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"The rich and the very
powerful suffer today from the characteristics of being sociopaths,
that is a radical deprived of empathy ... When you are radically
deprived of empathy and you want to pay the least amount of taxes
instead of supporting the great consortium that is embodied in the
preamble to the Constitution - "We the people in order to" - when
you want to not carry your fair share, you begin to deprive
everybody else of the things that made my life. "
Bill Moyers
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Bernard Weiner:
NEW:
"Shallow Throat": Has "The Revolution" Started?
The high-ranking mole inside the Republican establishment has
some sharp things to reveal about the real powers behind the two
major parties, the belated combativeness of Obama, the strengths
and weaknesses of the Occupy movement, and the clown college
graduates who are the GOP presidential hopefuls.
REPRISE:
The
Water Is Wide: Building a Revolution.
Every sane person realizes that things must
change, and soon. And yet very little changes. 'The System'
continues on, protecting its own at the top. The rest of us, the
'little people,' are told to get by as best we can. Socialism
for the wealthy, capitalism for the poor and middle-class. And
thus, to crib from Albert Einstein, everything "has changed save
our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled
catastrophe." If that's not a prescription for radical change, I
don't know what is. Organize, Organize, ORGANIZE!" (First
published June 4, 2011)
Ernest Partridge
The Big Lie. Is
there any limit to the outrageousness of the GOP lies? Is
there any limit to the capacity of a large number of our
fellow citizens to accept these lies? This is, after all, a
public almost half of which refuses to accept evolution –
the central coordinating concept of modern biology. And
approximately half of the GOP primary voters believe that
Barack Obama was not born in the United States. These
unsettling thoughts came to my mind, when I heard Michael
Steele’s remark that "not in the history of mankind has the
government ever created a job." This from a man who held a
government job as Lieutenant Governor of Maryland.
REPRISE:
The Dragon at the Gate: The Media Problem. Even though the American media today are subverting our
freedoms and leading us to oligarchy, despotism and economic ruin, we must
deal with them more in sorrow than in anger. The media, with the power of the
government they serve, can crush us in a moment if they perceive us as
"the enemy." And yet they require an audience – "the
public" – to exist, and that is our weapon. The progressive community
should work with the media toward a restoration of the condition of honorable
service to democracy and liberty, that had once made the American press the
envy of the world. (From January, 2003. See also,
"Following the Light").
Conscience of a Progressive.
A Book in Progress
GUEST ESSAY:
Kerry:
The
Real-Life Price of "Fracking"
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