I'm an anti-civilizationist and election boycott advocate in San Diego. For reasons not to vote in faith-based elections with secret vote counts for candidates you cannot hold accountable if they fail to represent you, check out the discussions, articles, and videos on my website http://noinnovember.ning.com
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 It's the Mud, Stupid! (16 comments)
There was a video about how the right wing would send out their daily talking points to the media and all their talking heads would be saying the exact same things all day long. Propagating the message, I guess Bush would say.
Monday, October 6, 2008 The Lesser Evil (3 comments)
A bank robber was caught in the act, arrested, booked, charged, and brought in front of a judge.
Saturday, October 4, 2008 America the Loony Bin (27 comments)
If there is one thing that the majority of editors and writers on opednews agree upon, it is that the Democrats screwed us so our only hope is to vote for them.
Thursday, October 2, 2008 The "Power" of Voting (7 comments)
What power do we have, I was asked, other than the power of voting?
Monday, September 29, 2008 Poppy Bush Should Have Been Impeached (2 comments)
Having written yesterday about how the late Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez (D-TX) had warned Congress for many years of the dangers of deregulation, I did some googling today and found some fascinating stuff.
Saturday, September 27, 2008 He's Going To Kill Her Constitutionally (11 comments)
Americans love their country and their Constitution the way a battered wife loves her husband.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 Corporate Terrorism in Your Home (3 comments)
You do know that those energy-saver lightbulbs contain highly toxic mercury vapor, right?
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 Our Constipated Constitution (3 comments)
Those looking to the Constitution of the United States of America for democracy will find that it is an inherently undemocratic document.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 Stop DOW Chemical In India -- Send a free fax!
US chemical multinational Dow Chemical, owner of Union Carbide, truly thinks that it is above the law. That, in India it can poison entire communities, causing sickness, cancers, deaths and birth-defects: that it can lie, cheat, bribe and buy off officials and twist politicians round its little finger; that it can terrorize ordinary citizens by calling on its friends in power to visit their homes with brutality.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 Troy Davis, Innocent Man to be Executed Today. (1 comments)
Despite thousands of letters and phone calls and international outrage, Troy's execution is set for 7:00 p.m. today.
Monday, September 22, 2008 Democrats Back Bailout (1 comments)
Cngressional Democrats are backing the bailout, but asking for more oversight when they've never even used the oversight that they already had.
Monday, September 22, 2008 Feminists and Roe v. Wade (2 comments)
Is the problem who the President appoints to the Supreme Court, or is the problem that the Constitution allows an unelected Supreme Court to rule us?
Sunday, September 21, 2008 The Crown of Creation
"Billions of years of evolution, the crown of creation," wrote opednews member Clark in response to one of my comments.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 Million Doors For War (1 comments)
How do you get people who are opposed to war, to vote for war?
Monday, September 15, 2008 Neo-Cons Aren't That Stupid. (1 comments)
There have been some people posting to opednews lately who are pretending to be neo-cons. But are they?
Saturday, September 13, 2008 Obama Concedes to McCain! (Fiction?) (17 comments)
What if history repeats? Have we learned from the past? Is there anything that we can do?
Friday, September 12, 2008 Challenge to Mark Crispin Miller (9 comments)
Did this eminent professor of communications mean what he said?
Friday, September 12, 2008 Our Government and 9/11 (9 comments)
Of course there's an explanation. And our government has provided several.
Thursday, September 11, 2008 How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (8 comments)
Have you ever wanted to be unpopular and disliked? Do you want to know how to go about it?
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 The Pilgrim's Progressive (7 comments)
I looked up the word "progressive," and my dictionary appears to be out of date.
Sunday, September 7, 2008 Rob Kall and John Conyers.... (7 comments)
Watching the video, it seems to me that we have a problem in communications....
Friday, September 5, 2008 What's Left, Pussycat? (4 comments)
Leftists? You mean people who wear Che Guevara t-shirts? Conspiracy theorists? Violent radical loonies? Why would anyone take them seriously?
Tuesday, September 2, 2008 How are sneak comments posted? (6 comments)
Usually I'm notified if a comment is posted to my diary or article, but recently comments were posted and I didn't get any notification, so I wasn't able to respond.
Monday, September 1, 2008 Chinese Crackdown in U.S.? (2 comments)
What if the crackdown on dissent prior to the RNC was ordered by Communist China? How impossible is that?
Saturday, August 30, 2008 Getting Off: Robert Jensen's Critique of Porn (10 comments)
Is pornography progressive? In what direction has it taken us, and is that where we want to go? Would it be possible to avoid it if somebody wanted to? Why would anyone want to?
Sunday, August 24, 2008 Advertise Here: The Hip and the Hype (5 comments)
Websites competing for your progressive advertising dollar may make some very far-fetched claims. Caveat emptor!
Thursday, August 21, 2008 Tijuana: Empires Slum?
Fascinating history and contemporary observations of Tijuana by an American who spends half his time there, including an interesting new twist in the war on drugs.
Friday, August 15, 2008 The Prevailing Theory (26 comments)
Do you think that you can vote for elected officials to represent you? Think again! A former elections official spells it out for you.
Friday, August 8, 2008 Censorship on OpEdNews. (13 comments)
I published a poll which was accepted and got four votes before I got a notice that it was being deleted. Meanwhile a much less meaningful poll was allowed to remain.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 Co-Opting the Left (13 comments)
As the late Walter Karp explained it in his classic book, "Indispensable Enemies," the job of the Republican Party is to represent the far right and the job of the Democratic Party is to co-opt the left so that there can't be any effective opposition to the far right.
Friday, July 18, 2008 Despair (16 comments)
Like many others, most notably the JFK assassination researchers and the 9/11 Truthers, I've been clinging to hope that if people only realized the truth, things could change. So I've been going around trying to spread the truth as I see it. And I've learned some hard truths myself. It isn't that people don't know, it is that they know and they don't care.
Saturday, July 12, 2008 Voting For Folks You Hate
Congress has a 9% approval rating. And they're all right here on opednews.
Thursday, July 10, 2008 Hick Hop -- The Asylum Street Spankers (2 comments)
Kind of a fun song, a fusion of country and western murder ballads with gangster rap.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 We Are the Fascists Our Fathers Fought Against (45 comments)
Why did the "greatest generation" sacrifice their lives to put an end to crimes against humanity, and why are we supporting what they died to oppose?
Friday, June 20, 2008 Can the UN Stop UN Peacekeepers from Raping Children in Africa? (7 comments)
A story about the brutality in the Democratic Republic of Congo inspired a lengthy discussion and a petition to the UN by some people who have been doing relief work there.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Where did my link icon go? (12 comments)
When I try to post an article, diary, or comment, the link icon above my posting box is in shadow and cannot be used.
Saturday, May 31, 2008 Death Squads Plead Discrimination (9 comments)
The City of San Diego stands accused in federal court of discriminating against Blackwater International.
Thursday, May 15, 2008 The Fable of Lanova Messiah
When the system is a bureaucracy, working within the system can be a Kafkaesque experience.
Saturday, May 10, 2008 Lessons From Africa and Annie
What do we do when neither elections nor violence can bring about change? The answer is to change how people view and interact with the world.
Saturday, April 26, 2008 The New American Declaration of Independence
The D of I, in a typical example of the road to hell being paved with good intentions, led to our present fascist state, but citizen ownership of transparent participatory democracy would ensure our inalienable rights as set out in the D of I.
Monday, April 14, 2008 Mother Earth & Meat
There are some things that affect the environment though that we have power over on a daily basis. Albert Einstein said: "Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet"
Friday, January 18, 2008 How the Glitch Stole Elections
A few days ago, a website that I post to now and then had a glitch. Sometimes glitches can be a bad thing, but this time it happened in a way that I was able to use to demonstrate graphically the problems with elections in the U.S.
Thursday, January 10, 2008 San Diego Voters Confront Board of Supervisors (3 comments)
First they buy hackable voting machines against our advice, and now they're suing the Secretary of State for trying to make them more secure.
Friday, November 30, 2007 Rockefeller vs. Chavez (4 comments)
The Rockefellers have always felt that South America and all its resources belonged to them, not to the nations and people who happen to be there.
Thursday, November 29, 2007 A New Constitution (3 comments)
A friend asked me what I thought would be needed to fix our broken system. Others may be able to come up with better suggestions, but here's what I wrote:
Thursday, November 29, 2007 Dennis "The Menace" Kucinich (37 comments)
Are you one of the many liberals and progressives placing your hopes on Dennis Kucinich?
Sunday, November 18, 2007 All Hail the Street Medics!
There is not enough to be said about the role played by the street medics in the Port Militarization Resistance (PMR) protest that took place last week in Olympia, Washington. Activists were demonstrating against the use of their publicly owned port for the conveyance of military equipment. Police turned violent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVASp4... Many protesters were injured and traumatized.
Friday, November 9, 2007 The Illegal Alien Bush Adores (3 comments)
The Department of Justice takes immigration violations more seriously than terrorism. The unusual story of Luis Posada Carriles is a case in point.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 War Poem (1 comments)
Written by BMutiny/Barbara and reprinted with permission.
Monday, October 29, 2007 Internet Tax Ban to Expire Unless Pelosi Acts (1 comments)
Ongoing affordable access to the Internet is immediately at risk. A present tax ban on the Internet is quietly set to expire in 2 days, on Oct. 31st, and a current bill to extend the Internet tax ban is still pending and needs our attention.
Thursday, October 25, 2007 Some People CAN Learn (CA Fires)
This was written by a friend, Rocky Neptun, currently a Green Party candidate for mayor of San Diego.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 Potrero Burns, Can Oaxaca Be Saved? (2 comments)
I live in San Diego, but I'm in the middle of the city, which is fine, not in the areas which are devastated by fire.
Monday, October 22, 2007 Suckers! (11 comments)
While a recent poll said that Congressional Democrats have only a 22% approval rating among Democrats, today's poll on Daily Kos, a Democratic Party cheerleader site, shows only an 11% approval for Nancy Pelosi and an 12% approval rating for Senator Reid.
Friday, October 5, 2007 Do you like to read? (15 comments)
Do you usually read more than one book at a time? Do you have a large collection of bookmarks? Here's what I'm reading these days -- please post a comment and let me know what you're reading.
Monday, September 24, 2007 Open Letter to Ambassador Joe Wilson & the DCCC
It was very nice of Joe & the DCCC to write me, but they forgot to include a return email address, so my responses are in bold below.
Sunday, January 14, 2007 Who Decides Who's on the Left?
Who are the left gatekeepers, and why are the pots calling the kettles tarnished? Sometimes the most important information you can learn from a chart is what it leaves out.
Friday, January 5, 2007 Divine Strake -- Action Alert!
You can read about and find the documents regarding this large scale open air planned weapons test in Nevada here.
Thursday, January 4, 2007 Could Nancy Tobi and Bev Harris be wrong? (7 comments)
Those of us who are concerned about election integrity may notice several articles, including one at the top of the page, urging people to sign Nancy Tobi's letter to Congress. The Minutemen have signed it, will you? I've asked that my signature be removed.
Thursday, January 4, 2007 Send CODE PINK to Guantanamo!
Let's stop the torture, shut down Guantanamo, and repeal the Military Commissions Act.
Monday, January 1, 2007 David Sirota Explains How the Right Did It. (1 comments)
How did the ultra-right take over the Republican Party? In his review of a book by one of the planners, Sirota explains that it wasn't done by toeing the party line the way Democrats do.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006 The Irony of the proposed Iraq Investigation (1 comments)
John Dean, convicted of obstructing justice and lying to Congress in the Iran-Contra affair, is up to his old tricks again. And our own Rob Kall seems to be falling for it.
Friday, December 22, 2006 Arsenal of Hypocrisy (2 comments)
How did the U.S. military-industrial complex become the way it is?
Tuesday, November 28, 2006 The Ballad of Ballot of Record (2 comments)
Howdy, cowpoke! This here's the election round-up and you can sing along.
Monday, November 27, 2006 The Ballot of Record
Supporters of open source software, voter-verifiable paper trails, ballot marking, sorting, scanning, or counting machines, and H.R. 550, often use weasel words. "Ballot of Record" may not mean what you think it does.
Sunday, November 19, 2006 Will Three Democratic Senators Die By January? (12 comments)
When the Republicans can't get a majority by election-rigging or gerrymandering, they kill people.
Saturday, November 18, 2006 9/11 -- The Mystery Deepens (9 comments)
The latest 9/11 conspiracy theory may not be ready for prime time, but it certainly provides a lot of food for thought. What did make those holes in the other WTC buildings? Could it have been some type of energy beam weapon?
Wednesday, November 8, 2006 Stop The Torture Now!
Please take a few moments out of your busy day to stop the torture.
Monday, October 30, 2006 Police Storm Oaxaca, Mexico (1 comments)
The Governor of Oaxaca has decided to end the months-long schoolteachers' strike by force.
Saturday, October 28, 2006 The Diebold Democrats
Yes, they exist, and they're proud of their position.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 We Don't Buy It! (7 comments)
Whichever way the elections go, we will not see an end to torture as U.S. policy. Since Bush claims that he needs the right to be able to torture suspected terrorists, it has become a bipartisan issue. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats can effectively oppose it.
Thursday, October 19, 2006 WMD IN IRAQ! (5 comments)
Looks like we finally found them -- in our own ammunition dump at Camp Falcon. Watch the video and see what you think.
Sunday, October 15, 2006 Our Holiday Gift to America (5 comments)
Most Americans want Bush and Cheney removed from office. I think that's the gift that we should give ourselves this holiday season.
Thursday, October 12, 2006 Hastert: The Spin is Dizzying (2 comments)
The Chicago Sun-Times seems to have first altered and then removed the story about Hastert and the strange evangelical.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006 Why We Need a New Investigation Into 9/11 (3 comments)
It isn't just that there are still many unanswered questions. It is that 9/11 "changed everything," including our Constitutional form of government. And we have a right to know exactly why.
Thursday, October 5, 2006 It's only sex. (3 comments)
What if Congressional pages were adults? Would it be okay for Congressmembers to sexually harass them?
Sunday, October 1, 2006 Open Letter to Rob Kall (17 comments)
Rob, who is forcing you to vote for them? Did you know that it is illegal for anyone to force you to vote in a certain way?
Saturday, September 30, 2006 How Many Votes Does It Take? (2 comments)
Recently an election integrity activist asked if anyone had done the math to see how much of a margin the Democrats would need to keep Diebold from stealing an election.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 Proof George Bush is the Devil (1 comments)
In an MSNBC poll, slightly more people thought Bush wasn't the Devil than thought he was, but many simply didn't know.
Monday, September 25, 2006 Avenge Us!
The heroes of September 11, 2001, speak out.
Saturday, September 23, 2006 Fighting Warbucks With Peace Pennies
How people living below the poverty line in the U.S. can monetarily oppose the war.
Monday, September 18, 2006 One of many death camps in the U.S. (Video)
This cannot have any other purpose that I can think of, other than being a death camp exactly like the ones that the Nazis used.
Saturday, July 15, 2006 Horowitz Buys the Farm? (2 comments)
No, developer Ralph Horowitz isn't dead yet, but his reputation is.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006 Is It Still A Conspiracy Theory?
Is the truth about 9/11 still a conspiracy theory now that it has become an online peer-reviewed academic journal?
Thursday, June 8, 2006 Why Did Bush Give In To the Terrorists?
Osama bin Laden declared war on the U.S. because we had troops in Saudi Arabia. The Bush response was to withdraw our troops from Saudi soil.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 The Editorial Class (5 comments)
The Writers Guidelines here on opednews give the editors a lot of power, much of which is necessary in order to make this the first-class political website that it is. But some of that power can be controversial in a bottom-up system.
Saturday, September 9, 2006 An Open Letter to Senator John Kerry
In 2004, Senator Kerry asked us for money so that he could ensure that our votes were counted. Although he gave some of it to the Democratic Party and to Democratic candidates, he never did get our votes counted and much of that money is still sitting in his war chest.
