This is the first time since I read Major General Smedley Darlington Butler’s (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940) classic, must read, War is a Racket, that anyone has expressed my sentiments so eloquently!
Why I Do Not Support the Troops!
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Category Archives: Politics
Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away with Murder
Publication November 15th 2011
• 160 pages with b/w illustration throughout paperback ISBN 978-1-935928-49-2
• ebook ISBN 978-1-935928-50-8
http://www.orbooks.com/our-books/who-killed-che/
Saving capitalism? The price could be democracy
Right now everyone seems to be getting terribly excited about saving capitalism. Which is fair enough, in the face of global meltdown. However, it seems to me that the price of saving capitalism is increasingly likely to be “democracy”. Which would be a shame as I’m a big fan of democracy. On the whole, I think it’s a good thing.
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PZ Myers Talks About the 03.24.2012 Reason Rally
Governance by the Party of God
Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer responded to Republicans gutting an anti-bullying bill by inserting language that specifically allows bullying to occur based on religious or moral reasons.
Papantonio: Tea Party OK With Sexual Harassment
What’s God got to do with it?
He may be invoked in the national motto, but God has nothing to do with why Americans are free and secure. . . The House voted 396-9 this week to reaffirm as the national motto the phrase “In God We Trust” and encouraged its pronouncement on public buildings and continued printing on the coin of the realm. The motto was made official in 1956 during the height of Cold War hysteria over godless communism and — in the words of Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper in “Dr. Strangelove” — “Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.”
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What Next?
It has become clear to everyone except the professional political class that things cannot go on this way. . . The most important fact is that the neo-liberal experiment of the last few decades, what one might call the Great Leap Backward, has failed. In fact this project must be considered to constitute as great a crime against humanity as Stalin’s or Mao’s. . . In economic terms the measure of capitalism’s failure is the growth of inequality. The gap between the global rich and poor has increased over the last few decades. Wealth does not ‘trickle down’, on the contrary it is siphoned up. . .
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Starve the Beast
No doubt St. Ronnie McDumb Ass is looking up at us ever so proudly. And Grover, the confused size-queen, how is that government girth working out for you, is it yet down to the ideal volume where you can drown it in the bathtub?
Always Question Authority 