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Actions that are Morally Offensive
In their review of cinema, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops defines some movies as “morally offensive.” The definition doesn’t necessarily imply that the movie is explicitly pornographic or violent; the term implies that the content contains material...
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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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Tea Parties You May Have Missed
In September 2005, roughly a week after Hurricane Katrina ripped into the Gulf Coast, a group of New Orleans police officers discovered the burned shell of a car sitting on an earthen levee overlooking the bloated Mississippi River. Inside the scorched...
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Health Care, Race and Treachery
President Barack Obama is trying very hard to obtain legislation from the U.S. Congress that will address the serious shortcomings of the existing health care system in this country. We have known about these health care deficiencies for decades. They...
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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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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...
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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....
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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...
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American Mental Disabilities
I remember what it was like in the United States in the 1960s. There were powerful right wing forces in the political culture which in some parts of the country were supported by a large percentage of the public. These forces were partially the remnants...
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Blowout Prevention
On July 17, 2010 there was an incident on Interstate 580, a major East-West corridor in the San Francisco Bay Area, with overtones of political violence. The San Francisco Bay Area is the 6th largest Metropolitan Area in the United States. A middle aged...
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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...
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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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The Drill Goes On
I really didn't want to write about this; Nuclear Weapons are still the greatest threat to life on the planet yet, given time, the petroleum addiction syndrome, may produce the same outcome. You see, if it were not for the addiction syndrome, petroleum...
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Parasitic Oscillation from the Right
The vicissitudes of the language have their parallel in the vicissitudes of political behavior. In the sale of equipment for relaxing entertainment in bomb shelters, in the television show of competing candidates for national leadership, the juncture...
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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...
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Polar Bear Story
When I first posted this on Flickr in July 2008, I said that I expected criticism for the content from right-wing elements of the American political spectrum. The picture of the Polar Bear family that I had on Flickr brought personal attacks against me....
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The Politics of Reality Denial
If one picks almost any issue found in the contemporary political system in the United States, the motives of one component of the process either support it or oppose it because of ulterior antecedents - to say it differently by motives which they openly...
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The Drill Goes On II
In my previous article on this topic The Drill Goes On , dated May 21, it was not clear what the magnitude of the BP/Deep Water Horizon oil deluge in the Gulf of Mexico would turn out to be. It appears at this point that the worst case scenario that I...
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The Sanity Defense
Events that are beyond human decisions do happen; social arrangements do change without benefit of explicit decision. But in so far as such decisions are made--and in so far as they could be but are not made--the problem of who is involved in making them--or...
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Nuclear Weapons and the United States
Nuclear weapons are instruments of pure evil. A nuclear explosion, either by design or accident, would kill massive numbers of people, create international chaos, and cripple the world economy. Nuclear weapons are devoid of the slightest shred of moral...
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Sociology and Survival by Barry Wright
I wrote this in 1999 because I was being asked to explain the ideas behind what I was doing when I was in graduate school during the 1970s and 1980s. This is a condensed and modernized version of my PhD dissertation at the University of Chicago. I received...
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Iraqi Finis
In Main Currents of Sociological Thought , French Sociologist Raymond Aron devotes a significant portion of Volume 1 to the observations Alexis de Tocqueville made during his visit to the United States around the center of the 19th Century. His interpretation...
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The Already Wealthy
The image you see shows a place on the small and fragile planet we all live on. Presently at least anyone can go to such locations and see them for one’s self. In other words, for the moment they still belong to everyone. If one accepts that concept,...
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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,...
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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...
