In the early evening of a summer night in New York City, or Dallas or Los Angeles, or Miami, there is a slow, quiet movement of long, dark-windowed vehicles. They move quietly to centers of activity where bright lights outline the architecture and gowned women and men in expensive suits emerge, smiling and laughing. The [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Culture'
Politics: Winning in Class Warfare — Part I
September 15th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Culture, Human Rights, jobs, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street
Tags: austerity·billiionaires·Class warfare·Medicare·Neoconservatism·obstructionism·Social Security·tax breaks for the wealthy·taxes·the rich
The Grand Illusion
August 30th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Lobbying, Media, Politics
Part I – Looming disaster and how we got here The Tea Party Movement is neither a movement nor has it anything to do with the traditions of freedom represented by the American Revolution. It is in fact, ironically, about the impulse of an uneducated and badly led society to permit the restriction of its [...]
Tags: Americans for Prosperity·Dick Armey·FreedomWorks·Glenn Beck·Koch Industries·neocon·Neocons·tea party·tea party rallies·tea party rally
Restoring Honor? How About Restoring Sanity?
August 28th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Media, Politics, Wall Street
It is probably not a good idea to give any publicity to this inane plan of Glenn Beck’s to hold a “Restoring Honor” meeting at the Washington Mall but it is an appropriate starting point. Glenn Beck is probably the most vocal and radical–some, many, say crazy–commentator on the Obama Administration’s policies. He literally has [...]
Tags: Glenn Beck·Neocon Republican rally·Restoring Honor·Tea Party Washington rally·Washington rally
Ric Scott Strikes Again.
August 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Culture, Health Care, Politics
Ric Scott is the Republican nominee for Governor of the state of Florida. We have had times in this country when governors of states were some of the most reprehensible people one could imagine. We have had people like Orville Faubus of Arkansas who said that black children would go to school with white children [...]
Tags: candidates·Columbia-HCA scandal·health care lobbyist·Medicare fraud·medicare insurance fraud·Neocon candidates·Neocon scum·Neocons·Politics·Republican candidates·Ric Scott
Disciples of Fear
August 20th, 2010 · Comments Off · Culture, Media, Politics
Beware of the Age of Fear. Not the dark, unreasoning fear, the fear of the unknown, the fear of poverty, destitution and calamitous disaster. No, not that fear. Not even one, all-encompassing fear—not the phobic kind of fear that paralyzes every movement. No…we are not talking about that age-old, traditional fear…the fear of hell fire [...]
Tags: fear·Neocon fear mongering·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservatives spreading fear
The Rich Are Winning
August 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Culture, Media, Politics
When we look at the past year and a half since President Obama and his staff have come to office, we can only shake our heads and wonder. We wonder whether the United States of America is headed for its final hour, for an era of disgrace and shame and stupidity beyond the fall of [...]
Tags: Neocon oligarchs·Plutocracy·tax policy·the economy·the top one percent of income earners
The Neocons
August 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Lobbying, Media, Politics, Science & Technology, taxes, Wall Street
When the current American Right Wing propaganda machine heats up it is very difficult to sift through the lies and the deliberate distractions to go directly to the facts. There are a dozen obfuscations along the way. And not merely for the overview of the last ten years, but for each single affront to American [...]
Tags: Karl Rove·Neocon politics·the Neconservative movement·the Neoconservative political theory·The Neoconservative Republican Party·the Neoconservatives·the Tea Party
Neocons and Neo-Fascists in the Global Village
July 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Corporations and Industry, Culture, International affairs, Lobbying, Politics, Populism, Wall Street, wars and militarism
What is America? Is it merely a flag? Is it an armed force, with tanks and guns and planes? After all, that’s what many people see in villages around the world. That’s what simple groups of small villagers saw in Iraq…people with no television, no media elite, no sophisticated intellectual government in their region to [...]
Tags: American culture·lobbyists·Neo-Fascists·Neocon Republicans·Neocons·obstruction·progressive policies
Open Letter to Tea Party: Take a Hard Left Turn
July 27th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Capitalism, Culture, Health Care, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street, wars and militarism
Before anyone who is a true Populist is going to believe that you, the Tea Party members are remotely legitimate and not simply stooges for the Right Wing of the Republican Party, you need to get some common sense. If you want to parade around pretending to be lovers of freedom and democracy, you need [...]
Tags: racist tea party marchers·tea baggers·tea party·tea party members
The Bush-Cheney Pro-Poverty Programs
July 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Capitalism, Courts and the Law, Culture, Economics, Human Rights, Politics
In 8 years in office, Bill Clinton, in addition to creating 22 million jobs, left office having lifted 5 million people out of poverty. When George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (who have somehow avoided prosecution for war crimes) left office there were about 12 million unemployed and only 3 million jobs had been created [...]
Tags: Bush and Cheney·financial scams·Neocon scams·personal bankrupticies·poverty·sub-prime mortgages·the unemployed and jobs
The Dangerous Game
May 29th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Culture, Economics, Labor, Media, Politics, Populism, Wall Street, wars and militarism
Anarchy is the absence of government. It could be a placid, pastoral society or it could be the wild, wild West. The fact is, however, that it is dangerous to contemplate anarchy unless you can be certain which it will be. You may call the Soviet Union a state that grew out of a Communist [...]
Tags: anarchy·Communism·Corporatism·media control·media elitism·Right Wing control of media·Socialism
Neoconservative Vs. Liberal
May 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Economics, Lobbying, Politics, Populism, Wall Street
Let’s make some distinctions, shall we, so that when Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin or some other anti-American, pro-internationalist, pro-corporate hack comes on television to dissemble about the distinctions between Neoconservative and Liberal we will have our foundations clear. In no particular order, let’s take the differences one at a time between Neoconservatives and Liberals. [...]
Tags: corporatist·huge corporations·Liberal·lobbyist·Neoconservative
May 1910 to May 2010–100 Years of…Progress?
May 7th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Economics, General, Politics, Populism, Wall Street, wars and militarism
By 1910, the United States had changed from a collection of states along the Atlantic Coast and a group of Southern slavery states to an emerging nation spreading across the entire continent. There were only three major cities: New York, Chicago and Philadelphia with over a million population. There were half a dozen other metropolitan [...]
Tags: American history·corporations·economic history·Economics·history·income distribution·income inequality·manufacturing·Medicare·political history·Politics·Social Security·taxation·taxes·unions
Facts About Global Warming
April 26th, 2010 · Comments Off · Culture, energy, General, International affairs, Science & Technology
The fact is that the earth is warming. Glaciers are melting, and most importantly, the earth’s weather patterns are beginning to change. Northwest United States, which in some parts had over 150 glaciers in the early 1910s, now has less than 40. Some areas of the Arctic ocean that had been impassable now can be [...]
Tags: cap and trade·carbon dioxide·carbon emissions·climate change·climate stabilization·effects of increased temperatures·global warming
Truth and Freedom of the Press
May 21st, 2010 · Comments Off · Culture, Media, Politics
It might surprise some people to learn that according to an organization called Reporters without Borders, a group that monitors freedom of the press across all nations, the United States ranks 20th in freedom of the press, behind Denmark, Sweden, and others. But you run out of the very liberal Scandinavian countries after five, so [...]
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Tags: far right propaganda·lying in the media·Neoconservative propaganda·oppression of the free press·ownership of media·Right Wing commentators