31 Articles

Friday, June 27, 2008
Collectivism vs Individualism: Some Thoughts about Independence Day
(2 comments) A historical look at the intent of the founders to create a collective responsibility rather than rampant individualism.

Thursday, May 22, 2008
Changing Ruts: How Our National Denial is Killing Us
The use of the delusion of American Exceptionalism to betray the nation.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
The Rising Populist Tide
(6 comments) A rising tide of populism around the world and especially in America threatens to topple the traditional party control.

Monday, March 17, 2008
Billions for Wall Street, A Kick in the Pants for You & I
(1 comments) The folly of Bailing out Wall Street

Saturday, March 8, 2008
Why Your Gas is Tinged Red
(1 comments) a review of five years of war

Saturday, March 8, 2008
A Weekend in Austin: Joe Bageant, the Class War & Community Media
(1 comments) an essay on the sorry state of the planet and the impact of community media

Saturday, March 8, 2008
A Question of Hope
(2 comments) Why Hope is the Question in this Presidential Campaign

Saturday, March 8, 2008
The Politics of the Economy: How and Where the Money is Goes
(3 comments) How bad the economy really is

Thursday, October 25, 2007
Why a Noose Isn't a Prank
(1 comments) Why a noose is a terroristic threat, Lynching and the death penalty as part of economic repression.

Thursday, September 27, 2007
Become a Traitor for Peace
The presence of war depends on dividing people based on characteristics that dont matter. And we buy it.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Mine Cave Ins, the Credit Crash and the Poor Helpless Corporate Victims of Fate
(1 comments) According to everyone in corporate America, from Bob Murray to Jim Cramer they are all innocent in what their greed has brought about, it must be God's fault.

Friday, July 27, 2007
Absurd Outrage
(9 comments) Is dog fighting that bad???

Thursday, July 26, 2007
Hold on to Your Seat: America and Its' Debt Based Economy
Supply side economics comes to its inevitable end. The worst part is we've been here many times before.

Thursday, July 12, 2007
Bush's Russian Invasion
(7 comments) Comparison of Bush's invasion of Iraq with Hitler and Napoleon in Russia.

Wednesday, May 31, 2006
A Road Less Traveled in Palestine
The refusal of Bush to seek a just policy towards Palestine promotes war with Iran.

Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Big Brother is Here
(1 comments) By itself, the majority of America doesn't think Bush's spying on their phone calls is much, but what would they say if you put all of the administration's deeds in one question?

Thursday, May 11, 2006
The Night of the Long Knives
(8 comments) Why the CIA may be the last thing protecting us from total dictatorship.

Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Let’s Not Go There: Religion and the Left
(4 comments) While the spiritual left is free to join the fight for peace, truth and justice, they don't have a corner on moral authority or any reason to think they can offer leadership to the progressive cause.

Friday, January 27, 2006
An open letter to Katie Couric
(1 comments) Has NBC totally sold out to the Republicans?

Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Wanted for War Crimes
This article explores the current administrations conduct compared to the Nuremberg Court on War Crimes

Tuesday, December 13, 2005
What if there really was a Liberal Bias in the Press?
What if you woke up one morning and went to your front walk and picked up your morning paper to find that overnight there had been a revolution and the press really had been taken over by liberals. What would it look like? I think it might look something like this.

Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Fundamentalism, Corporations & Globalization
The conflict between the collective rights of Judeo Christian philosopy and Individual rights of Judeo Christian mythology is being tilted by corporate greed to strip nation states of all but their police and military powers.

Thursday, December 1, 2005
Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! How the management of philosophy, mythology and superstition determine the outcome
(2 comments) When you ask people if they are liberal, only 18% say yes, but ask about helping poor people, universal education & healthcare, providing for reasonable pensions, helping everyone to find work you get an overwhelming majority that supports those ideas. People are already there on philosophy they just need someone to articulate that philosophy in a way to attract religious and non-religious people alike.

Saturday, November 19, 2005
What If George Met Jesus
George W meets Jesus and has a change of heart.

Thursday, November 17, 2005
Religio-Facism
(1 comments) For most of my life I tried to help people learn how to function in society. I now believe that I was wrong, I should have been trying to change the society to function for them.

Saturday, November 12, 2005
The Ghosts of Viet Nam Haunt a President
On Veterans Day, George Bush exploited the veterans once again by trying to push forth his agenda for oil, save the rotting legacy of his presidency and blame others for his failed policies. It is an old story that those who were alive during Viet Nam will well remember.

Friday, November 4, 2005
Watch That Pea
Don't watch Libby and Alito, like the old shell game the real story is going on behind the headlines.

Friday, October 28, 2005
A New Mission for Americans
The platform the working people of America want and should demand of the Democratic Party.

Thursday, October 20, 2005
Insourcing:
Legal and illegal immigration is not accidental it is American foreign and economic policy.

Monday, October 17, 2005
Its Official: The Red Queen is Programming the Sunday News Programs
The total desertion of objective news coverage in favor of propaganda is now complete except for Schieffer.

Saturday, October 15, 2005
Wake Up and Live
It is likely that if we continue on our present path that America will not be any better off than most third world Central American countries.