The Golden Jubilee of our Gangster Nation
The JFK assassination changed America, for the worse. And, after sampling the unending cacaphony of 50th anniversary books claiming to finally "reveal the truth" or produce "new evidence" about the...
View ArticleFrom JFK to the TPP - The Long March of Structural Sociopathy
Remembering JFK for being shot is as wrong as remembering Jesus for being crucified. On this sad anniversary, we need to widen the focus from bullets and wounds and Dealey Plaza to see where the...
View ArticleAmeRICO - Connecting the Dots among Banksters, Gangsters, and Proprietary...
For me, reflecting on the 50th anniversary of JFK's murder was like pulling on a thread that unraveled the sweater of the last century of political/media bullshit in America. I have spent the last two...
View ArticleThere can be no democracy when everything is a secret
Corporations are not merely looting the public and attacking its rights, they are attacking its ability to know anything about what they are doing. The title of this diary, then, merely modernizes...
View ArticleHarvard Business Review calls bullshit on today's "capitalists"
Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism—in supporting the development of market-creating innovations. - Clayton M. Christensen and Derek van Bever, The Capitalist’s Dilemma, Harvard Business...
View ArticleWelcome to Pottersville, Massachusetts
One can only thank the clueless greed-heads now running Market Basket for their unintended remake of It's a Wonderful Life for a whole new generation. I want to acknowledge flower and magpie02141 for...
View ArticleBillions for domination, not one cent for decency.
We will spend hundreds of millions without hesitation to send weapons to Israel, military advisers to the Ukraine, non-lethal aid to the completely compromised Syrian resistance (a creature of the...
View ArticleJobs, Peace , Decency - A Progressive Platform
Progressives need to play offense. Instead, what little media visibility they are granted (e.g., MSNBC) is used up playing defense. That is, reacting to the right-wing outrage of the day - and...
View ArticleThe Military Cancer Devouring America
The corporate wing of the Democratic Party has completely given up trying to rein in the excesses of the military-intelligence-police-prisons (MIPP) complex. In the 17 years since 1997, the office of...
View Article"Koch's Angels": the 1% hire the one-percenters
American democracy has reached the level of the Polish liberum veto. Super-rich individuals, like the Koch Brothers or Sheldon Adelson, can block any political action they oppose. They do it by hiring...
View ArticleInevitability is to Third Way Politics as Austerity is to Disaster...
They are the same scenario: leadership screws up; they are rewarded, while the rank and file are informed they must endure all the hardship and trust the screw-ups to fix things.When the bankers...
View ArticleI, for one, do NOT welcome our techno-libertarian overlords
We need to stop the billionaire elitist radicals who want to replace democracy with corporate feudalism and techno-elitist domination. If we don't, technological progress will become the private...
View ArticleIf the TPP passes, 2016 is irrelevant
Yes, TPP has been designed to be a boring, opaque, fly-under-the-radar, FATAL corporate coup d'etat. But, let's focus all our attention of the 2016 race. Let's badger Elizabeth Warren to the point of...
View ArticleRandom Interface Palsy and the Death of Democracy
We've spent forty years boiling our critical thinking skills to mush. Some people blame the content providers: TV/ tabloid TV/ reality TV; violent video games; all the voyeuristic, solipsistic crapola...
View ArticleInfinite Money brings SciFi weaponry to politics
As a tech-literate reader of hard SciFi, I've always have to "suspend disbelief" about energy density. For a general audience, I call it the rayguns, warp drives, and Terminators problem. The problem...
View ArticleIt's the looting, stupid.
That's the reminder I want to see taped to my political candidates' laptop screen. Today's world is run by looters. There are neoliberal looters using financial weapons, and there are neocon looters...
View ArticleAdelson and Kristol attempt the first Liberum Veto in US history
As the GOP sabotage and sedition continues, the US appears to be going the way of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth (P-LC) rather than the way of the Roman Empire.If you know your history, this is not...
View ArticleThe Future of the Middle Class: Slumlords, sharecroppers, and racist vigilantes
In case you missed it, the billionaires' final solution to the problem of the American middle class (as created by FDR) has been underway since the 2008 crash. For six centuries there has been a Jewish...
View ArticleCancer as a weapon. Not the onion.
You might have noticed that scientists had some ethical concerns about a new gene editing technique (CRISPR/Cas9) that had been used to modify human embryos in China. In our view, genome editing in...
View ArticleGangster Capitalism in China
I must recommend the very readable paper, China’s Communist-Capitalist ecological apocalypse. While the paper is 45 pages long (with at least five pages of pictures of the pollution, collapses of...
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