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SHARE Monday, August 19, 2013 Occupy the First Amendment
What the 1% calls order is threatening all life on the planet and thus requires the 99% to embrace militant noncompliance" pronto.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, August 16, 2013 Which Side Are You On? How much more can you tolerate?
Silence your cell phones, your TVs, silence the noise in your head... and just listen. Listen carefully. Can you hear it?
It's a cry from the future, a mournful plea begging us to capture this moment. Can you hear it? Will you hear it? Or have you gotten so accustomed to losing that you choose instead to cover your ears, bury your head -- finding endless excuses and myriad methods to ignore and/or discredit...
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 10, 2013 We All Have a Job to Do
Exactly what job would you suggest for a socially aware and compassionate human?
SHARE Friday, August 2, 2013 New York Times: Guilty Of 'Aiding the Enemy' | Mickey Z. - World News Trust
If you've ever wondered why someone like Bradley Manning gets far less media coverage than, say, a "royal" birth or a mayoral candidate's penis, well" you can always count on the "newspaper of record" to reveal the method behind the madness.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 20, 2011 Beat Your Daisy Cutters Into Daisies
Green-spirited seed bombs and mean-spirited Daisy Cutters. Take a wild guess which one is illegal here in the land of the free.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Downsize or Modify? A Conversation with Noam Chomsky
What will happen if activists don't kick things up a few thousands notches and provoke massive changes in the way humans currently live?
SHARE Friday, January 14, 2011 Planet Overkill
"Everything in excess is opposed to nature."
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 2, 2011 Are You Ready for the Revolution?
f you agree that fitness--both mental and physical--is a crucial component for any serious subversive, read on...
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 14, 2010 The United States of War Criminals
Roughly one million tax dollars per minute are spent to fund the largest military machine (read: global terrorist operation) the world has ever known.
SHARE Monday, November 22, 2010 Stone Age Brain, Space Age Culture
We each possess a physiology that evolved to negotiate the Stone Age. Inconveniently, we live in the Space Age.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, October 29, 2010 When Criminals Vote
Whatever side we choose in these fabricated conflicts, human society maintains its steady, relentless path toward mass homicide/suicide.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 1, 2010 The Tea Party Sideshow
We have to challenge right wing hatred and intolerance at every turn, of course, but do so without defending President Obama.
SHARE Sunday, August 9, 2009 Humans vs. Birds: Hitchcock in reverse
It's Hitchcock in reverse as the planet's most destructive species systematically slaughters everything in its path.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 2, 2009 Urban Cavemen (living life out of balance)
We each possess a physiology that evolved to negotiate the Stone Age. Unfortunately, we live in the Space Age.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 26, 2009 Activism 101
Okay, short attention span crowd: Grab your remote (or mouse) and get ready to click, click, click...
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, April 6, 2009 A starling taught to speak
Humans are the species that can be correctly labeled "invasive" and a "health risk"
(19 comments) SHARE Monday, March 23, 2009 Five reasons why Americans won't resist
Why aren't activists ramping up the pressure and looking beyond tactics that are allowed by those in power?
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 21, 2009 Dam Nation
Attacking a dam is terrorism...except when it isn't.
(13 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 17, 2009 Planet of Lost Souls
"Maybe we're not all individual souls, but maybe we're all part of one big soul."
(9 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Obama Nation upholds US terror
The United States of America is a rogue state built on and maintained by terror
(7 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 21, 2008 Waves of hope and change
There seems to be no shortage of well-dressed humans cavorting, laughing, and spending freely.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 17, 2008 Counting sea gulls
It's what passes for nature in these parts.
(35 comments) SHARE Monday, December 1, 2008 Obama exploits liberal denial
In 2004, it was Anybody-But-Bush. This year, it was Attack of the Obamatrons.
(11 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Obama and the Great Depression
The Pope of Hope has never been anything more than a human marketing strategy, a product. This year's iPhone.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, November 17, 2008 News Flash: Obama hypnotizes Zinn
Every indication points to Barack Obama doing the exact opposite of what Zinn writes.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 16, 2008 Some things are bigger than any of us
Are this generation's abolitionists ready to step up and create change? Not ask for change, create change.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 13, 2008 A Song for Obama
All hail the Pope of Hope...
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 12, 2008 Driving Mister Barack
The auto industry Mister Barack and his merry band of Democratic comrades so desperately want to bailout and revive is and has been one the primary causes for our planet's environmental and social degradation.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, October 27, 2008 American Priorities
As Gandhi sez: "Action expresses priorities."
(33 comments) SHARE Friday, October 24, 2008 Chomsky, Zinn, and Obama
"You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches, and then pull it out six inches, and say you're making progress."
- Malcolm X
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 16, 2008 Myth America: A Stand-up Tragedy
The state of global affairs has long passed the proverbial tipping point and is more likely flirting with the dreaded point of no return.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 10, 2008 September 11, 2008
"Don't worry. Things were bad but now, we've gotten everything back to normal."
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, May 26, 2008 My Memorial Day
America would never be able to spread its values all over the planet without those men and women who volunteer to make it happen.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 17, 2008 Hunters and Soldiers: Brothers in Arms
We must never forget the deep connection between volunteer soldiers and the American hunting culture.
(31 comments) SHARE Monday, May 5, 2008 Ashamed to be American
How much more will it take before everyday Americans collectively hang their heads in shame over their (sic) nation's contemptible conduct?
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 10, 2008 Hope is for Suckers
The verb "hope" is virtually synonymous with "pray," while "hope" the noun is often interchangeable with "faith."
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 2, 2008 Progressives for Pinochet
All American progressives should unite for Augusto Pinochet.
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 29, 2008 Progressives (and Z Net) for Obama?
Barack Obama is part of the problem. Anyone who votes for Barack Obama is part of the problem.
(8 comments) SHARE Friday, March 28, 2008 All You Need is Hate
Why are we so afraid to hate those most responsible for our current global nightmare?
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 13, 2008 Can we be anti-war but pro-troops?
Somehow, individuals and groups can stand tall against war and military intervention but refuse to shine a light on those who choose (and get paid) to fight. Nowhere else in the realm of activism does such a paradox exist.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 28, 2008 Obama, McCain, March 19...yawn
Will we ever disrupt our comfortable lives and dedicate ourselves to stopping-by any means necessary-global warming, US military interventionism, economic exploitation, factory farming, environmental devastation, etc. or will we continue defending "our way of life"?
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 11, 2007 The Truth about Immigration
Scream it from the mountaintops (or at least on your blog): Immigrants are destroying any and all hope of for planetary survival. Illegal aliens are Public Enemy #1. Foreigners are terrorists.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, November 30, 2007 December 7: More Than Pearl Harbor
While Palestinian Muslims are labeled terrorists for having the audacity to revolt against 60 years of Israeli occupation, Indonesian Muslims can get away with murder. Literally.
SHARE Tuesday, November 20, 2007 No Voice Unheard
An interview with animal rights activist Diane Leigh
SHARE Wednesday, November 14, 2007 Pigeons, People & Perceptions
In all the thousands of years pigeons have dwelled on this planet, did any of them ever feel the need to invent, say, nuclear weapons?
SHARE Sunday, November 11, 2007 Awareness is overrated
When exactly does all this goddamned awareness translate into productive action and tangible change?
SHARE Tuesday, November 6, 2007 The Warrior is the War
Even when faced with documented evidence of criminality, Americans will not equate the warrior with the war.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 1, 2007 Jesus Rides the #7 Train
The followers of any religion are pacified not by having their abject circumstances changed, but by being taught ways to tolerate the intolerable.
SHARE Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Rescue: 2008
Maybe our campaign slogan should be "RESCUE THROUGH REVOLUTION."
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, October 12, 2007 Ya Gotta Believe?
"The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe."
-Voltaire
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 4, 2007 The Topic of Cancer
The Western medical priesthood stigmatizes alternatives and aggressively defends its Holy Trinity of cancer treatment: surgery, radiation, and of course, chemotherapy.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 4, 2007 Mickey Z. to the "Rescue" in 2008?
The next time someone tells you America has a two-party system, I suggest you demand a recount.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 18, 2007 Our dead, their dead
In America, we have the luxury of mourning our dead for days or even years (see 9/11).
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, April 16, 2007 My movement is bigger than yours
Most folks, it seems, have confused the occasional weekend parade, I mean, protest with a full-blown movement.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, April 13, 2007 If not now, when?
Where's the proverbial tipping point?
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Death from Above
Many of us don't like the idea of our tax dollars paying for the aerial bombing of civilians but who do you think does the actual bombing? Our (sic) troops.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 22, 2007 This is your brain on meat
Out of the nearly 40 million U.S. cattle slaughtered annually, only about 1000 are tested for mad cow disease.
SHARE Saturday, March 3, 2007 "Breaking News" is a matter of perspective
Where are the headlines about my top story? My mom's illness is big news but not one newspaper, website, or TV show is covering it.
SHARE Wednesday, February 28, 2007 America's March Madness
It seems the decency bar has been lowered (to say the least).
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 6, 2007 Foie gras is a disease not a delicacy
Dedicated activists-from coast to coast-are shining a light on an utterly repellent practice
(8 comments) SHARE Friday, February 2, 2007 What I heard on the W Train
"Passengers are advised that their backpacks and other large containers are subject to random search by the police."
(13 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 31, 2007 Nader still in the crosshairs
If all those Gore voters had pulled the lever for Ralph, we all would've been spared both the Bush administration and the Nader witch-hunt
SHARE Monday, January 29, 2007 Iran vs. Poland?
As far as I know, they haven't faced off since the 1992 World Cup when the Iranians blanked the Poles 2-0.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 27, 2007 Adolf loved his liver dumplings
Hitler's dietary choices may not be of vast historical importance...but instead they do hold polemical value.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 25, 2007 The United States of Equality
If you ask me, all this egalitarianism has arrived not a minute too soon; that whole racism thing was getting awfully annoying. Look what it did to Michael Richards.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 24, 2007 The State of "The Nation" (eat meat?)
The (so-called) alternative press rarely "gets" vegetarianism, animal rights, and related issues.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, January 22, 2007 The Corporate Media and Hugo Chavez
I certainly don't trust the corporate media as an objective source, re: official U.S. enemies.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 20, 2007 Bill O'Reilly = Super Genius
If the recent summit between a mirth master (O'Reilly) and his amusing apprentice (Colbert) proved anything, it was the sheer comedic brilliance of Fox's sardonic culture warrior.
SHARE Thursday, January 18, 2007 Newsweek's cover boys
Most Americans won't bother reading this or any other article. However, the cover image will be more than enough to provoke knee-jerk reactions about towelheads raising their kids to wage war.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 17, 2007 Was Jesus an evil-doer?
Everyone knows George W. Bush loves Jesus. Everyone also knows George W. Bush does not love evil-doers.
SHARE Tuesday, January 16, 2007 Wanted: Creative Extremists
"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists."
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
SHARE Tuesday, January 9, 2007 Throw away your remote
The average post-modern American couch potato watches three hours and 46 minutes of television every day.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 6, 2007 Top Ten Reasons Why You Might Vote Democrat in 2008
#6. Voting for Hillary or Obama would prove once and for all that you are truly more liberal and open-minded than your Republican brother-in-law
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 2, 2007 Are you a health nut?
Human beings can eat junk food till their arteries scream for mercy without ever running the risk of being called a "disease nut."
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 31, 2006 Hussein and Ford = Dead Criminals
If there is anyone left who questions the depth of the hypocrisy and the blood lust of the American Empire, the events of the last week left little doubt.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 12, 2006 An Open Letter to the People of Iraq
Many of you must wonder what lies ahead once the benevolent forces of freedom have succeeding in creating an American-style democracy in Iraq.
SHARE Tuesday, December 5, 2006 Don't let Dick Cheney read your palm
No less than Nobel Prize winning physicist Neils Bohr explained: "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 3, 2006 What we're up against (lessons from Guatemala)
Those seeking peace, justice, and solidarity should never underestimate the relentless and brutal power of what they are up against.
SHARE Thursday, November 30, 2006 Vietnam, Iraq, and the M Word
Perhaps recalling a few details about the Vietnam "mistake" might shine some light on the Iraq "blunder."
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 23, 2006 Fasten your seat belts for global warming
The only players with a vested interest in the status quo are those who profit off our indifference and our conspicuous consumption.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 18, 2006 Saving Condi's Life
Would I risk bodily harm to save her?
SHARE Friday, November 17, 2006 Sophocles rides the N Train
Since we're stuck in the primitive confines of the early twenty-first century, illogic reigns supreme.
SHARE Monday, November 13, 2006 Rumor Club (Gossip as Direct Action)
Ani DiFranco sez: "Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right" (but don't let Alberto Gonzalez hear you say that).
SHARE Sunday, November 12, 2006 Meat the Press
"Imagine how our discourse and actions would be different..."
(8 comments) SHARE Friday, November 10, 2006 Mid-Term Election Post Mortem
There is one primary difference between the Democrats and Republicans: They tell different lies to get elected.
SHARE Friday, November 3, 2006 Botched or not, the joke's on us
Kerry's "botched joke" laid bare the passionate cult of the soldier, America's enduring military fetish.
SHARE Wednesday, November 1, 2006 America the Temporary
America is a nation built upon myth...and the greatest myth of all is that the land of the free is gonna last forever.
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 31, 2006 The Forgiven: Clint Eastwood's Good War
For most Americans, WWII was nothing less than good and bad going toe-to-toe in khaki fatigues.
SHARE Friday, October 27, 2006 The Battle in Seattle (Looking Back Seven Years)
The goal is to globalize equity not poverty, solidarity not anti-sociality, diversity not conformity, democracy not subordination, and ecological balance not suicidal rapaciousness
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 19, 2006 When "anti-war" doesn't mean anti-war
By equating U.S. military intervention solely with the Bush regime, the anti-war crowd is aiding and abetting the subterfuge.
(8 comments) SHARE Monday, October 9, 2006 Who killed Michael Moore?
(Inspired by the recent assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya)
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 8, 2006 Read this before you vote
"Just because you have elections doesn't mean you're a democratic country."
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, October 6, 2006 NBA says no to leather
Here's something the U.S. leather industry would probably prefer you didn't know
SHARE Thursday, October 5, 2006 Torture: An American Institution
"If you don't violate someone's human rights some of the time, you probably aren't doing your job."
SHARE Sunday, October 1, 2006 The High Cost of Dying
In a world where a child starves to death every two seconds, just how much can one miserable life be worth?
SHARE Thursday, September 28, 2006 G.I. Joe has been Punk'd
Okay, son, just sign right here and you'll be spreading democracy before you can say: "depleted uranium."
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 26, 2006 Revolution just ain't what it used to be
Thomas Jefferson can pronounce: "Every generation needs a new revolution." But that doesn't mean I can.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 20, 2006 10 Reasons Why Cars Suck
Automobiles emit one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gases.
SHARE Monday, September 18, 2006 Threats: Real and Imagined
Distinguishing the genuine threats from the fabrications is often difficult in a society so dependent on media imagery.
(16 comments) SHARE Friday, September 15, 2006 Why I hate America
I hate America for being a hypocritical white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, September 11, 2006 Why Blogs?
Buried under an avalanche of the latest consumer trends and other self-destructive illusions, the result is inevitably a creeping alienation and isolation.
SHARE Friday, September 8, 2006 Self-Help in the Land of Denial
Guru-mania has today reached epidemic proportions. If you don't believe me, check out the "self-help" section in any bookstore.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 3, 2006 No innocent bystanders in America
There are no innocent bystanders when our money and/or rhetoric support the world's most powerful military and the corporate status quo.
SHARE Thursday, August 31, 2006 The Other 9/11
What would happen if Salvador Allende were elected in 2006?
SHARE Tuesday, August 29, 2006 Porn and the CIA (Your tax dollars at work)
The basic idea was to portray the hated Sukarno in a pornographic film: getting frisky with his supposed Soviet spy mistress.
SHARE Sunday, August 27, 2006 Winning the war on terror
When faced with an enemy that hates your freedoms, you dump the freedoms
SHARE Thursday, August 24, 2006 Three poems
Man, I don't need redemption/I just need a reputation
SHARE Wednesday, August 23, 2006 The numbers just don't add up (and "they" still have the guns)
The massive global protests were barely noticed.
The shock-and-awe invasion went on as planned.
The repulsive occupation continues to this day.
Doesn't say a whole lot for "having the numbers," huh?
SHARE Monday, August 21, 2006 Osama wants your mortgage
Hey, if you lived in Cave #12 on the northeast corner of Bora Bora Street, you might also be a little envious when your average infidel plops down 10% to become the alleged owner of a pre-fab in Levittown.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, August 11, 2006 Why "they" hate us
The only belief of ours that "they" might hate is our propensity to engage in aggression and repression anywhere on the globe.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 9, 2006 A 9/11 angle ignored by Hollywood
As Oliver Stone falls all over himself to appear mainstream, Hollywood continues to ignore geo-political context and questions about the official story.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 8, 2006 "I have a right to keep my house safe"
Will the law protect earth's defenders as it protects a shotgun toting Floridian with an itchy trigger finger? Are some victims more worthy than others?
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 3, 2006 Some context on Cuba and Castro
Today's perception of Cuba has little to do with the fabricated heroics of one of the faces carved on Mount Rushmore. Since 1959, it's all about Fidel Castro.
SHARE Wednesday, August 2, 2006 Blame it on the Comet
In all the millions of years dinosaurs roamed this planet, did any of them feel the need to invent, say, nuclear weapon
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, July 28, 2006 Jesus is in my computer
Jesus is not exactly thrilled with landmines, depleted uranium, and daisy cutters.
SHARE Wednesday, July 26, 2006 Power (outage) to the People
The thick black cables strung from wooden pole to wooden pole smoldered, smoked, and burst into flames as frightened residents looked on.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 30, 2006 Why I support the "War on Terror"
Perhaps a big step toward ending the use of terror as a tactic would be to alleviate the feeling of terror triggered across the globe by the home of the brave.
SHARE Saturday, June 24, 2006 Fear of a Keith Moon Planet
Since yesterday at this hour, 13 million tons of toxic chemicals were released across the globe; two hundred thousand acres of rainforest were destroyed; more than 100 plant or animal species went extinct; and 45,000 human beings died of starvation (most of them, by the way, were children).
SHARE Sunday, June 4, 2006 Haditha and Rumsfeld's Ratio
Rumsfeld sez: "99.9 percent of our forces conduct themselves in an exemplary manner." That's what scares me.
SHARE Wednesday, May 31, 2006 Haditha was inevitable
As things stand now, the long list of American military interventions will
grow and the subsequent aberrations (sic) will never cease
SHARE Wednesday, May 10, 2006 "Philosophical differences"
When the FBI arrested several members (sic) of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) in early 2006, it came as no surprise that much of the corporate media rejoiced.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, May 8, 2006 The white washing of Muhammad Ali™
The man who shocked a nation by changing his name has sold that name for $50 million in cash.
SHARE Monday, May 1, 2006 News Muse
9/11 movies, anti-war protests, and "illegal" humans
SHARE Tuesday, April 11, 2006 Do you believe in GOD (Good Old Days)?
"The simple truth is that the 'good old days' were never that good for the vast majority of the people who lived them."
SHARE Saturday, April 8, 2006 Parenti does Culture
From where I sit, Michael Parenti is at the top of his game…still producing fresh concepts and vivid prose, still challenging readers of all stripes.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 4, 2006 Let us now praise OIL (Our Iraqi Liberators)
Yeah, I can see it now: A virtual Iraq theme park smack dab in the middle of Washington, D.C. where patriotic Americans can park their SUVs and honor OIL (Our Iraqi Liberators).
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, March 20, 2006 Does anyone really need another article?
What could I possibly say that hasn't already been well-documented by far better known and widely respected pundits...over and over and over on this site and thousands of others?
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 26, 2006 U.S. Racism and Fear: Nothing New
The recent uproar over Dubai Ports World demonstrates not only a woeful lack of understanding on how U.S. ports work; it also exposes anti-Arab racism across the spectrum
SHARE Tuesday, January 24, 2006 "Big Daddy"
One upon a time...in the land of the free (sic)
SHARE Monday, January 16, 2006 Target: Iran
America never runs out of pretexts to wage war
SHARE Wednesday, January 4, 2006 Haiku You
17 syllables for your critical analysis
SHARE Friday, December 30, 2005 Which Wolf Will You Feed in 2006?
If a disagreement or difference of opinion results in a person or group reflexively being written off, we all lose.