18 Articles

Thursday, July 3, 2008
How We Can Break the Soundless Barrier and Bring Down the Irony Curtain
(1 comments) We no longer have a free press. We have a brainwashing machine stuck on spin.

Monday, April 28, 2008
Hillary the Dream-Slayer Tells Us: "No, We Can't!"
(1 comments) While it would be unfortunate indeed for the Republicans to once again be rewarded with the presidency after maxing out their discredit cards over the past eight years, the shoot out at the I'm Okay / You're Not Okay Corral is likely to have even more tragic consequences -- the stillborn death of the dream that things can be different in America.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Politics Inside and Outside the Matrix Revisited
Disempowerment and disillusionment seem to be the two concurrent emotional states of disheartened progressives these days. However, disillusionment -- the shattering of illusory hope in favor of a realistic and positive focus for action -- is the source of genuine empowerment. The most empowering thought is this: There's nobody to do it but us. We are the leaders we've been waiting for.

Thursday, December 6, 2007
From Up-Wising to Evolution: 3 Things You Can Do NOW to Reclaim America
(1 comments) Three things -- personal, political and economic -- that you can do to insure we the people reclaim America from "they the very, very few people": Cultivate Courage and Truth; Expand the Nonvoter Vote; Put Your Money Where Your Mouse is... and support news services like OpEd News.

Friday, October 5, 2007
FROM FASCISM TO FREEDOM: Stirring the Winds of Political Climate Change
(2 comments) If and when our bombs begin falling on Iran, given our current limitations in navigating space and time, we will not be able to run the movie backward. The dead will still be dead, the destroyed will still be destroyed, and among the casualties will be our own open society. The damage will be irreversible, and in fact will have reversed 230 years of forward progress towards a just society, and a sane world.

Saturday, July 21, 2007
A CALL FOR POLITICAL CLIMATE CHANGE
(1 comments) Well, we fired up the grid last Tuesday, or maybe the grid fired us up. Now that we proved that invisibly or visibly (as with the Live Earth events of two weekends ago), the loving heart of humanity can be activated, it's time to move our feet. It's time for the upwising of awareness and upwelling of love to burst into action. It's time to address the political climate crisis.

Thursday, April 19, 2007
Bringing Down the House of Lies: The Final "Leg" of the Journey
(9 comments) America's next step -- and only step -- that can take us forward is to bring the Bush-Cheney regime to justice. This isn't about vengeance, it isn't about punishment. It's about truth. That element that has been so lacking in our political environment that it has caused a spiritual, psychological and political heartsickness in the heartland...

Wednesday, April 4, 2007
PREEMPTIVE PEACE: A Living "Prayer" for Mutually Assured Survival
(1 comments) There have been news reports indicating possible air strikes on Iran beginning on Good Friday. Again, is this true? Not true? We don't know. In any case, if we want to broadcast our intention that Good Friday not become Bad Friday, that leaves us with Holy Thursday ... April 5th. We are asking you... to make April 5th the day we begin to hold our intention of preemptive peace and mutually assured survival.

Thursday, March 29, 2007
Mutually Assured Survival Or Mutually-Assured Destruction?
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Sunday, December 24, 2006
Christmas In the Trenches
At the darkest time of year, it's worth remembering a flash of "enlightening" that happened in a war that would kill fifteen million soldiers -- and what that beacon of light means today.

Monday, November 6, 2006
The Beginning of the End of the Nightmare?
The big verdict today is not on Saddam Hussein, but on George Who's-Not-Sane

Sunday, September 3, 2006
Politics Inside and Outside the Matrix
we must strengthen the field of awakening and "up-wising." This means, calmly and courageously speaking our truth and asking the right questions to enable others to discover their truth for themselves.

Sunday, August 6, 2006
The One Suggestion
(2 comments) The Ten Commandments don't seem to be working that well. Maybe we should try the One Suggestion.

Friday, June 16, 2006
When the Right Is Right
Conservatives Virtually Impeach Bush, and No One is Paying Attention

Friday, March 31, 2006
Shoot Out At the Last Chance Corral
(1 comments) A response to the Empty Envelopes for Empty Promises campaign from a responsible Democrat grassroots organizer.

Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Empty Envelopes for Empty Promises
(2 comments) Can the Democrats be awakened? Find out by sending them "Empty Envelopes for Empty Promises." If this doesn't wake them up, let's assume they've already been put to sleep, and move on.

Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Wake Up America
(2 comments) In order to treat the body politic, we must first make an accurate diagnosis.

Thursday, February 16, 2006
2006 State of the Universe: Swami Calls for An "Up-Wising!"
A Cosmic Comic Perspective on the State of the Universe and the Union