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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'wars and militarism'
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
Expansion, Not Austerity
July 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Human Rights, jobs, Lobbying, Media, Politics, taxes, Wall Street, wars and militarism
We now have a Presidential Commission to make recommendations about the Reagan-Bush-Bush $13 trillion deficit that was created by cutting revenues in half with tax cuts for the rich, while continuing Republican spending and starting two wars. Of course, it is an absurd idea that we must all gather in hushed tones around former Reagan-Republican [...]
Tags: Corporatism·neocon·Neocons·obstruction of unemployment benefits·Scott Brown·the Neocon Party·the Peterson-Pew Commission·unemployment benefits
Do We Run the Military or Does the Military Run Us?
June 22nd, 2010 · Comments Off · International affairs, Lobbying, Politics, wars and militarism
In the living memory of many seniors in this country, a relatively unpopular President of the United States fired one of the most popular Generals of all time. Harry Truman had been a minor Senator who became President because the most popular President in our history died. Roosevelt had been considered, and still is by [...]
Tags: Afghanistan·ending the war·General McCrystal·government control of military·Iraq·military affairs·President Obama·the War in Afghanistan
Budget Cuts–Coming After Your Social Security
June 20th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, jobs, Lobbying, Media, Politics, taxes, Wall Street, wars and militarism
It is time to pay attention to the Peterson Commission. And you had better pay attention and tell your friends and have them tell their friends. Because the Peterson Commission is coming to get your Social Security. Not yours…yours. Yes, you there, the relatively young person who is about to start gathering funds to retire. [...]
Tags: budget deficits·government cost-cutting·the economy·the Great Recession·the Peterson-Pew Commission·The Presdent's Commission on Reducing the Federal Budget Deficit
Helen Thomas and the Problem of Palestine
June 9th, 2010 · Comments Off · Human Rights, International affairs, wars and militarism
Helen Thomas is a long-time, award-winning, ground-breaking reporter and columnist for the Associated Press, one of the remaining news services. She has, for many years, lead the press conferences at the White House, asking the first question and often ending the press conferences. She is not technically a member of the White House press corps [...]
Tags: Arab countries·Hamas·Helen Thomas·Israel-Arab wars·Israeli-Palestinian conflicts·Palestine·persecution of the Jews·PLO·the state of Israel
A Presidential Commission–To Cut Your Benefits
June 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street, wars and militarism
“Houston, we have a problem….” “We’re out of money.” Our fiscal problems have at last reached emergency status. The Republicans, yes, the Republicans–in a purely partisan way–over the last 30 years finally put us so deeply in debt that we must now address the situation before it it too late. The President, no FDR or [...]
Tags: budget deficits·budgets and spending·cutting back on Social Security·cutting government spending·cutting Medicare·cutting the military budget·government austerity programs·national debt·national debt crisis·tax increases
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
The Iraq War. Flesh and Blood.
May 20th, 2010 · Comments Off · International affairs, Politics, wars and militarism
The war in Iraq was a mistake. Whatever point of view one takes, there is no real benefit to us any longer to have troops in Iraq. They should come home as soon as possible. But that is not the end of it. We need to tell the rest of the world we’re sorry. We’re [...]
Tags: a war of choice·Bush and Cheney war criminals·Cheney·deliberate aggression·George W. Bush·illegal wars·Iraq war·Rumsfeld·war crimes·weapons of mass destruction
A Radical Proposal: Peace and Justice
May 18th, 2010 · Comments Off · Courts and the Law, International affairs, Politics, wars and militarism
This is about war and peace. Yes, the most important thing today is more jobs. That is the very first item that should be on the White House agenda every morning and every afternoon and every evening. That is number one. And there are good and relatively simple ways to create jobs and really jump-start [...]
Tags: Bush and Cheney as War Criminals·end Iraq War·lied into war·Saddam Hussein·the Iraq War·unjust wars·war crimes·war criminals
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
Truth or Consequences
April 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · energy, Health Care, jobs, Media, Politics, wars and militarism
In the great annals of our entertainment history, after radio became a staple of daily listening and then later television, there was a program many people have heard of called “Truth or Consequences.” The idea apparently was that if you didn’t answer a question properly there was some kind of consequence, undoubtedly something silly, something [...]
Tags:
Fascism and Neoconservative Republicans
March 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Culture, Media, Politics, wars and militarism
The word “Fascist” as with the terms “Socialist” and “Communist” are thrown around a lot by people who have no idea what they mean. If you want to know what those terms really mean, find someone who was in some branch of military counterintelligence, the CIA, the security section of the State Department, Defense Intelligence, [...]
Tags: Fascism·Fascists·mobs and tea parties·Neocons·Neoconservative politics·Neoconservative Republicans·violent political action
Profile of a Neoconservative: How Neocons Think and Vote.
March 7th, 2010 · Comments Off · jobs, Media, Politics, wars and militarism
Peter Roskam was elected in 2006 to fill the seat of Rep. Henry Hyde, who retired and died. Roskam is a typical Neoconservative Republican…e.g., a Neocon. He had been a member of the Illinois State House of Representatives. He was in favor of cutting taxes. (Not very controversial.) He was in favor of preventing women [...]
Tags: hypocritical politics·Lobbyist politics·neocon·Neocons·Neoconservatives·propaganda and conservatism·Right Wing Neoconservatives
The Next American Revolution
February 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · Economics, Health Care, Media, Politics, wars and militarism
It is time for all Americans to stop what they are doing and think about the future. Your future has already been mapped out for you by a relatively small percentage of Americans, who want to eliminate the middle class. The Neoconservatives, on a mission for the very wealthy and huge international corporations, have the [...]
Tags: Bush·Bush tax cuts·deficits·health care reform·how to pay for deficits·Iraq war·lobbyists·Medicare·national debt·Neoconservative propaganda·Neoconservative think tanks·Neoconservatives·Reagan·Reagan tax cuts·Social Security·tax cuts·tax reform·wars