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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Year Six by Mary Lyon
The woman stammered. She obviously knew she was still on the air and had to maintain her composure. But it was clear to anyone's ear that she was having a difficult time. Her voice clouded with emotion as she struggled to tell the talk show host and his audience of her story, as a mom whose son was in Afghanistan near the Pakistani border.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Looking for Hope in All the Wrong Places by N. Antinoro
People are tired and they're looking for hope. People are angry and they're looking for answers. The pendulum has swung back toward sanity, as it always does after a few years of madness and people just want to believe. They want to believe in change. They want to believe in safety. They want to believe in a decent living. They want to believe in a better world. They just want to "believe."

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Can't we all get along, says Obama by Underling
Gore did not mention that the business community is the main cause of the planet's environmental crisis.Obama is running as the first Black man with a shot at winning his Party's nomination and then a shot at being the new Big Dog in the Oval Office. Cornered by association with his racist pastor what does Obama do? He says we have to get beyond race.It's about doing what you gotta do to duck and weave your way to the finish.

Thursday, February 21, 2008
Proud of What? by Mary Lyon
"My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." ~ Carl Schurz, 1872"My country, right or wrong" is a phrase we hear and see again and again. I can think of plenty of bumper stickers I've spotted on the road for years - no, decades. But we tend only to hear Decatur's brief toast for the most part over the years. Far more to the point for any true patriot are the words Catrl Shurz

Thursday, January 17, 2008
"Human Terrain System" Systematically Dismantles an Academic Field
The New York Times' new fair-haired boy, ultra-right-wing pundit William Kristol, maintains a steady stream of breathless support for the Bush administration's misadventures in Iraq, even down to the basic, underlying, discredited tenets. We shall needle Mr. Kristol throughout this column.But far more important is the employment of anthropologists in the war effort, under the cryptic heading, "Human Terrain Systems."

Thursday, January 17, 2008
Democracy and the Mosh Pit by Norla Antinoro
The election will not be clear, all the way down to the last vote is counted. It is the political mosh pit, the ranting mob that the media panders to.So the candidates go for emotional appeal. Hillary tries to be JFK-in-a-skirt, Obama tries to be Black-Jack, & John Edwards goes for the haircut. But where are the ideas behind the words and passion?

Thursday, January 17, 2008
Direct Democracy As a Means to Create Change by Larry Sakin
Progressives have a long history of 'eating our own.'It's a tendency that the right wing very much enjoys watching.There's lots of despair & cynicism around these days & it's easy to point fingers & try to find 'traitors' among our ranks.If we really want to change the current course of our country, we can instead get active & working for change together, achieving a sustainable world while annoying the hell out of the right.

Saturday, January 12, 2008
Disinformation Committee, or Democratic Presidential Candidates? by George Thomas
Recently I made a once-over scan of four of the Democratic candidates' articles this past Fall/Winter in Foreign Affairs journal. All outline the tragic and dangerous failures of the Bush Administration's now-7-year onslaught on foreign policy.

Thursday, December 27, 2007
Issues not Personalities by Norla Antinoro
The campaign for Democratic nominee for President of the United States is in full swing and passions are running high but not a lot of attention is actually being given to the issues that are important to the people of this country. We are hearing a lot of rhetoric, calls telling us to "vote for me, I'm the best candidate" but if we want the details, we have to go to their website and read through pages of material written by

Thursday, December 27, 2007
Profit Motive: What's Wrong with American Health Care?by Kathleen Bushman
(2 comments) Edwards has the smile and the hair of a Kennedy, but will his health care policy alleviate the strangling cost, anxiety, and stress the working class is enduring as a consequence of our present system? Does Edwards, or any of the Democratic candidates, offer a health care plan that will relieve middle class suffering as the cost of health care has become the leading cause life disruption, behind home foreclosures and bankruptc

Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Winter Solstice 2007: The sunrise of 1945 by Bryan Zepp Jamieson
Back around mid 1945, the world changed. World War II had ended, Europe and Japan were desolate ruins, and the rest of the world was still in shock and horror at the atrocities they found in the death camps of Eastern Europe and Germany. Read More...

Wednesday, December 19, 2007
It is the Time by Norla Antinoro
It is in the darkness that humanity finds the brightest light and the deepest despair. It is the darkness that brings out the best, and the worst, that we can be. It is human nature to gather together in support in the deepest part of winter, when dark and cold assail us with doubt and cold, hunger and fear. So each culture that has grown up in the cold country has developed a celebration c

Wednesday, December 19, 2007
The Crucible of Paranoia by Hunter Gray
The Wild West Ethic and the Crucible of Paranoia by Hunter Gray Sure. I'm a radical. Been one most of my life. Socialist democracy is just fine with me. But my view of that Beulah Land is that it had better provide a full measure of bread-and-butter, and a full measure of liberty. I like the idea of a maximum number of reasonable choices, and I don't cotton to the idea of living in a rabbit hutch. Or even a corral.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007
What a Progressive Is Not by John Nerikaat
(1 comments) With the exclusion of Dennis Kucinich, the winner of DFA, PDA and other Progressive polls, from the Democratic debates on December 13, in Iowa, many questions come into sharp focus. What is progressive? Who is progressive? Has Iowa shown "First in the Nation" leadership and responsibility?

Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Ballast: How you keep others afloat by Bryan Zepp Jamieson
The stock markets exploded upwards last week, gaining about 600 in the Dow and erasing nearly half of what had officially become a "correction." That's when the market sags 10% in dollar value from its last peak. That isn't as bad as a bear market (where it dumps 20% in dollar value) and nowhere near a crash, but coming mere weeks after another drop in interest rates, it was worrisome.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007
How a Cohesive Progressive Movement Can Change the World By Sakin
Progressives have to make sense of confronting a radical opponent. The American Right is now radical, and the president is their standard-bearer. How else to describe an administration committed to changing taxation and revising the basic rules of international order, attempting to remake faraway societies by force? And, not to forget, an administration willing – indeed, seemingly delighted – to bankrupt the country and jeopar

Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Taking the Gloves Off by Michael Cavlan
First, on the issue of Impeachment, either you get it or you don't. Sadly, the Democratic Parties leadership are of the latter, they don't and apparently won't get it. Former Federal Prosecutor, Elizabeth de la Vega has done a supreme job of making of the case for Impeachment. Far more eloquently and concisely than I ever could.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007
The Closed Society in America by Hunter Gray
In response to a request for information about the Mississippi State Fairgrounds concentration camp events of 1963, Hunter Gray responded with these current comments and reference to a more detailed article written in 2002. Both of these follow. It was a brave and forlorn hope that the Civil Rights Wars of the 1960s were won for all time and that the rights of citizens and visitors to the United States of America were forever

Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Anniversaries and New Directions by Norla Antinoro
Our focus remains progressive. The content will continue to be progressive politics and social justice. We! Magazine, volume 2, will hit the issues involved in this upcoming election hard. We will bring you the voices of your neighbors, your own voice should you care to join us, on the issues and candidates of the 2008 election at the local, state, and federal level. Other issues of social justice will continue to be given a s

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Edwards Remains Steadfast by Karita Hummer
I was so happy that when Wolf Blitzer asked John Edwards last Sunday about a Newsweek article that had implied he was being led by advisors, JRE pointedly said that he, himself, is the policy maker for his campaign. JRE runs it as he sees it and, in my opinion, he is running it just fine.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
The Kucinich Proposal by Kathleen Bushman
(3 comments) I have been asked, "Why are you campaigning for Kucinich?" I would ask, "Why aren't you?" If you care about the future of this country, you should be campaigning for the only candidate who has proven he has good judgment in the past and who has all the best answers for the problems which are giving most of us sleepless nights. I, like many thousands of other Americans, will not consider a candidate who voted for the war and th

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Time for Accountability by Gerilynn Tarvin
How are we going to hold them accountable? It is really time to make our voices loud and clear. Unfortunately, the media is owned by Rupert Murdoch and nothing, nothing, that Bush does not want aired will get air time. It will have to be through this, the Internet, our only true means of communication, that we will let them all know-

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
The People's Choice by Norla Antinoro
The people of the United States have more power than they believe they have and I think it's time that they recognized and exercised that power. We can make a difference in national, state and local politics if we simply wake up to the fact that it can be done. The big problem in waking people up to the fact that they have power is getting them to realize that fight will be at the level that all of us can address – our states.

Saturday, November 24, 2007
The Staging of Hillary Clinton by Lary Sakin
A couple of weeks ago, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton got swept up in a teapot tempest about her alleged staging of questions from folks attending her rallies. The major media castigated Clinton for receiving some softball questions in the midst of heavy artillery fire questioning her record. Certainly this practice is more akin to Republican campaign politicking than supposed progressive Democrats; ...

Saturday, November 24, 2007
The Multiplier Effect by Milton Brewster
I got into a discussion yesterday about the horrible state of our Economy, with a good friend who considers himself to be a liberal/progressive. He's worried about the state of our Economy just like the rest of us. He thinks that Bush has stolen so much money, that it has literally caused a minor recession, even without his horrible policies.

Friday, November 23, 2007
44 Years Ago by Anne Pritchett
(1 comments) I was 10. In the 5th grade. And life changed. They killed my president..I was raised Catholic and went to atholic school till 8th grade...John F Kennedy was like a combination living saint and folk hero in our Catholic world. I can still remember how happy my parents were when he was e;ected...

Friday, November 9, 2007
Bush - A Dark Legacy by Norla Antinoro
sh's America is not a new America. It is the dark America that the good fight has been opposing since the initial European invasion of this continent over two hundred years ago. It is the evil twin of the country so many of us wish we were, and want to remember as having once been, just before Bush took over.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Other Ways to Swig a Cat by Andris
(5 comments) I carry an Aussie passport. And exist in Australia. Other US sites frown on a foreigner having an opinion about your political situation. Personally I view the world as a series of greys and don't intellectually partition issues into American or Australian. To me if it's wrong it's wrong, e.g. Gitmo and PM Howard's acceptance of it and the treatment of its inmates including ours. I see th

Friday, October 26, 2007
Antinoro: Bootprints of a "Lame Duck"
Where do we go from here? G.W. Bush is still president and will remain so until January 2009. He has recently stated his intention to block all meaningful legislation until he walks out the door by use of the veto. The margin of Republican vs Democrat in the Congress is such that we cannot overturn that veto. Let's look at some options.