How many wars are today's neocons willing to promote for the sake of regime change that grows corporate profit? "The…
"Conservatives without Conscience," a minority in America defined by John Dean in his book by the same title, accept the…
Unsustainable economic growth and its systemic impacts on the wealth gap, human population, and Earth’s climate are enslaving and abusing…
Henry Giroux re-evaluates the works of Orwell and Huxley compares them to the new American Authoritarianism and proposes actions to…
From Bernie Sanders is a democratic socialist, but what does that term mean?: There are essentially two types of socialists…
Back in January, 2007, as The Shrub, GWB, began his final year in office I wrote a blog post titled…
Know Your Values and Frame the Debate Communicating Our American Values and Vision Why You Can't Understand 21st Century American…
Here is a list of typical "pro TPP statements" with my cons. "free trade has boosted American commerce more than…
The founders of America included a fundamental idea in our Constitution: checks and balances - one branch of government checks…
Externalizing hope will defeat the casino capitalism of the authoritarian right. Here are three requirements for getting there: 1. Progressives…
From: Peak Inequality: The .01% and The Impoverishment of Society: Beyond these baseline costs, looking at moderate costs for a…
- Corporations/Billionaires own our government - Obedient shoppers or Critical Thinkers? - Enslaved by paychecks and debt - Where freedom…
I just responded to a Texas Democratic Party Survey. Here are their questions and my answers: What do you think…
Suggested Reading for Week Ending 10/26 Christianist Erik Prince Remains Free as Blackwater Guards Convicted for Killing 14 Iraqis in…
Suggested Reading for Week Ending 10/19 Beyond Orwellian Nightmares and Neoliberal Authoritarianism Those who fight against neoliberalism [free market fundamentalism,…
Suggested Reading for Week Ending 10/12 Federal Court Strikes Down One of the Most Aggressive Gerrymanders in the Country One…
Suggested Reading for Week Ending 10/5 The Supreme Court That Made It Easier to Buy Elections Just Made It Harder…
Suggested Reading for Week Ending 9/28 The People’s Climate The People’s Climate March on September 21 was a watershed for…
Back at the start of the seventh year of the Bush II administration, January of 2007, I wrote a post…
Suggested Reading for Week Ending 9/21 The Questions Congress Should Ask About Obama’s War on ISIS “The public is told…
Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim Please watch the video first. Lessig ends by…
Suggested Reading for Week Ending 9/14 Militarization, Surveillance, and Profit: How Grassroots Groups are Fighting Urban Shield “The line between…
Government is crucial for building a public infrastructure that equally protects and empowers every citizen Citizenship dues are necessary to…
Suggested Reading for Week Ending 9/7 EU-US Trade Deal Lets Corporate Interests Steamroll Food Safety, Groups Warn We are writing…
Suggested Reading for Week Ending 8/31 Everyone From Tibetan Monks To Iran’s Supreme Leader Is watching Ferguson. Here’s How They’re…
- First they came for the unions, but I didn’t vote. - Then they diverted pay raises for my increased…
Suggested Reading for Week Ending 8/24 A Former Marine Explains All the Weapons of War Being Used by Police in…
Suggested Reading for Week Ending 8/17 Elizabeth Warren’s 11 Commandments For progressives just recently let out of the bondage of…
Suggested Reading for Week Ending 8/10 Cash Hoarding becomes an Addiction Several studies have been done since the Great Recession,…
Suggested Reading for Week Ending 8/3 The people of the United States must work to end the interventionist violence of…
Suggested Reading for Week Ending 7/27 See How Americans For Prosperity Ranks YOUR Congressmen on free market fundamentalism - Neoliberalism…
Suggested Reading Week Ending 7/20 Tea Party Has Become a Religion, Stopping the Devil Incarnate is It’s Goal Interview with Billionaire…
When FDR and LBJ passed laws which maximized equality by providing protections such as Social Security, the right to unionize,…
Decades later, Lewis Powell codified Vice President Wallace's "method" in The Powell Memo of 1971. The result was a proliferation…
Economic neoliberalism, or free market fundamentalism, has been at work for decades in America transferring more and more wealth from…
The following are excerpts are from a recent article by Chris Hedges: Snowden, we are told, could have reformed from…
... social change is happening and growing inequality is the great enabler. Relative to Bill Moyer’s 8 stages of successful…
For some time, I have been promoting the use of profit-free media for news. There is a long list of…
The following quote is from a blog posting by Marc Farinella : "Two final points from Lakoff; here’s the first:…
Progressives claiming that right-wing authoritarians are irrational is like right-wing authoritarians claiming minorities are mentally inferior to whites. They both…
An updated report on growing income inequality between America's profit makers and profit takers shows the growth of income for…
Demand freedom from Climate disruption - increased weather extremes and human costs resulting from significant, unseen, and rampant releases of…
John Dean referred to them as Conservatives Without Conscience in his 2007 book by that title. (There was no Tea…
First of all, a short summary of The Lucifer Effect. It explains how events like Mi Lai, Abu Ghraib, and…
As states give to and take from national citizenship dues coffers, some get back more than they give, and Red…
Depending on your media sources, you may have seen the news about the 40 year anniversary of ALEC - American…
Listening to a right-wing caller on the Thom Hartmann show recently, reminded me of a key element from the right-wing…
"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no…
Here's another message I've sent to the Supreme Court: On behalf of the Texas Republican Party, thank you. With our…
While driving home from lunch today and listening to the discussion on NPR's 'Talk of the Nation', the strong unreasonable…
The government not only has PRISM, but there is also NUCLEON, MAINWAY and MARINA. The first two collect content from…
Right-wing authoritarians (RWA) - those blocking progress in both houses of our Congress and conniving with ALEC to write oppressive…
(Unless otherwise noted, this posting includes extensive excerpts from Appendix VII, The New Patriotism, of the The 15% Solution, by…
As we all know, our right-wing minority controlled Congress and many right-wing state leaders have opposed every effort of President…
Professor Richard D. Wolff, author and self trained Marxist economist, and journalist Hedrick Smith, author of Who Stole the American…
The following is from Thom Hartmann: You need to know this. For decades, unions have been fighting to preserve workers'…
The following is a slightly longer version of my letter to The White House. Mr. President, I'll be 65 in…
The post 80's ideas of keeping the minimum wage suppressed and not rewarding workers, profit creators, for their productivity increases…
Throughout this blog, postings have provided details about the strict father and nurturant parent worldviews. Charts in some of those…
(This blog posting comes from portions of Who Stole the American Dream by Hedrick Smith.) The history of the transition…
Corporate governance destroys democracy by replacing accountability to citizens with accountability to a few major stockholders and boards of directors…
Our recent history shows us how we created and maintained a prosperous middle class and still had a Forbes 400…
Back in August 2006, I wrote a post called, "Can There Really Be Fascist People In A Democracy?" I think…
Over the years, some have said that there is little difference between our two major political parties. This is certainly…
Based on the recent writings of Professor George Lakoff and the Newtown statements from our President, I posted the following…
In an interview of Henry Giroux about the War on youth in America, Canada and Great Britain, there is a…
In an address to the nation on January 17, 1961, in the middle of nurturing the greatest middle class this…
A recent episode of This American Life was about the Dakota War of 1862. This war resulted in the final…
I've sent the following to President Obama via the White House contact web site: You might consider doing something similar…
Here is a portion of the transcript from the June 13, 2011, Republican presidential primary debate where Romney is asked…
The excerpts below are from a recent article by Henry Giroux, titled "Why Don't Americans Care About Democracy at Home?"…
Randy Weber is a member of ALEC and the Koch brothers are supporting ALEC. This says a lot about Randy…
Robert Reich made the following statement last June, " ... the richest 400 Americans {own} as much as the bottom…
The extreme right-wing, strict father, authoritarian family model, which is represented in many ways by the Romney/Ryan twosome, includes the…
(The following is a reposting of an entry from August of 2010 with minor updates.) This posting was inspired by…
Part of President Obama's 2012 nomination acceptance speech made reference to the different visions and choices for our future. "And…
Recent political ads lie about President Obama and his suggestions to the states on the national welfare program. As stated…
In his latest article, George Lakoff discusses how The Devils Budget proposed by the opponents to President Obama will eventually…
Just over a year ago, I wrote a post about The Powell Memo. This memo has been referred to by…
Those most likely to become authoritarians (social dominators or followers) are raised from a young age in a strict-father environment…