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Take it to the streets!

Effective street protests are no longer possible. Even Micah White, one of the founders of OWS, has declared that things have changed and we need to find different mechanisms for demanding reform. Continue reading

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From the – to the +

As citizens, we must decide how we are going to go about shaping our society and country, how our democracy will function, how the decisions get made, how much of the responsibility to ourselves and future generations we’re going to entrust and delegate to our leadership elite, the elected or de facto pillars of society, and what remains inviolably ours. To implement those decisions and new alignment of power, the sane and sensible majority must wrest the power from the misguided, greed and hubris-driven 1%, and put ‘We the people’ back in the political equation. My new book, “Candidate Contracts: A Manifesto (A New Front and Perhaps Last Stand at Establishing Representative Democracy in America)”, arriving in late May or early June, will point the way for American citizens to establish their rightful place in shaping the future of our nation for themselves and future generations. Continue reading

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Negotiating With A Rapist

Aren’t there any absolutes anymore? Aren’t there some things that are not negotiable? We’ve been on the slippery slope too long and it may be a one-way street. Maybe we need to think a little harder about our core values before it’s too late. Continue reading

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Militarizing The Police – Part 3

What is our government preparing for? Continue reading

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The ‘H’ Word

I’ll tell you a word we don’t dare say anymore. You know the one . . . The ‘H’ word. Continue reading

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The Truth Hurts (Those Who Tell It)

As this Truthdig article clearly argues, the land of the free is becoming the land of the mute. Continue reading

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