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Living on the Edge of Madness
Today in the prosperous warfare and welfare state, the human qualities of a pacified existence seem asocial and unpatriotic – qualities such as the refusal of all toughness, togetherness, and brutality; disobedience to the tyranny of the majority; profession...
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Complex, Very Complex
It seems that Democrats in Congress are feeling a bit insecure because the voting polls are predicting Republican gains in both the Senate and House of Representatives in the November 2010 election. If the people who voted in 2008 for the Democrats would...
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The Dream State in American Politics
Lately many people have been second-guessing the Obama administration’s political strategy. The conventional wisdom seems to be that President Obama tried to do too much — in particular, that he should have put health care on one side and focused on the...
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Phenomenology of Health Care in the United States
I. As I have pointed out endlessly in essays like Health Care, Race and Treachery, the United States has undoubtedly the most unsatisfactory record among any technological country in providing health care for its citizens. At times, opposition to reform...
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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,...
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Wars That Are Chosen
What is this, more troops, more war, tell me, is this insanity ever going to end? The national security issues the United States faces are mainly INTERNAL. 9/11 was: an internal security screwup: we couldn’t even defend our own airspace. That’s what is...
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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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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...
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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...
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AT&T: Too Big to Function
A great many people think they are thinking when they are actually rearranging their prejudices.- William James The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety...
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Neo-Right - Neo-Nazi
First published in 1942, Franz Neumann’s Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism does more than chronicle the rise of Adolf Hitler and National Socialism to a position of controlling the most industrialized nation in Europe although...
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Science and Values by Barry Wright
In some instances scientific research does not harbor any values supporting a particular ideology. Determining the number of moons of Jupiter or the existence of planets in nearby star systems might serve as examples. However in other cases science and...
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Ideology and the Study: Polarizing Impact of Science Literacy and Numeracy on Perceived Climate Change Risks by Barry Wright
The industrial society which makes technology and science its own is organized for the ever-more-effective domination of man and nature, for the ever-more-effective utilization of its resources. It becomes irrational when the success of these efforts...
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A Lesson in Science and History by Barry Wright
I. Intelligence and the Vietnam and Iraq Wars Sociology is a science and this is a topic that I have performed scientific research on since the 1970s. Why did the United States get involved in Vietnam? Well there are several reasons which are discussed...
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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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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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GLOSSARY OF CONCEPTS IN CRITICAL THEORY
I find that I receive emails from others on overblog who appear to have never read any of my essays or, if they have tried to do so, have no understanding of what I write. You are wasting your time, I don't read pandering emails, I simply delete them...
