Taboos preventing universal health care for Americans

Ten years after World War II had ended, as the US was exercising economic hegemony over much of the world, Will Herberg came out with his book, “Protestant-Catholic-Jew.”  A book which socio-politically went a long way defining the American Way of Life as a recipe of two lofty ingredients mixed in equal parts: democracy and free enterprise.  Something that today we are more inclined to call by its appropriate name: materialism. FULL STORY...

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Occupation and Indigenous Genocide

This week Francophiles celebrated anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, 220 years ago. However freedom for the French quickly became Gulag-style oppression for millions of people around the World that continues today. FULL STORY...

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Quo vadis, Barack Obama…?

Obama is coming home after two difficult summits, Russia and the G-8, to a domestic agenda not likely to yield better results.  If our pessimistic selves paint a world which is economically poisoned and environmentally doomed, Air Force One’s landing at Andrews AFB will bring back this president to the epicenter of it all; for both disasters – economic and environmental – had their start right here, in the good old US of A. FULL STORY...

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Malpracticers of Economic and Foreign Policy

About this time every year I grow a bit philosophical, and melancholic, as we celebrate what this country should be… but isn’t.  Last year, my written words called for a second American revolution, and the year before I underlined the belated realization that the US is not us (the people). FULL STORY...

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Illusory return to economic normalcy

“Everything would be ok if it weren’t for that CNN scaring us out of our wits, giving us all those stories and commentary on the recession and presumed bad economy,” was the statement someone made at the table as we were having breakfast at a delightful B&B of the most charming Victorian-accented town in Washington State: Port Townsend. FULL STORY...

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Regulating Predatory Capitalism in America

No, it wasn’t the first time that I heard, or read, the plagiarization of a famous phrase by means of word replacement.  But yesterday’s ill-appropriation by an inexpert-expert guest of CNBC stood vividly for the remarkable ignorance this nation is all about; and how that television station, for the most part, promotes such ignorance and cheerleads fake growth to the catchy music of predatory capitalism. FULL STORY...

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Inadvertent confessions of Britain's #1 war criminal

History ignored yields history repeated. Mainstream media that ignore the 9-11 million excess deaths so far in the Bush (now Obama) wars also ignore how in 1943-1945 the British under Winston Churchill deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death in what was described in India at the time as a Bengali Holocaust. FULL STORY...

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From 1961 to 1971, the U.S. military sprayed Vietnam with Agent Orange, which contained large quantities of Dioxin, in order to defoliate the trees for military objectives. Dioxin is one of the most dangerous chemicals known to man. It has been recognized by the World Health Organization as a carcinogen (causes cancer) and by the American Academy of Medicine as a teratogen (causes birth defects). FULL STORY...

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Attractive new covers for the same old book

Few speeches during the past decade have been so eagerly awaited as was Obama’s address in Cairo last Thursday, June 4th.  And few speeches have received such wide and far review during these early days of the millennium. FULL STORY...

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A Toxic Innocence At Home

Even as President Barrack Obama waxed eloquent in Cairo, Egypt, on the moral imperatives of the community of nations, public opinion polls released in the United States revealed that, by a substantial percentage, its citizens believe torture is an acceptable option for interrogation of suspects deemed terrorists by various US governmental agencies. FULL STORY...

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