essays
The Endemic Pathology of the Republican Party
I truly begrudge having to comment once again regarding the fundamental need of the American people for a health care system that provides the basic human requirements provided by medical science and in so doing having to read again and again stories...
Forgetting the Past and Its Consequences
It is inconceivable that a secret-intelligence arm of the Government has to comply with all the overt orders of Government . - James J. Angleton , Chief of CIA Counter Intelligence, Retired. Today, immigrants continue to arrive in pursuit of that dream,...
Say Americans - Why So Scared?
When I was growing up in the United States in a small town in the Pacific Northwest, courses in topics like U.S. History and U.S. Government were taught from the 7th grade through the 12th grade. Then once entering college, courses in English Literature...
Waging War by the Rules in the 21st Century
This is a subject that I have discussed before but it just doesn’t seem to want to go away. And realistically, it shouldn’t. After writing The Angler and the Black Sites , a report from the International Committee of the Red Cross was released that covers...
The Blackwater Incidents
To Americans, it seemed that European nations were always engaged in wars. England and Spain, England and France, France and Russia and the Franco-Prussian war of the 19th Century are examples. Other than wars of aggression against Native Americans and...
Globally Warm - After 2050
Oil interests are willing to publish any myth and put any amount of money behind anyone who will support their untenable position. – Vinod Kloska The leadership has got to come to the surface at some point and explain to the people what we're facing....
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...
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...
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...