Who Do You Trust?
There has been a lot of talk lately about the Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, Barrett Brown, Carl Ellsberg and Julien Assange, et al; what they represent, what they mean to this country and what they really are.
Year: 2013
Obama’s Dreams
The President doesn’t think Snowden is a patriot. Okay, he can’t be right all the time. But when he says that he was already lining up his ducks to look into the same stuff that Snowden leaked, he is actually
Syria-The Pit
I watched incredulously yesterday as the President came on TV and announced to the world that the United States, acting unilaterally on information that only a three year old child would readily accept, was going to attack Syrian government forces
More On Media
I’ve been raving a lot lately about how our corporate media has failed completely in its mission to inform the American public about what the hell is going on in this country and the world. You want a
The Crucifixion of Bradley Manning
Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison rhis week for informing the American public that its government was committing crimes in its name. The most civilized comment I have run across about this heinous miscarriage of justice is from
Bits & Pieces #37
So we are charging Edward Snowden with Espionage. How come we haven’t charged Dick Cheney with espionage? Cheney did more than Snowden to put American agents in danger and to help any foreign government when he instructed his aides Scooter
Let’s All Weep for BP
British Petroleum, otherwise known as BP, those wonderful people who run all the Sunday morning ads showing happy, laughing people enjoying the beautiful beaches along our gulf coast, the same gulf coast that they coated with oil and death
Detroit and the Big Lie
Got a note from a friend with whom I once shared a conservative philosophy that is not currently feasible. It included a column by George Will who I have long thought to be one of the most intelligent men in the
The Disease of Capitalism
People keep talking abut the failure of the capitalist system but they’re wrong. The capitalist system hasn’t failed. There’s nothing wrong with the system, it’s the people who inhabit it that have failed. It seems that many people who have had
Obama and the Middle-East
With Syria slowly evaporating into a smoldering ruin, Egypt exploding on the brink of full scale civil war, Israel ratcheting up its Palestinian problem, Iraq deteriorating into a religious civil war and Iran continuing it expand its nuclear capabilities we are forced