon Panetta testified before the Senate that CIA officers who tortured prisoners should not be prosecuted because they were operating "pursuant to a legal opinion." This "legal" opinion is as weighty as fairy dust.
Thursday, January 29, 2009 Eric Holder Signals No Prosecutions of Bush War Criminals (27 comments)
Holder Gets Approved by the Judiciary Committee after assuring GOP Senator Bond that he's not going to prosecute war crimes. Say it isn't so!
Friday, January 2, 2009 Is the GOP's "Southern Strategy" Over? (2 comments)
Paul Krugman skewers the GOP for its racist backlash strategy in "Bigger Than Bush." Is the "Southern Strategy" dead?
Monday, December 15, 2008 Whither Rendition? Ex-CIA Officer Predicts Obama Will Use It (11 comments)
The New York Times is running a series on the future of the war on terror. This commentary is on Ex-CIA officer Marc Gerecht's OpEd who bases his advocacy of rendition on the phony "ticking time bomb" scenario.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 Strangling Dissent, Muzzling Whistleblowers (3 comments)
Matt Miller calls for muzzling advisors and cabinet officials. Some universities are encouraging students to complain if they don't like what professors are saying. What do these two have in common?
Saturday, November 29, 2008 Pure, Unadulterated Balderdash and Poison (5 comments)
Should the Bush regime be prosecuted for torture? Jack Goldsmith says: No, No, No.
Saturday, November 1, 2008 What Matters Now? The Bush/Cheney Legacy (7 comments)
In 2002 Cheney declared that "Reagan proved that deficits don't matter." What have the Bush/Cheney years proved? That the rule of law and the truth don't matter. What can be done in the face of this outrage and the fact that the elections promise no accountability?
Saturday, November 1, 2008 It's Happening Already (3 comments)
An attempt by the GOP to steal the 2008 election is already underway. Whether they succeed this time, the third time in a row, or not is the question.
Sunday, October 12, 2008 On Naomi Wolf's Sounding the Alarm (14 comments)
An assessment of Naomi Wolf's warning that a coup has taken place plus a warning about the 2008 Election.
Saturday, September 13, 2008 Repression in Minneapolis and Pakistan
The link between the Minneapolis City Council's Green lighting police state tactics at the RNC and the Bush White House's adopting Obama's Stance on Pakistan
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 Moral Turpitude and the Democrats (3 comments)
Playing Where's Waldo at the DNC. What the Democrats Aren't and Won't Talk About.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 If Donkeys and Elephants Could Fly (5 comments)
"Take it from me, elections matter," said Gore yesterday in endorsing Obama. Funny, if that were true, then why didn't Gore, and after him, Kerry, act like elections and election results mattered, especially when they both won?
Sunday, June 8, 2008 "Change We Can Believe In"? (32 comments)
Upon securing enough delegates for the Democratic nomination, Obama made crystal clear his adoption of every single prop of the White House's justifications for attacking Iran. What is the content of Obama's promises of "change?"
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 On McClellan's Memoir and Its Applicability to Iran (7 comments)
Ex-Presidential Press Secretary Scott McClellan assuages his guilt and reveals some truths about the Bush White House and its cynical manipulation of public opinion to justify the Iraq invasion. Iraq yesterday, Iran today. This essay also addresses the GI suicides epidemic and the need to instead resist these hoary imperialist wars.
Monday, May 12, 2008 The Road Ahead and the Audacity of Moral Truth (14 comments)
Many people think the only political power the people have is through the electoral process and voting in particular. This is like buying a car that you can only steer every four years. Would you buy such a car? This essay analyzes this widespread perspective and offers another road.
Thursday, May 1, 2008 Avoiding the Abyss (8 comments)
The situation in this country is much worse today than the conditions provoking the American Revolution. The President has openly admitted to orchestrating torture and the mass media collectively yawns and won't even cover it. This essay focuses on the fundamental lie allowing them to get away with their crimes: the idea that American lives are more precious than other people's.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Hands Down
An American President admits to ABC News that he has approved torture! Congress is up in arms, the media are calling for his immediate resignation, the presidential candidates rush to condemn the president and say they would never countenance such monstrous behavior! Not!
Monday, April 14, 2008 Bush Warns of Another 9/11 (13 comments)
Bush signals another 9/11 may be coming. This article exposes the perilous paradox of this presidency: all they need do is fail once again, and they will succeed in getting what they wanted all along.
Saturday, March 15, 2008 A Leitmotif on Legitimacy
How do we harness the mass sentiment - a task that's urgently needed - against the Bush White House in the face of the collusion of the rest of the leadership class? How do you constitute an alternative, competing, moral authority?
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 Orange Ribbons Protesting Torture at the Oscars!
Directors and Actors declare their opposition to torture at the Oscars. The "Declare It Now: Wear Orange to Drive Out the Bush Regime Campaign" made its appearance with nominees, winners and attendees wearing orange ribbons and orange wristbands. Photos, interviews, and commentary.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 The Op-Ed the New York Times Didn't Run
Men in White Coats: Why America under Bush and Cheney is the Milgram Experiment Writ Large.
