Make a New Year's Resolution that Matters

The thugs have been allowed to run their protection racket and call it "security" for long enough. It is time for the remaining human beings among us (and here's how to demonstrate your humanity) to refuse to act as their apologists, or to applaud them when cued to do so at sporting events and on airplanes, or to sing their anthems, or to vote for their candidates, or to fund their wars. Friends don't let friends join the military-police-prison-industrial-complex.

Creeping Fascism

When fascism comes calling adorned with a swastika and speaking a foreign language, most Americans are able to reject it (some, like those pictured above, embrace it). But when it comes waving the flag and carrying a cross, it is welcomed in. The creeping fascism of American politics since 1980 has distorted our political perceptions. In 2023, Richard Nixon is a Liberal. But Liberals in the U.S. abandoned their cherished values of liberty and equality FOR ALL in exchange for power. It is Liberals who have pushed me to the Left. As for the Right in this country, I have trouble taking it seriously these days--except as a threat. But Authoritarian Liberals--who do not waver in their support of a Democratic President despite his complicity in genocide--are no less serious a threat to the future of the American people and, indeed, the future of this planet. The tragedy is that they cannot see it.

The State of Play

                 And some among us have become apologists for the hyenas.

The U. S. Capitol, Morally Considered

 

Failure of Nerve

Moyn's excellent book could be titled "Failure of Nerve: How Liberalism Betrayed the Left." But he holds out hope for Liberals. I wish I could share his optimism. Sentiment (in this case, fear) has trumped principles in Liberalism since the middle of the 20th century. You cannot count on those who lack the courage of what they claim to be their convictions.

Resistance Until Return

 

The Lure of Fascism

                                                         All Over the World.

Meet the New Boss...Same as the Old Boss

 

An Open Letter to Genocide Joe

 

Dear Mr. President:

 

You are LBJ and Gaza is your Vietnam.

 

Elected in 2020 because you were not Donald Trump (did you imagine you were elected on your merits?), you have cost yourself the 2024 election. 

 

More importantly, however, you are drenched in the blood of innocent women, men, and, most horrifically, children.

 

There are not "two sides" (pro and con) to genocide.

 

There are not "two sides" (pro and con) to apartheid.

 

Remarkably, you have declared yourself a Zionist. Every human being with a functioning conscience is aware that Zionism has evolved into a form of militant racism. 

 

You do not belong in the Oval Office but in the Hague.

 

What a pathetic end to a sometimes-promising Presidency.

Boycott Israel

 

This Is The Way The World Ends.

 

From the River to the Sea!

 

The Permanent War Economy

                                                         CHECK OUT THE MAP.