(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, October 24, 2008
THE McCAIN MUTINY: Why Republicans Are Jumping Ship More and more Republicans with hearts and brains are jumping ship because they see a ship wreck ahead and don't think McCain will make a very good captain. Once the "brilliance" of choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate wore off, the stupidity and self-serving shortsightedness of it set in. As Obama began to look more and more like a President for the times, Palin began to look like a President for the End Times.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, May 16, 2014
5 Reasons I'm Supporting Marianne Williamson for Congress My sense is there is a ripeness in both urgency and awareness -- which is why I am supporting my friend Marianne Williamson in her campaign for Congress as an Independent. You might ask, what difference would it make for one individual to be elected at a time when the moneyed forces seem to be occupying every seat of power?

(5 comments) SHARE        Thursday, February 26, 2009
The Shift Has Hit the Fan: Welcome to the Sane Asylum So ... how do we do this? How do we go from our habitual "every cell for itself" consciousness that has caused our current "mining disaster" to acting on the evolutionary truth that we are in reality "all cells in the body of humanity?" How do we shift from survival of the fittest to thrival of the fittingest?

(9 comments) SHARE        Friday, May 24, 2013
March Against Monsanto ... and Beyond - From Disconnecting the Bad to Connecting the Good Nonetheless, I WILL be in that number when millions gather this Saturday to STAND UP to Monsanto, and STAND FOR life, nature, and the heart and soul of who we are. To put it bluntly, Monsanto -- in its perverse desire to own and control all the seeds in the world -- is a true evil force that seeks to impose the heartless values of the machine on humanity and nature.

(27 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, September 21, 2011
9/11: From State of Emergency to State of Emergent Seeing It's been ten years since the Twin Towers attacks initiated the never-ending War on Terror. In the Orwellian logic that can only take hold in an atmosphere of fear, we have been collectively "convinced" that only totalitarianism can preserve our freedom. However, there is a deep awakening afoot, an "evolutionary upwising" as people from all sides emerge from the matrix of politics as usual to seek real answers...

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Swami Beyondananda's State of the Universe Address 2010 Well, another 12-month episode of that long-running comedy of situations, Universe Knows Best, is in the can, and you'll be happy to know the show has been renewed for another season. The Producer thinks it's hilarious. However, if you're like most of us, you really had to strain to hear the laugh track in 2009. Certainly, there was plenty to not laugh about. Take our political system -- please!

(22 comments) SHARE        Friday, January 22, 2016
Top Ten Reasons to Support Bernie Sanders There is an upwising afoot that may well bring the political climate change that got lost in a hopium haze eight years ago. The one candidate willing to confront the elephant (and donkey) in the living room -- pay-to-play politics where the unchecked, unbalanced, unmitigated power of money rules -- Bernie Sanders, is "berning" it up.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, March 19, 2010
Come On Baby, Fight My Liar The American people have been "trained" to accept being lied to. The prevailing cliché of lying politicians is so universally accepted, that ... well, it's universally accepted, so much so that you can probably get nine out of ten Americans to agree that, yes politicians lie. By making "lying politicians" an indisputable truth, it becomes like army food in the old days...

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, March 3, 2016
Where Huff Post Draws the Line ... And Why We REALLY Need a People's Upwising Because these topics are verboten, we have a body politic susceptible to the most outrageous of ideas and theories because we cannot trust the mainstream media to tell the truth. In a certain regard, the body politic must be kept ignorant at all costs and that ignorance has caused us to betray our own founding documents...

(8 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, December 2, 2014
The Audacity of Hopelessness -- Only We the People Can End "Futilism" This is the perfect time to abandon all hope in the Democratic Party and its entrenched misleadership, and to concede that the oligarchy won the game it so blatantly and brutally fixed. No, the Democrats cannot out-Republican the Republicans, even if they shred their last shred of conscience.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Wake Up America In order to treat the body politic, we must first make an accurate diagnosis.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, July 10, 2013
The Signs of the Upwising Are Everywhere! People Are Waking Up, Left and Right Now that the whistle-blowers have gotten things started, the corporate state and its media apparatus are doing an excellent job of exposing themselves. The "irony curtain" -- the invisible wall of impropaganda that separates we the people from the truth -- is showing serious frays, as more and more otherwise mainstream citizens are catching glimpses of the emperor's bare buttocks...

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 19, 2011
Who's In Charge of Who's In Charge? Why Changing the Political Game is the Only Game in Town Despite our nation's unique legacy, we the people have become addicted to powerlessness and dependence on a ruling elite whom we hope will trickle some wealth down onto us "pee-ons." But, as the Swami says, "the ruling class has flunked ruling class. They get an F." Whether that "F" stands for freedom or fascism is up to us and no one else.

(10 comments) SHARE        Friday, February 26, 2016
One Big Reason to Support Bernie This Super-Tuesday - He Can Beat Trump; Hillary Cannot There are still those sticking to the obsolete narrative that somehow being more "mainstream", Hillary is a more viable and electable candidate. As I said, "Yes ... any year but this one."

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Evolving Beyond the Two-Party Duopoly: Two Projects to Represent US and "WE-Distribute" Political Power in America This American evolution we're hinting at requires that we evolve from helpless and hopeless victims of a bad system to aware, awakened advocates and activists for a new one. Here are two chances to make one!

(4 comments) SHARE        Thursday, June 3, 2010
The Oil Spill and the Blood Spill: Same Problem, Same Solution There is nothing funny about oil hemorrhaging in the Gulf of Mexico, or blood flowing in the Mediterranean - just the sad joke that we humans are largely the cause of our own suffering. And we are largely clueless as to how and why.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, June 14, 2013
America's Tiananmen Square - Confronting Not-Seeism So ... America is waking up left and right, even as the mainstream media continues to distract and divert, willfully ignorant that we stand at a most significant moment in modern American history. Edward Snowden stepping forward to expose the NSA's comprehensive surveillance measures is America's Tiananmen Square moment.

SHARE        Sunday, December 24, 2006
Christmas In the Trenches At the darkest time of year, it's worth remembering a flash of "enlightening" that happened in a war that would kill fifteen million soldiers -- and what that beacon of light means today.

(4 comments) SHARE        Friday, March 10, 2017
Oops - And a Shout-Out to Our Friends at OpEdNews I got a concerned e-mail from the OpEdNews editor-in-chief, Rob Kall, who assumed I was suggesting it was OpEdNews that "fired" me ... and wondering how this misunderstanding occurred.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, October 5, 2007
FROM FASCISM TO FREEDOM: Stirring the Winds of Political Climate Change If and when our bombs begin falling on Iran, given our current limitations in navigating space and time, we will not be able to run the movie backward. The dead will still be dead, the destroyed will still be destroyed, and among the casualties will be our own open society. The damage will be irreversible, and in fact will have reversed 230 years of forward progress towards a just society, and a sane world.

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, March 29, 2007
Mutually Assured Survival Or Mutually-Assured Destruction?

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, January 21, 2010
The Democrats' Shocking Discovery: Voters Can Tell Difference Between Change and Chump Change! Shortly after last year's election, I wrote a piece entitled, "The Two-Party System: One Down and One to Go." The point was that in our current binary, bipolar system, all voters can really do is vote "yes" or "no" for the lesser of two weasels. Consequently, the political task of a burgeoning evolutionary upwising would be to dislodge first one, then the other political party that had long outlived its uselessness.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, December 1, 2010
The Transpartisan Moment: Join the Upwising! We are living in what Tom Paine would have called "soul-trying" times. In the face of multiplying crises - economic, ecologic, political and spiritual - it's becoming more apparent that fundamental change is required. The good news is, what is needed isn't revolution, but evolution. The other news is, this evolutionary alternative must be clearly expressed, carefully developed, and made tangible to the millions ...

(4 comments) SHARE        Saturday, April 20, 2013
Sometimes A Cigar Is Just A Cigar In the wake of the tragic and senseless bombings in Boston this past Monday, three "usual suspects" emerged: It was the Muslims. It was the white supremacist gun nuts. It was the government pulling off yet another false flag attack. In this whodunit, each camp pre-concluded the perpetrator based on their worldview...

(6 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Signs of Evolutionary Upwising - The Upside of Apocalypse These challenging times have been described as "apocalyptic" and I say ... that's perfect because the original meaning of the word apocalypse is "lifting of the veils". It is now time to bring down the "irony curtain" and end the most toxic "don't ask, don't tell" policy of all - where we promise not to ask our government about its dark shadow, and it promises not to tell us.

(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, February 21, 2017
A New Precedent for President's Day - It's Time to Face the Elephant (and Donkey) in the Living Room... Together We the people of America are on the cusp of a Constitutional crisis. And if that crisis DOESN'T emerge, then we are REALLY in trouble.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, May 28, 2013
NPR's "Weakened Edition" -- and What We Can Do Anyway This is simply an expression of the "kinder and gentler" form of totalitarianism where anything that challenges the authority of the corporate state (i.e., the coercive power of government in the service of big money) is simply ignored, and therefore dies from marginalization. Yes, totalitarianism ... or if you prefer a more creative term, "neo-feudalism".

SHARE        Wednesday, September 11, 2013
From Emergency to Emerge 'n See - The Upwising Is Gaining Momentum Every year on this date, the "impropaganda" machine reminds Americans why we've been enlisted in an "endless war". This year for the first time, I sense that a critical mass of the heretofore-uncritical masses, aren't buying it. The sleeping giant called "we the people" has begun to awaken.

SHARE        Thursday, December 31, 2015
For Whom the Trump Blows Even in the darkest of times, it's always amazing to me how the Universe's Sense of Humor emerges to illuminate just about any "shituation". Here is a case in point...

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, March 10, 2016
How "Pravda" Reported Bernie's Win in Michigan Fortunately, there is an upwising afoot and more and more Americans recognize the sad truth that our press is more interested in crowd control than truth. And the crowd is getting harder to control. Consider that the energy this election cycle is around the two candidates that have NOT been handpicked by the power structure, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

SHARE        Thursday, July 3, 2014
Independents Day - A People's Upwising An awakening body politic is now beginning to see through the con game called "two party politics mediated by a media determined to create lots and lots of heat, and very little light"... an upwising is afoot. More and more Americans are wising up to the political sideshow as a "debate and switch" shell game...

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Empty Envelopes for Empty Promises Can the Democrats be awakened? Find out by sending them "Empty Envelopes for Empty Promises." If this doesn't wake them up, let's assume they've already been put to sleep, and move on.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Swami Beyondananda To Speak At Conspiracy Con - Oh, and the Issue Isn't Conspiracy... It's Con's Piracy Seeing the mechanisms of power "naked" can be shocking, to say the least. So it's understandable why the phrase "conspiracy theory" is used as a dismissal attack by those unwilling (or unable) to confront the unconfrontable. I mean, if you have credible evidence that our government killed John Kennedy and Martin Luther King, or allowed the 9/11 attacks to happen, what do you do about it? How do you "be" with it?

SHARE        Friday, June 16, 2006
When the Right Is Right Conservatives Virtually Impeach Bush, and No One is Paying Attention

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 28, 2008
Hillary the Dream-Slayer Tells Us: "No, We Can't!" While it would be unfortunate indeed for the Republicans to once again be rewarded with the presidency after maxing out their discredit cards over the past eight years, the shoot out at the I'm Okay / You're Not Okay Corral is likely to have even more tragic consequences -- the stillborn death of the dream that things can be different in America.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 6, 2007
From Up-Wising to Evolution: 3 Things You Can Do NOW to Reclaim America Three things -- personal, political and economic -- that you can do to insure we the people reclaim America from "they the very, very few people": Cultivate Courage and Truth; Expand the Nonvoter Vote; Put Your Money Where Your Mouse is... and support news services like OpEd News.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, March 31, 2006
Shoot Out At the Last Chance Corral A response to the Empty Envelopes for Empty Promises campaign from a responsible Democrat grassroots organizer.

(9 comments) SHARE        Thursday, April 19, 2007
Bringing Down the House of Lies: The Final "Leg" of the Journey America's next step -- and only step -- that can take us forward is to bring the Bush-Cheney regime to justice. This isn't about vengeance, it isn't about punishment. It's about truth. That element that has been so lacking in our political environment that it has caused a spiritual, psychological and political heartsickness in the heartland...

SHARE        Monday, November 6, 2006
The Beginning of the End of the Nightmare? The big verdict today is not on Saddam Hussein, but on George Who's-Not-Sane

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, July 3, 2008
How We Can Break the Soundless Barrier and Bring Down the Irony Curtain We no longer have a free press. We have a brainwashing machine stuck on spin.

SHARE        Thursday, February 16, 2006
2006 State of the Universe: Swami Calls for An "Up-Wising!" A Cosmic Comic Perspective on the State of the Universe and the Union

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, July 21, 2007
A CALL FOR POLITICAL CLIMATE CHANGE Well, we fired up the grid last Tuesday, or maybe the grid fired us up. Now that we proved that invisibly or visibly (as with the Live Earth events of two weekends ago), the loving heart of humanity can be activated, it's time to move our feet. It's time for the upwising of awareness and upwelling of love to burst into action. It's time to address the political climate crisis.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, April 4, 2007
PREEMPTIVE PEACE: A Living "Prayer" for Mutually Assured Survival There have been news reports indicating possible air strikes on Iran beginning on Good Friday. Again, is this true? Not true? We don't know. In any case, if we want to broadcast our intention that Good Friday not become Bad Friday, that leaves us with Holy Thursday ... April 5th. We are asking you... to make April 5th the day we begin to hold our intention of preemptive peace and mutually assured survival.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, August 6, 2006
The One Suggestion The Ten Commandments don't seem to be working that well. Maybe we should try the One Suggestion.

SHARE        Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Politics Inside and Outside the Matrix Revisited Disempowerment and disillusionment seem to be the two concurrent emotional states of disheartened progressives these days. However, disillusionment -- the shattering of illusory hope in favor of a realistic and positive focus for action -- is the source of genuine empowerment. The most empowering thought is this: There's nobody to do it but us. We are the leaders we've been waiting for.

SHARE        Sunday, September 3, 2006
Politics Inside and Outside the Matrix we must strengthen the field of awakening and "up-wising." This means, calmly and courageously speaking our truth and asking the right questions to enable others to discover their truth for themselves.