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Category Archives: Political Analysis
“Buddy, can you spare some change?”
The vast majority of the American public has no one to turn to but themselves. The liberal elite are mired in unworkable paradigms, debilitated by a lack of imagination, dragged down by the inertia or careerism and an inability to commit to the dirty work of activism. The conservative elite have nurtured their sociopathic obsessions with wealth accumulation for its own sake, live behind insurmountable walls consigning the unwashed masses to a permanent quarantine, are more convinced than ever of their entitlement and exclusive right to rule the world.
My book is not more whining. It offers a step-by-step, highly detailed plan for challenging the corruption of our current politicos, and for reversing the destruction of representative democracy in America.
Change does not just happen. People need to believe it’s possible.
Then they need to make room in their hearts and time in their day to make it happen. Continue reading
Posted in Corporatism, Democracy, Political Analysis, Political Rant
Tagged academia, activism, Adelson, Blankfein, Bloomberg, Bush, Clinton, Dimon, Gates, Koch, leadership, Obama, politicians, pundits, Romney, TPIP, TPP, Trump
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The Race To A Vanishing Point
The U.S. plunges the world toward World War III while Americans play on their smart phones and watch bad TV. Continue reading
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Shallow
Obama thinks being president is a fun job. Now we know. Continue reading
Mission Control: We Have A Problem
Is anyone thinking this through? While a Bernie Sanders presidency would inject some hope into our dismal electoral politics and floundering democracy, his election without a supportive Congress would create gridlock and dysfunction of biblical proportions. Democrats and Republicans would combine for a bipartisan assault, President Sanders would be demonized, vilified, emasculated, meaning the prospects for the advancement of a progressive agenda, serving the needs of all Americans, not just the ultra-wealthy, would be set back for decades. Continue reading
Posted in Deconstruction, Democracy, Political Analysis
Tagged 2016 election, Bernie Sanders, democracy, Democrats, gridlock, populism, progressivism, Republicans
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Bulging Waste Line
What follows here is not an argument for reducing government. It is evidence that we need …
Good government. Smart government. Honest government. Visionary government. Representative government. I am focusing on profligate defense spending and pursuit of unnecessary war. Continue reading
War! . . . What is it good for? . . . Profits!
Unfortunately war is good for something . . . profits! Continue reading
Plausible Deniability
The latest diplomatic initiative by the U.S. in what appears to be the beginning of a welcome and very necessary rapprochement with Russia, requires withholding quick judgment and maintaining a judicious eye. Continue reading
Posted in Political Analysis, War and Peace
Tagged diplomacy, John Kerry, NATO, nuclear war, Russia, sanctions, Sergey Lavrov, Ukraine, USA, Victoria Nuland, Vladimir Putin
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The Horror and the Shame
One real big advantage of total nuclear war! With horror on this scale, there is no one left to feel any shame. Continue reading
Posted in Deconstruction, Political Analysis, Political Rant, War and Peace
Tagged demonizing Putin, hating Russia, imperialism, NATO, neocons, nuclear war, plutocracy, Russia, WWII
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Freedom of the Press
There is indeed freedom of the press in America. But it’s not quite what I understood it to be. Now it’s the freedom to keep Americans in the dark. It’s the freedom cherry-pick from the vast array of newsworthy items and only publish those consistent with the preferred narrative of our government. It’s the freedom to suppress anything which our government would find inconvenient or untimely towards pressing its manufactured version world events. Continue reading
Posted in Deconstruction, Democracy, Nihilism, Political Analysis, Political Rant, War and Peace
Tagged Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, censorship, CIA, CNN, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Forbes Magazine, Huffington Post, journalism, journalistic integrity, main stream media, MSNBC, New York Times, NSA, Reuters, RT, State Department, The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph, Time, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, White House
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The Real Debt Ceiling
THEY OWN! WE OWE! And that’s how you get the worst wealth inequality in our history. Other than a handful of legislators __ Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren certainly are talking about it __ and our president who gives lip service to this critical issue, there is no one in public life who is serious about addressing this threat to our existence as a nation. No one! Just about everyone in elected office __ to a man, to a woman __ needs to be replaced. Target date November 2016!
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