40 Articles

Friday, July 11, 2008
How Progressives Undermine Their Power
(2 comments) Do progressives and liberals harbor a hidden fearfulness about confronting the right wing? If so, are we willing to look at it and rectify it?

Friday, June 6, 2008
Tidying Up for the Revolution
We need to keep working at making ourselves finer people and more responsible citizens in order to help facilitate the birth of a social revolution.

Saturday, April 5, 2008
Another Perspective on Hatred, Violence, and War
(3 comments) There may be a hidden flaw in human nature that accounts for our inability to live in peace with ourselves and with the rest of the world.

Friday, March 28, 2008
Race and Gender Soul-Searching
(2 comments) Our own unresolved emotional issues are standing in the way of Democratic unity. Here's a discussion of some of those issues.

Saturday, March 22, 2008
Deeper into Racism
(2 comments) Many people will vote against Obama for racist reasons, while doing so in "good conscience" because they have deluded themselves into believing in the objectivity of the political attacks against him. This is why Obama is particularly vulnerable to negative campaigning. It explains, for instance, why so many are willing to go on believing that Obama is a Muslim.

Saturday, March 15, 2008
America in Capitalist Captivity
(2 comments) Our brain connections and neural pathways are hard-wired by the metaphors, slogans, and enticements of capitalism. Its marketing and technological wizardry has us stranded in the fog of propaganda. Without an awareness of being its adherents, Americans are its fundamentalists

Friday, March 7, 2008
Advice to Right Wingers for Nothin' and Insight for Free
Whether or not Iraq is sidelined in this political debate, this presidential election is, in large part, between those Americans who have begun to assimilate the reality of our horrendous self-defeat in Iraq and those evolutionary stragglers who adamantly refuse to do so.

Friday, February 29, 2008
The Reasons for America's Aversion to Diplomacy
(3 comments) Why aren't we better diplomats? Why weren't we powerful enough in our own humanity to create peace with the Soviet Union? Instead, we produced a nuclear production complex that had already by the mid-1950s exceeded in capital investment the combined capitalization of Bethlehem Steel, U.S. Steel, Alcoa, DuPont, Goodyear, and General Motors.

Saturday, February 23, 2008
Can Old Europe Save America?
(2 comments) We have refused to adopt many of Europe's most sensible refinements, including the metric system, wise gun laws, and inclusive medical care. The latest feather in our stubborn streak is our unwillingness to follow their practice of abstaining from war.

Thursday, February 14, 2008
Political Unity in the Big Tent
There's no need to fall into the darkness of divisive politics. Any negativity we feel toward fellow progressives is our own negativity. We each have to take ownership of it and refrain from spreading it like rancid butter on to our struggle for reform.

Thursday, February 7, 2008
Death to the Hoax of Self-Correcting Free Markets
(5 comments) The excesses of capitalism have been underwritten by ideology, particularly the idea that the market is inherently wise and reliably self-regulating. This conservative idea is an intellectual hoax. We need to drive a silver stake into its heart to terminate it for good.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Uncovering the Psychological Roots of the Bush Tragedy
(9 comments) Great political writing discloses what the subject doesn't know about himself. Bush is unaware of how extensively he lives through an idealized self-image. He identifies with that self-image and refuses (probably out of fearfulness and the restraints of a personality disorder) to step out of the darkness of his self-ignorance.

Thursday, January 24, 2008
Let Them Eat Corn, or Why We Shouldn't Fear a Recession
The Republican Party's great success of recent years has been its production of "The Grand Old Pretense," the theatrical parody showing in the nation's capital and starring Benito Bush and Franco Cheney.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Thoughts for Obama and Clinton Down the Stretch: What True Change Involves
Both candidates are running a marathon of hope, with a vision of national unity and a promise of change. We're hoping, of course, they mean real change. Yet their proposals for change skirt major right-wing roadblocks that obstinately block our progress.

Thursday, January 3, 2008
How Conformity Trumps Action on Global Warming
An indepth look at the underlying reasons for inaction on global warming. Or, why we're afraid to save ourselves.

Sunday, November 11, 2007
Democratic Candidates Can Play a Fear Card, Too
(5 comments) What leading Democrats can tell us about the politics of fear.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Eight Epitaphs for Bush
It's the unofficial epitaph-our heart's remembrance-that will take Bush's true measure.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Denial of U.S. War Crimes
(1 comments) What is the degree of our complicity in U.S. war crimes? Is ignorance innocence? Do we secretly avoid knowledge that will enlighten us? Are we afraid to know the truth because such truth requires us to die to our old passive selves and emerge as true citizens demanding redress?

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Pelosi Capitulates to Hatred
(3 comments) If Nancy Pelosi is going to fulfill her destiny, she needs to move toward the hatred, into the hatred, and through the hatred, ablaze with the fervor of the Lady of Liberty and possessed of a willingness to die for us.

Thursday, October 18, 2007
What Can I Do?
(4 comments) Many politically aware individuals have been asking this question, often in mournful desperation. An emotional blockage is often behind their paralysis.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
The Secular Soul of Democracy
We cannot count on the general populace or the Democrats to support our vision of renewal and reform. To save American democracy, progressives must give more credence to the idea that our better nature has to be honed to a sharper edge.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Can Hillary Can Her Cacophonous Cackle?
(7 comments) We don't want a cackler for president. The right wing has no fear of cacklers. The right wing needs to be intimidated or it won't go back in its cage.

Monday, June 4, 2007
Henry Kissinger Bombs Again
(1 comments) There he goes again, the old thin-skinned warhorse Henry Kissinger, still sniping at the antiwar left after all these years. In an op-ed this week in the Los Angeles Times, he concludes that rapid, unilateral withdrawal from Iraq would be a disaster.

Thursday, May 24, 2007
TV Titans Plan Surge against American Character
TV titans and the marketing industry are gearing up to sap our will and make Americans more passive than ever. Their ultimate goal: the debauchery of American character followed by the commercialization of the American soul.

Thursday, May 3, 2007
A Democratic Deterrent against the Politics of Fear
(3 comments) To put an end to the politics of fear, we need to understand the nature of irrational fear. We haven't been able to shake off all of the fears that we carry from childhood. There remains a chronic, often repressed anxiety about our vulnerability and the threat of allegedly hostile, menacing individuals or forces.

Thursday, April 19, 2007
Schwarzenegger's Guilty Thoughts on Global Warming
Arnold Schwarzenegger tried posing last week as an environmental muscle-man. The California governor approves of us driving SUVs and Hummers while trusting in an "enlightened" marketplace to navigate the global-warming crisis. As an action-hero, the governor was a master illusionist. Now, he may be fooling himself.

Friday, April 13, 2007
For Democracy's Sake, Vote for Euthanasia
(2 comments) The issue of euthanasia extends beyond the deathbed to the health of our democracy. Democracy requires us to claim our sovereignty and our authority, so why are certain religious and political leaders treating us like children?

Friday, April 6, 2007
A Psychological Expose' of Creationism's Secret Genesis
(48 comments) Creationism can be invalidated in the eyes of more people by exposing its emotional roots. It's pointless to debate creationists on the specific tenets of their doctrine. Such an approach plays into their defensive strategy and overlooks the source in the psyche of their irrationality.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007
The Zen of the Long-Distance Activist
Burned out or not, patriots have to go the distance. Here's a method that's even better than drinking Red Bull.

Friday, March 23, 2007
TV Torture's Toxic Toll
TV torture disguises an especially degenerate form of brutality as a necessary evil to protect national security. In the process, our collective mental health is undergoing shock treatment.

Saturday, March 17, 2007
Rich Little Comes Out of the Political Closet
(1 comments) Impersonator Rich Little's presentation to the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner didn't evoke any laughter at all, except for a few stifled chortles from Jon Stewart, who was seated at the very back of the ballroom. Here, from the White House correspondents own News Impersonation Service, are excerpts from that presentation:

Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Cancel this Year's White House Correspondents' Dinner
The White House Correspondents' Association must cancel its April 21 dinner if it's serious about atoning for its complicity in the American tragedy in Iraq.

Thursday, February 22, 2007
An Appeal to 9/11 Conspiracy Buffs
(22 comments) Can 9/11 conspiracy buffs be persuaded to drop their speculations and join forces with the legions of the left? Perhaps a tour of the shaky substructure of their belief system can return them to their senses.

Friday, February 16, 2007
Bush's Inner War With Iran
(1 comments) George Bush is the mouthpiece for his inner demons. He is in inner conflict between aggressiveness and passivity in his psyche. Any decision he makes about war with Iran will emerge from his inner chaos.

Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Let's Grant Molly Ivins Her Dying Wish
Molly Ivins pursued truth, and in the process acquired the power that it bestows. We can follow in her footsteps.

Saturday, February 3, 2007
Next Time We March--Dance!
(2 comments) Barbara Ehrenreich's sobering new book tells the story of how, over the centuries, the authorities clamped down on public rituals of collective joy and stole from the people the ancient source of human solidarity.

Friday, January 26, 2007
Hating Bush Only Hurts Us
(46 comments) Detaching from our hatred of Bush will only make us more effective in removing him from power.

Saturday, January 20, 2007
Soldier--Read This Before You Go to War
(4 comments) Every soldier needs to make a choice about whether to fight in a bad war. If a soldier goes passively to his fate,he is in greater danger of emotional impairment when he returns home.

Monday, January 15, 2007
The Slaveholder Mentality of Bad-Ass Capitalism
(1 comments) The mentality of bad-ass capitalists is as deluded and degenerate as that of the slaveholders of 150 yeazrs ago.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Last Al Qaeda Standing
Satire: The last Al Qaeda terrorist reminiscences before his death on Donald Rumsfeld's poetry.