79 Articles

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
"Wall Street Socialism"
Huffingtons Borosage writes of Wall Stree Socialism, but it's really corporatism at its finest, Benito would be proud!

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Faith-Based Initiatives
(2 comments) Barack Obama's decision to involve faith-based groups' infrastructure and manpower is pure Obama. The most obvious issue is not the main issue.

Sunday, June 29, 2008
Olbermann Talks Back
(5 comments) Olbermann stubbornly refuses to see his mistake as a reporter of news and critic of public figures.

Monday, June 2, 2008
War Crimes
Tom Brokaw thinks that all wars begin with massive feats of propaganda. He only weakly acknowledges that the press must be in cahoots with the war party to pull off the sort of propaganda campaign of which he speaks.

Sunday, May 25, 2008
Jacoby Can't Handle the Truth
(1 comments) Jeff Jacoby of the Globe misses the point again and contributes even more bitter violence into the campaigns.

Sunday, May 11, 2008
Granularity
(2 comments) They say that all politics is local. It's true! It is what we are going to learn how to do ... starting now!

Saturday, May 10, 2008
The Calculus of Confrontation
(2 comments) The Clinton campaign has gone too far. Playing the race card threatens the Party and the November election. The Democratic Primaries have gone on long enough. We have a candidate!

Sunday, April 27, 2008
Geneva Conventions
(1 comments) The U.S. Department of Justice is playing puerile games with the law. Their objective is transparent. They are trying to avoid the deserved prosecution of Bush, Cheney, and others. There is no way, however.

Saturday, April 26, 2008
Moyers on Wright
(11 comments) Moyers 55 minute chat with Jeremiah Wright was not enough. The problem is too deep, the ignorance too trenchant, the myth too addictive.

Monday, April 21, 2008
Greg Palast on Harmonizing with NAFTA (rev.)
(2 comments) Greg Palast uncovers the dirty little secret of NAFTA and Bush.

Sunday, April 13, 2008
Obama and The Bitterness in America
(5 comments) Like it or not Barack Obama has tapped into the motherlode of American discontent, and he should use it, not apologize for it.

Friday, April 4, 2008
An Open Letter to University of California at Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Bergeneau
(11 comments) In Re John Yoo

Monday, March 31, 2008
Paulson and the Regulators
(2 comments) Treasury Secretary Paulson ideas for regulating Wall Street are very much a free-marketer joke.

Thursday, March 27, 2008
An Open Letter to Clinton Fans
(6 comments) The Clinton Campaign is based on carefully cultured illusions, the most damning of which is that the Clintons are far outside the traditions and beliefs of the Democratic Party.

Monday, March 10, 2008
The Fairness Doctrine, Truth, and Respect for Evidence
(3 comments) OpEdNews should be for evidence and fact based opinion. The real fairness doctrine says that if 60% of the people are for Obama, that's the way it is.

Thursday, March 6, 2008
An Open Letter to Al Gore, John Edwards, and Bill Richardson
(4 comments) A majority of the Democratic Party rank and file believe that it is time to "get on with it."

Thursday, February 21, 2008
Working With Obama
(5 comments) Some advice for Hillary and Barack and the media, including us.

Monday, February 11, 2008
David Shuster and the Pimps of Chelsea
(10 comments)

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Misogyny and Racism in America: Is it Lethal for Politics?
Race and gender prejudice in America are not fads or lightly held opinions; they are part of the fabric of the nation and arguing otherwise is disingenuous and perhaps a fatal political mistake. Arguing it poorly is even worse, but Slate magazine has done so.

Saturday, January 5, 2008
"Conventional Wisdom"
(3 comments) There is no question that the news media in this country have gone astray. Some of the problem is that we are living in one epoch after another of rapid, disorienting change, and we need help figuring out how to land on our feet, but we are too gullible and insufficiently vigilant. Corporate media want to turn the coming election to their own purposes and even the "trusted voices" are looking suspect.

Sunday, December 9, 2007
Review: The Golden Compass
The Golden Compass is a good fun movie, inventive, exciting, "Brytish" and therefore akin to Harry Potter, so when Roman Catholics complain they are proving the point.

Thursday, December 6, 2007
The Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Sitting quietly at home wondering whether it is useful to call Bush and Cheney liars one more time ... and basically saying to myself that everyone knows and no one cares ... when all of a sudden some bastard in Omaha guns down a bunch of people to "go out in style." I could not help thinking of Cheney and Bush going out in style. It raises many questions, but there are better ways to spend a pre-holiday Thursday.

Sunday, November 18, 2007
Governor Rick Perry and Barry Bonds
What's the difference between injecting anabolic steroids and injecting a $1,000,000 worth of illegal campaign funds? Governor Rick Perry will soon find out.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Farewell Al Gore
(3 comments) Al Gore's decision to shut down the draft Gore movement signals the end of Al Gore as a viable prospect for public office in our country. It is a shame that he cannot muster the energy and courage to take on this campaign, but we will survive!

Thursday, October 25, 2007
Putinshchina
What Russian President Vladimir Putin will do when he reaches the constitutional limit on his presidency is not just anyone's guess. The guess by Leon Aron in the 10/25 edition of the NYT is not satisfying nor does it seem to understand the basic situation in Russia.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Capitalism and Its Discontents
(1 comments) The alarm over the trouble in the economy both points to and obscures the reality that "free-market capitalism" has become "corporatist military capitalism." It is literally out of control, and the prognosis for restoring democracy is not good.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Health Care
Basic Health Care for all is a national necessity and transcends the question of socialism as does a national defense.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Mother Jones Bares Hillary Clinton's Cross
(2 comments) A MJ article reveals the secret religious side of Hillary. For me her candidacy is now completely unacceptable and, if she gets the nomination, I will vote Green.

Monday, September 17, 2007
The Bush Legacy
(2 comments) Bush wants his legacy to include a neutralization of Iran. The question is whether this is warranted and whether we can stop Bush if it is not.

Monday, August 27, 2007
Gonzo Gone
Gonzales departure makes impeachment of him and Cheney and Bush all the more difficult. It sets up an interesting situation in the White House, where the absence of Rove and Gonzales is irrelevant to the long-hatching plan to transmute the unsatisfactory situation in Iraq into a hot war with Iran.

Sunday, August 12, 2007
The Guns of August
The long hot summer is a time for letting down one's guard and getting some well-deserved relaxation. Sorry, Cheney and Bush are not going to let you relax, or if you do, there is a strong likelihood that you will regret it. Think of the I-words.

Sunday, August 5, 2007
Bomb Them Into Submission
(9 comments) There is a framing and emotion of conservative frustration, and it is a golden opportunity for liberals to turn the tide of debate and win votes.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Gonzales the Liar
(3 comments) Gonzales is Pelosi's last chance to vindicate her Speakership. If she fails to act Constitutionally, she must be turned out of office. Californians understand the process of RECALL.

Friday, July 20, 2007
Stonewalling Plame
(3 comments) Federal Judge Bates erred and erred grievously--criminally--in his decision to dismiss the Valerie Plame lawsuit against Cheney et al.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007
National Intelligence Estimate
(5 comments) The NIE is first and foremost a political document designed to frighten Congress and Congress's constituents into prolonging a disasterous war in Iraq.

Thursday, July 12, 2007
Voting and Democracy
(2 comments) A New Yorker article raises serious questions about the electorate for which superficial answers are probably as dangerous as the appalling lack of understanding observed among the voters. Education and media are the keys, and both are broken.

Monday, July 9, 2007
Speaker Pelosi, You Are Part of the Problem
(6 comments) Speaker Pelosi has but a few days in which to reverse her illegal and unconstitutional act. It is not her Constitution to interpret. It is OURS and impeachment is OUR remedy for an Executive gone over the edge into lying, law breaking, and massive obstruction of justice!

Sunday, July 1, 2007
Obama and Impeachment
(15 comments) Barack Obama misspoke against impeachment. His duty as a Senator is to be an unprejudiced juror. Impeachment itself is up to the House of Representatives.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Cheney and Cheneyism
(4 comments) Cheney is just the darkest of his kind.

Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Brontosaurus Democraticus
The Democratic Party is a coalition, not a collection of old bones, some belonging to other beasts, some invented to fill an imagined role. It is a time for courage of our convictions, a call to progressive liberalism and our best ideals.

Friday, June 1, 2007
Greek Chorus
The ancient Greeks and Romans have much to teach us, but there is much in their history to be ignored. We have over two bloody millennia of progress to protect, and protect it we must. Yes, the battle is between Empire and Republic, but History only repeats itself in classrooms. In the real world we take responsibility for it.

Friday, May 11, 2007
The Retrovirus
The Rove Project for a Republican 21st Century, like HIV and other retroviruses, would kill our democracy.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007
The End of the World
(2 comments) Bush's veto is the last straw. His delusions about this war now border on insanity and he must be removed from office before he does any more damage. The issue is the Constitution and our way of life. Civilian control of over the military is our tradition and belief. Americans have expressed their opinion, and Bush and Cheney's disdaining of our wish to be done with Iraq is unacceptable! They must be removed now!

Friday, April 13, 2007
Congress Must Fix DoJ
(1 comments) The ever-expanding problems of the U.S. Department of Justice, including the FBI, and including contamination of local police, clearly require immediate attention and a permanent fix. Gonzo must go and the sooner the better. Democrats have no excuse in this matter for inaction.

Friday, April 6, 2007
Contempt
(3 comments) Cheney and Bush and their enablers and underlings are contemptuous of our traditional American institutions of government. Should we report their activities as if they were following the rules and honoring their oaths of office, or should we be done with this charade and toss this sorry lot into the dustbin of history? It's a no-brainer!

Friday, March 30, 2007
Beginning of the End Game
(4 comments) Bush's fragile psyche is showing. His bearing is cracking and his speech impediments are back. He is all alone and, given his born-again self-righteousness, he is very, very dangerous.

Friday, March 23, 2007
Playing With War
The Democrats are playing with war for political gain. This is going to bite them on their backside in 2008. We told them to have courage in the last election and they have demonstrated the opposite!

Friday, March 9, 2007
Princess of the Flies
Ann Coulter is only half the problem. The other half is her audience, a willing Republican Party, harboring fear and hatred.

Friday, March 2, 2007
Phoney War
A nuclear attack on Iran is optional. It is not inevitable. It is within the power and responsibility of the Congress to see to it that it never happens.

Monday, February 19, 2007
Human Nature
(1 comments) The Conservative view of "human nature" is based in a negative view of life. Columnist David Brooks does not understand the implications of science and misjudges the fate of New Society programs. Human beings are not one thing or the other, but in fact a mix of competitiveness and compassion.

Friday, February 9, 2007
The Rule of Law (and the DCCC)
(6 comments) The Constitution is not optional. It is based on the Rule of Law and that means individuals must bow to the imperatives written into the text of the document. This includes Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House. Let's send her a message about Impeachment!

Friday, February 2, 2007
Market Fundamentalism
(2 comments) The irrational belief in markets as the cure all for our civilization is now beginning to infect the Democratic Party as Libertarians gravitate away from religious fundamentalists and neocon radicalism, but bringing their dogmatic "market fundamentalism" with them.

Friday, January 26, 2007
The Purple Testament of Bleeding War
The war aims of Bush and Cheney were revealed by Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.)this week. Did you notice? This Neocon nightmare will continue until someone notices that Bush and Cheney cannot be trusted to carry out the national security interests of our country.

Friday, January 12, 2007
Persistence is Futile
(3 comments) Bush is not the Borg, nor is his psychology relevant. He is not alone. He is supported by millions. We have to stop analyzing George and begin removing him from office.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
20,000 Troops and the Speech
(1 comments) Bush's Speech Wednesday evening was a remarkable retreat, admitting mistakes, he may have pulled his thumb from the dike. His new strategy is to find others to blame.

Friday, January 5, 2007
Branches of Republicanism
Democrats should understand that Republicans are a house divided, a coalition perhaps more diverse than the Democratic coalition, a party of seething discontent.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Horsefeathers!
And I'm not talking about Pegasus! The Washington Post is doing its best to guide the Democrats, but Liberals and Progressives deserve better advice than we're getting.

Friday, December 22, 2006
Free Trade is Not Free!
(6 comments) It is time to rethink our global position and the assumptions upon which the impending economic catastrophe is predicated. The first step is to abandon Clintonism.

Friday, December 15, 2006
A Bad Week
As politicians scurry for cover, hoping the winds of war will cover their tracks, the problem of disengagement is complicated by the fact that the public does not really know why we are in Iraq.

Friday, December 8, 2006
Political Syncretism
(1 comments) Right now there are wars going on within the two major parties for hegemony. Everyone and her brother are fighting for control of the Democratic party or at least a seat at the table. A good understanding of ideology will win out.

Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Libertarian Democrats?
(7 comments) A major battle for the soul of the Democratic Party has begun in earnest. As the candidates assemble you will see some strange hybrids, but the idea of Libertarian Democrats defies all logic and common sense.

Friday, December 1, 2006
The Iraq Civil War: A Neocon Surprise
Ask yourself, What is the mission that Bush keeps referring to? The mission is the Neocon plan to remodel the middle east, nothing less.

Friday, November 17, 2006
A Bridge Too Far?
(1 comments) "Off the Table" does not mean "out of sight." Nancy Pelosi knows what she is doing. The next months could be very, very interesting

Friday, November 10, 2006
What a Democrat Is
(1 comments) The new array of Democrats in Congress suggests the need for a new definition of the Party. Progressives and Liberals must devise a plan of action that understands the new environment.

Saturday, November 4, 2006
What's at Stake
Next week's election can be the beginning of a solution to impending climate change and tragedy for the human species. If the election goes badly, you can expect rampant corporatism to soon extinguish the last rays of hope.

Friday, November 3, 2006
Boiled Down It Comes to This
(1 comments) Voters should have made up their minds by now. The reasons to vote for Democrats are obvious, but some voters might need a mantra to get them past all the confusion that will surely be thrown their way. Republican election fraud we will deal with afterward, but now it is important to cast those votes!

Friday, October 27, 2006
Changing Course
(2 comments) Our poorly prepared President is incapable of making rational course corrections. The errors are piling up to mythical proportions. We are headed for an epic disaster.

Friday, October 20, 2006
Faith, Relativism, and Liberalism
(15 comments) The philosophical underpinnings of political thought are opaque most of the time. Currently some of these are threadbare. Liberals and Progressives should understand that bad premises lead to incoherent politics.

Monday, October 16, 2006
People
(1 comments) Three hundred million Americans! It is a big number and the consequences may be more than our present culture can deal with. Already there are signs.

Friday, September 15, 2006
Terrorism and Islam and Our Response
(9 comments) Islam is a major world religion and should not be maligned for harboring violent malcontents by a culture full of them. There is another way to fight terrorist than by warfare. We should try it.

Monday, August 21, 2006
The Ceremony of Innocence
Bloggists and pundits are being crushed in an avalanche of lies and fabrications. It is fraudulent to accept a lie to promote a smaller truth.

Sunday, June 4, 2006
Garcetti v. Ceballos; Alito Kills Whistleblowing
In Garcetti v. Ceballos the Supreme Court has summarily removed the First Amendment from public employees rights. It is another appalling nail in the coffin of democracy and justice! That 50 cycle hum you hear in the background is the Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.

Saturday, May 27, 2006
Narcissism, Corruption & Politics
Eventually we discover that the handmaidens of narcissism are corruption and intolerance.

Sunday, May 21, 2006
Nancy Pelosi
(9 comments) The Minority Leader knows perfectly well what she is doing.

Saturday, May 13, 2006
Communicating Liberalism
Frustrated ranting is no cure for corruption.

Sunday, May 7, 2006
Compromise and Coöptation
The middle ground between Corporatism and incipient Fascism on the one hand and Socialism on the other was Liberalism, but it was coopted and the result is our present Plutocracy.

Sunday, April 23, 2006
Corruption
Someone said "corruption is an equal opportunity employer" and, although this is probably true, we must not lose hope. Our Republic was founded on the notion that human beings are fallible. We must keep faith with the entailment of that idea. ...There is nothing at stake but our democracy, for there is no question that Republicans are little interested in it.

Friday, April 14, 2006
Nuclear Weapons Don't Work For Or Against Iran
Nuclear war with Iran is unthinkable, unless you are hoping to shore up the fortunes of a discredited regime-- in Iran and the US.

Saturday, March 25, 2006
"... And the Wisdom to Know the Difference"
(1 comments) American politics is dominated by unexamined assumptions and myths. The pervasive lack of critical thinking skills perpetuates this problem. The ideas of "American world hegemony" and "market fundamentalism" are now joined in what will turn out to be a catastrophe of epic proportions.