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The Waters of Puget Sound
Based on personal experience I can say that the Pacific Northwest is the best part of the United States and North America to live. Washington and Oregon are “Blue States” and are progressive on issues that range across the political spectrum. This is...
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Delusional Beliefs and Political Extremism
INTR OD UCTION. In History and Hatred, a review of Political Paranoia: The Psychopolitics of Hatred, Richard Webster observes: Feelings of rage and hostility in particular are subject to denial and projected on to others. ‘Violently angry and afraid of...
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Cheney's Limbaugh Moment
He's just another power junky. Just another silk scarf monkey. You'd know it if you saw his stuff. The man just isn't big enough. - Eagles, King of Hollywood. Anytime he gets the opportunity, Dick Cheney will tell you how much the American people should...
Torturing to Find a Non-Existent Iraqi Connection
The single event which provided the intelligence that President Lyndon Johnson used to start the series of escalations of overt U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, was at least partially fraudulent as reported at...
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The Endgame in Iraq
If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Hamlet 5.2.209. While the situation in Iraq is still relatively calm when compared to the situation there 3 or 4 years ago,...
Defending Afghanistan Revisited
It has long been argued that the United States had the opportunity to kill or capture Osama bin Laden and deal a decisive blow to al Qaeda at Tora Bora, a battle in the mountainous terrain along the eastern border of Afghanistan. Why it didn't is a story...
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Did the Republican Party lose an Election or a Civil War
As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air however slight, lest we become...
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The Angler and the Black Sites
In The Inward Circle , I provided a psychodynamic treatment of pathological lying and delusional paranoia and how former Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney is chronically disabled by it. In the closing paragraph I wrote: It is a sad commentary...
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The Inward Circle
Every institution captures something of the time and interest of its members and provides something of a world for them; in brief, every institution has encompassing tendencies. When we review the different institutions in our Western society, we find...
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Developing a Safety Culture in High Risk Environments
The U.S. government has failed more than one would like to know to protect the public from situations that it knew - or should have known - could lead to tragic loss of life. In many cases, unless something actually causes an incident, it isn’t a safety...
