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Jason Miller, Senior Editor and Founder of TPC, is a tenacious forty something vegan straight edge activist who lives in Kansas and who has a boundless passion for animal liberation and anti-capitalism. Addicted to reading and learning, he is mostly an autodidact, but he studied liberal arts and philosophy at the University of Missouri Kansas City. In early 2005, he founded the radical blog Thomas Paine's Corner. An accomplished and prolific essayist on social and political issues, his writings have appeared on hundreds of alternative media websites over the last few years. He is also a press officer for the North American Animal Liberation Press Office and the founder of Bite Club of KC, a grassroots animal rights activist group. You can reach him at willpowerfulathotmail.com
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, February 27, 2009 Averting the China Syndrome
We do not advocate violence as a tactic so much as we argue that there are strong justifications for the use of violence, such as in a "just war," to intervene on behalf of genocide victims, or in self-defense. And we advance the concept of "extensional self-defense" to say that humans can be legitimate proxy agents for animals who rarely can defend themselves against their tormentors.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 11, 2009 Prayer for the Dying: The Thing Worse than Rebellion
And few exemplify the abhorrent ecocide-enabling champions of capitalist "democracy"[2] better than the craven and ill-educated person (or people) who are behind an Internet entity which calls itself "Target of Opportunity."
(9 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 7, 2009 Pacifism or Animals: Which Do You Love More?
We are not advocating the use of physical violence as a first strike measure or pivotal tactic for animal liberation, but nor are we taking it off the table as something that has to be dogmatically excluded on fundamentalist pacifist principles alone. We prefer not to disarm this struggle against monumental evil and destruction of life in any way.
SHARE Monday, March 23, 2009 Presence of Malice: UK Activists v. Lee Hall
Due to these sundry laws and numerous injunctions, aboveground activists found that they were told where they could protest, for how long, with how many people, and what they could and could not say. Home demonstrations were prohibited, and the state placed increasingly severe restrictions on activist use of Internet sites, as those arrested for the crime of MDA have received hefty jail sentences.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, December 29, 2008 The absurd persistence of domination: Of speciesism, capitalism, and shaking their foundations
Our chief foe is a swarm of greed-driven, self-absorbed, mean-spirited locust-like human beings who are dedicated to "reforming" and perpetuating capitalism, the very system that has led us to this woeful state of environmental, economic, social, and political affairs.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 10, 2009 We've become our own predators".
In People of the Lie, M. Scott Peck wrote a compelling argument that narcissistic people, who lack the capacity to empathize and are pathologically self-centered, are evil. What could be more narcissistic than a species of beings that believes that the planet on which they reside and the fellow creatures with whom they share that planet exist for them to use and abuse as they see fit?
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, February 20, 2006 Check Your Conscience at the Door: We're Building an Empire
Into what would the American Empire evolve in the absence of internal opposition to tyranny, bigotry, human exploitation, intolerance, and imperialism? It would not bode well for humanity...
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 15, 2009 Death Park Slaughterer: “We euthanized 312 deer in 3 nights"”
As with most forms of nonhuman animal exploitation and slaughter, it comes down to human monetary gain, “tradition,” comfort, pleasure or convenience—with an utter disregard for sentience and for the growing body of cognitive ethology studies showing that the individuals that people like you and hunters wantonly massacre lead relatively rich intellectual, emotional, and social lives.
SHARE Saturday, September 17, 2005 LIAR, LIAR
I have written an alternate version of Bush's address to the nation concerning New Orleans. This one is reality-based.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 12, 2009 Direct Action, Liberation and the Need to Persist
As a species, we have created layer upon layer of myths, falsehoods, delusions, and dogmas to convince ourselves of our superiority and separateness. Blinded by hubris and deluded by profound narcissism, we've convinced ourselves that we are little demigods, endowed with the right to plunder, exploit, consume, pollute, torture, and kill with virtual impunity.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 10, 2009 He no longer heard the cries of the animals or saw the flowing blood....
Employing myriad tactics and strategies, those of us pursuing empty cages will prevail, and, as another steadfast ally of mine, Dr. Steve Best, stated in a speech he gave at Oxford in 2005, "wipe vivisection off the map." I yearn for that day.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 8, 2010 They cannot shackle the truth, gag those who speak it, or blind us from seeing it"
While those with a vested interest in the ongoing torture and slaughter of billions of defenseless nonhumans portray and treat me as a criminal or potential terrorist, I am neither. I am a man who has responded to the call of conscience to become a voice, a writer, a publisher, and an activist for nonhuman animals. And so I shall remain.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Getting away with Murder: Whatever happened to 'above all, do no harm'?
So why, in defiance of conscience and logic, does such a heinous and grossly ineffective research method predominate and persist? Look no further than money, the lifeblood of our pitiless, narcissistic culture of death.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, September 5, 2008 Yes, we're matricidal: Murdering Mother Earth one forest, one species and one atom at a time
We are considering replacing our "commander-in-chief," (the most heinous war criminal since Hitler) with a senile war-mongering septuagenarian and his recently anointed reactionary sidekick who never met a non-human animal she wouldn't slaughter or an ecosystem she wouldn't decimate in the name of "hunting," "free enterprise," or "resource acquisition."
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 2, 2009 Heresy of the First Order: We are the "Third Chimpanzees"
Because if nonhuman animals ceased to be legally and morally (according to the dominant culture) subject to our perverse desire to subjugate, dominate, objectify, and exploit nearly every other being on the planet, our diseased means by which we've organized our existence, often referred to as "civilization," would collapse in favor of a radical alternative.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 5, 2009 To dam the torrential rivers of blood and to silence the cacophony of their agonized cries....
While the corporatist state employs extreme levels of institutionalized violence to make profits, rape the Earth, and maintain social order, many oppose any counter-violence on the grounds that it is ineffective and that even limited use by a few activists turns public opinion against entire social movements. Yet there are no social justice victories in history that were won without violent tactics
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, June 22, 2009 To Hell with Compassion: We whack 'em and stack 'em!
Shall we erect bleachers so our children can enjoy this brutal spectaclea bloody annihilation of sentient beings? And since you're addressing the deer over-population with bullets and arrows, on days when the dog trail becomes "over-populated", will you employ lethal means to cull the canine pack? Or on days when our park becomes over-crowded with people will you send in a SWAT team to "thin the herd?"
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 9, 2006 Pornification is a Disease and We Have an Advanced Case:
"America has morphed from the land of opportunity into the land of the opportunists. Did the architects of the United States system of government truly intend for our Constitution to protect the rights of avaricious corporations and wealthy individuals to exploit the masses? I sincerely doubt it. But their "rights" are often more protected than those of We the People."
SHARE Saturday, December 23, 2006 Shouting Truth to Depraved Power (and Its Unwitting Accomplices): Stephen Lendman Sounds Off
I recently had the privilege of conducting a "cyber interview" with one of the preeminent domestic critics of the American Empire. Despite his relatively recent start, Stephen Lendman has rapidly become one of the most ubiquitous and well-respected chroniclers of truth in the alternative media community.
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 30, 2009 So who are the terrorists here?
The FBI has labeled the freedom fighters of the ALF, who are engaged in extensional self-defense of nonhuman animals-sentient beings whom are being holocausted at the rate of billions per year- the "number one domestic terrorist threat." So who are the terrorists here? Animal-defending members of the ALF or ruthless animal-slaughtering corporations and their government protectors?
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 19, 2010 Of Resistance and Fighting for the First Amendment
My attorney, David Bell of Wyrsch, Hobbs, and Mirakian, has prepared a thorough and compelling legal brief, which asserts and substantiates our argument that shackling activists with TRO's is clearly a violation of the First Amendment.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, May 21, 2007 ANNALS OF MENDACIOUS PUNDITRY: PIN-STRIPED PERFIDY
Few in today's corporate-dominated mass media in the United States better embody our "ruling intellectual force" than Lawrence Kudlow. As his CNBC bio sketch indicates, he is no mere sycophant to the criminal class of plutocrats who rule our nation...Calling him a swine would insult our porcine brethren, so let's not label him.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 20, 2008 Stacks of dead presidents or flesh and blood companions?
What I'm saying is that most people with reasonably developed intellects and consciences are going to struggle in some way in this ocean of liquefied excrement, and I don't care what you call it-capitalism, corporatism, consumerism, Western civilization-it's a sea of shit.
SHARE Monday, March 26, 2007 Rover is not on the menu, Wilbur is, and Mahmoud just starved to death:
While many pets in our country receive better care than billions of deeply impoverished humans in developing countries, we consume the flesh, fat, and muscle of sentient beings merely to satiate our carnivorous desires. Compounding this barbarism is the fact that this behavior enriches those who condemn millions of pigs, cattle, fish, and chickens to abbreviated and miserable existences.
SHARE Saturday, March 17, 2007 Permission to Speak Freely?
Information Clearing House is facing censorship by the company that distributes its newsletter. Tom Feeley, ICH's publisher, needs our help. Please read this email I sent the offending wretches and barrage them with your own missives at support@ymlp.com!
SHARE Sunday, August 6, 2006 Can You Say Hidden Agenda?
"In 1998, members of a Seattle nonprofit think tank drafted a secret five-year plan with an ambitious goal: to "defeat scientific materialism" and "replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and human beings are created by God."
--Seattle Weekly
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, March 9, 2009 Flesh, flesh everywhere, Nor any morsel to eat...
We human animals fancy ourselves to be the master species, "unique" in our "superior" cognitive and communicative capacities. Yet our most noticeable characteristic is our ability to create global havoc, devastation, and misery. Therefore we have found it necessary to hide our monstrous agenda behind "traditions," acculturated and inculcated customs that grant us license to exploit, oppress and murder with impunity....
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 3, 2009 Homo rapiens be damned: Savagery is not programmed into our DNA
Humanity, past and present, is filled with examples of compassionate, courageous, and decent human beings, clearly indicating that Homo sapiens remain extant, that savagery is not programmed into our DNA and that developing a more "natural equilibrium" with our surrounding environment is within the realm of possibility.
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 10, 2008 Gravediggers of the world unite! Capitalism Must Die....
Yes, capitalism is the bane of the Earth. It is a linear system premised on infinite growth. Corporate media whores love to crow about "the growth of the economy" as if the further expansion of our highly toxic, industrialized, and consumption obsessed society on a planet that is already on life support is a "good thing."
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 13, 2007 From Lawn-Boys to B-2's: America's penchant for mowing 'em down
I just think the Democratic Party, the individuals in the Democratic Party, don't have any guts, any fire, and they want to protect their own comfortable lifestyles, and so they do just the little bit that won't piss anybody off and gets them elected. And that is a crime against humanity.
SHARE Thursday, January 18, 2007 Truth is Speaking....Is Power Listening?
Why do so many amongst the poor and working class of the United States embrace the spiritual cancers of consumerism, patriotism, nationalism, blind allegiance to corporations, and delusional thinking so readily proffered by a relatively tiny group of aristocrats who reside on the other side of a wealth canyon that was once known as a gap?
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 26, 2006 Have a Koch and a Smile:
Usually preferring to remain hidden by the obscurity of his location in Wichita, Kansas and by his refusal to take his corporate empire public, one of the wealthiest unpunished criminals in America recently stepped into the public eye in a profile article in Forbes. Unfortunately, Forbes barely touched on the darker aspects of Charles Koch...
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 15, 2009 Feigned Indignation: Of marauding exploiters, their "ethical qualms," and a new proposal
Our current form of "meat" production is rife with irresolvable problems, vegans/vegetarians are still about as rare as recent stock market success stories, and the number of people demanding to feast upon rotting flesh is rising meteorically. A head-scratching, hair pulling dilemma if ever I encountered one.
SHARE Wednesday, December 24, 2008 "Class is a dirty word"
We are approaching an economic crisis of momentous scope. The radical reactions may not be all that progressive and rational. The unfortunate thing about corporate capitalism is that it is often advantaged by the very wretched conditions it itself creates. I am hoping that the social groups that have been activated by Obama's campaign will not go to sleep and will not let up the pressure for progressive change.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, September 15, 2008 Death Becomes Her: Let's Make Her Our President
As is befitting of a huntress extraordinaire, Palin provides an endless supply of red meat for the benighted, socially conservative American masses to devour with the ferocity of the hungry wolves she loves to annihilate....
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 30, 2006 And the Empire Mourned....Dissecting the Big Lie
Those who remain captive to the Big Lie will spend the next few days mourning the passing of a man who was fortunate to escape the death penalty with which his country is so infatuated. Those same comforting delusions of superiority, entitlement, and invincibility that enable men like Gerald Ford to act with impunity will entice many Americans to continue wearing the intellectual manacles of the Empire.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, May 14, 2007 War-Pimping with a Smile: Of American Exceptionalism, Apple Pie, and Moral Rot
Possessing "all-American" looks, exhibiting unwavering patriotism, and fulfilling her self-designated role as spokesperson for "sane adults," Kathleen Parker is one of the establishment's chief proponents in the corporate media. As such, she provides relentless cover for a class of criminals who put Al Capone and his associates to shame.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 12, 2007 Forget The Color Purple: Oprah's all about the Green
Despite the innumerable exploitative workings of the capitalist pyramid scheme which enable the obscene opulence of Oprah and her miniscule number of peers (while concurrently damning billions of others to live in varying degrees of economic misery), she certainly has no qualms. In fact, she gushes about her unconscionable accumulation of treasures.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, June 11, 2007 Lies, Damn Lies, and Lies that Unleash Hell
Since only about 4% of the population shares Bush's sociopathic inability to experience empathy or guilt, what is this powerful siren call that motivates so many inherently decent human beings to repeatedly lacerate their souls upon the jagged rocks of complicity in acts that inflict unnecessary suffering upon billions of humans and animals?
(9 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 9, 2007 35% of US Americans Still Support Bush: Diagnosing the Insanity
The essential features of Americanistic Personality Disorder include pervasive patterns of extreme self-absorption, profound and long-term lapses in empathy, a deep disregard for the well-being of others, a powerful aversion to intellectual honesty and reality, and a grossly exaggerated sense of the importance of one's self and one's nation.
SHARE Sunday, August 28, 2005 What if America Found its Soul?
In this essay, I personify America as an addict who has joined a Twelve Step group and embarked on a spiritual journey which includes taking responsiblity for the damage it has caused, and making amends.
SHARE Wednesday, May 2, 2007 A Whoring She Will Go
With ease, delight, and ample reward, Peggy Noonan joins a bevy of cynical pundits in sustaining the false consciousness of the masses, which in turn paves the way for the egregious crimes of the United States' avaricious and malevolent plutocracy. If this sounds hyperbolic to you, you don't know much about the true history of the United States, particularly its foreign policy.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 27, 2006 I Pledge Allegiance to the Corporations...
"Tragically, the forces of avarice, militarism, nationalism, and lust for power have all but extinguished the bright illumination cast by those amongst the Founding Fathers who were deeply influenced by the Age of Enlightenment. Despite its military and technological prowess, the United States is awash in ignorance, superstition, repression, and fear reminiscent of the Dark Ages."
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, June 25, 2007 Overgrown Kids, Unshackled Ids, and the Death of the Superego
Frightening as it may be, the Earth's fate rests in the hands of children. With incredibly formidable military firepower at its disposal, the United States could catalyze Armageddon at any time. And while they may be adults chronologically, our sociopolitical structure is dominated by emotional infants.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 17, 2007 Please God, deliver us from the banality of evil
Sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but the analyses of Hannah Arendt and Ward Churchill define our reality much more accurately. No matter how closely an individual US American might adhere to humane principles, we are all "Little Eichmanns." We can minimize our roles, but there is no escaping participation in our nation's virtuoso performance of "The Banality of Evil."
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, June 4, 2007 Annals of Mendacious Punditry: When the Shill Enables the Kill
Jonah Goldberg is the living, breathing embodiment of virtually all that is pernicious in the malignant socioeconomic and political structures collectively known as the American Empire. Yet tragically, this scheming sycophant to the cynical, privileged criminals of the US plutocracy reaches countless millions through myriad corporate media conduits as he weaves his sophistic arguments supporting nearly every morally repulsive
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 30, 2007 Shouting at the Devil:
Perhaps most disturbing of all is the way in which capitalism's relentless advocates have managed to bamboozle billions of people into equating it with democracy. Diabolical to its core, but sheer genius nonetheless. Concluding that capitalism and democracy are somehow synonymous is a bit like saying that Dick Cheney and the milk of human kindness relate to one another in even a very remote fashion.
SHARE Thursday, July 5, 2007 Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Personal Gratification:
If we falter in our sacred duty to over-indulge our desires at the expense of humanity and the Earth, dear reader, our world as we know it will be lost to the "Islamic hoards", "Godless Communists", and "Hispanic invaders."
(9 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 5, 2006 America's Collective Delusion Must Endure:
"In a society that worships money, material success, youth, and beauty, homeless human beings are anathema on several levels. Ultimately, to preserve the delusion of the American Dream, those caught in the American Nightmare must be eliminated in some fashion."
SHARE Wednesday, August 15, 2007 Two Legs Good, Four Legs Equal
Infectious and insidious as racism or sexism, speciesism permeates nearly every facet of our existence-and it's class blind: both poor and rich practice it with alacrity. Raising 4-5 billion non-human animals each year in the concentration camp-like conditions of factory farms, we torture and slaughter fellow sentient beings merely to satiate our carnivorous desires(1) or to justify any project, no matter how inane.
SHARE Friday, October 3, 2008 One Nation under Capitalism: It's Time for a Crucifixion
So what of Paulson and the rest of the power elite who are coming to the working and middle classes on bended knee, begging for a hand-out? Let them twist in the wind and pray they start hurling themselves out of windows.
SHARE Saturday, April 21, 2007 USA: Cornering the Market on Morality
And when you're in ideological conflict with one of the bad guys, and he's mouthing the usual patriotic/conservative clichs...Like always, question the motivation of the US in their interventions from a MORAL point of view. We have morality on our side --look at Iraq, et al. The conservatives have a very difficult time dealing with this.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 17, 2006 Why Do We Hate Them?
Islamophobia is a mental and spiritual affliction. And our Western ruling elites bear the responsibility for inflicting it upon the psyches of the masses.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 5, 2007 Jesus Wouldn't Bomb a Soul:
Yet far from having ended, thanks to the tireless efforts of Goldwater, Buckley, Nixon, Reagan, Cheney, Bush, and a host of other neo-fascists, the enduring socioeconomic struggle has reached a fever pitch. Tragically, the ruling elite have utilized their formidable agitprop to beguile the confused masses into believing that our depraved system's victims (and their champions) are the enemy.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Compassionate Oppression: Subjugating Your Inferiors with a Human Touch
Which brings me to the point of my letter, Mr. Olmert. Your current modus operandi is unsustainable. So pay close attention to the next few paragraphs as I delineate the fine art of subjugating a segment of your population while maintaining the appearances of a society based on equality, justice, and all that nonsense.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 10, 2006 Bon Apptit, America
Zarqawi is dead. A major victory for the "free world", right? Let's examine the situation more closely...
(10 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 17, 2007 How about a little democracy for a change?
Mustering the support to force a Constitutional convention would greatly enhance our chances of re-empowering ourselves and emasculating the tiny minority comprising the governing plutocracy in the United States.
SHARE Thursday, December 8, 2005 The Iron Fist of Jesus
Since Fundamentalist Christians avoid introspection like the plague, let's do a little for them. While we're at it, we can take a look at a unique perspective on Jesus.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, September 22, 2006 Herbert Spencer's Evolved Capitalists:
In the malevolent socioeconomic paradigm spawned and perpetuated by the United States, survival of the fittest is the reality. And might does indeed make right.
SHARE Sunday, September 11, 2005 New Orleans Unmasks "Apartheid, American Style"
The silver lining to the tragedy in New Orleans is that the American system of Apartheid has been exposed to the world in a profound way, spotlighting the plight of black Americans. Awareness enables change.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 1, 2008 The Toddler King's Insufferable Reign is Doomed
Collectively, we act without conscience or concern for the consequences of our actions. The American Way of Life is "all about me and to hell with everyone else." We revere narcissism, hyper-individualism, greed, wealth, and status as virtues.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, April 10, 2006 Americas "Noble" Cause:
The United States and its citizens who continue pledging blind loyalty to the American Empire are following a morally depraved and perverse path in their ruthless quest to expand their already obscene wealth and power. And they don't care how many human beings suffer or die along the way....
SHARE Tuesday, October 28, 2008 'Sticking it to the Man,' 21st Century style.....
When people ask how I can risk human life to protect a whale, I cite the fact that we do not think it is unnatural or unethical to risk our lives and to kill over property like land and oil. And we accept dying and killing for ridiculous religious beliefs. I think fighting for endangered species and threatened habitats to be much nobler.
SHARE Friday, November 23, 2007 Institutionalized Glorification of our Greed and Gluttony: Thanksgiving Reflections of an Anti-Capitalist
Yes, our social indoctrination to immerse ourselves in the "traditional activities" of Thanksgiving and Black Friday is premised on filthy lies, the torture of hundreds of millions of innocent birds, a celebration of the initiation of the Native American Genocide, an unconscionable waste of resources, and the insatiable greed of those atop the capitalist hierarchy. More nauseating than eating too much turkey, isn't it?
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 17, 2006 Call me Ebenezer, but Christmas as we know it needs to go...
While Christmas may only come once a year, the pernicious effects of the Consumerism it manifests to such a high degree are virtually omnipresent in a society premised on acquisitiveness. Consumerism is the tap root of the sprawling and gnarled tree of predatory Capitalism. Like an aberrant black walnut tree of gargantuan proportion, American Capitalism exudes toxins that stunt or eradicate nearly every living thing...
SHARE Thursday, October 27, 2005 Where is the Grand Inquisitor When You Need Him?
I anticipate penetrating insight from Chomsky, and his latest book, Imperial Ambitions, does not fall short. I offer you my take on it.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, October 23, 2006 Corrode Your Conformity
"Whether the People follow the example of Gandhi or Robespierre, a revolution is imperative and inevitable."
SHARE Tuesday, July 8, 2008 Sentient Like Me: Ape Rights and the Myth of Intelligence amongst Speciesists
Human infants and toddlers can't comprehend the concept of rights either, so we better get busy rescinding their rights. And since when is it an "entitlement" to grant a living, sentient being life, freedom and protection from torture?
(27 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 30, 2007 Ron Paul in 2008? Just Say No to Dr. No
While Ron Paul MIGHT be able to slay the dragons of the military industrial complex and undue Zionist influence, his adherence to a "prehistoric" form of capitalism has the potential to essentially eliminate what is left of the rapidly eroding gains the working class and poor have made over the last century.
SHARE Thursday, January 24, 2008 Meat's Meat....So Let's Eat
We pride ourselves on our devotion to the principle of equality here in the United States, so it's time to put our values where our mouths are, so to speak. Pigs, chickens, cows, and the like already endure abject suffering so we can consume their flesh, so it is only fair that we include "man's best friend." How could they better prove their deep loyalty to us than by sacrificing their lives to feed us?
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 5, 2008 Jesus knows a camel when he sees one: We are NOT passing through the eye of that needle, America....
Television, which rivals mammon for dominance in the pantheon of the perverse gods many US Americans truly worship, is rife with programs (they don't call it "programming" for nothing) which glorify our sick fascination with the status, power, and (at least temporary) satiation of greed that comes with material prosperity.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 30, 2006 American Capitalism and The Moral Poverty of Nations
From cradle to grave, Americans are battered with a virtually constant barrage of how wonderful Capitalism is...not all of us believe the fairy tale...
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 19, 2006 Milton Lost: Can We Regain Paradise?
[I dedicate this essay to the untold millions who suffered as a result of Milton Friedman's creation of an intellectual bulwark for economic brutality. On 11/16/06, Friedman died of heart failure, an ironic cause of death for a heartless individual.]
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, January 12, 2007 Man Fuel: Is it in you?
What could better reflect the collective psychosis of the American Empire than our mass obsession with the NFL? Born through violent revolution, expanded by genocide, enriched by slavery, and elevated to hegemony through imperialism, militarism, and economic tyranny, the United States, like NFL football, embodies avaricious savagery masked by a fastidiously maintained illusion of benevolent civility.
SHARE Monday, October 9, 2006 Piercing the Simulacrum:
As vigorously as they have striven to realize the dream of the US aristocracy and reestablish an overt tyranny, Bush and his handlers have devoted equal volumes of sweat to maintaining the illusion that America is a "democracy".
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, July 27, 2007 Of Marx, Christ, and the Persecution of Radicals: How Will Humanity Survive the Capitalist Threat?
Having analyzed our vile and reprehensible economic paradigm from many angles, I find it virtually impossible to believe that a critical thinking, decent human being could support our institutionalized rapacity, at least not once they pierced the simulacrum so fastidiously maintained by the corporate media.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, July 14, 2008 Murdering God: Of Shotguns, American Capitalism, and Moral Expediency
Collectively speaking, we US Americans savagely shoved a 12 gauge into the face of God as He stood, mouth agape, stunned at the depth of the depravity and barbarism of our capitalistic ways. We then unceremoniously splattered His brains across the sky that once served as His canvas at sunrise and sunset.
SHARE Tuesday, November 14, 2006 To the Victors Belongs Impunity:
....the United States is rife with government officials of varying capacities who have committed crimes as egregious as those of Saddam...these individuals have historically ridden off into the golden hue of the setting sun, pausing just long enough to turn and flash a sneer at their would-be jailers or executioners.
SHARE Friday, September 15, 2006 Loving Labor's Losses:
While the United States' predacious form of capitalism inflicts horrific damage on people of other nations, many people in the United States are not exactly "sitting pretty". Thirty million people working full time live below the poverty level. That is almost 10% of the US population...
SHARE Wednesday, April 23, 2008 Negotiable or not, the American Way of Life must be extinguished....
We carry perceived entitlement to such pathological lengths that we actually believe that the world and all of its inhabitants are resources we can objectify and use to enhance and ensure our "prosperity," "security," and "the growth of our economy."
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, January 2, 2006 America Needs A New Father Image-- Tom Instead of George
Weve strayed woefully far from the "Promise of America." Its not too late to fulfill that promise. George Washington is the father of a country ruled by the wealthy elite. It is time that "We the People" adopt the spirit of Thomas Paine as a new father of a nation ruled by all Americans, that we wrest the power away from the narcissistic, avaricious malefactors who are the enemies of humanity.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 28, 2006 Miscreants, Murderers, and Malefactors:
Bush and the Neocon disciples of Strauss have taken the decades-long imperial conquest and genocide in Iraq to a whole new level...
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 25, 2006 Why I Now Genuflect to Charles Krauthammer
Despite his tenacious efforts, this "liberal agitator" could no longer deny the moral superiority of the Neocons and their vision of America. Who could resist the powerful polemic of a sage like Charles Krauthammer?
SHARE Sunday, December 10, 2006 Bread, Bread, Everywhere, Yet not a Morsel to Eat
In its rush to dominate, plunder and exploit "developing nations, the "developed world" (led by the United States), causes many of the famines it duplicitously attributes to irresponsible procreation.
SHARE Thursday, March 23, 2006 Democratizing the World:
In his recent book, "A Question of Torture", Alfred McCoy details the long, shocking history of the CIA's extensive study and use of human torture. Abu Gharib was no aberration...
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 10, 2008 Levite Be Gone: Releasing the Samaritan Within
To justify maintaining their negative rights under the social contract while minimizing or eliminating positive rights (which actually place a burden of responsibility upon all of usand this very jejune bunch is apparently incapable of accepting such a load), they attack laws and regulations that "threaten" the "free" market and the use of public monies to provide for the well-being of society as a whole.
SHARE Sunday, November 6, 2005 El Pais de las Pesadillas
Utilizing correspondence he has received from antagonistic readers over the last year, Jason Miller analyzes the "Ugly American".
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 14, 2006 Spiritual Felo De Se:
Today's American Crisis? These are the times that enslave men's souls. And the hell of the Bush Regime will not be easily conquered.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 27, 2008 Like the Little Satans We Are
Given this deeply entrenched delusional belief that we are better than our non-human co-inhabitants of this planet, Inge was right to assert that in the animal pantheon, the Devil would definitely be anthropomorphic. How could it be otherwise when we humans afflict animals with such tremendous unnecessary pain and suffering?
SHARE Thursday, February 9, 2006 Shed Your Addiction:
Who is perpetuating the biggest hoax in the history of humanity? America's ruling elites....Who else?
SHARE Sunday, August 21, 2005 A Kansan's Contemplations
(My essay from an upcoming book in which Michael Caddell catalogues progressive writings by Kansans. It may be a very thin book!)
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 30, 2006 Imperial Rulers and the Deadly Games They Play:
This piece deconstructs propagandistic myths portrayed by the MSM, asserts the true causes of acts the Western media label as terrorism, and mourns the losses of Middle Eastern and Western civilian victims killed by the imperialist militaries and the Middle Eastern Resistance.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 13, 2006 Terror Nation: Lies, Injustice, and the American Empire's Way
For those of us who prefer reality over the mindless propaganda assault we receive from the corporate media, the burning question arises. Who are the real terrorists?
SHARE Friday, September 1, 2006 It's the American Way or the Highway:
If every nation had the same global footprint as the United States, we would need 5 Earths to support global consumption...We humans need to collectively change our values, or WE HUMANS could be the next extinct species...
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 26, 2007 Profit of Doom: Of Vampires, Parasites, and the Demise of Capitalism
After all, predatory plutocrats like "Mitt" Romney would be impotent without his minions-the hundreds of millions of wage slaves exercising their "right to work" (for as small a wage as they desire) while obediently manning the bulwarks of a system so putrid that were it possible to feed it to a pig, our porcine friend would wretch his guts out.
SHARE Wednesday, June 18, 2008 An Immodest Proposal: Sink your teeth into this....
We Americans are the fittest of the species, and hence the most well-equipped to survive. History has proven that beyond the shadow of a doubt. As the fittest, we have the right to utilize our inferiors to ensure our survival. So why not eat them?
SHARE Sunday, September 10, 2006 Let Them Eat Candy:
Perpetrating one of the world's biggest hoaxes for an unprecedented period of time, the ruling class has beguiled the masses in the United States into believing they live in a bottom-up "participatory democracy".
SHARE Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Moral Primitivism Anyone? A Satirical Examination of an Apologia for Industrialized Torture
"Again, if PETA is putting something out, I will always have my doubts - they see things one way and one way only. Theirs. In many ways the activists in this country are terrorists of a kind...." [Excerpt from an email written by a heavily indoctrinated and reactionary US American]
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, February 22, 2008 Bloviate this!
Time and again we've watched you bully your victims (or "guests" as you duplicitously refer to them) from your secure little perch high atop the food chain of craven and mendacious propagandists dutifully maintaining the pernicious lies that perpetuate the moral retardation and turpitude of this nation. You are a truly despicable human being.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 8, 2006 The Rendition of Christ:
America as the beacon of human rights and dignity is but a dream yet to be realized. While the dream has lain dormant, amoral opportunists have busily unleashed their nightmare on billions of human beings. And all the while they have trumpeted the many virtues of the United States as a Christian nation....
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, May 15, 2006 White and Might Make Right:
As the American Empire and its fellow imperialist nations in Europe continue to exploit their "Neocolonies", the indigenous people are rebelling and seeking a piece of their plundered wealth. Subduing them with military and economic power is immoral and ineffective...it is time to repay our moral and fiscal debts....
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 1, 2006 Your Huddled Masses are now my Wretched Refuse:
Many citizens of a predatory, avaricious, and self-absorbed nation of immigrants are now concerned about the "invasion" from Latin America. Hand wringing Americans concerned about preserving our cultural heritage seem to have forgotten that diversity is allegedly a cornerstone of our nation and that the United States has brought its immigration woes upon itself....
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 15, 2006 How the West and the West Bank Were Won
The "Land of Free and the Home of the Brave" is currently participating in a second round of ruthless genocide. When does the killing end?
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 9, 2008 The E.L.F.s are mad! Why aren't we?
Sorry kids, but you're just going to have to deal with the fact that we are greedy narcissists. We're dyed in the wool consumers, we worship Mammon, and eliminating the cancer of capitalism is simply out of the question.
SHARE Tuesday, October 18, 2005 Surrender is not an Option
I provide a brief analysis of the criminality of the US government and discuss potential non-violent means (for those of us seeking social justice) to employ against it.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 6, 2007 Mother Bush would be proud to call this one her own:
There is something distinctly perverse and morally depraved in celebrating the recent blows to habeas corpus and the Bill of Rights, suggesting the re-implementation of slavery, and stating that the Native American genocide was justified by the end results.
SHARE Tuesday, May 2, 2006 SUCCESS IS NOT AN OPTION:
Washington loves to point the finger at "failed states" like Iran and North Korea....it is time America's ruling elite took a long hard look in the mirror...
SHARE Monday, September 26, 2005 Peaceful Assault on the Epicenter of Evil
In this editorial, I recount my experience at the 9/24 march in Washington and outline a strategy for a velvet revolution.
SHARE Monday, November 6, 2006 Unleashing the Christ Within:Last Hope for the Moribund Soul of a Nation?
"In a collective sense, the soul of the United States is writhing in the agony of spiritual asphyxiation. Trapped in an overflowing cesspool of its own making, the nation's lan vital desperately needs freedom and an infusion of spiritual oxygen. Sans significant change, its odds for survival equal those of an under-sized fish carelessly tossed ashore by a heartless angler."
SHARE Thursday, November 15, 2007 Mentes Peligrosas: Confession of an American Thought Criminal
Within the Orwellian construct of H.R. 1955, I have not decided whether I am a violent radical or a homegrown terrorist. Perhaps the powers that be will deem that I am both. Were I neither, that would mean that I had sold my soul and taken the last refuge of a scoundrel. What a nightmare that would be!
SHARE Sunday, November 20, 2005 America's Corporatocracy Says "No MAS"
Hugo Chavez is not alone in his stand against US neocolonialism in Latin America. Evo Morales is poised to become his powerful ally as president of Bolivia....
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 9, 2005 We Cant Let "It" Happen Here
Americans need to act to end the reign of the aristocracy in our country. Our Constitution is in grave danger of fading into obsolescence, and here is why!
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 15, 2007 Slaves to Christ and Compassion Unite: Free Markets Must Prevail
As Americans, we extol the virtues of freedom and rail against oppression. Yet we allow our hallowed free market to languish, severely crippling it with a host of asinine socialist elements that seriously compromise our opportunity to revel in the glorious splendor of true capitalism.
SHARE Friday, August 4, 2006 An Evolution that Would Blow Darwin's Mind:
Rational thought and separation of church and state both prevailed in recent Kansas State School Board elections. Yet there are far deeper implications to consider...
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 7, 2006 Satan is Resting Easy:
Newsflash to those who have been living under a rock (and to those who rely on the mainstream media to keep them informed): Islam does not have a monopoly on extremism or terrorism. Just ask the families of the 100,000 Iraqi civilians the "Christian" United States has murdered during its illegal occupation.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 23, 2006 Slaves to the "Free Market" Unite
Trent Lott was on to something when he recently stood on the Senate floor and pontificated that we need to stop talking about class warfare. Yes, let's end that discussion so we can direct our focus to the rape, pillage and plunder of humanity and the Earth by Lott and the rest of the Capitalist ruling class...
SHARE Thursday, March 16, 2006 Pink Slips Abound for Prosecutors and Therapists:
Karl Rove told Americans that the United States had two choices in the aftermath of 9/11. Opting for war, Bush, Rove, and company have come to embody the savagery Rove decried at that time. Under their "leadership", OUR nation is headed into a moral and financial abyss...
SHARE Sunday, December 25, 2005 May a Flock of Thrushes Disrupt Your Hologram This Yuletide Season
Pagans get the ultimate credit for the holiday season, Fundamentalist Christians want ownership, some of us don't care, art imitates life, and a bunch of infernal birds threaten to subvert America's Corporatocracy.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 4, 2005 VIEWING TERRORISM THROUGH A DIFFERENT LENS
For too long the American public has allowed the most foul terrorists on the planet to define terrorism. Here is an alternative viewpoint.
SHARE Tuesday, April 18, 2006 Forget the Middle East:
Terrorists in North America? The United States possesses the ultimate stockpile of weapons of mass destruction and is not afraid to use it...
SHARE Saturday, September 3, 2005 Delusions Under Siege
Like a computer virus, a growing movement for peace and social justice threatens to sabotage the Matrix-like media machine which keeps Americans submissive as they are pacified by delusions of the American Dream.
SHARE Sunday, August 14, 2005 Redemption Within Reach for the American Empire
The ruling elite of America have been corrupting the soul of our nation from its birth. Yet Americans still have the time and resources to renew our nation's soul and find redemption for the American Plutocracy's crimes against humanity.
SHARE Friday, November 25, 2005 Ongoing Quest for the Many Manifestations of Bigfoot
The elusive Bigfoot has evaded capture or tangible evidence of its existence for years....much like Truth in the United States. Learn more in this review of Palacek's latest!
SHARE Thursday, December 1, 2005 Hey Board Members, Leave our Kids Alone!
The Kansas State School Board is at it again. Why are they so determined to limit the intellectual Evolution of our children?