Maybe This One Will Work
Syria and gas are today’s most intriguing discussion points. Who’d a thought it? The Soviets say that the gas attack on Damascus was the work of rebel forces trying to get us to invade Syria or at least give them more and
Category: Social Commentary
Bits & Pieces #38
You really can’t make this stuff up. Yesterday the Obama White House told Russia that they must not persecute individuals and groups seeking to expose corruption in their country even as Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and Barrett Brown are being harassed,
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.
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
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
Obamacare Works
For just about four years now the forces of the right have been campaigning against the ACA, popularly known as Obamacare. Anyone who is aware of today’s headlines knows that they have now given up all pretense of doing
The Failure of Corporate Media
Watching what has gone on over the Edward Snowden affair, makes me realize the depressing state, to which, American journalism has sunk and the not unexpected lack of interest exhibited by the American public in that, which in actuality,