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Author of HELL OF A DEAL: A Supernatural Satire, a tale of Hollywood's accommodation with torture and militarism.


I also edit The Political Film Blog on Wordpress.

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36 Articles

Sunday, May 20, 2012
The Dictator - Racist War Propaganda With Distractions
(3 comments) Review of Sacha Baron Cohen's new film The Dictator. War propaganda in highly staged stupid situations really isn't all that funny.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Delusional Anarchists Part Two
(1 comments) Continuing series on the dead-end Anarchist political philosophy. Similarities to Marxist thought exposed, Spanish Civil War examined in context. Dictatorial pronouncements and taboos shown to be inconsistent with the "free" and "voluntary" nature of their own stated aims.

Sunday, May 13, 2012
The Anarchist Delusion
(10 comments) Anarchism vs. Democracy. They are not the same thing, and we should be clear about what it is we are fighting for and against.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Anarchism, Occupy & MoveOn.org
(4 comments) Misguided ideas have neutered the Occupy Movement and left it ripe for the picking Democrat front group MoveOn.org.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012
The Hunger Games (Take Two)
(1 comments) The Hunger Games delivers, and not just for the tween girl audience. It falls short of really ripping into the flesh of the matter, but then again there are at least two other novels to carry the story forward. It shoots a warning across the bow that the unquestioned power of the state leads to atrocity and servitude. Perhaps this somewhat blurry mirror will show young audiences a glimpse of what to be ever vigilant against.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Cover-up in Kandahar
(2 comments) Eyewitnesses and official Afghanistan government investigations directly contradict the US military's official story of the massacre of 17 civilians in Panjwai, including 9 children. Days before the massacre US troops threatened the local villages with retaliation for a roadside bombing, including threats made against their children.

Friday, March 16, 2012
The Most Fascistic Industry
(62 comments) The nuclear industry worldwide colludes with governments to force unnecessary risk onto the populations. This is fascism, a state-private partnership that increases profits for private shareholders by enforcing unwanted risk on citizens through government power. This system must be challenged and the nuclear plants shut down permanently.

Saturday, March 10, 2012
Imperial Death Mongers
(1 comments) Russia warns bloodthirsty western alliance against attacking Syria and Iran. Stakes could not be higher.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Chris Hedges is Correct About Militant Anarchists
(6 comments) Violence is being argued by some anarchists, but Occupy is a nonviolent movement. Those who would derail nonviolent movements through reckless criminality should form their own movement and face the law enforcement apparatus by themselves without the luxury of having unwilling human shields. Knowing that that strategy is doomed to fail, these militants hide behind the integrity and courage of nonviolent activists.

Thursday, November 24, 2011
Genocide and the Native American Experience
(5 comments) After the Thanksgiving myths subside, a cold hard look at reality.

Saturday, October 29, 2011
Police Can Also Be Traitors
(8 comments) Police brutality used in a deliberate coordinated fashion is state terrorism.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011
9/11 Cluster Bomb From 9/11's "Terror Czar" Richard A. Clarke
1) Numerous personnel at CIA knew about the Al Qaeda operatives living in San Diego. 2) Richard Clarke, as the chief counterterrorism advisor to the White House would automatically receive all reports unless there was active interference to prevent him from receiving the intelligence. 3) That the active participation of the Saudis can be factored in, either as a cover story or as the true explanation of their role.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Response to Rob Kall: Economy 2.0
(1 comments) Response to : Time to Turn the American Economic Model Upside Down? Consider alternatives to consumption and growth

Saturday, July 9, 2011
Real, Clean Energy Alternatives: Part 3 - Wind Power
(2 comments) "(By) 2020 and beyond wind, wave and hydro are expected to be 4 cents/kWh or less." Why on earth would anyone risk their entire region to a nuclear plant? It's patently insane, even on economic grounds. A 2009 MIT study (Future of nuclear power) estimated the real cost of nuclear at "8.4 cents/kWe-h." Double!

Sunday, July 3, 2011
What Are the Energy Alternatives? (Pt. 2 of Series)
(3 comments) Bottom line: Heat mining works. It is THE global energy source for the next few millenia and beyond. "Based on the analysis of experienced researchers, it is important to emphasize that while further advances are needed, none of the known technical and economic barriers limiting widespread development of EGS as a domestic energy source are considered to be insurmountable."

Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Nuclear Catastrophe Imminent in Nebraska?
(3 comments) The plant was not actually "designed" for the 1014 ft flood level at all. Whether sufficient "improvements" to the original design have been implemented properly is anyone's guess. The plant was originally created to: "The precise level -- 1,009.5 feet -- is written into the plant's operating licenses as a flooding 'design basis' threat that the plant must be guarded against." (New York Times)

Sunday, June 26, 2011
Nuclear? What's the Alternative? (Part 1)
(16 comments) America's energy problems are primarily political and not technological at all. Clean, safe and decentralized technologies have been fought and brought to a standstill because large, dirty, centrally-controlled, deep-pocketed interests don't like competition. ... The buzzword / acronym to watch for is "Concentrated Solar Power" (CSP).

Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Nuclear Nightmare Worsens
(7 comments) The Fukushima catastrophe is on track to out-disaster Chernobyl. The Fukushima region is much more highly populated than the Russian region. Some scientists have seriously considered creating a new "level 8" to categorize what's happening to Japan and the Pacific ocean since March 11th.

Thursday, June 16, 2011
Godzilla, Stunned
(1 comments) The nuclear beast reels in confusion.

Thursday, June 9, 2011
Idiocracy (2006), Re-Visited
(4 comments) See this film. Idiocracy was actually assigned in a political science course as an extra-credit project.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011
The Future Children of Fukushima
(1 comments) Atomic energy poisons children by the millions. It must be outlawed as soon as possible, and the lies and cover-up of the IAEA must be fought.

Thursday, April 7, 2011
Why Chernobyl Matters
(1 comments) The Battle of Chernobyl (2006) should make rational people discard nuclear energy and choose safe alternatives. How many must die for this industry?

Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Nuclear Controversies
MUST SEE: RADIOACTIVITY CONTROVERSY RAGES Do not believe the lies about Chernobyl. Watch this film (free).

Monday, April 4, 2011
Tell Obama: "NO NUKES!"
Write the White House NOW.

Saturday, April 2, 2011
The U.N. Would Never Lie to George Monbiot
(1 comments) Article uses the scientific literature to destroy the lies about Chernobyl promoted by the pro-nuclear IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), and their media mouthpieces like George Monbiot of The Guardian UK.

Thursday, March 17, 2011
NUCLEAR POWER = INSANITY
(13 comments) Nuclear power is the worst form of energy production to ever exist. It has always been bad, always caused cancers and high unnecessary risks. And it needs to end, now.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Nuclear... um... Terror?
(3 comments) So-called "experts" who regurgitate nuclear industry lies should be tarred and feathered and never allowed on any media, ever again.

Thursday, January 27, 2011
Highly Charged Political Films Nominated by Academy
(1 comments) 2010 Academy nominated shorts and documentaries.

Friday, January 14, 2011
Open Letter to a Broken Green Party
(6 comments) The Green Party where I live does not seem to care about new members. Without acknowledging new people and giving them some ways to participate, one might argue the party no longer exists. Hello? Red flags. Is this thing on?

Friday, November 26, 2010
Airports in the "Land of the Free"
If you're not "mad as hell" and "not going to take it anymore" you probably aren't a real American, my friend. Your civil rights are not a dead issue printed on a rotting old parchment in some museum. Civil rights are a living, breathing, very current and daily reality.

Friday, July 9, 2010
Agents Provocateurs: Police State Canada (2010)
(1 comments) Contains news footage confirming the use of agents provocateurs by Canadian security forces.

Sunday, June 6, 2010
American Monster: W.
(1 comments) Is Oliver Stone losing his touch? Review of the Oliver Stone bio-pic about George W. Bush.

Friday, June 4, 2010
Gulf Oil Spill (part 1)
(5 comments) What is the role of deregulation in this catastrophe, and when will arrests be made?

Sunday, March 28, 2010
LOGORAMA - Exclusive: The legal questions behind an Oscar winning Short
LOGORAMA just won an Oscar for best animated short. However, it contains so many trademark and copyright violations ... you'll just have to see it for yourself.

Friday, January 29, 2010
Watchmen (2009)
War, Peace and Human Nature

Thursday, January 14, 2010
AVATAR (2009): Anti-Imperialism Sells
(6 comments) Anti-imperialism is the underlying theme of Avatar, the biggest box office hit in world history.