“The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of […]
The Military-Industrial-Complex has been politically gaslighting Americans for 50 years now. Bryant Welch, author of State of Confusion: Assault on the American Mind writes: “We are dealing with an evil, insidious methodology. Gaslighting is an insidious set of psychological manipulations that undermine the mental stability of its victims and undercuts trust in our sense of […]
Sensible, affordable health care in America? It can’t happen here, because in this country we consider greed a virtue above all else. What the vast majority of Americans want – access to affordable healthcare – simply can’t be realized without ‘the government’ putting rational, perfectly reasonable profit caps on insurance companies, big pharma and mega-health […]
Republicans opposed Obamacare for two primary reasons: 1) They wanted to make President Obama’s signature legislation a failure or appear to be a failure – the first victory was referring to it as OBAMACARE, not by its correct name: the Affordable Care Act – and, 2) Republicans hate poor people and simply don’t think they […]
The most important thing to remember about the Grammys is that it’s a popularity contest and nothing more. The Grammys present themselves as the pinnacle of artistic achievement in the recording industry, but it is just another pathetic effort to stay relevant and get people to watch another crappy TV awards show. It’s all about […]
When will the people of the world summon the power to save us from this evil once and for all? The GOP is the most dangerous organization on the planet right now. And let’s make goddam sure that the climate-change deniers are held accountable for their reckless actions. The day of reckoning in the World […]
While most of the world is still in shock, the Trumpanzees are having their last big end-zone victory twerk this weekend, rejoicing in blissful ignorance of what they have wrought. The nation hasn’t been this divided since 1861. Those of us who were Bernie supporters are not only shocked and appalled at the GOP; we […]
An orderly and just society is not only more humane; it supports the general welfare and the prosperity of all its citizens. We must have a moral, ethical and impartial society in order to make this happen. The concentration of political power in the hands of an elite few impairs our ability to adapt policy […]
There is no doubt that misogyny played a role in the U.S. elections. There are only 23 women CEOs out of all the Fortune 500 companies, which is fairly damning evidence of prejudice. Additionally, only one of those 23 women is black – Xerox Chairman and CEO Ursula Burns – and there are only five black […]
A belief in Santa Claus could have a detrimental effect on parent-child relationships. A recent study in the medical journal Lancet Psychiatry suggests that a child’s moral compass could be permanently damaged by what is normally part of the Christmas tradition: lying about Santa Claus. The darker reality is that lying to children, even about […]
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