199 Articles

Monday, May 26, 2008
My Memorial Day
(1 comments) America would never be able to spread its values all over the planet without those men and women who volunteer to make it happen.

Saturday, May 17, 2008
Hunters and Soldiers: Brothers in Arms
(2 comments) We must never forget the deep connection between volunteer soldiers and the American hunting culture.

Monday, May 5, 2008
Ashamed to be American
(31 comments) How much more will it take before everyday Americans collectively hang their heads in shame over their (sic) nation's contemptible conduct?

Saturday, April 26, 2008
Simple Steps Towards Change?
(3 comments) Never, ever, ever trust a liberal (on anything).

Thursday, April 10, 2008
Hope is for Suckers
(5 comments) The verb "hope" is virtually synonymous with "pray," while "hope" the noun is often interchangeable with "faith."

Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Progressives for Pinochet
(2 comments) All American progressives should unite for Augusto Pinochet.

Saturday, March 29, 2008
Progressives (and Z Net) for Obama?
(6 comments) Barack Obama is part of the problem. Anyone who votes for Barack Obama is part of the problem.

Friday, March 28, 2008
All You Need is Hate
(8 comments) Why are we so afraid to hate those most responsible for our current global nightmare?

Saturday, March 22, 2008
No occupation without representation (and other electoral musings)
The richer get richer, the sick get sicker, the bombs continue to fall, eco-systems decline and vanish, and American Idol is down to its final 10 contestants.

Thursday, March 13, 2008
Can we be anti-war but pro-troops?
(3 comments) Somehow, individuals and groups can stand tall against war and military intervention but refuse to shine a light on those who choose (and get paid) to fight. Nowhere else in the realm of activism does such a paradox exist.

Thursday, February 28, 2008
Obama, McCain, March 19...yawn
(1 comments) Will we ever disrupt our comfortable lives and dedicate ourselves to stopping-by any means necessary-global warming, US military interventionism, economic exploitation, factory farming, environmental devastation, etc. or will we continue defending "our way of life"?

Friday, February 22, 2008
Change We Can Recycle: A Presidential Campaign Quiz
(1 comments) The next time someone tells you America has a two-party system, I suggest you demand a recount.

Friday, February 15, 2008
"You can never be too radical": Rethinking rebellion before March 19
(24 comments) We don't need more conferences, subcommittees, elections, etc. We need bold steps and drastic measures.

Saturday, February 2, 2008
America's top exports: Grief, sorrow, and loss
(3 comments) "When you own a big chunk of the bloody Third World...the babies just come with the scenery."

Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Lab rats, corporate science, and the monsters we've all become
"In reality (animal) tests do not provide protection for consumers from unsafe products, but rather they are used to protect corporations from legal liability."

Saturday, January 26, 2008
For-Profit Health Care: More than one way to scan a CAT
"The truth is that doctors may get their nutrition information from the same newspapers and TV programs we do."

Tuesday, December 11, 2007
The Truth about Immigration
(8 comments) Scream it from the mountaintops (or at least on your blog): Immigrants are destroying any and all hope of for planetary survival. Illegal aliens are Public Enemy #1. Foreigners are terrorists.

Friday, November 30, 2007
December 7: More Than Pearl Harbor
(1 comments) While Palestinian Muslims are labeled terrorists for having the audacity to revolt against 60 years of Israeli occupation, Indonesian Muslims can get away with murder. Literally.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007
No Voice Unheard
An interview with animal rights activist Diane Leigh

Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Pigeons, People & Perceptions
In all the thousands of years pigeons have dwelled on this planet, did any of them ever feel the need to invent, say, nuclear weapons?

Sunday, November 11, 2007
Awareness is overrated
When exactly does all this goddamned awareness translate into productive action and tangible change?

Tuesday, November 6, 2007
The Warrior is the War
Even when faced with documented evidence of criminality, Americans will not equate the warrior with the war.

Thursday, November 1, 2007
Jesus Rides the #7 Train
(2 comments) The followers of any religion are pacified not by having their abject circumstances changed, but by being taught ways to tolerate the intolerable.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Rescue: 2008
Maybe our campaign slogan should be "RESCUE THROUGH REVOLUTION."

Friday, October 12, 2007
Ya Gotta Believe?
(3 comments) "The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe." -Voltaire

Thursday, October 4, 2007
The Topic of Cancer
(7 comments) The Western medical priesthood stigmatizes alternatives and aggressively defends its Holy Trinity of cancer treatment: surgery, radiation, and of course, chemotherapy.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
"Pick up the gun"
(1 comments) (Fishing for evil-doers)

Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Mickey Z. to the "Rescue" in 2008?
(1 comments) The next time someone tells you America has a two-party system, I suggest you demand a recount.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Ho, ho, ho: The end of racism and sexism
(2 comments) If a word offends you or anyone you know, ban it.

Thursday, April 19, 2007
Dream Vacation: Sea, sand, and depleted uranium at Vieques
(1 comments) "A cheap holiday in other people's misery."

Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Our dead, their dead
(1 comments) In America, we have the luxury of mourning our dead for days or even years (see 9/11).

Monday, April 16, 2007
My movement is bigger than yours
(1 comments) Most folks, it seems, have confused the occasional weekend parade, I mean, protest with a full-blown movement.

Friday, April 13, 2007
If not now, when?
(2 comments) Where's the proverbial tipping point?

Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Death from Above
(1 comments) Many of us don't like the idea of our tax dollars paying for the aerial bombing of civilians but who do you think does the actual bombing? Our (sic) troops.

Sunday, April 1, 2007
Four Left/Liberal Fantasies
(1 comments)

Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Top Ten Ways to Plan Your Next Anti-War Protest
(1 comments)

Sunday, March 25, 2007
Pat Tillman: Beyond the Hype
(23 comments) The world doesn't need any more "heroes" like Tillman...

Thursday, March 22, 2007
This is your brain on meat
(3 comments) Out of the nearly 40 million U.S. cattle slaughtered annually, only about 1000 are tested for mad cow disease.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Pet Food Recall: What's your cat eating?
(5 comments) A small number of contaminated cans is not really the issue when it comes to pet food.

Friday, March 16, 2007
Endangered Safari
I went on an expedition in a Ford Expedition

Thursday, March 15, 2007
"Let's Roll": The Lessons of United 93
(3 comments) We've become a passive population of easily duped drones.

Saturday, March 3, 2007
"Breaking News" is a matter of perspective
Where are the headlines about my top story? My mom's illness is big news but not one newspaper, website, or TV show is covering it.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007
America's March Madness
It seems the decency bar has been lowered (to say the least).

Saturday, February 24, 2007
Top Ten Reasons Why Activists Shouldn't Be "Too Radical"
(2 comments)

Wednesday, February 21, 2007
None of these will prevent the U.S. from bombing Iran
(3 comments)

Saturday, February 17, 2007
Freedom fries
Is freedom just an issue of bigger cages and longer chains?

Tuesday, February 13, 2007
It's only Iraq and Roll (but we seem to like it)
This isn't radical chic; it's G.I. Joe for the rich and famous.

Monday, February 12, 2007
Troop Surge: The Prequel
"We went into Iraq with too few troops"

Monday, February 12, 2007
Barack Obama vs. Huey P. Newton
(2 comments) "We recognize that our common enemy is U.S. imperialism"

Sunday, February 11, 2007
War: It's just a pretext away (lessons from Yugoslavia)
American history is teeming with convenient provocations that created an opening for military intervention.

Saturday, February 10, 2007
Top Ten Ways Civilization (as we know it) Will Soon Cease to Exist
(1 comments)

Friday, February 9, 2007
Osama bin Laden meets Pat Tillman
Perception is reality

Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Dumb and Dumbo
(One act, two parties)

Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Foie gras is a disease not a delicacy
(1 comments) Dedicated activists-from coast to coast-are shining a light on an utterly repellent practice

Monday, February 5, 2007
Forgotten February (A brief peek at America's unrestrained brutality)
(1 comments)

Saturday, February 3, 2007
Top Ten Reasons Why the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchal Culture (WSCPC) Will Not be Toppled Any Time Soon
(6 comments)

Friday, February 2, 2007
What I heard on the W Train
(8 comments) "Passengers are advised that their backpacks and other large containers are subject to random search by the police."

Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Nader still in the crosshairs
(13 comments) If all those Gore voters had pulled the lever for Ralph, we all would've been spared both the Bush administration and the Nader witch-hunt

Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Hell, high water, & corporate profit
What's the downside of acting as if humans were the sole cause of climate change?

Monday, January 29, 2007
Iran vs. Poland?
As far as I know, they haven't faced off since the 1992 World Cup when the Iranians blanked the Poles 2-0.

Sunday, January 28, 2007
Top Ten Campaign Slogans for Barack Obama
(3 comments)

Saturday, January 27, 2007
Adolf loved his liver dumplings
(3 comments) Hitler's dietary choices may not be of vast historical importance...but instead they do hold polemical value.

Thursday, January 25, 2007
The United States of Equality
(2 comments) If you ask me, all this egalitarianism has arrived not a minute too soon; that whole racism thing was getting awfully annoying. Look what it did to Michael Richards.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007
The State of "The Nation" (eat meat?)
(2 comments) The (so-called) alternative press rarely "gets" vegetarianism, animal rights, and related issues.

Monday, January 22, 2007
The Corporate Media and Hugo Chavez
(3 comments) I certainly don't trust the corporate media as an objective source, re: official U.S. enemies.

Saturday, January 20, 2007
Bill O'Reilly = Super Genius
(1 comments) If the recent summit between a mirth master (O'Reilly) and his amusing apprentice (Colbert) proved anything, it was the sheer comedic brilliance of Fox's sardonic culture warrior.

Thursday, January 18, 2007
Newsweek's cover boys
Most Americans won't bother reading this or any other article. However, the cover image will be more than enough to provoke knee-jerk reactions about towelheads raising their kids to wage war.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Was Jesus an evil-doer?
(2 comments) Everyone knows George W. Bush loves Jesus. Everyone also knows George W. Bush does not love evil-doers.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Wanted: Creative Extremists
"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Monday, January 15, 2007
Girls for Gender Equity: An interview with Mandy Van Deven
"In solidarity, we will level the playing field."

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Wish you were here (a small sampling)
(1 comments) Kurt Vonnegut sez: "Humans are a mistake. We have destroyed our entire planet."

Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Throw away your remote
The average post-modern American couch potato watches three hours and 46 minutes of television every day.

Monday, January 8, 2007
The People's Republic of Me
Novelist Nick Mamatas declares his independence

Saturday, January 6, 2007
Top Ten Reasons Why You Might Vote Democrat in 2008
(3 comments) #6. Voting for Hillary or Obama would prove once and for all that you are truly more liberal and open-minded than your Republican brother-in-law

Thursday, January 4, 2007
Writing the American Dream: An interview with novelist Mike Palecek

Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Are you a health nut?
(1 comments) Human beings can eat junk food till their arteries scream for mercy without ever running the risk of being called a "disease nut."

Sunday, December 31, 2006
Hussein and Ford = Dead Criminals
(1 comments) If there is anyone left who questions the depth of the hypocrisy and the blood lust of the American Empire, the events of the last week left little doubt.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Top Ten Ways to Change the World in 2007

Wednesday, December 13, 2006
The Trial (and re-trial) of America's Peace Grandma
Vermont grandmother facing retrial on charges stemming from her arrest at a March 2003 anti-war rally in Vermont.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006
An Open Letter to the People of Iraq
(1 comments) Many of you must wonder what lies ahead once the benevolent forces of freedom have succeeding in creating an American-style democracy in Iraq.

Monday, December 11, 2006
Defending our interests (lessons from Panama)
Try to visualize a nation whose people are ruled by a despot, a tyrant allied with none other than the U.S. government.

Sunday, December 10, 2006
Felonious Monk
What's the deal with the Dalai Lama?

Saturday, December 9, 2006
The U.S. government hates democracy (lessons from Italy)
(2 comments) Platitudes about peace, freedom, justice, etc. aside, the land of the free is not even remotely interested in spreading democracy

Thursday, December 7, 2006
Don't expect U.S. to create democracy in Iraq (lessons from Greece)
(1 comments) Iraqis hoping for democracy shouldn't hold their breath.

Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Don't let Dick Cheney read your palm
No less than Nobel Prize winning physicist Neils Bohr explained: "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."

Sunday, December 3, 2006
What we're up against (lessons from Guatemala)
(3 comments) Those seeking peace, justice, and solidarity should never underestimate the relentless and brutal power of what they are up against.

Thursday, November 30, 2006
Vietnam, Iraq, and the M Word
Perhaps recalling a few details about the Vietnam "mistake" might shine some light on the Iraq "blunder."

Wednesday, November 29, 2006
This Christmas, say no to fir
(3 comments) As Thanksgiving is to the turkeys, Christmas is to evergreen.

Monday, November 27, 2006
Conspicuous consumption comes out of the closet
We all share the blame for the global costs of our commodity culture.

Thursday, November 23, 2006
Fasten your seat belts for global warming
(1 comments) The only players with a vested interest in the status quo are those who profit off our indifference and our conspicuous consumption.

Sunday, November 19, 2006
"Fast Food Nation" Makes Headlines
It's all part of the subtle, daily conditioning we endure.

Saturday, November 18, 2006
Saving Condi's Life
(3 comments) Would I risk bodily harm to save her?

Friday, November 17, 2006
Sophocles rides the N Train
Since we're stuck in the primitive confines of the early twenty-first century, illogic reigns supreme.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Will the real Dr. King please stand up?
(2 comments) "If he were here, he would remind us that the time to do right remains."

Monday, November 13, 2006
Rumor Club (Gossip as Direct Action)
Ani DiFranco sez: "Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right" (but don't let Alberto Gonzalez hear you say that).

Sunday, November 12, 2006
Meat the Press
"Imagine how our discourse and actions would be different..."

Friday, November 10, 2006
Mid-Term Election Post Mortem
(8 comments) There is one primary difference between the Democrats and Republicans: They tell different lies to get elected.

Thursday, November 9, 2006
Myth of the brave soldier
(3 comments)

Wednesday, November 8, 2006
All the leaves are brown
Because some things are more important than a minor re-shuffling of the ruling class.

Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Would Tom Paine end up in an orange jumpsuit today?
"These are the times that try men's souls."

Monday, November 6, 2006
All you need is love (...and a small, well-trained army)
(3 comments) Warning: This article has not been approved by the Department of Homeland Security. Read at your own risk.

Friday, November 3, 2006
Botched or not, the joke's on us
Kerry's "botched joke" laid bare the passionate cult of the soldier, America's enduring military fetish.

Wednesday, November 1, 2006
America the Temporary
America is a nation built upon myth...and the greatest myth of all is that the land of the free is gonna last forever.

Tuesday, October 31, 2006
The Forgiven: Clint Eastwood's Good War
(7 comments) For most Americans, WWII was nothing less than good and bad going toe-to-toe in khaki fatigues.

Monday, October 30, 2006
No-brainer: Hillary loves Dick (Cheney, that is)
(4 comments) Not everyone is keyed up about the deepening Hillary/Dick connection.

Friday, October 27, 2006
The Battle in Seattle (Looking Back Seven Years)
The goal is to globalize equity not poverty, solidarity not anti-sociality, diversity not conformity, democracy not subordination, and ecological balance not suicidal rapaciousness

Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Science, medicine, and the gullible Left (Is your spleen superfluous?)
(3 comments) The most jaded, suspicious, disbelieving radicals turn timid upon entering the realm of science and medicine.

Monday, October 23, 2006
Godzilla vs. The Condoleezzard
Celebrating Halloween in the United States of Anxiety

Thursday, October 19, 2006
When "anti-war" doesn't mean anti-war
(2 comments) By equating U.S. military intervention solely with the Bush regime, the anti-war crowd is aiding and abetting the subterfuge.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Nukes: Iran and North Korea are not the problem
(2 comments) What is the only nation to have used nuclear weapons (and have civilians been targeted)?

Monday, October 16, 2006
My Exclusive Interview with Condoleezza Rice
(1 comments) Hey, I tried...

Thursday, October 12, 2006
Boiling Point (Eroding Freedom: From John Adams to George W. Bush)
Is it me, or is it getting awfully warm in here?

Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Ball of Confusion (That's what the world is today)
Uh oh...I feel a metaphor coming on.

Monday, October 9, 2006
Who killed Michael Moore?
(8 comments) (Inspired by the recent assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya)

Sunday, October 8, 2006
Read this before you vote
(2 comments) "Just because you have elections doesn't mean you're a democratic country."

Friday, October 6, 2006
NBA says no to leather
(1 comments) Here's something the U.S. leather industry would probably prefer you didn't know

Thursday, October 5, 2006
Torture: An American Institution
"If you don't violate someone's human rights some of the time, you probably aren't doing your job."

Tuesday, October 3, 2006
Revenge of the Jedi Bag Lady
Say hello to our latest national nightmare.

Sunday, October 1, 2006
The High Cost of Dying
In a world where a child starves to death every two seconds, just how much can one miserable life be worth?

Friday, September 29, 2006
U.S. boots step on a Caribbean flea (Does this sound familiar?)
The invasion was "forced on us by events that have no precedent," leaving the U.S. with "no choice but to act strongly and decisively." (Sound familiar?)

Thursday, September 28, 2006
G.I. Joe has been Punk'd
Okay, son, just sign right here and you'll be spreading democracy before you can say: "depleted uranium."

Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Revolution just ain't what it used to be
(1 comments) Thomas Jefferson can pronounce: "Every generation needs a new revolution." But that doesn't mean I can.

Saturday, September 23, 2006
Take the Stupid White Man Quiz
(5 comments) Looks like I failed. How about you?

Thursday, September 21, 2006
"Those in power are poisoning children"
(2 comments) (Mussels not flexed?)

Wednesday, September 20, 2006
10 Reasons Why Cars Suck
(1 comments) Automobiles emit one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gases.

Monday, September 18, 2006
Threats: Real and Imagined
Distinguishing the genuine threats from the fabrications is often difficult in a society so dependent on media imagery.

Friday, September 15, 2006
Why I hate America
(16 comments) I hate America for being a hypocritical white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.

Monday, September 11, 2006
Why Blogs?
(2 comments) Buried under an avalanche of the latest consumer trends and other self-destructive illusions, the result is inevitably a creeping alienation and isolation.

Friday, September 8, 2006
Self-Help in the Land of Denial
Guru-mania has today reached epidemic proportions. If you don't believe me, check out the "self-help" section in any bookstore.

Thursday, September 7, 2006
"The art of lap dining": More from the liberal (sic) media
The parameters of debate in the land of the free are narrower than Ann Coulter's mind.

Tuesday, September 5, 2006
The evolution will be televised (and maybe podcast, too)
(1 comments) Humans, thanks to rapid-fire evolution, are no longer vulnerable to toxins.

Sunday, September 3, 2006
No innocent bystanders in America
(1 comments) There are no innocent bystanders when our money and/or rhetoric support the world's most powerful military and the corporate status quo.

Thursday, August 31, 2006
The Other 9/11
What would happen if Salvador Allende were elected in 2006?

Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Porn and the CIA (Your tax dollars at work)
The basic idea was to portray the hated Sukarno in a pornographic film: getting frisky with his supposed Soviet spy mistress.

Sunday, August 27, 2006
Winning the war on terror
When faced with an enemy that hates your freedoms, you dump the freedoms

Thursday, August 24, 2006
Three poems
Man, I don't need redemption/I just need a reputation

Wednesday, August 23, 2006
The numbers just don't add up (and "they" still have the guns)
The massive global protests were barely noticed. The shock-and-awe invasion went on as planned. The repulsive occupation continues to this day. Doesn't say a whole lot for "having the numbers," huh?

Monday, August 21, 2006
Osama wants your mortgage
Hey, if you lived in Cave #12 on the northeast corner of Bora Bora Street, you might also be a little envious when your average infidel plops down 10% to become the alleged owner of a pre-fab in Levittown.

Saturday, August 19, 2006
175 years ago: Nat Turner puts the South on notice
"Nothing struck deeper fear into the hearts of southerners, whether they held slaves or not, than the idea of a slave revolt."

Friday, August 11, 2006
Why "they" hate us
(1 comments) The only belief of ours that "they" might hate is our propensity to engage in aggression and repression anywhere on the globe.

Wednesday, August 9, 2006
A 9/11 angle ignored by Hollywood
(2 comments) As Oliver Stone falls all over himself to appear mainstream, Hollywood continues to ignore geo-political context and questions about the official story.

Tuesday, August 8, 2006
"I have a right to keep my house safe"
(2 comments) Will the law protect earth's defenders as it protects a shotgun toting Floridian with an itchy trigger finger? Are some victims more worthy than others?

Sunday, August 6, 2006
This woman really wanted people to stare at her chest
(1 comments) In 2006 America, we prove our rebel status by wearing a message t-shirt while walking on the goddamned Stairmaster.

Thursday, August 3, 2006
Some context on Cuba and Castro
(1 comments) Today's perception of Cuba has little to do with the fabricated heroics of one of the faces carved on Mount Rushmore. Since 1959, it's all about Fidel Castro.

Wednesday, August 2, 2006
Blame it on the Comet
In all the millions of years dinosaurs roamed this planet, did any of them feel the need to invent, say, nuclear weapon

Monday, July 31, 2006
The Long History of American Treachery
(1 comments) Middle East Mendacity and the Good (sic) War

Sunday, July 30, 2006
How to win a fight (part V)
The left hook is awfully tough to see coming.

Friday, July 28, 2006
Jesus is in my computer
(2 comments) Jesus is not exactly thrilled with landmines, depleted uranium, and daisy cutters.

Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Power (outage) to the People
The thick black cables strung from wooden pole to wooden pole smoldered, smoked, and burst into flames as frightened residents looked on.

Tuesday, July 25, 2006
From Iraq to Lebanon: Let sleeping giants lie
(1 comments) Historical context be damned, when it comes to waging war, my friends: pretext rules the day.

Sunday, July 23, 2006
If I had a dollar for every time...
What if I was one of the billion earthlings subsisting on one dollar a day?

Saturday, July 22, 2006
In Defense of Barry Bonds
(3 comments) Here's a little incentive to help you re-think your Bonds Bias.

Thursday, July 20, 2006
Blackouts and Urban Cavemen
Where will you be when the lights go out?

Tuesday, July 18, 2006
How to win a fight (part IV)
(2 comments) Maintain a beginner's mind

Monday, July 17, 2006
3 Haiku
American Foundations

Saturday, July 15, 2006
How to win a fight (part III)
(1 comments) Dealing with the gap

Wednesday, July 12, 2006
How to win a fight (part II)
(1 comments) Protect yourself...it's later than you think

Sunday, July 9, 2006
How to win a fight (part I)
(1 comments) Get there first with the most

Wednesday, July 5, 2006
DON'T support our troops (inform them)
Are these people completely oblivious to what military men and women are expected to do?

Friday, June 30, 2006
Why I support the "War on Terror"
(1 comments) Perhaps a big step toward ending the use of terror as a tactic would be to alleviate the feeling of terror triggered across the globe by the home of the brave.

Saturday, June 24, 2006
Fear of a Keith Moon Planet
Since yesterday at this hour, 13 million tons of toxic chemicals were released across the globe; two hundred thousand acres of rainforest were destroyed; more than 100 plant or animal species went extinct; and 45,000 human beings died of starvation (most of them, by the way, were children).

Thursday, June 22, 2006
"Popular anger may be something to behold"
An interview with Greg Elich, author of "Strange Liberators: Militarism, Mayhem, and the Pursuit of Profit"

Monday, June 19, 2006
"We should always remember who makes the rules"
Derrick Jensen sees the big picture

Friday, June 16, 2006
Five Urgent Conversations About America
(1 comments) Remember: If you don't bring up these topics, who will?

Friday, June 9, 2006
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Corporations
You gotta think like a multi-national to earn like a multi-national

Tuesday, June 6, 2006
America: The Land of Denial
(What we missed while the Yankees played the Red Sox)

Sunday, June 4, 2006
Haditha and Rumsfeld's Ratio
Rumsfeld sez: "99.9 percent of our forces conduct themselves in an exemplary manner." That's what scares me.

Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Haditha was inevitable
As things stand now, the long list of American military interventions will grow and the subsequent aberrations (sic) will never cease

Monday, May 29, 2006
From Zoot Suits to Border Walls
Scapegoating Mexicans is an American Tradition

Thursday, May 25, 2006
Haiku Manifesto
For better or verse...

Friday, May 19, 2006
Challenging the auto-dependent lifestyle
An interview with Ken Coughlin of Transportation Alternatives

Sunday, May 14, 2006
Impeachment is just one tiny step
Impeachment is too good for him

Wednesday, May 10, 2006
"Philosophical differences"
When the FBI arrested several members (sic) of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) in early 2006, it came as no surprise that much of the corporate media rejoiced.

Monday, May 8, 2006
The white washing of Muhammad Ali™
(1 comments) The man who shocked a nation by changing his name has sold that name for $50 million in cash.

Monday, May 1, 2006
News Muse
9/11 movies, anti-war protests, and "illegal" humans

Sunday, April 23, 2006
15 Minutes of Radical Fame
America meets William Blum and Ward Churchill

Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Do you believe in GOD (Good Old Days)?
"The simple truth is that the 'good old days' were never that good for the vast majority of the people who lived them."

Saturday, April 8, 2006
Parenti does Culture
From where I sit, Michael Parenti is at the top of his game…still producing fresh concepts and vivid prose, still challenging readers of all stripes.

Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Let us now praise OIL (Our Iraqi Liberators)
(1 comments) Yeah, I can see it now: A virtual Iraq theme park smack dab in the middle of Washington, D.C. where patriotic Americans can park their SUVs and honor OIL (Our Iraqi Liberators).

Monday, March 20, 2006
Does anyone really need another article?
(2 comments) What could I possibly say that hasn't already been well-documented by far better known and widely respected pundits...over and over and over on this site and thousands of others?

Sunday, February 26, 2006
U.S. Racism and Fear: Nothing New
(1 comments) The recent uproar over Dubai Ports World demonstrates not only a woeful lack of understanding on how U.S. ports work; it also exposes anti-Arab racism across the spectrum

Thursday, February 16, 2006
Celluloid Subversives
Is George Clooney Our Marlon Brando?

Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Making Friends with Black People
An interview with Nick Adams

Friday, February 10, 2006
"Against vicious injustice"
An interview with Tony Christini of Mainstay Press

Saturday, February 4, 2006
Betty Friedan asked: "Is that all?"
Betty Friedan (1921-2006)

Sunday, January 29, 2006
Street News and NYC's Homeless

Tuesday, January 24, 2006
"Big Daddy"
One upon a time...in the land of the free (sic)

Monday, January 16, 2006
Target: Iran
America never runs out of pretexts to wage war

Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Haiku You
17 syllables for your critical analysis

Friday, December 30, 2005
Which Wolf Will You Feed in 2006?
If a disagreement or difference of opinion results in a person or group reflexively being written off, we all lose.

Saturday, December 17, 2005
Have Yourself a Merry I.F. Stone Day
(1 comments) A new December 24 holiday

Wednesday, December 14, 2005
G.I. Joe Goes to Baghdad
Patriotic poetry?

Saturday, December 10, 2005
Inside Looking Out
Reporting from the Home of the Brave

Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Stillborn
a poem of occupation

Saturday, December 3, 2005
Politics on your plate
Cesar Chavez, Food Not Bombs, and taking responsibility for our actions

Saturday, November 26, 2005
Steal This City
Looking back at Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book."

Thursday, November 17, 2005
An Occupation Worth Applauding
Remembering the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island

Wednesday, November 2, 2005
Stealing Veteran's Day from the Militarists
Can an anti-war activist celebrate Veteran's Day?

Wednesday, October 26, 2005
"Silence is the greatest of all crimes"
(2 comments) Mickey Z. talks with a Vermont dissident facing prison for protesting the war