My fellow English-speaking United-States-of-American progressives, are you feeling defeated, and depressed? Are you tired of beating your head against the wall of…
Recently a self-described "conservative" and "pro-war" intellectual stopped me in the hallway to say that I was "right on one thing — Bush…
Who will save us from the pessimistic, do-nothing “realism” of the privileged and elitist “liberal left”?Ā “RACISM WILL NOT BE SOLVED” Did…
Speaking of polling data (the subject of my last post) on Iraq, here are a couple of important findings from recent history: *…
Never underestimate the power of war propaganda. Don’t forget the danger to democracy posed by the existence of a separate mercenary military caste…
American liberals, even left-liberals, just don’t get United States (U.S.) imperialism.Ā For an excellent case in point, see a recent opinion-editorial titled…
According to the Associated Press (AP) today (March 2, 2006), George Bush II received explict advance warnings about Hurricane Katrina’s monumental scale and impact…
Here are some comments I made to the University of Iowa Antiwar Goup yesterday. …….Good afternoon. Thanks for asking me to speak. …
My fellow Americans, have you read your QDR? “My QD what?” you say. I am referring to the Pentagon’s recently released Quadrennial…
I am in the middle of my usual George Orwell-inspired dissection of the George W. Bush’s “State of the Union” address (SOUA).…
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