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Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Tea Party Flacks Are Drill, Baby, Drill Messengers Too, By Mark Ames and Yasha Levine
Ideologically, it's painfully obvious why the Teabaggers are now the Teagaggers: their free-market gospel got mugged by oil-drenched reality -- a reality so horrific that even pollster Frank Luntz couldn't spin the BP disaster as the government's fault. Best to just shut up when you're that wrong.
Sunday, September 13, 2009 Can Europe Pop the U.S. CEO Pay Bubble?
The argument that limiting executive pay will drive "top talent" out of US corporations is laughable. Was it really a résumé-builder to lose trillions of dollars in financial wealth and drive the global economy off a cliff?
Sunday, September 13, 2009 Who Really Crashed the Economy? by David Korten
And why do we keep blaming the wrong people? Hint: It's a diversionary tactic by the tea-baggers, AKA the neo-neo-cons, AKA the Corpo-Libertarians; those who believes so strongly in freedom for corporations, that they wish for direct corporate rule.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Populism Arising-but Will It Be the Killer Kind?
The old assumptions and paradigms about capitalism and free markets are dead. A new, virulent populism, still inchoate, is slowly and painfully rising to take their place. This populism will determine the future of the country. It is as likely to be right-wing as left-wing.
Saturday, October 18, 2008 Documentary Banned By the Bush Admin to be shown on PBS (1 comments)
Coverage of the US Gulag system in this documentary has been delayed from being shown on PBS until after the election. The entire documentary is available online.
The facts show that the US is the master practitioner of the evil it purports to fight.
Thursday, May 1, 2008 The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (6 comments)
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is the inability to understand the exponential function. Although conspiracy theories are exciting, a well grounded understanding of exponential growth will provide all the background to understand the world in a new way. Is this the secret that our government is keeping from us? Can you handle the truth?
Saturday, March 22, 2008 The Crucifixion of Christ, American Style (1 comments)
In this satirical piece Jesus returns to the madcap modern US and finds that the more things change the more they stay the same.
Monday, February 4, 2008 THE CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBALIZATION: ALTERNATIVES?
Cutting through the bullshit.
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We are not only witnessing perpetual praise of the market we are witnessing what can be described as "market fundamentalism". People believe in the market as if it was a god.
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Friday, February 1, 2008 The Current Depression, Our Wake-Up Call (1 comments)
Out-of-control predatory capitalists have perpetrated a worldwide economic depression.
Capitalism's degenerate character is now extraordinarily visible during this time of multiple crises.
This exposure of capitalism's depravity must awaken us to the necessity of instituting a commonwealth in place of this cannibalistic monstrosity.
Thursday, January 31, 2008 The Century of the Self (2 comments)
To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really?
The best voter education available, should be required viewing for all voters. A behind the scenes examination of what we have collectively become as a result of pandering to individual desires. 4 hours.
Sunday, January 27, 2008 The 1st Drug Czar
On January 1, 1932, the newly established Federal Bureau of Narcotics, a unit in the Treasury Department, took over from the Alcohol Unit of the department the enforcement of the federal antiopiate and anticocaine laws; and former Assistant Prohibition Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger took over as commissioner of narcotics. Commissioner Anslinger had no legal jurisdiction over marijuana, but his interest in it was intense.
Sunday, January 27, 2008 Sovereign Wealth Funds = Transfer of Sovereignty to Asia (1 comments)
The Mega Picture - Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF's) are being hailed as the saviours of the financial world, but in reality are more akin to harbingers of the economic apocalypse for countries such as the United States and United Kingdom.
Saturday, January 26, 2008 Open Letter to Amy Goodman, By Sean Madden (4 comments)
This courageous challenge by Sean Madden to Amy Goodman and the progressive community is long overdue. While they were Bush-bashing and paying no attention to the bipartisan looting of America, global economic meltdown commenced and is now well underway. Meanwhile, they tout the Democratic Party as heroes who will pull America and the world back from the economic abyss.--CB
Friday, January 25, 2008 The Duty of Congress
It is important to remember that the current president and vice president hold a lease on something akin to absolute power that does not expire for a year. And if George Bush and Dick Cheney have proved anything over the past year, it is that they do not require a great deal of time to do a great deal of damage.
Thursday, January 24, 2008 Arrest Bush and Cheney Now! Allegations against Iran are false! (1 comments)
VERY URGENT: Inevitable - Nuclear War or Extreme Economic Meltdown
A good gathering of important links showing where the criminals in the Whitehouse are taking US.
Thursday, January 24, 2008 Attack Iran and you attack Russia (1 comments)
The Neocons and the Israelis seem intent on bringing us to a nuclear holocaust.
Thursday, January 24, 2008 The Real State of the Union... Call Bush's Bluff
The Neocons, Neolibs, Republicans and Democrats have delivered on the promise of drowning the American Dream in a bathtub of endless war, debt and despair. The goal has always been to remove any options for citizens opposed to the tyranny of corporatist rule. What small sacrifice did we have to make to realize these achievements? The loss of Democracy, which is incompatible with endless war. Heck of a job Bushie.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 A world without nuclear weapons (2 comments)
As a US diplomat who has worked for every president from John F Kennedy to Bill Clinton, I did not believe that nuclear disarmament was practical or necessary. I have changed my mind, because like other cold war veterans, I believe nuclear weapons will be used in my children's lifetime, and nuclear deterrence will not prevent this. It is fear, not hope, that motivates me.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 The lowdown on topsoil: It's disappearing
While many worry about the potential consequences of atmospheric warming, a few experts are trying to call attention to another global crisis quietly taking place under our feet.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 The Politics of Hopelessness (1 comments)
"You were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart." - Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton, 1/22/08
The exchange lasted about 3 seconds - if you flipped the channel for a moment, you might have missed it. That was the amount of time the two leading candidates for the Democratic nomination for president spent talking about the corporate takeover of our government...our country's most fundamental problem.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 Do Cholesterol Drugs Do Any Good?
Research suggests that, except among high-risk heart patients, the benefits of statins such as Lipitor are overstated
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 The False US Economy Versus Nature's Expansion-Contraction Cycle
While tending berry vines on my small farm this fall and winter, I've observed the sharp decline of the US's artificial economy. Nature has a seasonal cycle of expansion and contraction. Now contracting, the US's manufactured economy has been built on a growth-always fiction.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 SHELL GAME, BY STEVE ALTEN, A Review By Carolyn Baker
As reviewer Bill Douglas points out, Shell Game opens from the perspective of the neocons "THEN, the novel proceeds to dis-assemble that 'reality' taking the reader on a journey that shows the ugly underbelly of false flag terrorism, diminishing civil and human rights, and the lies that led into past wars, and portend to lead us all into future wars."
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 Ports See Decline, Still Busy
A once great nation reduced to exporting violence and scraps, a banana republic without the bananas:
Exported goods are generally lower-value goods like cotton, animal feed and scrap metal.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 Bread and Circuses
The Roman emperors provided bread and circuses for their people. The American empire does the same, though lately with less bread. They're making up for it in the circuses department. I'm talking about the election charade.
Sunday, January 20, 2008 According to Harold Bloom, "What We Are Seeing Is...the Fall of America"
I strongly suspect Mr. Bloom is correct with his diagnosis. We have a group of extremist authoritarians committing crime after crime against the nation, the world and humanity. Yet, the citizenry is apparently OK with that. We are now busy with the banal factionalization of the presidential campaign, a campaign almost entirely devoid of meaning, a campaign of promises and appearances. I will vote when justice is done.
Sunday, January 20, 2008 Denver lawyer seeks to depose Cheney in assault case
It seems the first amendment only applies in interaction among the rabble. If one questions the decider's shadow, one is guilty of assault on the lies that bind us. Reclaim our government, impeach Cheney.
Sunday, January 20, 2008 Lawbreaking Telecoms Still Conniving to Obtain Immunity from Congress
Democratic Senators Jay Rockefeller and Harry Reid are the two most valuable instruments in the Bush administrations efforts to obtain vastly expanded warrantless eavesdropping powers and immunity for lawbreaking telecoms. Rockefeller and Reid are traitors to their country, and both should be censured and removed from government at the earliest opportunity.
Saturday, January 19, 2008 Canada takes U.S., Israel off torture watchlist (3 comments)
Capitulation from Canada: Canada's foreign ministry, responding to pressure from close allies, said on Saturday it would remove the United States and Israel from a watch list of countries where prisoners risk being tortured.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 Between a rock and a countertop
Some thoughts on why we feel the compulsion to buy, buy, buy. Since the consumer era seems destined to come to a close, it might prove helpful to begin adjusting our attitudes and expectations.
Saturday, January 12, 2008 No Escape from War and Unemployment
New Hampshire voters have chosen warmonger clones of Bush/Cheney for their party's presidential candidates. The only candidates not in Israel's pocket are Kucinich, Paul, and Gravel, who have no chance for their party's nomination.
Saturday, January 12, 2008 Levite Be Gone: Releasing the Samaritan Within
In contrast to the seriousness of Christ's message, consider a related irony that is comically absurd. Commonly referred to as the "U.S." our nation consists of grossly deformed social, political, economic, and cultural systems that indoctrinate us in the quasi-religion of "it's all about me" while conditioning us to reflexively reject nearly all things related to the collective "US."
Saturday, January 12, 2008 Paying No Attention to the Presidential Campaigns
Politics in the United States is so broken that the impressions of a non-observer may be as worthwhile as the view of the experts. My cursory impressions of some of the candidates follow. I envision them dressed in togas, addressing the Senate in Rome, perhaps on the first of April, 44 BC.
Saturday, January 12, 2008 Seven Steps to a Homeland Security Campus
Free speech zones. Taser guns. Hidden cameras. Blackwater and other private security contractors... College campuses join the Homeland Security state.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008 Standing for our principles even when we're terrified
The authorities would just come into your home, grab your mother, your brother, your dad, and take them away. No warning, no warrant, no appeal.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008 SWAT officers invade home, take 11-year-old at gunpoint (4 comments)
Nearly a dozen members of a police SWAT team in western Colorado punched a hole in the front door and invaded a family's home with guns drawn, demanding that an 11-year-old boy who had had an accidental fall accompany them to the hospital, on the order of Garfield County Magistrate Lain Leoniak.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008 Let Dennis Debate!
Words of courage, inspiration and truth from Dennis Kucinich on why he should be included in the national dialog. Format: 6 minute clip on youtube
Monday, January 7, 2008 Ron Paul - Cult Mentality Among Some Supporters? (2 comments)
A few (but not all) of the general symptoms of a cult are a strange blind faith, often without completely checking out the validity of the belief, an unusual dedication to the point of illogical thinking sometimes putting one's safety last and the inability to listen to reason.
Monday, January 7, 2008 An Obama FableIt's All About the Mood, Dude (1 comments)
The Obamarama Campaign Express was roaring down a New Hampshire highway near Nashua when an aide spotted the sprawling No Holds Barred Sports Bar. "Let's stop the bus," she urged, "and do some random schmoozing."
Monday, January 7, 2008 An Obama victory would symbolise a great deal and change very little (1 comments)
Jesse Jackson and Obama could not be more different. But in the extent to which they both epitomize a generational shift in the opportunities and constituencies open to black politicians and illustrate how to capitalize on them, they have a great deal in common.
Monday, January 7, 2008 The Return of the King... for Kucinich
Anyone who has seen the trilogy of "Lord of the Rings" films knows that Aragorn is up for a daunting battle. And so it should probably come as no surprise that the actor who played the king has thrown himself into the New Hampshire primary battle at the side of a candidate who faces a test that is the equivalent of Mr. Frodo's journey up Mount Doom in Mordor.
Saturday, January 5, 2008 Pollutants at heart of IBM lawsuit
A group of Southern Tier residents and businesses filed a lawsuit Thursday against IBM Corp. over more than $100 million in claims they say are linked to pollution from the company's former microelectronics plant in Endicott.
Friday, January 4, 2008 Is This Any Way to Pick a President? Madison's Nightmare
The current system for picking a nominee is the product of accident rather than design, more like the result of small children scrambling to use up their Lego blocks than a master architect's plan. Depending on how things play out, this nominating process could look like James Madison's nightmare, the antithesis of the system of government that he and his fellow Founders devised.
Friday, January 4, 2008 The Peak Oil Crisis: Storm of the Century
Welcome to "peak climate," "peak food," "peak water," "peak electricity," or as some people are putting it, "peak everything."
Thursday, January 3, 2008 William Kristol, the New York Times and Nazi Gunter d'Alquen
With this immorality, hypocrisy and criminality in mind, I called the New York Times this morning to cancel my subscription. One might pity that poor customer representative who handled my call. As I spewed invective against her employer, all she could do was apologize, ask me to spell the name of the columnist I found so offensive (K-R-I-S-T-O-L) and urge me to "have a nice day. Thank you for calling the New York Times."
Thursday, January 3, 2008 Network: "Television is not the truth!"
A movie made many years ago, perfectly describes the situation today about television, news, and the main stream media. It resonates louder and sounds more truthful today that it did when the movie was first made.
Thursday, January 3, 2008 I Hate Iowa
If a gaffe, as Michael Kinsley defined it, is when a politician tells the truth in public, then Ohio's Governor Ted Strickland's recent comments fit the bill. In an interview in the Columbus Dispatch newspaper, Strickland said the upcoming Iowa caucus "makes no sense," and that he would "like to see both parties say, 'We're going to bring this to an end.'"
Thursday, January 3, 2008 Edwards Reconsidered
Edwards was the most improved presidential candidate of 2007. He sharpened his attacks on corporate power and honed his calls for economic justice. He laid down a clear position against nuclear power. He explicitly challenged the power of the insurance industry and the pharmaceutical giants.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 Why the era of cheap food is over (1 comments)
Food prices worldwide hit record highs in 2006, and all the signs are that they will go on rising this year, and for the foreseeable future. The era of cheap food, the experts say, is over and we are going to have to get used to it. This is easier said than done for millions around the world, as evidenced by protests in Mexico over the cost of corn tortillas, and in Italy last September about the price of (wheat) pasta
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 Has Mao Become A Role Model For Our Media?
An Economist article suggests that Mao's media practices have also been adopted in the US and Britain through the use of syncophantic reporters, media management strategies and repetition.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 USA Today: Pushing John Edwards Out of the Race?
A USA Today article analyzing the electability of presidential candidates running in Iowa barely mentioned John Edwards, even though Edwards is the only Democrat besides Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama who consistently polls in the double digits in Iowa.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 U.S. Near Bottom of Global Privacy Index
U.S. President George W. Bush's administration has come under fire for monitoring -- without warrants -- international phone calls and e-mails involving people suspected of having terrorist links. Simon Davies, director of London-based Privacy International, said little had changed since Democrats took control of Congress a year ago.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 Stonewalled by the C.I.A.
The 9/11 commission's mandate was sweeping and it explicitly included the intelligence agencies. But the recent revelations that the C.I.A. destroyed videotaped interrogations of Qaeda operatives leads us to conclude that the agency failed to respond to our lawful requests for information about the 9/11 plot. Those who knew about those videotapes - and did not tell us about them - obstructed our investigation.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 Welcome to Third World, U.S.A. (3 comments)
"What we're seeing (in the U.S.) isn't the rise of a fairly broad class of knowledge workers. Instead, we're seeing the rise of a narrow oligarchy: Income and wealth are becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small, privileged elite ... It's time to face up to the fact that rising inequality is driven by the giant income gains of a tiny elite, not the modest gains of college graduates."
Tuesday, January 1, 2008 Chavez Pardons Accused Coup Backers
President Hugo Chavez granted amnesty Monday to many opponents accused of supporting a failed 2002 coup that briefly drove him from power. Chavez said he signed an amnesty decree that would also pardon others accused of attempting to overthrow his government in recent years.
Monday, December 31, 2007 RON PAUL IN 2008? JUST SAY "NO" TO "DR. NO" (4 comments)
Ron Paul ardently supports the libertarian notions of laissez faire, free markets, deregulation, and privatization. In an ironic and almost comical twist, the imperialism, corporatism, and prefigurements of fascism he has so accurately identified (and vowed to eradicate) are symptoms of monopoly capitalism, a mature form of the system that his libertarian principles would serve to buttress and amplify.
