Posts under ‘Politics’

Following up on the previous post, in which Charles Freeman decries the militarization of foreign policy, I offer this piece that I found on the Who What Why website, a new site to me. There is another essay at that site on the influence of international finance on the political agenda in this country that [...]

Remember Charles Freeman? The man that President Obama wanted for the position of the Chair of the National Intelligence Council? The man who was forced to decline the nomination because of a withering attack by the beltway pundits who did not care to hear the truth? Well, he’s still around and he’s still tilting at [...]

It seems as though the Tea Party people are still hot on the trail of socialism and communism in this country. Good luck finding any of either, unless they are looking for socialism for the rich. They’ll find plenty of that – just follow the latest about Goldman Sachs and John Paulson. If you listened [...]

Joel Pett is a cartoonist whose work frequently appears in the newspaper, USA Today. This particular cartoon appeared on December 7, 2009.

A friend sent me an amusing list of quotes that was entitled, “When Insults Had Class”. Here are some that apply to the Tea Baggers, who are heading for the cliff in their venomous denunciations of any and all persons who don’t also vilify those who think as they do. “They never open their mouths [...]

I subscribe to a feed from Off-Grid, a source of information for people who are into self-sufficiency, gardening, building their own homes, photovoltaics, solar energy, and related topics. The most recent issue to land in my in-box featured a link to a Time Magazine article by Reihan Salam, entitled The Dropout Economy. I read the [...]

I usually agree with Jim Wallis, though I often wish that he would go further in his critique of the current order. But, as he says in the following article, he is a conservative Christian (and I am not). As a nation, is it too much to hope that we may be approaching a new [...]

For your enlightenment, Ellen Goodman interviews Alex Gibney, director of the movie, Casino Jack and the United States of Money at the headquarters of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah:

It appears to this cantankerous contrarian that the American people might just be starting to wake up, courtesy of the five radicals on the Supreme Court who ruled that corporations can spend freely on political campaigns because corporations have First Amendment rights. That got people’s attention, alright, across the political spectrum. This isn’t a right-wing [...]

I don’t own a television, but I did “tune” into President Obama’s State of the Union address the other night via streaming video on my computer. I didn’t watch very long – I quickly tired of the unending applause and shots of Pelosi and Biden jumping up and down, as if on cue, to rouse [...]