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Thursday, February 9, 2012
Speed Freaks Must Die
(9 comments) As our leaders kill, we are fed pop music, until it's our turn, too, to be slaughtered. They have all the guns and money, while we have next to nothing but inconsequential words. Under such an arrangement, I don't see anything resembling a smooth and sane transition to justice, peace and sustainability.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Cheering On Dumb, Stupid Animals
(1 comments) Without a doubt, America is the world leader in violence and intimidation, and the US, UK and Israel alliance is the true axis of evil, for these countries have been behind so much violence and turmoil for several decades now.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Collateral Savages
(1 comments) The US is encircling, harassing and sabotaging Iran, yet few Americans seem alarmed that for the sake of oil, again, and increasingly elusive economic growth, their leaders may kill millions and wreck this earth even further, but as their empire convulses and collapses, most Americans will find themselves reduced to the level of those they've been annihilating.

Friday, January 6, 2012
Horror and Puppetry
Since the American invasion, thousands of Afghans have had to suffer indefinite detention without access to a lawyer, often after having been yanked from their home in the middle of the night. Many have been tortured, with some killed in custody. With the National Defense Authorization Act, Americans can now look forward to the same sadistic, inhuman treatment, but who, and how many?

Monday, January 2, 2012
Hijacking Somalia
(1 comments) Before the overthrow of Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991, he signed over nearly two thirds of Somalia to four US oil companies, Conoco, Amoco, Chevron and Phillips, so the world's biggest and baddest pirate, America, has been trying to reclaim this bounty ever since.

Friday, December 30, 2011
Slouching Towards 2012
(4 comments) The election year will give the Occupy Movement energy and focus, but unless it can sharpen its message and allow exceptional individuals already in its midst to emerge as spokesmen and leaders, it will continue to accomplish merely minor, symbolic victories, as their opponents continue to kill, loot and, yes, laugh in their faces.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Christmas Gifts for a Collapsing America
(1 comments) For those who were simply laid off for no good reason and are now roofless, here's a perfect gift for this holiday: Two pieces of cardboard, one to lie on, and one to create a begging and/or protest sign.

Monday, December 5, 2011
Endless Needless Deaths
(4 comments) Using Bin Laden as a pretext, America invaded Afghanistan in 2001, and a decade later, it is still there, though its bogeyman is long gone. America never runs out of enemies, however, for it can always generate them anew, with either its bombs and guns, or through its jingoistic media. Along with Iran and Syria, Pakistan, supposedly an ally, has become a target.

Thursday, November 24, 2011
Sharing the Turkey
(2 comments) Americans are for most parts kind and generous, unlike its murderous government. I'm claiming that our 99% are mostly fair and decent, unlike the 1% that rule and represent us. Working against humanity and country, this 1% bring shame and dishonor to our name.

Saturday, November 19, 2011
Banks, Pentagon and Academic Pusillanimousness
(3 comments) Do not lose sight that our main battle is against the corrupt banking cartel and equally corrupt Pentagon. Much of our financial, political, social and ecological ills can be traced to these monsters. Winter is coming. Time is running out.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Common Dreaming
(4 comments) This occupation, then, has aspects of a refugee camp. Here gather victims of an economic war, the homeless, unemployed, underemployed and those who may be fired tomorrow, but it is also a rebel camp, where these previously faceless, dispersed and downtrodden lumpens discover common cause and recover their strength for a counterattack.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Resurrection Cities
(1 comments) With their grievances ignored, the 99% will field candidates for the 2014 mid-term election, then, presumably, the 2016 Presidential one, but will they get enough officials elected to make any difference at all, and what kind of shape will America be in by then?

Monday, October 17, 2011
The Beginning Is Near
(2 comments) With the just released The99%Declaration, our ruling class has been issued an ultimatum, however. The anti-Wall Street protesters will convene a National General Assembly in Philadelphia from July 4th, 2012 until October of 2012, resulting in a "PETITION OF GRIEVANCES to be submitted to all members of Congress, The Supreme Court and President and each of the political candidates running in the [2012 election]."

Friday, October 7, 2011
Occupy Wall Street: Surrounding the Bull
(1 comments) Hundreds of cops, some on horsebacks, are now protecting Wall Street 24 hours a day. At Bowling Green Park, they have also blocked access to the Merryll Lynch bull. To be warmed by the methane gas of a healthy market, no doubt, a group of New York's Finest gathered near their sacred bovine's digestive exit, just below its up-lashing tail.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Letter from a Banker
(6 comments) Looking out the window, I now see a mob down below. Night after night they sleep in the cold or rain without even a tent over them. They have a long list of grievances but no demands, not that they'll get any concessions anyway. Though they've pointed accusatory fingers in my direction, I have nothing to worry about since they've refused to call me by name. Perhaps they don't even know. Do you?

Sunday, October 2, 2011
Radix Malorum Est The Man
(3 comments) By sleeping in Liberty Park, even in rain and cold, the anti-Wall Street protesters are vividly illustrating to the world the dispossession afflicting nearly all Americans. We have lost jobs, homes, savings, Constitutional rights and, yes, even our country as a representative Democracy, but this powerful indictment would be wasted if it's not clear who are being charged or what should be done about them.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Occupy Wall Street: Beyond Bologna
(3 comments) So protest police brutality, media whoredom or governmental corruption all you want, but if you're willing to overlook the fact that our money supply is controlled by an elite group of criminal bankers, nothing will change.

Sunday, September 25, 2011
Wall Street vs. Everybody
(4 comments) After eight days of protest, over a hundred people have already been arrested. Several have been roughed up, with cops being caught on still and video cameras pepper spraying or yanking the hair of young women, or slamming people to the ground. Sadly, these cops are fighting against their own interest. Bankrupted by Wall Street, cities all over America are laying off policemen left and right.

Sunday, September 18, 2011
This Constant Mind Rape
(15 comments) The physical violence of a crime is often accompanied by another kind of violation, an assault against the mind, for the criminal must disguise his evil deed. A murderer, rapist or merely adulterer will lie and spin, to conceal and/or rationalize what he has done.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Looting Frenzies: Thinking about the Federal Reserve while Nursing a Cheap Beer
(8 comments) The Federal Reserve has private purposes and public aspects, and as long as this parasite controls our wallets and government, you can count on more wars, bankruptcies, foreclosures, increasingly severe inflation and looting frenzies of every kind.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Shop and Shoot
(7 comments) In any struggle, it's important to know the nature of your enemy. Is he a klutz, prone to a goofy mistake now and then, or does he have murder on his mind? Again, we are being lorded over by a gang of criminals. War criminals.

Friday, July 29, 2011
Ubasuteyama, USA
(3 comments) This vicious campaign against Social Security is nothing but class warfare, pure and simple. Unless we do something about it, and soon, the ruling class will continue to rip us off as we sweat, and starve us when we're no longer useful.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Poor Richards Rise
(1 comments) Americans are planning two mass protests in Washington DC against the military industrial complex. Unlike all recent American protests, which tend to be no more than sign waving parades lasting but a few hours, weather permitting, these two protests are meant to go on until the authorities yield to their demands.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Mugged then Shot
(9 comments) In this nation of fewer and fewer factories, save those that make bombs, tanks and high-grade weapons, who are our biggest death pushers and pimps, and what should we do about them?

Thursday, June 23, 2011
Sentimental Mass Murderer; As the husband kills, the wife comforts
(29 comments) America needs an urgent triage, but none is forthcoming. As she decays, festers and convulses, our next president is asked, "Deep dish or thin crust? American Idol or Dancing with the Stars?"

Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Fig Leaf Nation
(7 comments) As the United States shrinks, its bright, kinetic fig leaf will swell until the country is nothing but giant fig leaf masking the rot and emptiness within. Don't bother switching the channel, because it will only be the same show at another station. Try looking outside.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Murder without Corpse
Without a cadaver or even the flimsy evidence of a photoshopped photograph, what is there to this sensational murder, really? Nothing but words from the CIA and the White House. Though they lied to us about Jessica Lynch's "rescue" and Pat Tillman's murder, we are to believe them this time because they have suddenly decided to speak the truth. Honestly.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011
The Wisdom of Snooki
(3 comments) Snooki is a Jersey girl, and the venue was in New Jersey, but the students' identification with her goes a lot deeper. They like her because she is wholly untalented and unapologetically stupid. Her vapidity gives them hope. If someone this unexceptional can cash in on fifteen glorious minutes, then maybe the good, easy life can be theirs also.

Thursday, March 31, 2011
Heart Warming Massacres
(1 comments) To gain access to oil, all these countries armed a man they now call a mad dog, but Gaddafi didn't just become a tyrant two weeks ago. He's been embraced by Tony Blair, feted by Nicolas Sarkozy, visited by John McCain and even had his hand kissed by Silvia Berlusconi, so everything was manageable until he moved to nationalize Libya's oil.

Friday, March 25, 2011
Winding Down Obama
(3 comments) As Obama fizzles out, as he loses legitimacy, the power brokers will come up with other figureheads and slogans for American liberals and conservatives to become passionate about. These candidates will jabber, jab and insult each other. As in professional wrestling, the battle will appear fierce.

Monday, March 21, 2011
Powering Down
(1 comments) Besides this real enough fear of radiation, there is also the long term challenge of living with less energy, but there is hardly anyone anywhere who is ready to power down. Most dismiss the concept outright. We're conditioned to want more, not less. Confusing technology with fuel, knowledge with gas, they believe science will find a way to accommodate us all. Surely someone will come up with a car powered by wheezes, sneezes,

Friday, February 25, 2011
Driving Mad
Before Communist China became partner with Capitalist USA in a New World Order of union-free sweat shops, Americans used to laugh at all the bicycles on Chinese streets. Now, as the Chinese become more car dependent, as their cities become more clogged and polluted, many Americans are rediscovering the pleasures, healthiness and sanity of bicycling or walking. Suddenly, a street full of bikes seems positively idyllic.

Thursday, February 17, 2011
The Revolution is Televised
(1 comments) As others wage revolutions, we watch. The revolution is televised after all, we say with a sigh of relief. Between Dancing with the Stars, American Idol and college hoops, we can watch a bit of revolution tonight for a change of pace.

Monday, January 31, 2011
Burning Truth
On the American fringe, independent voices are free to write as they please, but even the best among them can only appear in little read webzines. Many write almost exclusively on their own blogs. Needless to say, they have almost no impact on the general public. In too late late capitalism, those who seek to tell the truth don't need to be burnt. They are already being drown out by nonsense.

Thursday, January 27, 2011
We're Number Three!
(2 comments) Kermit Gosnell is a well-known figure in Powelton Village, where his clinic is located, and Mantua, where he has a mansion on a hill, overlooking the Schuylkill River. Before opening his "baby charnel house" abortion mill, Gosnell operated the Mantua Halfway House. Even as he collected millions in government funding to rehab drug addicts, he dealt Methadone.

Friday, January 14, 2011
Martial Cosplay and More
(2 comments) Responding to the Tucson shooting, Sheriff Clarence Dupnik cited "vitriolic rhetoric" in the media as a poisoning influence. "This has not become the nice United States that most of us grew up in." How nice it ever was for how many is debatable, but it's undeniable that our culture has turned more savage.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Welcome to the Collapse
(2 comments) The collapse will not be televised. Ignored and alone, each of us will experience it singly. As blemish and accusation, you will be photoshopped from the American Dream group portrait. The lower you slip, the more invisible you will become.

Saturday, December 25, 2010
Lawless Police State
(1 comments) Whether in Kandahar, Fallujah or Salinas, California, all these well-trained, well-armed men shooting at each other from all directions are a ka-ching nirvana for our military industrial complex. The more mass murders, the happier the CEOs and investors. As for collateral damages, well, better luck next life, dudes! If we don't starve the Pentagon, carnage will be our last growth industry.

Saturday, December 18, 2010
Bloody Trophies
after decades of appalling disclosures by human rights organizations, the media and even the government itself, nothing has changed. We have enough evidence to convict just about everybody and everything inside that Beltway, save a potted plant or two, perhaps, so what's missing is not more information, but an ability to deduce and to synthesize, that is, to think, and, even more importantly, some semblance of moral clarity.

Sunday, December 5, 2010
Helpless
Our common enemy is the military industrial complex. Visiting India for the first time last month, Obama visited Gandhi's home, then promptly celebrated the signing of a mega arms deal.

Monday, November 29, 2010
Bumbling Terrorists
(2 comments) Tell me if you've heard this one: An FBI agent infiltrates an actual, figurative or virtual mosque, finds the most gullible and angry dork around, encourages him to get even, plots out some dubious plan, gives him bombs that don't quite work, then arrests this dupe to much fanfare.

Friday, November 26, 2010
Enabling Bullies
As we experience further turbulence in the years ahead, economically and socially, expect to see more bullying from our government and its agents, even the pettiest. Especially the pettiest. Unwilling to restore meaning and purpose, they will subject their subjects to more absurd orders. Craving solutions, many of us will mistake their ridiculous commands for answers.

Sunday, November 21, 2010
I Feel You
(1 comments) It's no big deal that they strap people onto boards, then pour water onto their faces, drowning them, more or less, in our name, but we don't make a big fuss until they nudge our nuts.

Thursday, November 4, 2010
Guns and Balls
(2 comments) War and team sport are parallel activities, but in today's America, the coupling of guns and group balling has become increasingly explicit.

Saturday, October 30, 2010
Prone Pioneers
(2 comments) As we stagger forward, don't scorn the ones who are currently scraping by on the fringe, the day-laborers, odd job men, buskers, the peddlers pushing carts, even the homeless, for they are the point men, the pioneers of our time.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Welcome to the Recovery
(2 comments) Ads for casinos are always filled with perfect, straight teeth smiles. White, black or beige, they are all tickled stupid by serial windfalls. For mere pocket change, they get to climax over and over, it seems, until Kingdom Come, at least. By contrast, real life chumps are uniformly grim. Suckers only laugh as they walk in, if that.

Friday, September 10, 2010
Collapsing America
(2 comments) On September 11, 2001, someone stabbed America. She's being murdered right now. As Americans, we need to get to the heart of this, because this madness and deceit are perpetuating themselves. If we don't have the courage and clarity to confront this evil, we won't regain our sanity or move forward. We might as well be dead. We're dying.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Spengler for Dummies
(1 comments) King spoke out against our military adventurism, while Beck and Palin celebrate it. King thought the money wasted on bombs and more bombs should be redirected to social programs, "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."

Saturday, August 28, 2010
Kill Them
(2 comments) The scapegoating of Muslims, blacks and Mexicans gives the appearance that we're being threatened from without and below, when we're actually being mugged from above, from the inside. It's the entrenched who are killing us, not outsiders. Even with 9/11, too many questions remain.

Thursday, August 19, 2010
Dissing T-Shirts
(2 comments) The formal economy has looted, swindled and bankrupted us all. Now rises the informal. In our stupid T-shirts, we're already dressed for the occasion.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Plugged Stupid
(1 comments) We've arrived at that hell universe where sexed up reproductions have eclipsed what's real, where we're hypnotized and titillated daily by a bombardment of hallucinations produced by Hollywood, Madison Avenue and Washington DC. It's all P.R., all the time now.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Wordless Masses
(1 comments) Previous generations battled management, police or troops for each concession. Today, we show our defiance by mutilating ourselves and dropping our pants a few inches. Many hurl racist insults at the President or those of the wrong faiths or shades. Most of us simply can't recognize our true enemies, and the ones who do feel helpless to make these criminals, and their enablers, nearly all of our bobbing head politicians, pay.

Friday, August 6, 2010
House Slave Syndrome
When shots ring out, run to the gang with the biggest guns, the one with the most tanks, planes and ships, and you'll less likely to become kabob. If they're smart bombing your neighborhood, you can save your own ass by moving into theirs, for even their least desirable real estate, even Detroit, for example, is safer than Baghdad, if not by much.

Saturday, July 31, 2010
Rotting Fish
Until now, corruption has remained an abstraction to most Americans. That's why it doesn't quite hurt. Soon enough, however, expect to experience it up close. As all of our governments, from federal on down, continue to operate in the red, municipal wages will fail to keep up with costs of living. That's why petty graft will become a part of daily life, just like in the so-called developing world.

Monday, July 5, 2010
Earthbound
(2 comments) A flying car will soon be available for $194,000. Its Italianate name, Terrafugia, translates to Fleeing the Earth, so our Jetsons future is still on, many hope, even as more Americans are sleeping in their cars, and many more are struggling to fuel their lugubrious lemons.

Sunday, June 13, 2010
Head Fakes
Fixated by the symbolism, we glossed over the substance. Here, finally, is a black president. My president is black. To the racist, this was deeply alarming, but Obama has not been the wrong choice because he is different, but because he has been more of the same. Consider the alternative, we basically had no choice.

Monday, June 7, 2010
Eyes, with Legs
During the Crusades, Christians traveling to fight Muslims would kill Jews along the way. Both groups were Semites, after all, thus enemies of Christendom. After Europe tried to rid itself, finally, of all Jews, it helped many survivors to return to the Levant, where they could fight Muslims into eternity, or at least until the End Time. Talk about killing two birds with one stone. It's a win-win situation for Christianity.

Sunday, June 6, 2010
Top Killing
With the current catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, it appears that the chicken has come home to roost. Our government does not police but has always enabled and abetted these out of control corporations. Now it twiddle its thumbs as British Petroleum dumps nearly a million gallons of Corexit into the ocean. Diluting the evidence, this solution was designed only for public relations, even as it made the situation much worse.

Saturday, May 29, 2010
Quantifying Culture
We keep track of anything that could be counted. When it comes to trivia, we know all the numbers. Your average American has memorized the height, weight and years played of many sport stars. Concerning issues that truly matter, like the corporate looting of our treasury, real unemployment rate or federal deficit, projected to go over 1.6 trillion this year, we don't give a puck.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Let Them Eat Twinkies
(6 comments) Unlike the Thai resistance, recent American protests are more about goofy display than power struggle. Our marches are parades that accomplish nothing. Tired of that, we heckle. In the last Thai election for their House of Representatives, seven different parties won seats. This is not at all unusual for any country other than America. With two parties that serve the same military industrial complex, our elections are more abo

Monday, May 17, 2010
Virtual Living
Last week, the president warned a graduating class against a few gadgets and toys, iPods, iPads, Xboxes and PlayStations, where "information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation," but this could easily describe nearly all of our media, with Obama, like the rest of our ruling class, a prime beneficiary.

Friday, May 7, 2010
This Oil Ride
(2 comments) A monstrous ecocide, this is too fitting an end to our reckless oil ride.

Saturday, February 20, 2010
CASINO TIME
Heading into this Mother of all Depressions, we're armed with not much more than the audacity of hope that luck will be on our side as we shove one last penny into the slot machine

Sunday, October 12, 2008
Numbered
As meaningless numbers slosh around in our minds, crippling our ability to think, our infinitely corrupt and ruthless ruling class swindles, legislates and no-bid contracts away trillions of our dollars. Whatever money they don't steal outright, they'll depreciate through inflation. Unlike the Amazonian Pirahas, we won't even have a chunk of land to stand on after they're done fleecing.

Sunday, October 12, 2008
Death, with Compound Interest
With its destruction of America's major rivals, World War II not only restored but greatly increased this country's prosperity and political clout, but with its oil running low and its industries gone, not even a global bloodbath will save it now. That doesn't mean it won't try.

Saturday, November 3, 2007
Robot Nation
America's national pastime is not really baseball but football. Unlike baseball, which is equally popular in Japan, Taiwan and many Latin American countries, no one else shares America's pigskin passion, a sport in which collective rage is ritualized and celebrated, a colorful spectacle of cool violence, an American specialty.

Monday, October 29, 2007
Pissed Off Zombies
A probe into America's growing sadism

Monday, October 22, 2007
Onward, Christian Soldiers!
Some thoughts after reading the blog of US Army paratrooper Tony Erskine, who's deployed to Iraq.

Saturday, April 21, 2007
Speechless
(2 comments) Judging from his plays, Cho Seung-hui never nicked his target. Judging from his acts, he was as American as, well, too many to mention. Pumping iron, cropping his hair short, flipping his black baseball cap backward, in a black T-shirt, he finally looked like he belonged, an Army of One, ready for action. Bring 'em on.