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Tim Gatto is Ret. US Army and has been writing against the Duopoly for the last decade. He has two books on Amazon, Kimchee Days or Stoned Colds Warriors and Complicity to Contempt.
(22 comments) SHARE Friday, December 2, 2011 S 1867: Killing The Bill of Rights and Declaring War on Americans
Once this becomes law, you will be living in a different kind of America, one that no longer guarantees certain inalienable rights. Americans will have no rights whatsoever in America -- no due process, no First Amendment speech rights, no right to remain silent or to be tried by a jury of your peers. You will only have the right to a military tribunal with a military judge and a military lawyer.
(52 comments) SHARE Friday, November 8, 2013 Arranging the Deck Chairs While Death Comes from Japan
Today is my 63rd birthday. I have three Grandchildren and some Nephews and Nieces. The situation for me is this, by the time the radiation from Fukushima reaches me, it will take some time to affect my wife and I. My Grandchildren and other young people will not be so lucky. Already on the West Coast the milk is radioactive. It is below the "safety threshold" right now so you don't really hear about it.
(18 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 8, 2013 The Fix is In. The Revolution is Coming.
So how is this farce going to end? I can see it now. Obama will put ALL entitlements except Obamacare on the chopping block. The people in our government will ask all Americans to make a huge sacrifice in order to keep our nation afloat. The government will loot the Social Security trust fund to keep their military afloat and give us the finger.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 12, 2011 Interview with Finian Cunningham: Bahrain and the U.S. Role
Mr. Cunningham has bravely offered us a glimpse into this nation and a personal accounting of what's tagging place. We read about Syria and Libya, but hardly anything about Bahrain. This is probably due to the vested interest we have because of our fleet. We discuss this in the interview and come to some very sobering conclusions about U.S. foreign policy.
(19 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 20, 2013 America Does not have a Functioning Democracy - President Jimmy Carter-- Yet MSM Keeps Serving Up Distractions
We are being watched and recorded. We have no defense against arrest and incarceration if the government deems that we are terrorists or support a terrorist organization. The people that designate exactly who or what is a terrorist organization is unclear. Perhaps the government will publish a manual of who it is we are to avoid. God forbid we talk we talk about such things.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 30, 2007 Prime-time Politics for the Masses
For every progressive politician out there, there are three or four politicians that go where the money is. For every progressive out there that believes we are going to win by being right, there are five or six slime balls supporting people that have all the money and can afford to buy air time.
(40 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 20, 2014 The Truth About Ukraine
Russia didn't start this conflict. The United States in tandem with some European nations did. The goal of the United States, regardless of what the government and the talking heads in the media tell you, is to bring the Ukraine into the Western fold, have the IMF and the World Bank come in and rape this nation by making loans that they can never repay.
(60 comments) SHARE Friday, May 10, 2013 The American "Helplessness Syndrome" and How to Defeat It
The hard-liners in the Republican Party say that it isn't the government's job to coddle people that can't make it in today's society. They have nurtured and reinforced the meme that everyone in America has an equal chance at grabbing that big brass ring, and if they can't, then it is their own fault, any other reason that is given is just an excuse.
(11 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 9, 2013 What's Really Going On in Korea
Don't think that our government is in any way dreading an attack from North Korea. The fact is" this would play right into the hands of the American Empire. While the United States is not publically supporting any provocations against the North Korean regime right now, they did send nuclear-capable B2 Bombers from the US to fly over the Korean Peninsula. This provocation really started the ball rolling.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 19, 2010 Bob Dylan's Concert Last Night. OMG!
If you were to look at the reviews of his concerts at the various ticket outlets, you may have noticed that the reviews weren't exactly "stunning", and if by going with these reviews you decided that maybe it wasn't worth the price of admission, well, I feel sorry for you. I have only this to say about the concert: OMG!
(116 comments) SHARE Friday, June 24, 2016 Is Sanders a "Principled Sellout"?
The party that claims to represent the middle class, the party that speaks of "progressive" values, the party that elected FDR and JFK, chose a woman that has proven to everyone to be a liar, a war hawk and generally a despicable human being.
(14 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 15, 2017 "The Richest Nation On Earth" Why Are Many Americans Broke?
We have enemies across the world that we ourselves have created. One only must look at the demonization of Russia to understand how United States makes an enemy. The United States needs an enemy to justify the amount of money spent on the military. We are all being sold a giant bill of goods.
(15 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 7, 2013 Military Madness, The TPP and The Empire
I'm just making suggestions, asking questions and informing my fellow Americans on issues they should be aware of. I believe that most Americans are afraid to question authority and those that are not are lulled into a false sense of security by the mainstream media. Still there are many Americans that are justifiably as outraged as I am by the behavior of our government.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 15, 2012 Is Syria Worth World War III?
The scenario of Turkey being attacked by Syria is a real possibility. Even if Syria doesn't attack Turkey, and Turkey attacks Syria, do nations ever advertise the fact that they fired the first shot? This would be ridiculous when you consider that they would lose the protection that being a member State of NATO provides.
SHARE Friday, September 22, 2006 Serving Your Country Can Cause Cancer
How our government exposed thousands of cold war radar operators to cancer and what companies are responsible.
(19 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 20, 2015 It's Crunch Time for America
For years I have been writing about how our government has been hijacked from the people and how special interests have been manipulating the media to fulfill the agenda of the Military Industrial Complex. You can call it the Military Industrial Corporate Complex or any new-age nuance, but it is still the thing that Dwight President David Eisenhower described in his last addresses to the nation.
(45 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 19, 2017 Did He Really "Know What He Signed Up For"?
The idea of giving your life in a country where the people hate you and see you as part of imperial occupation is disturbing to say the least, and when most Americans are oblivious to the fact of what you're doing, is like dying for nothing. Most generals and politicians don't even bother to look at the names of the people who have died fighting in the military. To them, their lives are just collateral damage.
(19 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 13, 2011 The Riots in Britain Could Foreshadow What Happens in the U.S.
There must be some underlying reason why people feel that they need to go out on the streets and break things and to steal from shopkeepers, or was this week just a moment where all the "criminals" decided to act out all at once?
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, April 13, 2018 If Ever There Was a Time...
The American government must take a timeout and reconsider exactly what is at stake in this coming conflict. In the chaos that is war, all it takes to one miscalculation, one excited soldier pulling the trigger or toggling a missile and the result could be catastrophic. Is it worth chancing the destruction of mankind in a nuclear holocaust?
(11 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 28, 2013 The Monsanto Revolution
The Monsanto debacle has proven, beyond any shadow of a doubt that the commercial media is in the hands of the rich and powerful.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 10, 2007 Estimate of the World's Oil Reserves
Estimates of fossil fuel production that the government probably wishes was not made common knowledge. Check it out, according to this, we have less time than anyone thought.
(10 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 22, 2006 The Caliphate and The New Republican Scare Tactic
The NeoCons have a new word in their vocabulary; Caliphate. What is it, and how are they using it to scare Americans into voting Republican?
(20 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 29, 2011 This Time It's For Real
People are pissed. When interviewed for the mainstream news they give relatively mild answers to why they are there. Out of the camera view, there is real anger toward the 1% that controls everything. George Carlin said it best when he proclaimed that "The country is run by one big club "And you ain't in it!"
(29 comments) SHARE Friday, January 6, 2017 What is Really Going On in Politics
If you look at this outside of the political spectrum you understand what this is all about; it is about opportunism. Both sides the Democrats and Republicans are just trying to support the people that support their agenda at the time regardless of right or wrong. Both the Democrats and Republicans will support anyone who support them regardless of what happens to the American people.
(10 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 7, 2014 Discontent is Becoming Epidemic
The American people are quite aware of a great many things like huge corporations that pay no income taxes, like the fact that we jail more people than any nation on Earth, that we are one of the last industrialized nations without universal healthcare, the suicide rate among veterans is mind boggling and that the Occupy Movement was here one day and gone the next.
(21 comments) SHARE Friday, September 2, 2016 Why Capitalism Is Failing
Today, there are leading intellectuals, such as Chris Hedges among others, who are saying that capitalism is in its death throes. Having never been a fan of unfettered capitalism, I find this verdict a source of hope for constructive change, but also of fear for what could be very dangerous consequences.
(31 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 2, 2015 My Redneck Friends. They are a Lot Like You.
I've been in the real world lately in South Carolina. I joined a pool league and started meeting people from all walks of life. Still, everyone I hang with is proud to be a redneck. I don't care. It's a funny thing that I get along with these people are a proud bunch of Southern Boys, no doubt.
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 26, 2012 Capitalism and Socialism
Since the Early 1970's the economic model of Capitalism has favored the upper 20% of moneyed capital. The 1% has been the prime engine that dictates the direction that Capitalism seems to be moving.
(113 comments) SHARE Friday, December 12, 2014 News Flash!: America Sucks
So this is the "New America". This is the exceptional, indispensable nation that the World cannot live without. I don't know about you, but I sincerely believe that the time has come to either change this rotten- to-the-core-system we live under, or it's time to get the hell out of Dodge. This America sucks. I don't see anything good about it anymore. It stinks like dead fish.
(9 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 19, 2011 Are You Proud of your Country? I'm Not!
This article has been torturing me for the last five years. I know I should have written it a long time ago, but either the World situation wasn't right, or I was was daunted by the thought of writing this narrative that I knew would bea task that I didn't really want to start. I take the blame for not writing this sooner, but we are all human and beset by inadequacy.
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 25, 2007 Civilians Can be Tried by Court-Martial Under the UCMJ
Lindsay Graham has slipped an amendment into a spending bill that makes it possible for civilians to be tried by the military. Hello dictatorship, goodbye freedom!
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 13, 2012 Proxy Wars in the 21st Century-The New Imperialism
First of all, before I go on, how did you ever think that a small group of protesters that were calling for a more Democratic Libya could suddenly morph into a powerful Army that could defeat the best equipped military machine in Northern Africa? Ponder that.
(34 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 14, 2015 Sanders, Our Best Bet
Here is the question I would like to throw back at my good friend David Swanson who believes that supporting Sanders is a no-win situation; How David, do we get a majority of self-centered, brainwashed Americans who by and large are disgusted with their government to actually take the time to become activists? The truth is that it's not going to happen anytime soon.
(16 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 12, 2012 How Did We Let this Happen?
You see, I'm not angry with the government, I'm angry with the people of this country. I spent three years in Germany, asking the older folks that were around when the Nazi's were in power, "How the hell did you people let that happen?" I received the same answer from everyone. They told me that they never understood what was happening until it was too late.
(32 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 28, 2010 Why Should I Vote?
not hours. This fact alone can spell disaster for the status quo. The most important part of bringing real change to Washington is organization. It matters very little who controls Congress for the next two years. The product of the corporate political parties will be the same: more wars and an increased military budget.
(19 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 26, 2016 The Democrats Got What They Deserved.
This last selection show just how much the Democrats are out of touch with the people of this country. The anointing of Hillary Clinton by means of subterfuge and dirty tricks against the Bernie Sanders campaign made most young people in this country just walk away from the election.
(11 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 24, 2013 A Different Wind is Blowing
People that are usually pretty fast on the uptake still fall for the "blame game" that the people who really run things in this country want us to play. The only reason that they allow two political parties is because it gives the people an illusion that they have a choice in who represents them. The choice is always between the lesser of two evils, but in most people's eyes that is better than no choice at all, right?
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 18, 2012 You Live In a Fascist State
They are all war mongering bastards that are brainwashed into wanting world domination. There will be more wars and more conquests until we are faced with a China and a Russia that will not stand for it. It's bad enough that they devote 53% of the discretionary budget to the military industrial complex in other terms "The War Machine". Is this a nation that you want to live in?
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 5, 2013 Obama Hardball Interview: A Waste of My Time
This is the reason that Americans no longer trust either major political party. We understand all too well, even with the Presidents best assurances that he is working for the "American people", who he is really working for.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, November 6, 2015 Who is Paying for Hillary's Campaign? Here are some facts.
This information is for all of you Democrats that believe Hillary Clinton will be a "Progressive" woman that will fight for the Middle Class as she has recently espoused. She is just trying to take away some momentum away from the Sanders Campaign by parroting some of his views.
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 29, 2014 Another Sucessful American Propaganda Effort
Russia needs a civil war or a confrontation in Ukraine like most people need cancer. There is nothing in it for them. They sell natural gas to Ukraine and I'm sure they don't want that income to stop. The provinces that are protesting against the people that pulled the coup in Kiev were given to Ukraine by Russia. Kerry is lying, Obama is lying and nobody seems to care.
(91 comments) SHARE Friday, October 23, 2015 Bernie Sanders Greatest Fault
Let me begin by giving you some startling facts.In 1945, our defense budget, even though we were fighting WWII when they drew it up in 1944, was 962 million dollars.. Adjusting this number for inflation at 1221.9%the figure is 127.2 billion dollars. Today we spend 637 billion dollars! That is over five times what we spent in 1944!
(10 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 22, 2018 Democrats are Worse than Republicans!
The Democratic Party is worse than the Republican Party because they will pretend that they are progressive and have the best interests of the people in mind while they vote against our best interests. I have been around the block and I have seen the most treacherous people voted into office time after time because people just aren't paying attention.
(23 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 8, 2012 The Worst Person in the World?
This woman (and I use the term loosely) is going to start a war. She's already laying the groundwork for World War 3 and it appears that she has Obama's blessing. On Friday in Paris, she slammed both China and Russia for blocking military intervention in Syria.
SHARE Monday, June 20, 2011 Cunningham Deported! With Stephen Lendman
Freelance journalist Finian Cunningham was ordered out of Bahrain on 18 June by the authorities as a result of his critical journalism covering the popular uprising and the subsequent, ongoing brutal repression of the peaceful pro-democracy movement. He had been living in Bahrain for three years, and was there at the outset of the recent uprising on 14 February.
(33 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 25, 2017 The System is Broken
What I am about to say is not conjecture or opinion, it's just fact. The United States refuses to spend the money it receives from its people, to benefit the people from which you received that money. Why do People pay into a system that totally ignores the people who sustain it? Why did they give our money to other countries so that they may help their citizens?
(32 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 27, 2016 The Democrats Blew Themselves Up
So it goes again. The most disgusting propaganda that I have ever seen. They portrayed Hillary Clinton as a Grandmother ho only has the best interests of the nation in her heart. The truth is that this woman has no heart
(37 comments) SHARE Friday, February 28, 2014 Playing with Fire and Burning the World
We are desperately trying to encircle Russia so that they are incapable of responding to a first nuclear strike by the US by putting missiles around Russia that would destroy their missile before they could launch a retaliatory strike. This is a catastrophe, not just for Russia, but for the World. We are playing with fire and it could burn us all... literally.
(21 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 30, 2014 I Didn't Sign Up for This
I had a different mindset.
Today I am looking at the World that my service, along with millions of other people helped to create. The least I can say is that I am aghast at what we have helped to create and I apologize for my part in what we have succeeded in achieving; a near fascist nation with the military power to subjugate every nation on the planet.
(10 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 29, 2010 Bye Bye American Pie
The problem with capitalism is that it works fine when the economy is expanding, but when it is shrinking" not so good. This is but one facet of the argument between capitalism and socialism.
(23 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 25, 2013 Why Are the Majority of Americans Pissed?
Obama wants to fix the World and the poor bastard can't even fix Detroit. How does he think that makes him look in the eyes of the World? This is a President that should be on anti-depressants. If I were Obama I might just go into the Oval Office , close the door and put a shotgun in my mouth. The World has never seen a bigger loser than Barack Obama. This is a guy that won the Presidency (twice) and lost his soul.
(40 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 28, 2015 Bernie Needs To Speak Truth To Power (and try to stay alive)
Still, with all the great things Senator Sanders says about how the Middle Class is getting screwed by the corporate state, there are a few things that he doesn't talk about. If he reads this article, or anyone on his campaign staff reads this, there are a few questions Sanders needs to address before I join the I Love Bernie Crowd.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 5, 2012 It's Complicated
The bankers, the politician and the media have become dangerous. People have had so much taken from them in the last few decades, remaining asleep is no longer an option. The people have lost their homes, their savings and most importantly, their freedom.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 10, 2018 It's All Russia's Fault
In the United Nations, our ambassador Nikki Haley, has promised to "slap the Russians" if they get out of line. Between Russia interfering in our elections by posting things on Facebook and helping their longtime ally Syria, the government of the United States, the same government whose "Homeland Security" and the National Security Agency has garnered the names of 25,00 journalists and may intercept and read any e-mail, texts.
(18 comments) SHARE Friday, March 3, 2017 Demonizing Russia and Doing Our Best to Start World War III
Everything I hear about Russia is bad, and yet, no intelligence agency we have spend billions of dollars on, can prove that the Russians have done anything against the United States. I hear pundits and politicians speak of the nefarious things that Russia does to us as, if they had a clue as to what the real facts are.
(26 comments) SHARE Monday, April 13, 2015 Why Continue to Try and Change America's Path?
When I first started writing I was just realizing that after a 30 year intellectual coma (a hang-over from the Vietnam experience), that if people could only realize what I was realizing, that we could straighten out the mess we has put our nation and the World in. How very naive.
(33 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 23, 2014 War from the Shadows
Today, we have gone well past the Orwellian descriptions of the Ministry of Truth written about in the novel "1984". Today we have a much more sophisticated way to disseminate information that will enable the rulers and ruled alike, to come to the conclusions that the people who wield the real power, want them to come around to.
(26 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 14, 2014 We'll Never Learn
Making a video of a person having his head severed is very dramatic. I wonder what IS has to gain from exposing this to the World? I mean when America bombs the crap out of a wedding party in Yemen or Somalia, they don't show the limbless dead babies and severed heads lying around the craters for the World to see.
(9 comments) SHARE Friday, June 23, 2017 The Real Reason for Slashing Health Care
The government, Republicans and Democrats all have a stake in how much money we spend on defense. Even Bernie Sanders of Vermont has a stake in how much money we spend on defense because the F 35 is made in Vermont. The military-industrial complex has put down roots in every state in this nation. Every Congressman or Sen. has a constituency that relies on defense spending. This is not by chance, this has been designed.
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 14, 2010 The Truth and Its Consequences
The stateless multi-national corporations consistently depict happy scenes of American families to stimulate our endorphins and lead us to believe that all is well and we are prosperous and happy. To do otherwise might cause us to stop spending on cheap imports. They work to insure that consumer confidence remains high.
(27 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 11, 2012 What Did We Learn From This Election? We Learned We Have No Choice.
We have real issues in this country and electing Mr. Drone attack Kill master is not going to solve any of them. In reality, he is the cause of many of our problems, problems that did not come up in any of the three debates. Let's discuss some of these problems without any of the tacky bullshit the Democrats and Republicans came out with.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 13, 2011 Occupy and the AFL-CIO at the Republican Debate in Spartanburg, SC
The Occupy people really didn't need or ask help from the union people. It was real nice of them to join us and walk with us, but I was just a little pissed-off that they attempted to co-opt the protest. They didn't ask any of the Occupy people to speak at their meeting and that was kind of a slap in the face
(9 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 27, 2013 The Trial Of Bradley Manning as Seen by A Career Soldier
Now we had situation where a Private First Class was allowed to access sensitive information that showed beyond a reasonable doubt that the American military was committing atrocities and crimes that were against not only his moral code, but were against military law and the Geneva Conventions
(12 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 20, 2007 Kosovo Could Spark a US-Russian Military Confrontation
The Soviets see the situation in Kosovo as a way to show the world that they are again a force to be reckoned with in the world. Stratfor predicts that Russia could launch a light military operation to keep Kosovo from gaining independence.
(12 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 26, 2016 Will the Democrats Give Us What We Want? Yeah. Right
The truth as I see it is that Sanders finds himself in a quandary along with the rest of anyone to the left of the unhinged Democratic oligarchy. One reason for this is the obvious underhanded way that the Clinton camp purged voting rolls in many States and exit polls did not mirror the final vote in States like California
SHARE Sunday, August 28, 2011 Manufacturing Opinion, Today's Mainstream Media
There is a silver lining in this however; many people have become journalists out of necessity and a desire that people know the truth. For many, what started out as a way to register their discontent in the way that news has been presented to Americans, many Americans have found themselves becoming full-time reporters.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 11, 2011 Wall Street is at it Again! This Time It's France!
Now the banks in the United States are inundating France with credit default swaps. France has more credit default swaps was than it ever had in its history. This is being caused by investors from America and the UK. According to Max Keiser from RT, the Americans and the Brits know exactly where the bodies are buried in France, and know just what assets they are betting against.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 11, 2011 Occupy to Shut Down West Coast Ports Monday
Occupy is at it again. Tomorrow morning, Monday 12/12, Occupy will shut down All West Coast ports from Seattle to San Diego. Houston Occupy has indicated that they will join in with solidarity and shut down the Port of Houston.
(11 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 4, 2018 Trump's Been Good for America!
Under Barack Obama we bombed seven nations and put many journalists in jail. We carried out drone strikes that wiped out entire families and sent hellfire missiles into wedding parties. We arm Saudi Arabia and then help them with their logistics to refuel the planes and supply munitions so that they could kill fishermen and farmers iYYemen Yemen.
(15 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 31, 2017 What is Important Today?
I know that the subject isn't as interesting as hearing about people in Hollywood behaving badly, but when someone in your family comes home in a casket and you never really find out why they died, it will be then that you realize which of these two subjects was more important.
(10 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 26, 2018 America: The Enemy?
The people of the United States understand that our government does not act in the best interests of the American people and it does not act in the best interests of the planet. One only must look to movies and television shows that people have been watching. In almost every plot the United States has been the antagonist.
(21 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 27, 2010 North Korea: A Bastard State
Sometimes a preemptive war is justified. In the case of North Korea, I can't think of anything that would more justify a premptive strike. They are not going to listen to reason. Reason is not their strong suit. If Obama wants to be a war President, let him ponder the options of dealing with North Korea.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Revolt Against American Militarism
Once again we see the President of the United States go back on his campaign rhetoric. The man has a hard time with the truth, and thus the reputation of the United States is further sullied.
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 20, 2013 The Criminal False Flag -"War on Terror"
In essence, what I'm maintaining here is that this "War on Terror" is a propaganda tool used by the United States to provide justification for external and internal decisions by our government to achieve total subjugation of the American people.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, April 15, 2011 Enough About Cutting Entitlements-Cut the Military Budget!
We have a situation where we spend more on our military than all the other nations on Earth combined. We are doing it today, and what are our fearless leaders talking about in Congress? How to reduce the average Americans entitlements!
(13 comments) SHARE Monday, July 3, 2017 America: A Supposed""Democracy"
There are many societies today that have free speech and can criticize their governments without repercussions but that no way qualify as democracies. The best example that I can think of is the United States of America. In America, true democracy has been subverted by everything from CIA infiltration of the NYTimes to reprogramming the voting machines.
(22 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 10, 2019 Hell Yes I'm A Socialist!
It's not something that is "free". Shawn Hannity, in a typical rant, accidentally pointed out the virtues of socialism. Also, he accused Alexandria of Ocasio-Cortes of wanting to ban cars, trucks, and cows.
(15 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 18, 2017 A Sane Solution To The Korean Nuclear Crisis
Still, I would hope that the nations of the world will unite to deny North Korea the means to launch nuclear attacks on Japan and the United States.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, August 12, 2019 This is America?
find that the information we have been provided does not make any sense. Why would they take him off the suicide watch, while when only a week before he had tried to hang himself his jail cell? The first time he tried to kill himself he had a cellmate and yet there's name has not been released to the public. One day after he was taking off of suicide watch they found him unresponsive and almost dead in his jail cell.
(30 comments) SHARE Friday, May 23, 2014 We Can Change The Mainstream Media!
These are the kinds of things the news media should be telling us. Forgive me if I'm telling you things you already know, there are people reading this article where these thoughts never occurred to them. This is why I'm trying to reach out to make them aware that we are only getting half the story from the media.
(12 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 30, 2010 What We Face in the United States
When I looked into the propaganda that was going on, I noticed that there were also many Democrats jumping in line with Bush and Cheney. I saw very few people that showed any sense of rationality.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 9, 2007 A Letter to President Bush's Ex-Best Friend, President Putin
It's like the old movie where they say "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!" and the curtain is pulled away by a little dog, and you see who the great wizard really is. Well in this case it would be Dick Cheney, the man who is now pretending to be the Vice-President of the United States.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, December 10, 2010 America's Changing Society
People like Lieberman and Hillary Clinton have climbed so far down the rabbit hole that they no longer have a grasp on reality. These are people that believe their own propaganda. They have been serving out this Kool-Aid for so long that they have begun to sample it themselves.
(9 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 14, 2012 America is Gone. Welcome to Police State Amerika
A directive signed by George W. Bush on May 9, 2007, that allows the President to declare martial law, effectively transforming the U.S. into a dictatorship with no checks and balances from the Legislative or Judicial Branches.
SHARE Monday, January 24, 2011 Prisons for Profit
Our prison system needs reform. This is almost impossible because so many are profiting from it. The prison guards and officials, the companies that run privatized prisons and the stockholders of these companies. In 2007, according to the National Association of State Budgeting Officers, states spent $44 billion in tax dollars on corrections.
(10 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 21, 2007 "Commonsense" and Our Two Never-Ending Wars
Now, if I told you that almost 50% of the Unites States tax receipts went to military spending, would you think me a liar? Well I would be, because it's more than 50%.
(50 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 28, 2015 This Is World War III
I first realized that World War III was about to take place just before the Olympic Games in Sochi. The coverage of the games hardly mentioned the sports and competitions, instead, it was a non-stop demonetization of Russia and Vladimir Putin. I heard diatribes about how unprepared the Russians were to host the games, how much money they spent on them and how the games were bound to fail.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, October 9, 2017 Preposterous and Sickening
I spent 20 years in the military I was stationed in Korea and I know the people and I speak the language. The Korean people are the most gracious and friendly people that I have ever met. I like them so much that every other year I would go back and spend another year with them. It's Donald Trump want to solve the problem and North Korea that maybe he should get on Air Force One and go meet them.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 28, 2006 Retirement in a Foreign Country
Some thoughts about retiring to another country. The pros and cons and the choices we make.
(13 comments) SHARE Friday, February 15, 2019 A New Day, A New War
his is not the first time that the United States has attempted to overthrow the Venezuelan government. I think its common knowledge that the United States was backing the coup that tried to remove Hugo Chavez. Now we are back at it trying to remove Nicholas Maduro from the Presidency of Venezuela. We are Not only complicit in trying to foment a coup in that country by recognizing a puppet put up by the CIA.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 24, 2010 Too Weird to Make Up, The "Cheonan" Sinking
Have we gotten to the point where we have so effectively muzzled the mainstream press that they have become more selective in their reporting of anything that might cast doubt on the official government "spin" on things than agencies of the government?
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 26, 2014 Obama and Kerry; Out of Their League
This is all a big game for the big bankers and the military industrial complex. This is a chance for them to make big profits off the hapless circumstance of a nation in turmoil. Turmoil that we (meaning the US and the EU caused).
(8 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 13, 2010 Democracy is Coming...to the USA
Americans are starting to understand just where their government places their priorities. In 2008, the largest transfer of wealth in recorded history took place right in front of our eyes. Over 14 Trillion dollars went to the oligarchs of Wall Street in the form of taxpayer money. Did that transfer of wealth actually help American families? Not by a long shot, but last year, bonuses on Wall Street were up by 18%.
(19 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 13, 2012 Blowback
After what NATO did to Libya, any sane Secretary of State should have housed diplomats in Libya in a secure environment. The shock and disappointment that Clinton displayed after the bombing displayed her naivety. If she actually thought that all Libyans would welcome Americans with open arms after we bombed the nation back to the stone-age, she was mistaken. This is called blowback.
(35 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 13, 2014 Psycho Killers
Does the United States believe that it is so powerful that it can intimidate Russia? This is hubris at its most dangerous level. To think that we can engage in a war with Russia is madness. There is no way in hell that NATO can muster an army that could defeat Russia. We are not talking about Syria or Iraq or Libya, we are talking about Russia that has a nuclear arsenal larger than ours.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 15, 2012 The New American Reality
We are now facing an America that is run by the military-industrial-complex. They have control of both American major party political candidates. This is the American reality.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 9, 2012 The Loss of American Democracy
While both corporate-candidates will be throwing numbers and percentages around until November, I believe that this time would be better spent examining all of the candidates. Not on their economic track record alone, but on their qualifications for holding office, especially the office of President. This means examining everything they have done, and everything they have failed to do, in their political careers.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 16, 2007 Big Oil Screws America
What a great deal! The oil companies now deliver LESS oil at a higher price and make more money! How's that for a racket! That's like getting a huge pay raise, working less, and making the same or more.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 13, 2011 Hold Both Parties Responsible for Bankrupting the USA
The foremost of these facts is that we can no longer permit the Federal government to spent 53% of our taxable revenue for military spending, Homeland Security, and the many intelligence agencies that in a large part duplicate each other's work. 53 cents out of every taxable dollar goes to these endeavors. This takes away from fixing our crumbling infrastructure, educating our young people and paying off our debt.
(18 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 21, 2017 An Article About Sanity
What I didn't like about Bernie Sanders, was the fact that he never mentioned cutting the defense budget and using that money to finance all the things he espoused during his campaign. To me, he still represented the Washington that I have come to know and despise.
(34 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 12, 2013 Ashamed to Be An American?
I believe that the Occupy Movement should re-emerge. This country is no longer ours. It's being run by people that could well be sociopaths. I'm ashamed to be an American. I have my passport and I'm ready to bolt. Things are getting out of hand here in America and I feel that I should add my voice of dissent.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 18, 2010 American Hegemony: The Final Outcome
Our government should be concerned with the people it governs. We should protect our nation. That doesn't mean that we have the right to invade our citizen's personal freedoms and to subject our citizen's to unwarranted searches and seizures because of their political or religious beliefs.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 21, 2011 America is a Dictatorship and I Can't Stop It
This isn't a president this is a dictator. In fact, the whole country is fed up with both Congress, the executive branch, and the judiciary. That is our entire federal government as laid out by our Constitution.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, January 12, 2015 Blowback is a b*tch
Since 9/11 we have vilified Muslims. We have waged war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Sudan, Somalia and now in Syria. It isn't just the United States, France was one of the countries that provided aircraft to bomb Libya and sent their Army into Mali. It seems like it is a free for all in the Middle East and Muslim Africa. If you are Muslim, you are a target.
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 13, 2012 The Petraeus Odyssey"So Far"
Now, this morning we learn that Gen. John Allen, the top American commander in Afghanistan, was under investigation for having sent x-rated e-mails to Jill Kelly, the volunteer liaison person for the Tampa-McDill Area, and the same person that originally went to the FBI that launched this entire investigation. General Allen was in line to become Supreme Allied Commander Europe.
(8 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 9, 2011 Revolution is A Legitimate Option
Unless this government is willing to come to terms and look for other ways out of this financial crisis such as stopping these wars of aggression and holding corporations to the same standard it holds its citizens insofar as taxation, I believe that the government is not looking out for the welfare of the people. We have a right to act accordingly.
(11 comments) SHARE Friday, March 4, 2011 Western Journalists Fail to Report the Facts about Libya Objectively
How often are we going to allow the American military to act as the world's policemen? In the long run, we stand to gain nothing from interfering in the politics of Libya. This will only turn out to be another in a long list of military attacks on sovereign nations.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 18, 2010 Obama, Wake Up!
If I woke up one morning and found that I was the President, after I accepted that fact, maybe if I believed I was dreaming and just decided to go along with this particular dream, these are some of the things I would do.
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 2, 2013 The Dark Side of America
The people in politics and the media like to call it "spin". That's another way to say propaganda without offending anyone's sensibilities. They call torture "enhanced interrogation". They call those who fight against Western domination and imperialism "insurgents". When they resort to violence against out interests they are called "terrorists". When they act on our behalf they are called "freedom fighters".
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 5, 2017 Untruths in the Media? Really?
I'm glad that everyone is finally waking up to the fact that we hear things there just not true coming from social media. My wish is that people would start talking about how we hear things that are also not true coming from all media and in reality, also coming from our own government.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 24, 2011 The People of Wisconsin Need to Trust Their Governor and the Federal Government
For some unexplainable reason, many people on the planet absolutely hate us. I'm sure that it is all a mistake. Once people from other nations get to know us, they usually end up loving us, even asking America to build military bases on their soil to protect their citizens the way we protect our own. In fact we have 724 military bases in other nations:
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 16, 2011 Think the Occupy movement is Dead? Think Again.
Today we watched as Occupy movements in Oakland and New York and many other cities that have Occupy groups finally moved on the encampments. Most of these cities had their Mayors participate in a conference call on Tuesday. They seem to have come up with a unified response to the Occupy Movement. All I can say is that these measures are pointless.
(8 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 23, 2018 What are We Doing in Syria to Begin With?
As a former recruiter for the United States Army, I could not in good conscience enlist young Americans to fight overseas in wars that they don't understand.
(16 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 15, 2017 President Trump: Obey the Constitution!
spent six years in Korea and I know what I'm talking about. North Korea is a pariah state and needs to come to the table and talk civilly to the South Koreans and to America. Saber rattling is not the way to go on this. I understand that we don't want North Korea to have nuclear missiles that can destroy bases in Japan and eventually they will be able to hit our West Coast. You must offer the North Koreans a way out of this,
(19 comments) SHARE Monday, October 4, 2010 We Need an Alternative to the Democrats and the GOP
I've been thinking of late about how to break free of the influence of that the corporations have on American politics. I believe that one must understand the complexities that plague this issue. Corporations have picked up First Amendment rights and are considered "people" by the courts.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 19, 2011 Is This the Beginning of The Second American Revolution?
There are movements in other States in support of Wisconsin. Union members that aren't even members of the public sector are supporting the demands of the public employees in Madison. There is a good reason for this. After the public sector's right for collective bargaining is trashed, the Republican's will be coming after the trade unions.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, November 15, 2010 "Winning" a Nuclear War
Our government has been talking about "limited nuclear war" for so long now that I believe that they have fallen for their own rhetoric. Who will guarantee that "just enough" nukes will rain down on Iran and win this "all-important war" that could sacrifice the human race?
(12 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 25, 2018 A Nation Gone Blind
States want to bring about regime change? What exactly is Iran doing? Give us the details of what they are doing and why they are doing it. All we hear is how Iran is evil and that they might make nuclear weapons. Here's the thing, India has nuclear weapons, Pakistan has nuclear weapons, Israel won't say if they have nuclear weapons are not but we know they do, and yet the United States has turned a blind eye to all of this
SHARE Wednesday, June 15, 2011 "Regime Change" Right Here in America
Here in the United States the rhetoric coming out of Washington is that the nation is basically broke and must cut entitlements and benefits along with social programs. This is the height of hypocrisy. The facts are that the United States is still the richest nation on the planet. We have almost triple the amount of GDP for China, with only a fourth of China's population.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, January 10, 2011 How to Defeat American Fascism
Everyday people like you and I need to remember this. When issues like extending the Bush tax cuts or a debate on corporate tax cuts comes along, we need to remember just who it is that the politicians need to payback Mussolini once remarked that fascism could be called "corporatism".
(10 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 19, 2014 Strange Days Indeed!
No nation is exceptional. No nation is indispensable. All nations are exceptional in their own ways and all nations are indispensable as the human race now lives in a world that has a global economy that is interconnected more now than at any other time in history. The fact is, we are all connected and not just through the mainstream media. We talk to people from other nations through Skype, Facebook and Twitter.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 15, 2011 A Good Look at the Countries America Loves to Hate
So where is the justification in starting a no-fly zone over Libya? Hasn't the U.S. learned its lesson in interfering in other nation's internal affairs? Just who made Obama the king of the world? Why doesn't he try to emulate some of the achievements that these three countries I just wrote about have managed to achieve?
(11 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 22, 2010 Why Afghanistan?
It's been reported that the Taliban gave al Qaeda a free hand to operate in this poor, backwards country which led to the September 11th attacks on the United States in 2001, and that this is the primary reason that the United States and NATO operate on the premise that if we don't develop a strong central government in Kabul, that more attacks will surely hit the United states "Homeland" after being planned in Afghanistan.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, November 12, 2010 A New American Revolution
The only thing they have not taken into consideration is the backlash of the people that have been excised from the American dream. Where will they find substance for their families? What will happen to the anger that will grow when people no longer have meaningful work to do?
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, August 8, 2016 Could This Be Life or Death?
Now here's the way I feel and I don't want to scare you but I believe if Hillary Clinton is elected president of the United States there may never be another election. This belligerence towards Russia may very well be our undoing. In reality, there is no reason why we are so bellicose towards Russia.
(13 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 8, 2015 America Beware
Lately I've seen a dramatic change in the attitude of the American people.This article will not be a political rant or a tirade against this modern American facsimile of the American "New Roman Empire", rather it will delve into the mindset of the American public.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 28, 2011 Worse Than the Cold War or Vietnam -- America Today
We are living George Orwell's 1984. The mujahedin are Oceania or Eurasia. It's all a lie. These are wars for resources. Don't kid yourself anymore. We are in deep sh*t. This is worse than the Cold War or Vietnam.
(8 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 22, 2017 United We Stand...
In my later years I look at what is happening, and the more I learn, the more dismayed I am. I watch my nation overthrow the governments of other nations and completely obliterate the civilizations that these nations created. One must only must only look at Libya to see how much damage this nation has done. It seemed that every year this country has a new enemy.
(21 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 22, 2007 "The Great Awakening" of the American People
It's not Kuchinich that have attracted the people, its Paul. The truth is that during this "Great Awakening" the people of this country have heard, and are listening to him. He is speaking truth to power, and for a myriad of reasons, he is catching on like no other candidate I have ever seen in my lifetime, that includes John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 7, 2018 Progressive Meltdown
There are two shows that I watch on YouTube and they are the Jimmy Dore Show and "Ring of Fire" with Farron Cousins. I usually agree with both gentlemen on a wide variety of issues. Both men are progressive's, and both usually make a lot of sense. Recently however, I heard Mr. cousins deride Mr. Dore for sharing his opinion on the Florida Governor's race.
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 8, 2013 Obama: Shrewd or Just Stupid?
If the Congress fails to authorize this strike (and that appears likely), the President could emulate the British Prime Minister David Cameron with an "I get it" remark. This would allow him to extricate the United States out of the Middle East where nothing is completely white or black or good or bad.
(9 comments) SHARE Monday, May 26, 2014 Before You "Thank Them for Their Service"...
The real way to honor those that died is to honor their comrades lived and laughed and that fought beside them. We are not doing that no matter how much people "thank them for their service".
(12 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 14, 2010 What is Our Alternative to the Corporate Controlled Political Parties?
One must understand that most of the candidates presented, whether Republican or Democrats, are foisted upon us by their corporate benefactors. The everyday people have no real representation on the Federal level. This is a situation that must change, and change soon.
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Viva Chavez!
Chavez will leave a void that will surely be missed. We can only hope that the United States stays out of the politics in that nation and allows the Venezuelan people to decide their own future without our county's interference. I can only hope that we learned our lesson in the coup that removed Chavez from power before the people rose up and had him reinstated.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 17, 2013 America: Running Out of Time
The two prime issues that every American should care deeply about is the disparity of Wealth in America and The Two-Party System, both are interconnected and usurp democracy in any form. As long as money influences government and the people that are elected to run that government, democracy is impossible.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 7, 2019 Walking Towards Facism
Why Marco Rubio is fomenting a revolution in Venezuela is a crime. Marco Rubio has no business getting involved in the internal affairs of another country. This Florida Senator should worry about his own constituency instead of flying to Columbia and threatening the Venezuelan government. His involvement in this matter should be reviewed by the Senate ethics committee.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 18, 2019 Regime Change Could be a Good Thing for the US
it's no wonder that people don't trust politicians and their approval ratings are in the toilet. The 1% of the economic scale don't know how precarious their positions are. All the endless wars and legal bribery of our politicians must stop. When little Johnny goes to war and theses fighting for his country currently, the fact is that he is not. He is fighting for corporations to get resources and to feed the defense industry.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 17, 2010 American Propaganda
We exist under an oligarchy and have existed under it from the time of our nation's inception. The Constitution was designed not for the common man, but for those that had the wealth to exercise power.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, July 9, 2012 Current TV and the American Media
The way I see it, Current TV was wasting precious media time by engaging in partisan politics in a corrupted, malevolent world. I mean who cares? Is Romney worse than Obama? Does any of it actually mean something? If Romney was elected President, would anything change? If Obama stays in office, would the world be a better place?
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 2, 2017 Russia Conquered Ukraine!
I can see that not watching the mainstream media for almost a year now has left me out in the cold. I know that the network of Walter Cronkite would never lie to its viewers. After all, CBS is a trusted name that everyone knows would never lie, especially about such a dire situation as Russia conquering Ukraine. That kind of talk could start an international incident.
SHARE Monday, September 10, 2018 Why NATO'S Important to America
All the events in the last few weeks have made me believe that all governments change and morph into different forms than when they started out. This leads me back to my thoughts about NATO.
(17 comments) SHARE Monday, March 17, 2014 Governence Under Delusion (GUD)
There is a difference between not knowing what is going on and not wanting to know what's going on. When one does not want to see the reality of what is happening, that is a conscious decision. This is a decision that I see my fellow citizens making every day.
(7 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 26, 2018 This is Our Time
It's amazing how some people believe that they live in a democracy. We have 350 million people in United States and only two major political parties. The truth of the matter is that both political parties the Democrats and Republicans are controlled by corporations and the military-industrial complex. Americans do not have a voice and haven't had a voice for very long time.
(12 comments) SHARE Friday, February 24, 2017 The Democratic Party Must Transform!
I would like people understand that I believe this country needs an opposition to right-wing/conservative politicians that work for the Corporations. Unfortunately, these politicians can be found in both the Democratic and-Republican parties. It would be naive of anyone to think that all Republicans are bad, and all Democrats are good. This is simply not the case.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, June 3, 2011 I Am A Dissident
Let me be frank. I'm not saying for a moment that America was ever a "shining light of democracy" or a nation that was totally pure in deed and actions. Still, at one time, it was the world's best chance since ancient Athens to create something noble. This nation was once an experiment to build a nation that was "of the people, and for the people".
(14 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Obama Really Went Too Far at the UN.I Call Him Out On It.
It is obvious to me that the United States has absolutely no idea what it is doing. It decries foreign involvement in other nations, bur seemingly reserves that right for itself. Ask the Libyan refugees how it's going for them after NATO's jet's bombed them back to the stone age. They didn't even get a chance to vote on it!
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 7, 2013 If Truth is Treason: Bradley Manning
The truth is something that needs to be told. Manning, I believe, is ready to accept whatever punishment is doled out, but I believe that the punishment should be measured. The truth is that Manning put his personal security at risk to tell the public what the truth really was. This is an exceptional person. I don't believe he is a traitor, rather I think of him as a patriot.
(16 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 7, 2010 See 'Ya Later
The truth is that we are waging a World War for conquest of the world's resources. It's a sad fact, but it's true. The Democratic Congress could have denied funding for all our wars but didn't. Have you ever wondered why?
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 9, 2011 Where America Is and What We Can Do About It
When exactly the Constitution became obsolete is still debatable, but the facts are clear, it is obsolete. It is now very clear that the President can now start a war, at any time, in any place of his choosing. Every day, we routinely kill people in Pakistan, Libya and now Yemen, without any input from Congress.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 1, 2007 A Wake-Up Call To The Democrats
You have held a circus on Capitol Hill with your non-binding "timetable" for pullout of American Forces from Iraq that you all knew would be vetoed by this administration, yet you did it anyway. This was a political stunt and does nothing to change the facts of where we are at today.
(9 comments) SHARE Friday, February 3, 2017 Let's Look at the Real Problem
Instead of worrying about refugees and choosing one religion of being the source of all our problems, the people of the United States and the people of the world need to realize that this planet cannot support 8 billion people. I'm sure the climate change is a big deal many people and it should be. But would also be a big deal the people is that this planet cannot support a population of 8 billion people.
(9 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 20, 2014 Who Gets Left Holding the Bag?
The problem here is that when the top 20% holds 90% of the wealth of this nation, just who are going to buy all these products imported into the US? Just about the only thing that Americans buy anymore are cars to get them to their crappy jobs. Seems like the government forgot about building public transportation. It's a good thing too, or else they wouldn't have any consumer spending at all.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 15, 2017 The Resurgence of the American Media
I am amazed at the way the mainstream media is actually doing investigative journalism. Still, I am also wondering why they were silent during the Bush and Obama administrations. Where were the reporters and the editors when the Bush administration lied us into the Iraq war?
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 30, 2011 A Government Out of Control
You would think that by now we'd have a little better understanding of what's happening in the world now and what happened in the past. When I mention this to people, they all tell me the same thing"people know what's happening but they don't think there's anything they can do about it.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 7, 2010 Are We Crazy?
War seems to be this country's greatest export. The only export that we sell above all other nations is in arms, we are the world's largest purveyors of instruments of death. We spend over half of our discretionary spending on our military.
(13 comments) SHARE Monday, June 1, 2015 Doing What the PTB Want Us to Do
Therefore, I put this thought to them: If Bernie Sanders endorses Hillary Clinton, and becomes a supporter of the Democrats, then just get the hell away from that party. Meanwhile, we should all be supporting Sanders in what he is saying now. The fact is that they are dividing us by employing trolls and gatekeepers to keep his message from reaching the people on the street.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 19, 2011 The Reason We are Becoming a Second Rate Nation
We need, more than any other legislation, honest campaign finance reform. The money that has entered politics has brought heinous results. The Republicans and many Democrats are working hand in glove with the people that keep them in power
(10 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 7, 2011 Taking Us for Fools
Will we be forced into a revolution to stop the spiral of debt that they put us under, or will the corporate-controlled politicians see the handwriting on the wall and do the people's will before we revolt? It is only a matter of time.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, October 7, 2013 The Two-Party System is a Farce
President Obama, a Constitutional scholar and lawyer knows what time it is. He will absolutely will not allow the Federal Government to default. The Republican extremists know this and are trying to force his hand. He is damned if he does let the government default and he will be damned by using an Executive Order to keep it running.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 21, 2013 What Does "National Security" Really Mean? Depends on Who You Talk To. Redux.
The trouble with the above scenario is that we have plenty to worry about. The middle class of America is quickly becoming extinct. The fact is that 10% of the population owns 90% of the wealth in this country. The sad part of this is that they are not investing it back into the American economy.
(9 comments) SHARE Monday, February 20, 2017 A Presidential Victim
see how many military bases and how many missile sites surround Russia. Trump says NATO is obsolete. Not only is NATO obsolete, it is also a trigger for World War III. We spend billions every year propping up this alliance that has no real meaning today. This is money that could go to our schools and are infrastructure and social programs.
(11 comments) SHARE Monday, November 12, 2012 Now they're Coming for Your Social Security!
It's a freaking game. It's a way to make the middle class and lower classes pay the governments debts. What are we paying all of this for? We are paying back the three Trillion dollars they paid to the bankers to keep this broken capitalistic system going!
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, July 26, 2010 Will the U.S. Annex Latin America?
We all know what this "War on Drugs" in Latin America really is. It is a way for America to achieve full-spectrum dominance in an area that has seen nations like Venezuela and Bolivia and the other nations of ALBA trying to escape domination by the United States and its corporate rulers. If we can't win in an area by economic warfare, the military option is never far behind.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 29, 2011 Responsibility, Accountability and "The Slippery Slope"
The world has changed greatly in a very short amount of time. The political landscape has become dangerous. It appears that the people who speak up are usually the ones that end up on the receiving end of a scandal and/or legal charges. If trends continue, speaking out could become dangerous. We already have a government that can assassinate any American citizen at will.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 3, 2010 The "One Nation Rally". Time to up the Ante
The one thing my experience tells me is that large gatherings like this only get larger with time. In the late "60's we were overwhelmed by the seemingly unreachable goal of ending the draft and getting out of Vietnam. It wasn't until the early seventies when each progressive gathering at the Capitol got larger and larger did the people and their government realize that Vietnam was a no-win situation.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 31, 2013 Gun Control or Crappola?
Assault weapons are a fact of life. Criminals are going to get them the same way they get them now, out of the trunk of an illegal gun dealer's car. Of course they should run background checks at gun shows. It's idiotic that they don't do it now. Some of the arguments made both for gun control and against gun control are imbecilic. Do you know how quickly you can change magazines? It takes about 5 seconds.
(13 comments) SHARE Monday, September 6, 2010 The "Good" Germans of the 21st Century
I think of all the munitions we used in Iraq. I am disgusted at our use of "depleted" uranium in our ordinance that poisons the air and ground and the water tables and has a half-life of over 400,000 years. Mothers and Fathers in Iraq don't ask if it's a boy or a girl.
SHARE Friday, May 6, 2011 More Government Lies and Deception
So is it any wonder that so many people don't trust the government or the mainstream media? How many times have they lied to us? Remember the babies in Kuwait getting thrown out of incubators, the Jessica Lynch story that was staged, to the reports that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. How about the reports that Gadhafi was bombing his own people without any proof?
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 10, 2015 Responsibility to Protect? What Happened to That?
. Hardly a word was said when we bombed the Libyan army and air force, their power plants and water supply infrastructure. It seems that the participating NATO air forces has a ball getting real time practice waging war from the safety of the Mediterranean Sea, launching from American aircraft carriers, and coming back to hot chow and a comfortable bunk.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, February 27, 2017 Trump Can't Bully America
This country is not just becoming a fascist state because of Donald Trump, has been becoming a fascist state for years now. Since the Bush administration, we have lost more civil liberties than ever before and watched the Bill of Rights being torn to shreds right in front of our eyes" and without hardly a wimper from the people of America.
(8 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 18, 2007 Snips From The "Enemy" Blogs
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Can't we all just "get along"? What's up with all of this military hardware all over the world. Why can't America just leave other nations alone?
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, March 15, 2013 The Deficit: Are We Really Idiot Dolts?
The government's broke. Believe that and I've got some stock tips I'll sell you. This is just a scam to get every last dollar out of every working class stiff, while the rich are enjoying the highest wages ever! The corporations are recording record profits! Who are the idiotic dolts in this country? Well, I guess they're you and me. We don't seem to do anything about it
(10 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 24, 2008 Is This President Above The Law? A Real Question to The Senate.
Compared to what President George W. Bush has lied about, the Clinton deception hardly warrants a footnote in the history books, yet we all wait to see if the very same standards that applied to Clinton will be applied to Bush.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 5, 2007 Republicans and Democrats have Become Obsolete
The two main political parties should be disbanded, they are irrelevant. Most Americans that don't make their living in politics see no great difference between the Democrats and the Republicans. The issues that separate them no longer apply.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 30, 2012 No Longer America?
Since the end of World War II, and especially after the end of "The Cold War", America has morphed into something else, something a bit more sinister, more self-involved, and something more imperialistic. This nation now strives for global hegemony, for control of this planet, all powerful and led by the wealthiest elites.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, October 31, 2011 The Logical Outcome Of The Occupy Movement
One thing has become abundantly clear, and this is probably the most important part of the movement; most of the 99%'ers are not asking the United States government to do a thing. This is the part that the mainstream media cannot comprehend. Where is the list of demands from the protesting people?
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 19, 2012 I Don't Want to Conquer the World. They Can Count Me Out.
I didn't enjoy writing this at all. It's because I'm an American citizen. All of this was done in my name and the name of every American citizen. It's about time we changed the direction of this government and you can't do it at the ballot box voting for the Democrat or Republican they decide to put in front of you.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 5, 2012 Welcome to Amerika Chen Guangcheng
This is just another propganda event staged by the Federal government to demonstrate out "American Exceptionalism". We have to demonstrate that we as a "people" will not tolerate the abuse of people in other nations unless of course if we are doing it. In that case "they deserve it".
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Americans Are Being Lied To
Corporate personhood is a myth. The corporations are responsible to no one except their corporate boards and shareholders and their bottom line is profit, not the security of the United States. Go to Wikipedia and look up the definition of corporate personhood. You will see that our government has been perpetrating one of the largest lies in history.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 8, 2011 Restoring the United States to a Representative Democracy
This amendment offered by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) seems to be the only shot we have at destroying corporate influence on the politics of this nation. Our Senators and Representatives are being bought like cattle. They only exist to run for another term.
(10 comments) SHARE Monday, October 26, 2015 America Needs a Social Revolution!
We hated the Soviet Union because it spied on it's own people and made war on Afghanistan and occupied Eastern Europe. I would like to ask you all a question, are we not doing the same thing? Can someone to tell me what the difference is between the old Soviet Union and America today?
(14 comments) SHARE Friday, April 27, 2007 The 1st Debate: Meet Former Sen. Mike Gravel
The surprise and the best I've saved for last. Out of the blue comes Former Alaskan senator Mike Gravel, who besides adding a little comic relief with his expressions and his biting wit, brought a breath of fresh air to the debate.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 27, 2016 Political Revolution or Just Revolution?
If this is fascism or a dictatorial political system I don't know what is. The debate used to be set by the League of Women Voters. That wasn't good enough for the Democrats and Republicans who want to keep everyone else out of the debates so that the American people think they only have a choice between a Democrat or Republican. In my opinion, this is untenable and I will say this, we have no democracy and United state
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 27, 2019 Bernie Needs to Address America's Criminal Foreign Policies
la. It seems that the Trump administration is preparing to engage Venezuela in military confrontations leading to regime change. He needs to talk truth to power and tell this government that involving the United States in the affairs of other sovereign nations affairs while bemoaning the fact that Russia paid Facebook ads in the amount of $5000 is totally hypocritical.
(12 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 11, 2010 Excuse The American Left Mr. Gibbs
The publisher of a large website told me that after the election that "We were going to hold his feet to the fire". I'm doing just that. Why are we in Afghanistan? Are we there to "help" the people of that country? When have we ever invaded another country to "help" them? How much have we "helped" the Iraqi people?
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 22, 2007 An Exclusive Interview with Senator Mike Gravel
This is a transcript of my interview today with former Senator Mike Gravel who is running for President as a Democrat. I was astonished at his candor and his great ideas. I hope that you are too.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Don't Forget About Us
Then there was the economic collapse of 2008. Corporations (including Obama's largest campaign donor Goldman Sachs) started going belly-up because they had rigged the system and were betting on everything under the sun like it was a giant casino. A bail-out was proposed and the American people went ballistic, writing their Congress critters telling them not to give these crooks anything.
SHARE Tuesday, June 21, 2011 An Open Letter to the Tea Party from a Concerned Liberal
The banks lent money for housing to people that either had no qualifying credit history or didn't meet the income requirements for the property that they purchased. They lent money on 110% (or more) of the properties worth. They sold adjustable mortgages that would balloon later on during the term of the mortgage. They revoked the Glass-Segal Act that prohibited speculation like this.
(9 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 15, 2012 The Left Has No Voice
We need a cable news show that will report the truth. Right now we need the truth about Syria, we need the truth about Climate Change; we need the truth about American military installations in other nations. We need the truth about the Patriot Act, we need the truth about the FISA wiretaps of Americans and we need the truth about why the Administration lobbies for the NDAA.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 17, 2011 America is a Military State
This country lives in an aura of fear. The government is constantly raising the threat level, telling us that a "terrorist" attack is imminent. This is hogwash. They have no more idea what the terrorists are planning than you or I. That is if there are any so-called "terrorists" left.
(8 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 11, 2012 Before the Collapse
Basically, the day has arrived where the proverbial piper is rolling into town and someone's got to pay him. The trouble is that there is no money in the bank. Obama isn't going to pay him, and neither is Congress. Nobody in Washington will part with any money unless it's for weapons.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 8, 2010 Wikileaks: The Movie
The whole world is watching this drama unfold. The further we delve into this story, the more unbelievable it gets. Frankly, if this were a movie script, I doubt it would ever see the light of day. If I were a producer, I'd need the writers to tighten this script up.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, December 31, 2010 Unity in 2011
The only good thing that came out of 2010 was that most of the people who still believed in this fractured two-party system finally understood just how corrupt and deceitful the system is.
(10 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 11, 2013 Be the Change
Even though this President has committed an impeachable offense, notice that the "opposition party" has said nothing. This just illustrates how the corporate duopoly really works. The only time that the "opposition party" complains is when it involves side issues like immigration or women's rights. As far as foreign policy goes, the administration uses John McCain to represent America to Egypt.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, December 21, 2007 Let's End This Two-Party System!
We sit silently watching C-Span and root for "our" side, but when the roll call is made we see a lopsided vote, and the most virulent speakers cave-in and vote for bills authorizing the use of force, declaring another nation's military a "terrorist" organization, authorizing more war funds, and creating a new bureaucracy like The Department of Homeland Security that does nothing but gobble up taxpayer's money.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, May 7, 2007 Two Wars With No End in Sight
We have two wars going at the same time and we are losing them both. The "War on Terror" and "The War on Drugs" will never end unless we change tactics and the way we perceive what it is we are fighting.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 30, 2014 What is the Real Truth?
I have a few questions about all of this. President Obama has told us that we must participate because we are the "indispensible" nation. We have the most powerful armed forces and the best led military "that the World has ever known". He says that it is up to us to lead the way. I'm wondering why Turkey, a nation with the largest military in NATO, doesn't get involved?
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 13, 2013 US to Supply Syrian Rebels with Heavy Weapons
Americans are being railroaded into another lose/lose situation in the Middle-east to stop the political hemorrhaging here in America. This is unacceptable and Americans should see this as just what it is. War in order to keep dissent to a minimum is an old trick. People need to look at this for what it really is, something thrown into the mix to keep our eyes off the ball.
SHARE Monday, June 6, 2011 Bahrain and an Interview with Finian Cunningham
We are practically involved in a full-fledged war in Libya, supporting a movement that we know nothing of. Meanwhile we are carrying out military missions that are quite beyond the scope of what the UN approved (meanwhile Congress wasn't even consulted, and that is an impeachable offense).
(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 18, 2018 Who is In Charge?
It's s not only Bernie Sanders and others in United States that raise the issue that it is Congress and not the executive branch that has the authority to use military force, is also the House of Commons in the UK and the French parliament that has raised objections to its leaders using force without consulting their legislative branches.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 13, 2007 Follow the Money (Who Owns Your Govenment?)
First in a series of who gives what to whom. By the People, for the People and of the people is wishful thinking. Until we change how we elect our politicians, we will never have representation.
SHARE Thursday, December 13, 2007 What Does "National Security" Really Mean? Depends on Who You Talk To.
I hate to kick a dead horse but I don't believe the horse is really dead yet. Bush is still a dangerous man. The Republicans have learned nothing from his two nation-damaging tours in office. It appears that most of the Democrats have learned less.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, July 30, 2010 Mr. Obama, Why We are not that Impressed
The one question that I'd rather see answered above all other questions that I could conceivably ask is "Why haven't you held the Bush/Cheney Administration responsible for all of the crimes that were perpetrated under their watch?"
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 27, 2011 Questions We Should Be Asking
To all of you self-described "liberals", don't expect to hear the truth about what's happening on MSNBC. It should have dawned on you a long time ago that they aren't the voice of the left or even the liberal wing of the Democrats; they are the attack vehicle for the DNC.
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 22, 2012 Gingrich in South Carolina... Where Up is Down
In reality, if the press brought up the facts about what Gingrich was doing while he was trying to impeach Clinton, maybe then South Carolinians would care just a little more about his hypocritical behavior. The evangelical Christians here are forgiving, but hypocrisy isn't tolerated well in this State. For someone who attacks the media on a constant basis, they sure dis a good job at hiding certain facts for him.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 11, 2007 Corporate Donations are Now Favoring the Democrats
Think that the Democrats will change things? Think again. Looking at who's on the corporate payroll can take the wind from your sails.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, August 13, 2010 There is no "Professional Left" on Cable
Maybe it's because there is no "Professional Left" on cable. This bickering between cable outlets is designed to keep the American people separated and entwined in "straw man" issues while the real problems of the militarization of the United States goes on and we stay embroiled in a kind of economic class war.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 11, 2012 Change and Cycles Equal Hard Times for America
It's no wonder that the United States is building detention centers and passing draconian laws that remove our civil liberties. As people argue over gay marriage, abortion and other false-flag issues, they don't understand what has happened to the middle-class and the under-class. They find it hard going in today's economy.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 20, 2011 Cut Social Security at your Peril
Cut Social Security and lose the next election. That goes for the Republicans too.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 23, 2007 "Get Out Of Our House!" An Idea Whose Time Has Come!
There is an organization called "Get Out Of Our House" (GOOH pronounced "GO") that is trying to bring ordinary folks into the House of Representatives and unseat all 435 members of the House.
(10 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 2, 2008 Don't Ask Me to Change My Values for Obama or Clinton
The way that the powers that run this country expect us to have "convertible values" and change them to support the one that is in first place is amazing. It's not trendy to have values that can't be reverse engineered to fit the circumstances we find ourselves in.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 4, 2011 "Breaking News!": America Blindsided Again!
Here was another "deal" cooked-up by the politico's in Washington that again voted to keep the rich satisfied at the expense of the Middle Class.
SHARE Friday, May 18, 2012 Is the Occupy Movement Justified?
So who is making money in the world's largest economy? What sector is the wealth going to? Here are some facts that The NY Times doesn't put on their front page. In 2007 according to a University of California study, the top 1% received 346% of the income in the US, while the next 19% got 50.5% and the bottom 80% received a huge 15%.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, January 25, 2008 You Want The Truth? You Can't Handle The Truth!
If not wanting to uncover the truth is the reason for not asking the difficult questions, than we are acting in a manner inconsistent and incompatible in maintaining any type of democracy in our nation.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 27, 2010 American Designs in Latin America
Since the end of World War II, the United States has been involved in overthrowing a government in every nation in Latin America, some more than once. There has been more than one career spent in American clandestine organizations participating in regime changes from start to finish.
(11 comments) SHARE Friday, August 17, 2007 Don't Read This if You Can't Handle "The Truth"
Don't read this if you don't want to admit that The United States has become exactly the opposite of what we once were. We are no longer a free people living in a Democracy.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 16, 2007 Ms. Rodriquez and Class Warfare; A Dime for a Dollar
Edith Rodriquez, 42, died in a hospital, writhing in agony on the floor of the waiting room at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital. For 45 minutes this woman lie dying as passer-bys called 911 on their cell-phones, complaining that the hospital staff would do nothing for her as she vomited blood on the floor.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 18, 2007 The Defense of America , How Much Does it Cost?
Military spending equals about $1,400.00 for every man, woman and child in the U.S. How long can we sustain that kind of outlay?
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, August 13, 2010 We Hold These Truths...
What I can't understand is how we as a nation have come to see such a disparity in the division between upper-class and the middle-class. The Republicans and many Democrats forget that the preamble to the Constitution above says that we should promote the general welfare
(8 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 11, 2015 A Solution to the Quagmire in the Middle East
In a nation that prides itself as a bastion of democracy and free speech, the truth is that the American people are being misled by their own government. The majority of Americans who listen to the mainstream news outlets are being fed government propaganda that has no relation to the truth. This is also shameful.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 10, 2011 America is No Example of Democracy
The truth is that the average citizen in the U.S. has no more power over our Federal government than the average Egyptian demonstrating in Cairo. We are currently involved in a war in Afghanistan that is opposed by 60% of the population according to the latest poll
(29 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 9, 2008 The Issues The Candidates Won't Touch (Part I)
I believe it is important not to overlook these issues. This may be our only opportunity to get the right person for the job of President before we lose our representative republic forever.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, November 18, 2011 The Democratic Minefield
"The Democrats seem to think the Republicans really want a compromise on deficit reduction, but the Republicans aren't primarily concerned about the deficit at all. What they want is to give tax cuts to the rich and pay for it by dismantling the social safety net."
Gee, ya think?
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 5, 2006 Why We Don't Have National Healthcare
Why healthcare will never be offered by the federal government, and what you can do about it.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 17, 2008 Our Government is Lying to Us/Question Authority!
So what do we do about it? We already are doing something about it. There is an undercurrent in this country. Can you feel it?
(15 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 9, 2007 The Media Has Failed the American People!
The underpinnings of a true democracy is the free flow of information and the transparency of government. We have no free flow of information and the government shrouds itself in secrecy.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 2, 2011 Another Corporate-Inspired War?
Of course America will use humanitarian reasons for intervening in Libya. Undoubtedly, the killing of dissidents will be the overt reason for military intervention. American citizens will find reasons to bear the cost of military operations and the loss of life from military operations against Col. Kaddafi.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, June 10, 2013 Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures
The question before us is what are we as a nation going to do about it? How long has our government been spying on us and when did it start? Most importantly, what can we do about it? Can we bring all of the people involved to trial? Of course not, this will be just another blip on the radar for the government. From now on, they will be more careful.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 26, 2012 Try Thinking for Yourself
It won't be long until we are bombing the crap out of Syria. We might be bombing Iran at the same time. Many Americans think this is a great idea. It doesn't matter that neither nation has attacked us, that isn't a prerequisite for warring against another nation. Maybe we'll see Ahmadinejad getting a machete up his ass like we saw with Gadhafi. That should be good for Obama's percentage points in the polls.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 12, 2016 A Corporate State is Threatened
It is no big secret that MSNBC and CNN have donated to the Clinton campaign, yet they never mention it. I believe that the FCC should force news organizations that support one candidate to declare it public ally. In a perfect world, the people that are charged with reporting news should have no skin in the game. Unfortunate corporations are riding roughshod over our representativerepublic
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, July 13, 2012 The Problem is The United States
In fact, it's OK for America to do anything. We can bomb people, assassinate people and put embargoes on nations (an act of war). We can do anything we please, anywhere and at any time. We are a nation of exceptional people.
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 21, 2013 America's Greatest Challenge
Contrary to what the MSM tells us, most people are not idiots. I think that most Americans can look at their lives and pretty much come to this conclusion; they are not living as well as their parents did. There are many Americans who really don't believe that the new American "normal" of working two part-time jobs with no health benefits isn't a "be all, end all" situation.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 11, 2012 What's Wrong with this Picture?
It's OK to vote for the person of your choice, as long as it's the person that we tell you to vote for. Sound confusing? Well it is. It seems that in South Carolina, you can't vote for a write-in candidate for President or Vice-President.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, November 5, 2007 The "War on Terror" brought to you by Corporate America
We were raised to believe that capitalism is the life-blood of this country. To suggest that this very same capitalism is killing our right to be informed citizen's with the right to choose our own leaders sounds too much like a Marxist diatribe, even if it is the truth.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 21, 2012 Complicity of the American People
When did the Germans figure out that they were being led down a road of murder and destruction? Was it when Soviet artillery shells started raining down in Berlin? What will it take for the American people to finally wake up? Will it be Chinese or Russian mushroom clouds obliterating its cities?
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 16, 2012 An Honest Letter to Al Gore
You are a man of conscience. You would have never written "An Inconvenient Truth" if you weren't. This is another Inconvenient Truth. We are being bombarded with government propaganda on a scale that is that is beyond anything this nation has ever experienced.
(9 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 19, 2008 Edwards Looks Like A Winner in South Carolina!
From the welcome he got here in Greenville, South Carolina, Edwards seems to have caught a second wind. He seemed energized by the audience. He's thinner than when I last saw him in 2004, but there is more emotional substance there. I think that this Primary fight on his home turf could be the turning point for him.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 5, 2010 A Fist in the System October 02, 2010
We have been led for the last few decades by the scum of the Earth. They have sold out the American worker with their "Free Trade Agreements". They have outsourced our livelihoods. They have made us into a "service economy" whatever that hype is supposed to mean.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 27, 2007 Jonesboro Peace Rally
A Vet who was exposed to depleted uranium told us that the Army said it was "so safe, you could sprinkle it on your breakfast cereal"
(28 comments) SHARE Monday, November 26, 2007 Beyond Treason; The Call for A Congression Investigation
It is against the U.N. Charter to use weapons of mass destruction and that's exactly what we are doing. Not only on the so-called "enemy", but on our own troops that feel the effects of "Fallout". Yes, you read me right, fallout. This is exactly the same result of a "Dirty Bomb" that the U.S. Government keeps threatening the people of this nation might happen if a "terrorist" explodes radioactive material with a bomb.
(11 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 21, 2007 This "Presidential Executive Order" is Grounds for Arrest
If the reported new "Presidential Executive Order" that authorizes the Federal Government to seize the assets of those that protest the Iraq War, than the time has come for a fight.
SHARE Monday, August 22, 2011 First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin
While the leaders in Washington fight, for things that they know are not exactly right.from the Congressional floor. When the country is split and we fight amongst ourselves and the corporations turn their backs on this fundamental hell, we all sit and wonder where the next threat will come, while we support a war in Libya by providing all the guns.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 15, 2013 Wrong is Wrong, No Matter Who Does It
This kind of behavior is just plain wrong. What really bothers me is what the PTB did to the Occupy movement. If there are so-called "Progressives" that wish to defend Obama and his cronies, they might just wish to take a minute to reflect on how they crushed the most promising populist movement in the 21st Century.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 9, 2007 Fundamentalist Christians and the War on Islam
This article is about religion and I bring the war and the government into this because without the Christian right, George Bush and his administration could have never pulled off what they did. Without the church-going religious folks that make up much of middle America.
SHARE Wednesday, January 9, 2013 Our "Next Big Thing"
This Administration and the Administration of the previous regime has gutted our Constitutional rights. They have destroyed Posse Comitatus which prevented the President from using the military for law enforcement. The FISA Laws, The Patriot Act, The John Warner Defense bill, and now the NDAA has left all Americans vulnerable. Once a person is declared a "terrorist or a terrorist sympathizer" they have no rights.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, February 5, 2007 Democrats: Weak and Spineless
I can't believe there are this many spineless people congregated in one spot in Washington DC.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 15, 2013 Rob Kall, Publisher of OEN, Guests on "Tim Gatto, Uncut and Uncensored".
I always enjoy Rob's insights and I can understand why OEN has such wide support in the Progressive community. I like the fact that the site is a little more to the "left" than many other so-called "progressive" sites that are really nothing more than cheerleaders for the so-called "centrist" Democrats that seem to slip more to the right with each passing year (this is my own opinion of course).
(8 comments) SHARE Friday, January 4, 2008 Things Most People Would Rather not Know
When is this country going to understand that we will never "win the hearts and minds" of those that oppose us through military force?
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 12, 2007 How Many Tours in Iraq are Enough for a Soldier?
Enough is enough. You can't tell someone to do five hardship tours back to back. Think of this also, this guy is a Reservist! He's not even on active duty!
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, October 8, 2007 Americans No Longer Question Authority
We should be asking ourselves if this government really needs the power that we seem to have ceded to them. We should be asking if the government really needs the authority to monitor our phone conversations, our e-mails and our mail. We should also be concerned about the laws that have been passed that require every citizen to have a national ID card.
SHARE Wednesday, October 19, 2011 Let Them Worry About Us
There are very few Democratic lawmakers that don't belong to the much touted 1%. Just ask Senator Frank Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank about their "good deal" Countrywide cut-rate mortgages after they worked on those banking regulations.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 21, 2012 An Impossible Dream
This time I'm going to take a different track. I'm not going to dwell on what's wrong. We all know what's wrong. No, this time I'm going to share a vision with all of you. It's a way out of this out-of-control train we are riding on.
SHARE Monday, September 5, 2011 Labor Day, GM and Libya
I can't help but to weigh in on the situation in Libya. While Gaddafi wasn't a perfect ruler, he did more for his country than most rulers do for theirs.
SHARE Tuesday, January 15, 2008 This Presidential Race is Not "Survivor-America" Then Again, Maybe it Is
It's entertainment, not reality. The trouble with this line of thinking is that it is reality. Just ask the hundreds of thousands of soldiers that either committed suicide after coming home from the "Global War on Terror" or the ones that can't walk, or run or make love anymore.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 17, 2012 The Debates; What They Didn't Say
These debates are dog and pony shows. Sure it was interesting and they fought like cats and dogs and both made good points and Obama came back and triumphed. Still, in real issues that affect real Americans, nothing was said that we could sink our teeth into. Not really.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, August 6, 2012 Dear Barry
I want to take this opportunity to tell you how impressed I am with your political acumen. You (or the people you choose to run the campaign) seem to have the ability to run a campaign brilliantly. It is truly amazing how you can run an entire Presidential campaign based on pure bullshit and make it appear that you are promising the voters heaven itself.
SHARE Monday, February 19, 2007 New Found Sunni Oil and The Future of Iraq
New oil discoveries in the Sunni-controlled Western Provinces, could make the idea of a three-state Iraq more plausible. The area will find itself under more American scrutney than ever.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, January 15, 2007 The Strangest Story I've EVER Written
This is the oddest post I've ever written. I'm sure that some people know more than they are telling about what could be the biggest story of the century!
SHARE Tuesday, November 2, 2010 Election Day Blues
I sat and watched MSNBC and watched them make their assessments about why the Democrats lost so badly. Well the fact that the President didn't do anything but reward his campaign contributors with a massive deficit causing bail-out while turning its back on the manufacturing sector wasn't a real vote-getter
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 16, 2007 War is the Backbone of our Economy
I agree with Ron Paul. We HAVE had excesses of engagement with the rest of the world. We support dictatorial regimes while telling the American people we are supporting democracy.
(53 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 21, 2007 The History Channel's 9/11 Documetary, and Sen. Leahy's Subpoena
I have to admit that the History Channel did a job of trying to debunk many ideas about 9/11 but failed to answer my own questions. The most important things we should be concentrating on however is what happened AFTER 9/11. Why did the government declare war on the American people?
SHARE Thursday, June 7, 2007 We Must Stand Against This "New World Order"; The Threat is Real
Meanwhile, Bush has damaged the US Constitution so badly that our basic freedoms and rights have been gutted. Habeas Corpus, State Control of the law enforcement capabilities of the National Guard have been usurped by the Federal Government.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Look into Beck's Strange Brain
Glenn Beck has no new ideas, no cutting edge wit, no intellectual reasoning, in fact he's got nothing going for him. Then why is he on CNN and I'm writing for free on the web? Is nothing fair in this world?
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 19, 2007 The Democrats Now Want A Non-Binding Withdrawal. Do You Know Why?
The Post says: "The compromises may cost Democrats votes among antiwar liberals, but they hope to pick up some Republicans." No kidding. This just blatantly shows what constituency they are aiming for, and it's not the Liberal/Progressive camp. It never was except when they wanted to win the last election.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 9, 2006 Political Things are not the Most Important Things
Sometimes we loose sight of what's really important when we are involved so deeply in our daily lives. I'm glad that this election is over so that I can take some time to see everthing that I have and appreciate the gifts in my life.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 18, 2012 Ballot Access for Third Parties
The two-party system is the way that those in power maintain their grip on the American political system. Remember, nowhere in The Declaration of independence or The Constitution does it say that the United States should operate on a two-party system.
(12 comments) SHARE Monday, May 14, 2007 Iraq and Big Oil
Saddam wasn't taken out because we want Iraq's oil; he was taken out because OPEC and BIG OIL did not want Saddam to flood the market with cheap oil.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, April 23, 2007 The Greatest Casualty of "The War on Terror"; Our Constitutional Rights
It is so easy to write about this criminal "unitary executive" administration. They beg to be outed. They actually hide very little. They urinate on the Constitution and the public media does nothing. When you read a book or see a movie about the Holocaust, just think about what our country has done in the name of "democracy" in the last decade.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 14, 2012 A Political Writer is also a Target
What I actually want to talk about is a curious happenstance that has been going on since I decided to give political articles a break. You see, I'm concentrating on a new novel. I find that writing fiction is easier when I stay away from writing politically. Staying away from politics hasn't been as easy as it used to be. This is what I wish to share with you.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 29, 2007 Senator Mike Gravel isn't "Funny" at All
What does it take for people to understand that Mike Gravel is telling the truth and that he is the ONLY one that is telling the truth! What does it take for the American public to learn to think for themselves and not let people on the television tell them how to think?
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 22, 2007 Put Bush and Cheney On Trial for "Breaking" Our Army!
I spent 21 years in the Army. During that time I met some of the greatest people I have ever known. I also met the biggest morons that ever walked the face of the Earth. The Army is really like a microcosm of the civilian world, except in the Army, you get to know people on a really intimate basis.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 18, 2007 Write Your Congressman. Right.
You can write your Congressman until your fingers are bleeding and your tongue is crimson from paper cuts from licking the envelopes but it won't do any good. You can call these people, write to them, and send a video if that what floats your boat, and it still won't do any good. These people, in case you haven't noticed, are not going to do anything!
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 2, 2010 Washington Sycophants
The facts are clear for every American not just for people on the left. The issue is whether we want corporate sycophants that obey every whim of their corporate donors or whether we want our Congressmen and Senators to represent their constituents.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 26, 2007 Can We Believe Anyone Anymore?
The interests that this government is working for are its own best interests. Saying this, I'm including the Democrats. The Congress could have started an investigation of this war the day that the Democratic majority took their seats in Washington.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 17, 2007 The Growing Relationship Between Iran and Iraq
Trade between Iran and Iraq is booming. Iran is now one of Iraq's biggest trading partner. Why would this threaten the United States?
SHARE Wednesday, September 5, 2007 Don't Ask Jack to Help 'Cause he'll Turn the Other Ear
So what are you going to do on the 11th of September? I'm not doing anything. I'm not buying anything, writing anything, filling up my car or anything else. What are you doing on the 15th of September? I know where I'll be. I'll be in New York City at the rally to get us out of Iraq.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 13, 2007 Exposing The Secret War on American Citizens
The only way to get corporations out of politics is to educate the public. There is nothing that can't be done if we refuse to be beaten. To give up on it is to surrender our freedom.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 26, 2013 The Attack on Alex Jones
The facts are this; Jones has a huge following and he is saying the things that the powers that be don't want us to hear. He understands the practice of using labels to divide us. He understands the Left-Right paradigm that they use to keep us fighting amongst ourselves. He understands the consequences of the type of "Globalism" that is being used to enrich the few and enslave the many.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 19, 2007 Review: Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast
Every single chapter left me numb. All of the things that I had taken for granted, things I thought I knew, were unceremoniously exploded before my very eyes, by the best explosive expert in the literary world. The one thing that kept running through my mind after reading the things he was writing (that were also backed up with facts and pictures), was why hasn't this been reported on by the media?
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 29, 2007 America is Nearing Dictatorship. The Truth Hurts.
We are caught between a government that is intent on spinning a web of deceit, and a population that has grown weary of the lies and distortions. We are headed towards a confrontation that we haven't seen since the Vietnam debacle.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 27, 2007 Iran is Going to Be Attacked
Why Congress is not trying to do what it is Constitutionally charged to do, is beyond my comprehension. If this is "playing politics" maybe they need to be charged with treason along with the Bush Administration.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, May 6, 2013 Aw, Snap!
These sociopaths in power don't care about those in Syria dying over their diabolical plans. We all know how this will end. More people will die. Eventually we will use military force. Once that happens, it will become a quagmire. This could become Obama's legacy. It could become World War III.
(12 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 12, 2007 Could This Be "The Second American Revolution"?
Don't give up on America because things are "hard". There is an old saying that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. It's about time we did.
(10 comments) SHARE Friday, August 24, 2007 CONGRESS: Nothing is "Off the Table"
What does Congress take the American people for, fools? There will be demonstrations across the nation. Let them realize that their time is up. We demand action.
(26 comments) SHARE Friday, February 2, 2007 Who's Responsible for Iraq? We Are
If we really look at who is responsible for this war in Iraq, if you want to be brutally honest...it is "We the People".
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, June 1, 2007 Now We Can Bring Our Troops Home
Is there any integrity left anywhere anymore? People hear so many lies coming from the White House that they don't even bother to call anyone out on them anymore. It's getting to the point that more and more people get their news from the "Daily Show with Jon Stewart" than they do from CBS or NBC.
(7 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 12, 2006 The Only Way That Democrats Can Remain in Power
The war in Iraq will be on the Democrats doorstep in 2008. Unless we put the blame for this unwise and ill-concieved war where it belongs, and do what it takes to end it, we will see the Right Wing back in power. We have a chance to make this right, let's not blow it.
SHARE Monday, February 11, 2013 Will the Right to a Trial of Our Peers Be Usurped?
Surveillance drones are already being used in this man-hunt. The question that I would like to pose here is that if they have a shot, will an armed drone be used to take this individual down? If this happens, will they give him a chance to give himself up, or will this just be another indiscriminate murder by another governmental agency seeking to destroy its enemies without judicial process?
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, August 20, 2007 I'm Only One Person
I'm just one person that sees that the direction that this nation is headed in is not in anyone's best interests. Can we change it? Who knows? We should at least try.
(20 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 23, 2007 Sieg Heil! To The Satanic Majesty: Bush!
George Bush is the devil incarnate. If the fundamentalist Christians need the Anti-Christ to hail in the Rapture, they've got him. This is the most evil, freedom hating, power seeking individual that has ever lived in the White House.
(25 comments) SHARE Monday, October 29, 2007 America is Out of Time, We Need A new Strategy
The next step is the logical step and that is civil disobedience. When 10,000 people sit down at the entrance of Penn Station, or 100,000 people block the entrances of the Capitol building, or 20,000 people block the entrances of the stock exchange, the media will take notice.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 4, 2007 Chemtrails
Chemtrails are real. I have seen them and I have talked to people that have admitted to me that they are real.
(11 comments) SHARE Friday, November 30, 2007 The Political Issue that Nobody Wants to Talk About
We haven't had meaningful campaign finance reform enacted by the Federal government ever. The corporate lobbies and the "bundlers" have consistently put their interests ahead of the people in this nation for decades. This is probably the single most important reason why we have not seen honesty and transparency in political dealings within the United States.
SHARE Monday, June 27, 2011 Foreign Aid and the Economic Crisis
In order to clarify exactly what foreign aid is, and isn't, we should no longer call it foreign aid or other descriptive phrases such as "humanitarian assistance" or any other noble-sounding tags.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, January 4, 2008 The Lost Art of "Critical Thinking"
If people don't take the time to understand what the issues of the day are, you will never know which issues have been excluded from the coverage of the news.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, October 8, 2010 To The Rank and File
Is the Democratic Party the party of the working man? Maybe it once was, but that was a long time ago, for the last few decades, they have been the party of the corporations.
(27 comments) SHARE Monday, October 15, 2007 Ron Paul Captures the Power of the "Blogosphere"
Ron Paul seems to have struck a nerve in the vast blogosphere where he has gotten two thirds of his contributions from. His strict constitutionalist stand, after the savagery that the Bush Administration subjected the Constitution to, seems to have endeared him to Independents, Republicans and even Democrats that yearn for someone that can restore the basis of our representative republic.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 3, 2007 America is Under Attack from Within!
Meanwhile Bill Kristof and the demonizers on FOX TV spread misinformation at the speed of light while the other networks soft-shoe it so they won't antagonize their corporate sponsors, the average American that doesn't read liberal/progressive websites believes that Iran is where Satan reigns supreme.
SHARE Monday, March 19, 2012 The Future is Ours if We Want It
Unless we as a people remain vigilant and fight to keep our fundamental liberties of which there are very few left, we can only look forward to an eventual police state if we don't have one already. We are completely clueless of what or where information of a personal nature ends up
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 28, 2007 America is Becoming a Failed State
It's not just Iraq we in America should be worried about. The longer this nation avoids the consequences of what Bush and Company has wrought, the longer it will take to put the US back together.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, November 17, 2006 The Liberal Party of America
Why I started The Liberal Party of America, why it faded away, and maybe why it should be brought back.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, June 11, 2007 Our Coming National Nightmare
Two documents out our Republic in the worst kind of jeopardy. Taken together they could create a legal dictatorship.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 2, 2007 Revolution by Any Other Name...
The bottom line must be realized as two separate and distinct ideas. The corporatist's understand that it embodies the health and economic stability of their many enterprises. As far as the American people are concerned, the bottom line is something else entirely. It comprises the freedoms that we are willing to forfeit by allowing corporations to operate outside the rule of law.
SHARE Friday, July 23, 2010 Our Military Turns on its Own
It looks as if the men and women serving or who have served, often with back to back combat tours away from their families, ducking IED's and bullets, will bear the cost of an out of control military budget.
SHARE Tuesday, May 7, 2013 Sanford and Change in South Carolina
How many times will we be stabbed in the back before we realize that they just don't care about us? A good example is Mark Sanford. Why must he suck off the government teat for another two years? Who told him to be a professional politician? Can't he get a real job? These people drive me crazy. They show distain for the people that elect them and the people turn around and reelect them. This is called slave mentality.
(14 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 30, 2007 Anti-War Shouldn't Mean Anti-Military
The military has a culture and a history that few civilians really understand. I've seen some things that have made me very aware of things I believed I had left behind.
SHARE Sunday, January 20, 2008 Remember MLK by Signing A Petition Against the War on Greed
MLK was a man like no other, he had his failings as we all do, but he managed to unite a cross-section of people to do what was necessary and right. He is still missed and we shall always honor him.
(13 comments) SHARE Monday, February 11, 2008 A Gravel/Nader Ticket? You Say You Want A Revolution?
You want real change or another corporate President? Don't fall for what the Democrats propose. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
(11 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 21, 2006 Corporations, Corprocrats, and Saving our Democracy from Those That Would Take it From Us
I communicated with Rob Kall privately and apoligized. This article explains why somethin more than electing Democrats to stop the erosion of our democracy must be done. I think I've tried to explain it in the best way that I can, but as some have told me, I'm preaching to the choir. Help get the word out and try to get others involved. It's our country, and our responsibility.
SHARE Wednesday, September 19, 2007 A Most Important Time in American History
The demonstration in Washington on the 15th was just the start. The American people must keep the pressure on Congress and this administration to do what is necessary to bring some semblance of democracy back to our nation.
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 28, 2007 "Collateral Damage?" You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet!
They trusted the military when they took ships after World War II and ringed Bikini Atoll in the pacific and the men were made to come to the decks of the flotilla and given goggles so they could watch an explosion of an atomic bomb not five miles away. My father, a Marine that had fought in Okinawa and was in the occupation of Japan was there. He died of cancer at 59 that had ravaged his body.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 18, 2007 America! Remember this: "Fear is the Mindkiller"
Fear is at the very core of this administration's policies. Since 9/11 we have been bombarded with messages of fear. Every time this nation's alert status goes up, George W. Bush's popularity rating rises 3 or 4%. It is no wonder that we were in "alert status orange" prior to the 2004 election.
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Progressives Need to Write for Different Audiences
Our natural allies are the Unions and the environmental groups. I'm not talking about the leadership of the Unions; I'm talking about the rank and file members that have been more than disillusioned with their corporate controlled leadership.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, September 7, 2007 What's The "Truth" About Iran?
Is Iran helping us or hurting us in the fight against al Qaeda? It's fairly easy to figure this one out Mr. Bush.
(12 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 31, 2008 Why Supporting Sen. Gravel's Right to be Heard is Important
We must keep Senator Mike Gravel in this race. We need to make it known that we want him included in future debates. The corporate media should not have the last word on which candidates we should be allowed to hear.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 21, 2007 The Democrats Can't Back Down on Attorneygate
If Congress should back down on this investigation and "compromise" their principles once again, we could be in a worse position than we were before this investigation started.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, July 2, 2007 Time to Bring Criminal Charges
Is he(Bush)exempt from the standards set by the law because he is The President of the United States? Can he lie to the American people with impunity and force a war with another country predicated on lies? Is this legal?
SHARE Friday, December 22, 2006 Center for Responsive Politics
The Center for Responsive Politics has been the best source of information on who gives, and who gets in politics. Visit their site and see how everything becomes a bit more clear.
(17 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 26, 2008 Edwards Lost, Now Where Do I Go?
This gives me a clear signal that the Democratic Party, once again, is not the party that represents the way that I think politically.
SHARE Saturday, April 7, 2007 No News is Real News
The so-called "News" we get from the "Mainstream Media" is more entertainment than news. To get "real news" you must look for it. Don't count on the MSM.
SHARE Monday, February 4, 2008 Realism; The Third Rail of American Politics
The term "Progressive" is the latest classification to be adopted by the corporatists. Hillary Clinton absolutely floored me when she stood up at the Yearly Kos and described herself as a Progressive.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 30, 2006 The Reform That Enables All Other Reforms
See this video. Read why this reform, above ALL others, MUST be enacted to save our Democracy...I'm deadly serious.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 17, 2007 Breakthrough with Iran On Iraqi War Issues
It seems as if open negotiations between Iran and the United States are just around the corner. According to the Stratfor Geopolitical Intelligence Report, they will meet soon on the ambassadorial level.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 10, 2007 Wild Sunday on the Tube - Get THIS!
Well Bob, I think we should use our military and strike Iran. I believe that we should use our power and take out that base. We must stop Iran from training Hezbollah and others from attacking Israel"
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(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 31, 2007 Why War With Iran?
I have been thinking about why Bush would want war with Iran. I came up with a few reasons.
SHARE Tuesday, May 8, 2007 The Two Faces of Rudy
He was a true maverick, unfortunately, his quest for higher political office has shaped Giuliani into what he is now, a candidate that is trying to capture the conservative right of his party. In the process, of trying to appeal to that conservative wing, he has discarded the Giuliani that thought for himself and used bipartisanship to advance the things he thought were right and not just politically expedient. Now he is a "po
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 26, 2006 We Don't Have a Lot of Time Left
Bush has nothing to lose and everything to gain by starting a war with Iran. We don't have much time.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, September 3, 2007 Three Thoughts for Labor Day
I have three things that you might want to mull over during this Labor Day. Just take an hour of your busy day.
(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 19, 2007 Democrats Fold on Iraq Funding Again!
Again the Democrats in Congress failed to stop the funding for Iraq or to get a timetable in the measure, failing in a vote of 70-25 to fund the war without restrictions. The measure was overturned with the help of 21 Democrats.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, January 28, 2008 BREAKING NEWS; Stop a Vote of Cloture on the FISA Bill in The Senate Now!
If the Senate votes for cloture, this will effectively stop Sen. Dodd from filibustering the bill by limiting the debate to 30 hours. We must write to our elected officials and demand no vote of cloture and allow Sen. Dodd to attempt to stop this assault on our basic rights under our Constitution.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, October 20, 2006 21st Century Slavery
This is a case where the liberals want stiffer laws and penalties and the right want an attitude of indifference. The subject? Illegal immigration.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 18, 2007 Bush: "almost" Human
The only thing that George W. Bush will be remembered for is that he "almost" did something right. He "almost" got Bin Laden, he "almost" got elected President legitimately, he "almost" destroyed the nation.
(11 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 21, 2007 It's Time to Act; Drastic Times Call for Drastic Measures
The time has come for working outside of politics and politicians. They are just not going to change anything until we make them. This is our right and responsibility.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, May 25, 2007 The Only Logical Way to Keep Our Democracy
I believe it's time that the Democrats learned a lesson in civics and the Republicans learned what one person; one vote means. The only way that we can accomplish our progressive/liberal goals is to hijack the Democratic Party.
(8 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 6, 2008 Senator Obama, Rhetoric is Not Enough!
The American people are a wounded people and they are grasping at straws to get some logic and compassion back into the White House. They won't settle for continued conflict in Iraq and corporate control of our government.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, February 9, 2007 It's Coming Like Clockwork: New Evidence on Iran
This is the start of the run up to war with Iran. From here on in we will get a never ending litany of terrible things supposedly done by the Iranians.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, May 18, 2007 Venezuela is None of Our Business!
Any talk of socialism brings out George's alter ego. Just as in the comic books of my youth, the word socialism turns our President into Dubya-man. Yes Dubya-man, who came to Earth from a swollen belly, kowtows to the right with both knees, and who disguised as The President of The United States, fights a never-ending battle for wealth, indifference, and the Neo-con way.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 19, 2007 The End of Political Parties?
The fact that he brought a giant kiss-off to the party of Lincoln, the party that gave us George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, warms my heart. The fact that he did not run to the pretenders for political backing, tells me that he realizes what many of us already know, that the Democrats are no catch either.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 18, 2007 Nothing The Government Says Adds Up
Try to make sense of all of these "threats" and "threat-levels" that the government says we are under. The only ones I see killing people is our own government.
SHARE Monday, November 27, 2006 Nations Aren't Corporations: They're Communities
A small part of my life I would like to share with my fellow Americans. There are reasons why I say what I do and reasons why I feel so strongly about corporate America.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 24, 2006 Eyes Wide Open
While everyone rushes about getting ready for Christmas, my eyes remain wide open. The Bush Administration is quietly changing the balance of power in Iraq...all the indicators are there.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, February 1, 2008 Move-On Has Gone Mainstream by Supporting Obama
Obama openly takes money from the very industries and corporations that have been at the heart of this country's change from a representative Republic to a corporate oligarchy.
(30 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 25, 2006 Two Paths For Americans, Which Will You Choose?
We are at a fork in the road, either we stop fighting with each other and choose the right path, or loose what America stands for.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 9, 2007 Silence and Guilt, or The Courage of Our Convictions?
Some readers have asked "You want us to do something? What, pray tell, would you have us do that might conceivably work?" Well, you asked and I'm answering.
(10 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 11, 2007 We Have No Unity, No Unity at All
Well in my view, unless we can at least decide to participate in a General Strike on September 11, 2007. We have no "movement" What we have is many people with their own opinions that don't want to work with anyone else. I'll just keep on writing. That's what I do.
(10 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 26, 2007 Newspapers are Creating Their Own Demise
Newspapers no longer engage in muck-racking or do they actually try to expose the "truth" to the American people. They bend over backwards to pacify their advertisers because their readership is declining. They won't even mention Kucinich or Gravel when taking about the Democratic candidates. Is it any wonder why readership is dropping?
SHARE Sunday, February 4, 2007 The Democratic Song Remains the Same
If the Democratic Presidential candidate is Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama, it will make history, but it won't make a difference.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 17, 2007 I See Signs of Progressive Life in America
I do see this nation waking up. I see Gonzales on the ropes. I see Gates not playing yes man to Bush. I see the country wanting answers to 9/11. I see a grassroots movement to impeach Bush and Cheney. I see some Constitutional rights being restored. All is not lost.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, April 6, 2007 Our Changing View of Obscenity
What constitutes obscenity? Bush's policies both foreign and domestic could be considered obscene. Some TV shows in my opinion also make the grade
(26 comments) SHARE Friday, October 13, 2006 Why I Am Voting for The Democrats: Part One
Part 1 in a series of articles of why I am voting for the Democrats, and why we must vote to save our democracy.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, January 26, 2007 Alternative Press, Freedom, and The March on Washington
Why this nation needs Websites such as OpEdNews.com, and a look on how the more things change, the more they remain the same. Also, why you need to be careful in Washington.
SHARE Thursday, August 30, 2007 Today is All We Have
Today is all we have. This President could declare martial law at the slightest provocation.
SHARE Wednesday, August 22, 2007 Is America Doomed to Repeat History?
The American people are on a precipice that should they take just a few more steps, this nation will go into a free-fall that we may never recover from.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 25, 2007 Dumbing America Down
With 12 minutes of World News a night, how stupid can Americans be? How stupid can they get? Don't rely on the MSM for your News.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 27, 2007 Come to Jonesboro or to a Demonstration Near youToday
These people will never trust the US, and will always look at us as a very foreign power occupying them. We are from different religions and our culture is not theirs. They will never embrace us as liberators after we have savaged their country.
SHARE Monday, October 30, 2006 Democrats, Unions and a Third Party
The Unions, and the Democrats need to get back to basics. If just the unions do, and the Democrats dont...
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 4, 2007 We See What They're Planning
So the way I see things, we are knee-deep in fecal matter. The banks are playing their games, the government is attempting to go to War with Iran and at the very same time carve out an empire in North America. Meanwhile, we won't know what hit us. Senators, Congress people, activists and everyday people won't know which end of what coin is up.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, December 8, 2006 We Won't Get Fooled Again
Why I'm not claiming victory. I don't trust the "liberators" and here's why:
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 18, 2007 These Old Men Are Getting Away With Murder!
Lets talk about two laws that really need a fresh view. Lets talk about that horrid ruling by the Nazi side of the Supreme Court. Why five old men who have never borne a child and never will, are deciding the fate of a law that should be a woman's prerogative is one of the flaws of our judicial system.
(16 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 10, 2007 It's Time for RICO
Forget about impeachment. This Congress isn't about to impeach anyone for anything. The people sitting in the Capitol Building have the moral prerogatives of snake oil salesmen.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 3, 2007 The Media is Priming the Pump for a Dictatorship in America
The more terror that Americans witness, the more of their rights they are willing to surrender to be free of it. What's the old axiom? Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures?
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 29, 2007 Getting Away with Murder
While Big Oil and the Bush Administration dance with each other, the losers of this big game, the one that didn't even really know they were playing a game in the first place, will just go their own way. The Iraqi people, the poor Iraqi people that have never controlled their own oil, or made a profit off of their only big resource, will see this resource slip away once again.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 12, 2006 CBS; Playing to The Peoples Fear?
Is CBS helping to reinforce the neocon's message of fear in some of it's programming? A few shows like "THE Unit" and "Jericho" are instilling fear into Americans.
(8 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 6, 2006 Two Presidents and Two Lies
Why is there a "double standard" in the media. One for Democrats and one for Republicans? When is a lie excusable? Why hasn't the media stood against Bush's lies?
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 6, 2007 Sunday With The Lamestream Media
What about the Democratic Underground and the Democratic Parties own website? How about the polls? When 73% of the people polled think we are running our country into the ground, it's not a left wing complaint anymore. When 59% of the people support the pullout that the Dems sponsored, it was many more people than the ones that are tuned into the left.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 12, 2007 GOP Warns Dems, Giving Back Constitutional Rights Could Backfire
The GOP in a gracious act of "looking out" for their political rivals, warned the Dems that eliminating "security" measures that Bush "secured" after 9/11 could "backfire". Oh,Really??
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 23, 2007 So You Think I'm Crazy? Just Wait.
It's hard to live in this country with a chronic case of rage. What's harder is hearing idiot commentators on television telling the people of the nation bullshit propaganda that comes directly out of the Dick's office. You KNOW he is selling snake oil, yet people you talk to act as if everything is peachy.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, December 4, 2006 The 800 Pound Gorilla in The Living Room
There is an 800 pound gorilla in the living room that no politician wants to admit is there. They don't want to be the first to point him out.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 18, 2007 Politics and Whores
The oldest profession in the world isn't prostitution, it's politics. Then again, there isn't much of a difference between the two.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Progessives Need to Flex Their Muscles
The Liberal Progressives seem happy just to get a seat at the Democratic table. Maybe, just maybe, we should be sitting at the head of it.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 24, 2007 It's Not Just Left Against Right Anymore, It's About What IS Right
I recently wrote an article about the Bush administration and their attacks on our Constitutional Rights. One of the things that I mentioned is that we are all Americans Left and Right, and that as Americans, we are all in danger of permanently losing the rights and freedoms that we won in the War of Independence.
(11 comments) SHARE Friday, July 6, 2007 Why We are Losing this War in Iraq
Limited wars can be fought very successfully with limited weaponry and manpower, with virtually no air power. Witness Vietnam and Iraq.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, September 28, 2007 Bush Lies Again!
Another lie, another 160 Billion Dollars and countless lives.
(22 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 17, 2008 Support Rangel and Reintroduce The Draft!
This could be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Rangel see's it this way and I do too. Could you imagine the chickenhawks sending their sons and now daughters to fight in Iraq for a failed US policy that they embrace?
(9 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 7, 2007 The US is in Serious Trouble - We Can't Ignore It
If you are a politician that believes in the creationist theory, than you are either stupid, too stupid to hold office, or you are a liar, and you are lying to get stupid Christians that believe that to vote for you.
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 12, 2008 Senate Caves Again, This time on FISA!
Talk about a turnaround, a vote later today will give the Senate's stamp of approval on everything President Bush wanted. The vote was 69-29 with Clinton and Graham not voting.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, April 9, 2007 Just Give Us the News; We Will Decide What it Means
The MSM's most important function is to report the news, not to tell us what it all means. What is truth to some, could be construed as propaganda to another. Just report the facts, everything else is opinion.
SHARE Friday, April 27, 2007 Bush Tries to "Humiliate" Russia
The United States seems to believe that it is omnipotent. It seems to believe that its decisions are infallible. Bush said once that he looked into their "soul" of Vladimir Putin. I guess when he did that, he saw a patsy.
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 30, 2006 The Pope, God, Turkey and Islam
The Pope is in an Islamic land. What will the outcome be? What is he trying to achieve? Why did he go?
(16 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 16, 2007 The Crux of Our Problems: Globalization
What is behind the Bush Administration and the elimination of our freedoms that were once ours courtesy of The Constitution? Here are the culprits. Some knew it all along.
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Is Congress Deaf?
The temperature that "We the People" are feeling when thinking about our Federal government, is reaching the boiling point. This is a letter I wrote to Congress today. Think they'll listen?
SHARE Sunday, May 27, 2007 Memorial Day and the Memories of Yesterday and Today
That is, unless the American people start demanding that the government rid itself from corporate control, and rescinds The Patriot Act, The Military Commission Act of 2006, The Insurrection Act and stop with this phony "War on Terror". The situation of the middle class is getting worse every year.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, February 12, 2007 You Can Fool Some of the People Some of the Time...
Like the boy who cried wolf, the administration is up to their old tricks. The question at the moment is; Are we going to fall for it again?
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 31, 2008 Move-On, Move Over, Mikes Moving In
How can they justify supporting the two candidates that receive more corporate donations than any Republican candidate?
They forgot that there is a catch to their so-called "progressive" agenda; the still active participation of Senator Mike Gravel.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 5, 2006 Justice Shouldn't be for Iraqi's Only
It shouldn't be just the Iraqi's who get justice. Justice should be administered in the United States also. God forbid that Clinton did what Bush has done.
SHARE Friday, July 20, 2007 A New Bush "Executive Privilege" Theory
The old saying that "drastic times call for drastic measures" could not be as appropriate as they are now. These indeed are drastic times. The American people would have no problem with Congress using drastic measures.
SHARE Tuesday, February 6, 2007 The "Sandbox" Theory
Q.When is a choice not a choice, but picking the lesser of two evils?
A. When you are talking about American national politics.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, April 16, 2007 Death at Home; Death in Iraq: It still Hurts
It's a terrible thing when 32 people die in an unexpected way in a peaceful setting. The hurt doesn't dissipate however when it's in the middle of a war zone with trigger happy militias filled with hundreds of people like the guy at Virginia Tech. It hurts just as bad when you find out your father died trying to get to a food store in Baghdad
SHARE Monday, December 11, 2006 Where is America Going?
Where are we headed? The Democrats have proved they can't be trusted either. Nancy Pelosi is just another Bush Lackey.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, September 4, 2006 Corporate America = Freedom Lost
Article explains why corporate and special interest groups finance campaigns, how much they give, and what can be done.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 28, 2006 Larger Corporate Donations are Now Going to the Democrats
The New York Times has an article out today that says the Corporate Magnates are trying to change sides. This is both good and bad. Right and wrong. At least we are changing the status quo.
SHARE Wednesday, November 15, 2006 When Will We Get Our Constitution Back?
We stopped the Republicans from letting Bush have his way. Now how do we stop both political parties from taking the few rights we have left and reinstating our Constitution?
(9 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Everything Starts with You
It seems as if Americans have lost their moral compass and feel that the sainted Al Gore will lead us back from certain doom, and the tone of these pleadings remains the same; "Please reconsider and save America".
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, January 22, 2007 What Did Bush Tell Pelosi and Reid?
As in the old Beatles song; "Happiness is a Warm Gun", Bush "has his finger on your trigger, he knows nobody can do him no harm".
SHARE Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Congress Proposes that Bush gets a Do-Over and they will Forgive and Forget the Spying on American Citizens
Could you see Congress telling Nixon that if he admits to the break-in at Watergate and promises he won't do it again, then they will not hold him accountable? Could you imagine the media's reaction if they told Clinton to leave the girls alone, admit you copped some sex and we won't prosecute you and stop the impeachment proceedings?
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, June 15, 2007 Questions
I am realizing that I'm living in a new world, and that there is something happening, something that will be written about in the future as a time of change, when America either became a dictatorship, or came extremely close.
(8 comments) SHARE Friday, August 31, 2007 This is a Movement People, Don't Ever Doubt it!
There will be a permanent display of the anti-war movement that the mainstream media can no longer ignore. This movement will be an in-your-face, do or die expression of disgust with this administration and with Congress and their do nothing attitude. If we accomplish nothing, at least we can show the rest of the world and this government that we won't blindly accept authority when the policies go against everything we believe
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 7, 2006 Ike and Me. Why I Pledge My Life to American Reform
The real low-down on the elections, and how most American's believe the biggest con-job in history. The real Issues, and why you didn't hear about them.
(12 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 15, 2007 Congress Shows It's "Backbone" Again! Progressives Need to Stand-Up!
Meanwhile, the Progressives in the Democratic Party are supposed to sit on their hands until hell freezes over. While the Mainstream Media casts us as the "fringe" element of the party, we know better. Progressives are the mainstay of the Democratic Party, we are not going away.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 8, 2006 Now Who is Moral?
We heard how Republicans were disgusted by President Clinton's indiscretion, what about Dennis Hastert's? Is he moral enough to be President?
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, October 27, 2006 My Mother, My Generation and War
Relecting on the arguments I had with my mother over Vietnam, and how my generation stopped one war and started another, and how Kissenger advanced the strategy for both.
(8 comments) SHARE Friday, February 15, 2008 The Senate Caves on FISA. Will The House Stand or Fold?
The Senate shows itself to be spineless. Will the House uphold The Constitution against the invasion of American's Privacy or fold? This is the million-dollar question.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 13, 2008 What Can I Do?
Some things you can do to stop the slide to fascism.
(7 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 14, 2007 Hey Congress; What does it Take?
What does it take to warrant impeachment? If He was getting a blow job when he ripped up the Bill of Rights, would that have done it?
SHARE Thursday, May 3, 2007 The Republican Debate That Wasn't
McCain was a real cowboy. He showed his obvious love for Joe Lieberman. We didn't hear one word about defeat in Iraq from this man. In fact he told us twice, that if a bill came to him with pork barrel subsidies that he would veto that bill and make the person that put in the pork the most well-known man in Washington. Yes Sir, you won't mess with Sheriff McCain.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, August 13, 2007 This is Your Life Bush
There are people that feel that this nation is too far over the brink to ever be brought back to a decent republic. They feel shame over everything that has happened, not only on your watch, even though that started it, but now they have looked at the nation with a critical eye and they really don't believe that this nation has ever stood for anything worthwhile.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 19, 2006 McCain's Arrogance on CBS
McCain's apology for Congressional failures was insincere and his view on Iraq is reprehensible. His failure to stand up to Bush does not qualify him to run for President. Read what he said on The CBS Evening News
SHARE Thursday, April 26, 2007 The Political Landscape is Changing
Today has been an interesting day when it comes to campaign finances and talk of a third party. First of all, The Supreme Court seems ready to take another look into the constitutionality of the McCain-Fiengold Act that has supposedly brought us campaign reform.
SHARE Wednesday, September 26, 2007 Book Review: RED ZONE BLUES by Pepe Escobar
"Iran of course can be very persuasive, holding up some tasty cards up its sleeve- such as hard-earned intelligence directly implicating the Saudis in training the Sunni Arab muqawama (resistance) in Iraq on explosive form penetrators (EFP'S), which the Pentagon foolishly insists come from Iran. Everyone in Iraq knows it is operatives from "axis of fear" allies Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
SHARE Monday, October 16, 2006 Why I Am Voting Democrat: Part III
The last of a three-part article on why I believe that we need the Democrats to counter Bush's extremism. This is about the military, something I know a little about.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 15, 2006 Why I Am Voting for The Democrats Part II
Part II of why I'm voting for the Democrats and why. Also, why getting the Democrats control of the house and senate might be the most important thing we do in this decade.
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 6, 2007 Why Aren't The Candidates Talking About Our Civil Liberties?
Everything is on the table but the loss of our Constitutional rights that have been savaged by the Bush Administration and Congress. Why won't anyone discuss it?
(11 comments) SHARE Friday, November 16, 2007 Did America Win at Last Nights Debate?
Isn't it time that America had some fresh air for a change? Hillary Clinton is, like her husband that she learned the trade from, a consummate politician that will bring us down the road to more saber-rattling and "free-trade" agreements.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 25, 2007 The Real "Latest in Sunday Talk"
Who cares about Iraq, only one GI is dying per day and only 364 Iraqi civilians were killed last week. Isn't that great news? The violence is down to where it was in September of 2006! Man, with numbers like that we could stay indefinitely and continue to spend ourselves back to the Bronze Age!
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 28, 2006 Bush Gets Away with Murder...Really!
I think this man has done just almost everything under the sun. What does it take for Congress to care? It seems nothing.
SHARE Wednesday, March 14, 2007 The President Doesn't Need Congressional Approval to Attack Iran
The Congress dropped the rider from the spending bill that will fund the Iraq War until September 2008. The rider would have held the Executive branch to seek Congressional approval for an attack on Iran. The light is now green.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 28, 2007 Just Some Thoughts on The Democratic Slate
She has consistently voted for all funding for the war, she has yet to voice a dissenting remark about the Patriot Act, The FISA fiasco, or the Warner Defense Bill and the Revamped Insurrection Act or any of those nefarious pieces of legislation that have undermined our Constitution.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, April 16, 2007 This Mornings "Early Show"
Don't pretend you are delivering the NEWS when that's not what you are about. Leave the NEWS to NEWSPEOPLE.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 29, 2007 Sunday Talk : Time to Scream!
It's not good for me to sit in front of the television and watch professional "spin doctors" make up their own versions of events that are making news. The main problem that I have is my inability to reach into the picture tube and grab some of these people by the throat and squeeze until they stop thrashing around.
SHARE Wednesday, November 8, 2006 The First Step in a Very Long Walk Toward Representative Democracy
The Democratic takeover of the house is but a small step to restoring our representative democracy. The corporations and special interests are still the ones that finance our politicians careers. We need to examine who is getting what from whom, and not to be complacent. This is just the opening shot in a larger war.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 27, 2006 I Really Want to Make a Point Here
There is a way to make a point, and a way to just get people made. I really DO have a point to make.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, June 4, 2007 Why I Was Happy Last Night
The Democrats that I saw on stage were LISTENING! They were listening to the American people. The reason they were listening to the American people is because they read the blogs. They read the articles that people like us write day after day.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 20, 2007 Is the Progressive "Blogosphere" Bought by the Clinton Campaign?
This article claims that some bloggers received a "fellowship" from the Center for Independent Media (CIM), This fellowship provides $4,500.00 every three months and is renewable. If this is true, I'm sure that there are plenty of bloggers out there that are spewing Hillary's corporate agenda for the almighty dollar.
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 24, 2007 John Edwards Needs to Speak Out on Iran Now!
The Democrats, while mentioning the folly of Bush's foreign policy, remain in lockstep with the Neo-Cons when discussing the "threat" that Iran poses to America and their neighbors in the region. The so-called "top tier" candidates have refused to take the use of force against Iran "off the table".
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, December 29, 2006 Two Republican Wars and the Price of Ignorance
Two different kinds of war that povide the same type of results, and watching how the right wing prey's on the ignorant.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 6, 2008 Vote For the Candidate of Their Choice
It won't be the person of our choice mind you, it be the one that has managed to be on the "right" side of all the issues, and the one that has managed to avoid the ire of the Mainstream Media.
(18 comments) SHARE Monday, January 29, 2007 Same Old Story, Same Old Jane
I have an opinion on Jane Fonda just like many other people. I thought I forgot about how angry I felt towards her, until recently.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 17, 2006 America's Dark Day
This is the day that The Magna Carta became just another piece of paper to Americans. This is the day when you opposition to the radical right could make you disappear.
When I lived in Germany, I made it a point to ask older Germans that survived World War II, how they let their country be taken over by Hitler. Almost to a man, they told me that one-day they woke up and it had just happened.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, January 22, 2007 Is America Now Totally Immoral? This Has To End!
This isn't about 9/11 or protection from terrorist attacks. This is now about our nation becoming as bad or worse than our enemies. It's about our nations moral fabric.
SHARE Sunday, May 20, 2007 Sunday Morning Talk
Sunday morning talk utterly disgusted me this morning. It seems that the new Republican mantra is "Let the Congress do the work of Congress, and quit trying to play "Gotcha" with the Republicans, and stop investigating and start legislating".
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 1, 2007 Our New Improved "Christian America"
D. James Kennedy has a view of America that you can buy for a small donation. Let me do my share to help him achieve his goal- a right wing, fundamentalist America. From the same people that brought you the Axis of Evil...
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, April 2, 2007 Iran is Playing into America's End Game
Iran is doing exactly what Bush wants them to do. The script they are following could have been written in the Oval Office. A Neo-Con's dream scenario.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, November 9, 2007 Democrats and the Fear Factor
Time and time again the Democrats sabotage their own agenda by responding to every criticism that they are "pandering to the left-wing fringe". It's time that they realized that this nation has drifted so far to the right in its actions and rhetoric that what was once the center finds itself squarely on the left.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 24, 2006 Rush is Right, but He is Also Dead Wrong
Rush Limbaugh couldn't possibly be more offensive, but he's running out of steam, and his party is running out of time.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 26, 2007 A Letter to Responsible Republicans
A letter to the Republican citizens and their elected representatives that can think. We need all good Americans to save our nation from failure.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, August 3, 2007 America Has Been The World's Bully for 62 Years
The America that emerged from the Second World War was an America that thought it could changer the world. We changed it alright, but for the worse.
SHARE Monday, October 2, 2006 The American Choice: Freedom or Fear?
We are a respectful, patient and prudent people. We know how to change our nation's political direction without force. It's up to us when we go to the polls.
(14 comments) SHARE Friday, December 22, 2006 Our National Mental Health is Suspect (Mine Too)
Some of the things that make me wonder if some of those old military experiments like adding LSD to the groundwater didn't go too far...
SHARE Thursday, February 1, 2007 Why is Journalism Only On the Internet?
People In America will believe anything. It might make them easy to convince, but it's hell trying to get them to care.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 4, 2007 Why Can't The Democrats Mention the Things that Matter?
I can't wait until the first primary when Hillary and the media find out that they can't just "declare" who's on top. If she's on top, than I must be senile.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 23, 2006 The Administration from HELL!
In the background you can hear the incessant booming of the war drums...you look around to see where it's coming from and you rum right into...The Administration from Hell!
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 13, 2007 The Death of The Republic
While you were busy watching the game, somebody stole your republic.
(14 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 28, 2007 A Modest Propsal for Iraq
I have an Idea that could cut the US presence in Iraq by half while cutting casualties and take us out of their civil war while maintaining American military strength in the Middle East.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 18, 2007 Federal Attorneygate; Now it's The Patriot Act's Fault
This morning I heard a government bureaucrat actually refuse to answer a question instead of ducking it. I also heard Sen. Feinstein admit in a small way that they went too far with the Patriot Act.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 7, 2006 A Most Dangerous Time
Now that the bi-partisan Iraq Study Group has confirmed that we are in an unwinnable situation and recommends talking with Syria and Iran, Bush may decide to go for a touchdown.
SHARE Tuesday, January 2, 2007 It All Adds Up to the Same Thing
Help me stop banging my head against the wall. Let's straighten this country out and get Congress to represent American citizen's again before we lose our Democracy. Everything's at stake.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, November 19, 2007 Nobody said that Saving this Nation Would be Easy
Students of history will know that we have been in bad straights before and America has always found itself back to the center. The biggest mistake that we made was not dismantling the Military-Industrial Complex after the Vietnam War or after the Soviet Union fell apart.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, July 13, 2007 An Open Letter to the American Association for Justice
You have your oaths that you took when you became officers of the Court. These oaths are sacred as are all oaths administered when it is necessary to ask someone to keep a promise.
SHARE Friday, September 8, 2006 Who's Killing Uncle Sam?
The Washington Post proves what was written about politics and campaign donors.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 2, 2007 Use Economic Sanctions Against Our Own Government
We can stop the economy by buying second hand products including refurbished appliances, automobiles and other products that will cause the government to re-think their world policies by sinking the profits of those that support them.
(23 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 21, 2006 The Radicalization of Timothy
I've just about had it. We progressives don't have much time to change things before it's too late. We really don't have forever, I'm packing up.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 15, 2007 The Revolution is Here
People all over the world know what is happening, they just don't know what to do about it. Like all problems, there WILL be a solution, there is always a solution.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 19, 2006 More Money and Politics: Today It's Lieberman's Turn
This is another in a long series of muck-racking campaign finance disclosures by a muck-racking columnist that wants campaign finance reform (CFR).
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 7, 2007 A Letter to Congress from a Former Soldier
A former soldier asks Congress not to fund this "Surge" and to continue this nation's long nightmare. Won't you please join me?
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 23, 2007 It's Your Future: Try to Enlighten Your Neighbor
We as citizens must pass what we know to people who, because of apathy or other reasons, don't know what is happening in America. How bad the situation really is. Let them know that it's their freedom that's at stake too.
(14 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 19, 2007 Bill Kristol, the Worst Kind of Reactionary
This guy is dangerous. I don't understand how he is on talk show after talk show, and they never mention that he belongs to the radical right. They always introduce him as a "respected" journalist. Respected by whom, The Project for a New American Century?
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, November 19, 2007 Sorry Hillary, You Don't Make the Grade
C'mon Hillary, while you make an imposing figure up on the stage with your icy stares and your searing wit, the Republican Party will make mince-meat out of your poorly crafted statements. Nobody can be all things to all people, but yet you try to keep everyone happy telling everyone that will listen, exactly what they want to hear.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, July 16, 2007 The Politics of Exclusion
Kucinich and Gravel and Dodd are snubbed again. Kind of makes you wonder doesn't it?
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 30, 2008 Are Some Laws Only Enforcible at Certain Times?
Is there a special "season" where lawmakers only obey the laws they like or enforce the laws that others break? Is the law only the law for some of us and not for others? Is there a form somewhere that I can sign that will allow me to only obey the laws that I approve of?
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 20, 2006 Trying to Make Sense of This War and The Democrats
I don't understand why the Democrats think they can turn their backs on the people that gave them control of Congress and believe they'll get away with it.
SHARE Thursday, September 21, 2006 The Democrats Must Prove Their Mettle
The Democrats need to address the real issues facing America and trust the people instead of their corporate and special interest backers. The future of our democracy is at stake in these mid-term elections that are more than just elections, they are a referendum on our nation's future. They must state their case and damn the torpedos.
SHARE Friday, March 23, 2007 The Resolution Can Pass The Senate
The American People CAN finally make a difference. Lobby your Senators like they have never been lobbied before. This war has gone on too long!
SHARE Monday, March 19, 2007 Four Years of Death and Failure
Four years of losses would get a coach fired. You would think Americans would be calling for his head.
(10 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 28, 2007 Our Coming Trip to Hell
think that I'm at the point where I feel that it's time to jump from the pot. The water has gotten too warm for me. Let everyone boil like the proverbial frogs, but I'm not a frog and I'm getting out.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 19, 2006 Bush's Vision For The Middle East
What has been accomplished so far in Iraq. Why would you want the party that gave us this war to stay in power?
SHARE Monday, November 13, 2006 Don't Let Iraq Become Another Vietnam
Why I wrote the last article and why I'm afraid of this war in Iraq becoming another protracted war for political ends.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, March 2, 2007 Giuliani Would Give Us a Good Race
He doesn't believe in National Healthcare, but he thinks, and thinking is something that they are not big on in Washington. His nomination would also kill the NeoCons.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, February 9, 2007 Are The Democrats Criminal Too?
Why can't Congress put forth a resolution requiring that Bush get authorization before he starts a war with Iran? Something just isn't right
here.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 7, 2007 Since When Have People Started Caring About Vets?
Everyone is "up in arms" about the conditions in Walter Reed. Truth is, you all know how badly Vets have been treated. This only comes out when someone has a political axe to grind.
SHARE Sunday, January 14, 2007 Clouds of Death
Chemtrails. No reason for the that we know of. The one thing the government won't admit to. Why are they doing this? What the hell is going on? Why are they spraying blood cells?
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, September 21, 2007 The Good General did Indeed Betray Us!
Tyranny can be described in the vote against the Move-On ad in which the Senate censored Move-On. That of course in all actuality means nothing in fact. The ad was seen and no matter how hard the puppets in the Senate try, the ad rang true with the American people. The good General DID betray us!
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 26, 2007 We Need Americans to Get to Work!
We need people that will knock on doors and get petitions signed. Get off the recliner and do something for yourself. Meet your neighbors and tell them of your concerns. They'll sign the petition to get rid of you, maybe you'll find a kindred spirit that wants to pitch in. We are not counting on corporate money to do this. We are counting on you.
SHARE Wednesday, November 14, 2007 Maybe There is a Conspiracy
He also goes on to say that the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and all the other big foundations were working to control the American Educational system to "revise" history.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 27, 2007 A lost War; A Failed Presidency
The President and the Republicans must take the blame for losing this war in Iraq. They have had a free hand up until now, and they still can't do anything right.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 6, 2007 The Candidates: Its not Just What Comes Out of Their Mouths, Its What Goes into Them Too
How fortunate for the American people that we are informed of the epicurean delights to be found on the battleground for the White House. Do you feel privileged? I don't. How asinine is this? America is faced with almost every conceivable problem imaginable, and we get the candidates food intake report.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 31, 2007 Thank You David Swanson
I just needed some time to think. Swanson's article made me think of how deceitful and nasty these politicians are. I can't shut up. My mouth won't let me.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, November 24, 2006 Just a Thought on Our World Involvement
It seems like the harder we try, the worse the world gets. We're not very good at picking friends or enemies.
SHARE Sunday, August 12, 2012 Tim Gatto, Uncut and Uncensored
Many times, TV and radio programs claim to be "liberal" or "left-wing", more often than not, they turn out to be mouthpieces for the Democratic Party. Rachel Maddow's show and Chris Matthew's show on MSNBC are prime examples. Sometimes Dylan Rattigan and Ed Shultz can surprise, but more often than not, they could pass the DNC's muster for being "politically correct".
SHARE Thursday, November 9, 2006 What "Middle Ground" Harry?
Stop playing with the NeoCons...they don't play well with others. By the way, Impeach Bush and Cheney.
SHARE Friday, May 4, 2007 It Isn't All About the War
You don't need me to tell you what the score is. While this war rages and takes the focus off all of the backstabbing and throat-slitting that goes on in the marketplace, this Congress and the President and all of the Federal watchdog agencies we invented to keep the citizen from getting screwed all lie dormant.
SHARE Tuesday, July 24, 2007 Congress, The Debates, Progressives and "Bundling"
So what do the Republicans think of Bush and Cheney turning this country into a dictatorship? I can't believe that they all want to give up their jobs in the Senate and retire to their summer homes now that they turned the government over to a gang of Nazi's.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 28, 2007 The Supreme Court Kowtows to The Dictator
Civil Rights and Capitalism both took one on the chin today, in two Supreme Court rulings that seem to predict the future.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 30, 2007 Impeachment? Why?
Impeachment? Would that solve anything? You bet it would.
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 7, 2007 Life During Wartime
What is wrong with the Dumbocrats? I mean it, how did they get these two turkeys to lead the pack? Are they really ahead, or is this another Rethuglican trick?
(12 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 1, 2007 Would You Give Your Life to Change America? I Would!
I'm sick to death of the "progressive" crybabies that believe America can't ever get better. As far as I'm concerned you're as bad as the slime that run this country.
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 11, 2007 The Real Questions We Should be Asking About Iraq
What's the real reason we are in Iraq. It's not WMD's or Al-Quida or freedom or any of the things they tell us it's about. Let's hear the truth. Let's ask the hard questions, the ones we are afraid to ask.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 12, 2007 Interesting Times
Things are changing, and changing fast. What is going on is so convoluted, it sometimes makes no sense.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 3, 2007 The "High Road" is closed to traffic
Waiting for The Democrats to act could be a very long wait. I really think that they are going to stand us up. They don't have the temerity to act.
SHARE Saturday, November 11, 2006 When Your Gravity Fails and Negitivity Won't Pull You Though
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can tell people what's happening but you can't make them believe it. All I can do is tell people what I see, if they can't see what I see, it can't be helped, at least I tried to do what I thought was right.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, January 8, 2007 A Letter to The American Right
I wrote this letter to Americans that subscribe to the politics of the right. I'm posting it on Right wing websites. What I mention applies to all Americans.
SHARE Friday, June 22, 2007 The American People Know What Time it Is!
Tonight I watched a re-run of "Law and Order, Criminal Intent" and Chris Noth was on the show. The character played by Vincent D'Onofrio asks him if he ever heard of The Patriot Act, Noth looks up and tells him "I read the original version, it was called 1984", So how 'bout them apples, George? Can you see what your country thinks of the crap your administration has shoved down the American People's throat.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 12, 2007 A War Casualty: The Truth
Reality hasn't been an icon of the Bush Administration since the beginning, but actually witnessing a four-star General rearranging facts and figures to paint an assessment of an occupation that is tenuous at best, into something it is not, reminds me of old Superman comics and the "Bizarro World" issues.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 4, 2007 Katie Couric; Welcome to Journalism 101
The story doesn't end when you sign off.I don't want to "school" you in "Journalism 101", but apparently you have nobody where you work that will tell you "what time it is". Well I will do it for you; it's time to stop being the voice of the teleprompter and start being a journalist.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 20, 2007 Hillary Clinton: Can You Say "Machine Politics"?
All we need is Hillary Clinton. It will be "business as usual" and to hell with reform. Bush "Lite" isn't just a beer, it's a woman named Hillary.
SHARE Saturday, September 16, 2006 Network News: An Epitaph
The demise of network news from a source of information, to a half hour of fluff and entertainment that rarely approaches the definition of "News".
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 16, 2006 Watching the Move to the "Middle"
As the nation and the Democrats "move to the middle", I'll stay where I've always been. I have my reasons, I'll share them with you.
SHARE Wednesday, August 1, 2007 Another Fine Mess by Bush. Now We Must Choose Between Friends.
We promised the Kurds so much and now we seem to be reneging on those promises, The sleeping giant called Turkey will never allow an independent Kurdish homeland on their borders.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, August 27, 2007 Gonzales; An American Success Story Gone Bad
Gonzales is a study of a career gone wrong. Sometimes the very thing that can give you power, is the same thing that can destroy you.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 22, 2007 Truth to Power
In his lifetime he has always seen that the powerful get their way. This has been inbred into him. Along with power comes responsibility. His family is not a moral base that will center a man like Bush. His father during the Iran-Contra affair has made it very clear to George Jr. that the powerful can get away with murder.
SHARE Wednesday, September 27, 2006 An Observation and a Plan
How the right wing media manipulates issues, and the compromise that wasn't on torture, and what we can do to take back our government this year.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, July 23, 2007 I'm not Sharing My Cell With A Politician
Day by day, the number of Americans that understand our Republic is in gave danger is rising. Some are actually hoping for a military coup!
SHARE Wednesday, September 6, 2006 Who is Responsible in Congress?
How congress manipulates proposed legislation fot their own gain, and why they should be held accountable.
SHARE Wednesday, October 11, 2006 The Democrats Can Stop War With Iran
The only wat the Democrats will win this election is to beat them to the punch and stop an attack on Iran before they do it. It's essential to finally stand up to this administration and the Republicans that support it.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 13, 2006 My Suggestions for Congress
Five laws I would like to see Congress consider. I don't mention campaign finance reform...yet.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 3, 2007 The Reason is Treason
The only reason I believe that Bush got involved, and therefore inviting speculation is because letting Libby face the prospect of seeing the same four walls for 30 months may have been too much for him to tolerate.
SHARE Wednesday, September 13, 2006 "American Caesar"
The future of America depends on the choices we make today. More than ever, we must trust that the world is not as different today than the neo Conservatives claim. What has worked for America in the past, will continue to work in the future, as long as we don't give in to fear.
SHARE Thursday, October 5, 2006 The US Policy of Refusing to Negotiate
This Administrations policy of non-negotiation is leading us down the road to military conflict after military conflict. When is Congress going to act?
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, March 16, 2007 We Need A Constitutional Convention
The Constitution gives us the right to call a Constitutional Convention when the need arises. If ever there was a need, it is now. Let's give our government back to the people. Help us petition Congress.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, January 5, 2007 Congress's First Real Test
Bush is still writing signing statements. This time its about opening mail
SHARE Wednesday, September 6, 2006 What's Next For Republicans?
Republicans have a way to take back their party from men that have blundered in Iraq, and have lowered the qualifications to join the Army
SHARE Thursday, September 20, 2007 Contempt of Congress; About Time!
What is now required is for the House to pass this contempt of Congress citation and pursue legal action against the White House and Harriet Miers for their failure to meet the requirements of the subpoenas. Hopefully this contempt of Congress resolution will soon have a vote on the floor of the House. I am not prepared to allow this administration to operate above the law.
SHARE Tuesday, September 19, 2006 Stopping The Crimes of This Administration
We must stop the criminal acts of this administration. We are way beyond the talking stage. It is time for criminal charges.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 2, 2007 It's Your Turn Karl
Senator Leahy doesn't want to hear what Karl Rove's aide has to say. He wants Karl himself in the witness chair, and why not?
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 11, 2007 Tired and Disgusted, Stop the Lies!
Many of us seem to have accepted the report in its entirety, even though it answered nothing and it proposed nothing. The "draw-down" that the General referenced, is not a draw-down at all, it is merely the period in which the "surge" troops will be eligible for rotation, nothing more, nothing less.
SHARE Tuesday, April 3, 2007 This American Circus
The statements coming from McCain, and the Presidents failure to realize he's just about on the ropes is like watching a circus. Too bad the price of a ticket to this show is so high.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 9, 2007 The Media, this "Surge", Freedom and Lies
Katie Couric tells us "Freedom is not free". What the hell is she talking about? Who's freedom? Yours? Mine? The only person that is free and we are paying for it, is Bush. Maybe he shouldn't be free.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 12, 2006 An Open Letter to Speaker-Elect Pelosi
If I had Nancy Pelosi's ear, this is what I would tell her. I think most Americans feel the same way. We are way past the time for action.
SHARE Monday, January 8, 2007 New from Clean Money for Campaigns
Please check out this video of the big campaign fundraiser to celebrate the Dems call for ethics in lobbying. How unconvincing asking for $1,000.00 donations to celebrate "ethics".