Archive for December, 2010

This Moment in American History

We tend to take the conditions of the world during our short life-spans for granted. Unless we live through some kind of earth-shattering, world-changing event, we fall into the trap of believing—if only subconsciously—that things were always more or less the same as they are now. I love the end …Read More

I will try to make this as brief as possible because I want to increase the likelihood that people will read it. If you agree with my assessment, I hope you’ll spread this around the internet far and wide, because this is a conversation that needs to happen NOW if …Read More

Julian Assange, my hero

 Reuters photo WikiLeaks crusader Julian Assange of Australia, shown above in a photo taken last month, is closest that we have to this guy: I’ve been following the WikiLeaks saga for some time now but until now I have yet to comment. (I actually wanted things to gel a bit before …Read More

I’m not sure why, but even though everyone expected it, even though I called it a month ago, I’m still extremely angry about Obama’s decision to cave in to the Republicans on the Bush tax-cut issue. Perhaps I’d been holding out some hope until the very end. Perhaps it’s because …Read More

The United States, the so called policeman of the world, is failing to police a really serious problem in the world.  The current Global War on Terror has about “230,500” military personal in Iraq and Afghanistan (Infoplease).  The Global War on Terror currently has cost “5,376” American lives (Infoplease).  There …Read More

A new article in Foreign Policy magazine caught my eye, and aroused my ire. Hiding in Plain Sight, is the title, with a subtitle of, “You don’t need to get your hands on secret cables to learn that Turkey’s foreign minister has a radically different view of the world than …Read More

Obama is dead. Long live Obama.

For all practical purposes, the Obama presidency is over. I hope I’m way off-base but it seems to be the truth. The weeks following the mid-term elections have been so discouraging that I’ve barely been able to summon the motivation to write about them. After two years in which Change …Read More

It’s interesting how it is just a given in the United States of America (and in other plutocracies) that in an economic downturn, it’s the poor and the vanishing middle class who will have to do with even less — certainly it won’t be the rich. I say: Fuck. That. Shit. …Read More

Revolution Earth: An Open Invitation

I believe that we’re living at the most critical time in human history. In the past hundred years our technology has advanced to a point at which we are now capable of wiping out our entire species by rendering the Earth uninhabitable to us. Whether we can use our technology …Read More

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