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.

The wit of JFK

60 Years Ago Today

 

AIPAC

         Representative Mark Pocan Doesn't Give a F*ck About AIPAC.

Democracy in Action

 

There’s nothing like watching “democracy in action.”

I’ve written to Colorado’s senators (both Dems) and my Republican representative in the House (Doug Lamebrain) about Gaza and received one response so far from one of the Dems (“We stand by Israel”). I expect the same response from the other Dem. I won’t bother to read Lamebrain’s response. I write him from time to time about a wide variety of matters just to give his staffers something to do. It still takes them about 6 months to send a form letter. I’ve started and stopped a letter to Biden several times. Now that he’s embraced the role of weapons dealer to the world (emulating his former boss) and what’s-a-little-genocide-between-friends, my stomach turns just thinking of the man. I used to write Trump satirical letters and looked forward to their replies. Whoever read them did not appear to recognize sarcasm and so they thanked me for my support and assured me that DT was at it every day, making America great. Or maybe they just didn’t read them and cranked out the same response to whatever mail they received.

 

People assure me that political staffers keep tallies of “for” vs. “against” letters regarding specific policies, though I suspect the “for” letters make it into a rectangular file while the “against” letters go into a circular one.

 

Contrary to the standard civics-class rhetoric, we are not the citizens of a republic but the subjects of an empire. I keep my volume of the writings of Tacitus close at hand. I frequently advise my students to read Tacitus and Whitman and ask themselves what they want the future to look like. Many have already been absorbed into the System—as we all are—working at jobs, raising their kids, paying taxes to the Imperial government with its never-ending-wars.

 

I must continually remind myself that the "real terrorists" are in Gaza. But, if I don’t, I can count on the liberal media to remind me.

 

Complicity and apathy, with a dash of well-meaning liberal sentimentality, make the world go ‘round.

Decide For Palestine!

 

When the Israeli Rampage in Gaza is Over, the World Will Know What They Have Done

 

An Appeal to Heaven?

                 Call it what it is: WHITE CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM.

Railroad Supervisor Sam Holland - Witness to the assassination of JFK

Ep 177: The Nightmare That Is House Speaker Mike Johnson

Noam Chomsky - Why Does the U.S. Support Israel?

LBJ Announces He Won't Run 3/31/1968: This Should Be Biden

I Can No Longer, in Good Conscience, Acknowledge the Rogue Zionist Entity

             There is only Palestine and Settler-Colonial Criminality.

Historian Ilan Pappé on Israel's ethnic cleansing operation against Palestine.

Dear Liberals:

                                             Beit Hanun, Gaza ~ 2015.

Evangelical War on the Poor

One man’s spiritual Ponzi scheme looks a lot like another’s solidarity network, and for those who believe that there are better ways than the state to look after people, it’s a powerful thing.

Chris Hedges on Israel's Culture of Lies

                                                     From October 19, 2023.

The Death of the Liberal Class

 Where the Palestinian people are concerned, the silence of the Liberals is deafening. But that is not their only betrayal. Over a decade ago, Chris Hedges called them out.

If There Were Any Justice...

                    This is the Next Place Biden would Encounter Netanyahu.

Caveat!

 

The Latest Embarrassment to Occupy the Oval Office

                            A Pair of War Criminals in a Death Embrace.

According to the NYT (ever-perfidious when it comes to reporting on the Israelis), Mr. Biden toured the hospital rubble and opined that it had been bombed by "the other team." First of all, "the other team"? What is this, a football match? Secondly, Biden can hardly see three feet in front of his own face. How is it possible for him to look at rubble and determine who is responsible for it?

Message from Tulsa

 

Show Me Another Major American Political Candidate Willing to Challenge the System

Funny/Not Funny

 

NeoLiberalism

 

                                    The 5th Horseman of the Apocalypse.

Workers of the World Unite!

 

White Trash

             A Conversation with the Author, Nancy Isenberg.

The American Revolution's Afterlives

                                     The Irish Rebellion of 1798.

Peter, Paul and Mary - Rising of The Moon

“Peace For All Time”

Innocent Until Proven Muslim

                                       Islamophobia is as American as apple pie.

Truth.

 

The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight

How Reagan's NEOLIBERALISM destroyed the middle class: Thom Hartmann

Never Forget

                   Odd-Numbered Dates are Favored by the CIA: 9/11/73.

AFRICOM

                     Pentagon Lies and the U.S. Empire of Military Bases.

What Is War?

 

Joe Biden and the Party of War

 

The president’s policies reflect his appointments: ideologues who should have retired after previous foreign policy debacles.

Happy Labor Day!

 

The Bowman Amendment

"This amendment is crucial as taxpayers and other citizens remain concerned—and inadequately informed—about the cost to U.S. taxpayers of the wide range of U.S. military activities abroad."

The Rolling Stones-Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) Live 73

USA/CIA

                                                     It's Always About Oil.

March on Washington

                                         Saturday August 26, 2023.

You Know Your Society Is Imploding When...

                     Reading is Considered a Radical Leftist Idea.

What Goes Around Comes Around

 Outraged by the FBI's Catholic memo? Targeting Muslims Laid the Groundwork.

Israeli Weapons Deal

Now the Israelis are becoming weapons dealers to the world--to the Germans, no less--and, of course, with U.S. approval. A mere $ 3.5 billion is chump change when it comes to arms sales. But it looks like the U.S. is taking a cut...
 

If Only...

 

War Is Big Business

 Corporate America benefits from the warfare state. Everyone else pays.

Nina Turner

 

This Will Not Pass

Martin and Burns quote Malcolm Turnbull, a former prime minister of Australia: “You know that great line that you hear all the time: ‘This is not us. This is not America.’ You know what? It is, actually.”