I am generally predisposed to vote for the Democratic Party, and I am always pleased when its candidates win at the polls. Nonetheless, I am becoming increasingly alarmed by the condition in which the Republican Party finds itself these days. Nothing better symbolizes the Grand Old Party’s virtual collapse as a coherent political [...]
Saturday, October 22, 2011
I have mixed feelings in response to yesterday’s gruesome, street side lynching of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi.
The dictator, who would be Africa’s king, was slain under murky circumstances shortly after he was dragged like an animal from his last refuge. Rather than a palace, government ministry building, or fortified compound, the refuge was [...]
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
The conservative elites who exercise definitive control over economic and political affairs here in the United States may well be dangerously overplaying their hand.
Apparently uncaring and oblivious to the needs of their less fortunate counterparts huddled far below them in the working classes, they are engaged in a full scale assault on the nation’s [...]
Saturday, August 6, 2011
This is clearly a perilous moment for the U.S. economy, largely due to the unprecedented activities of so-called “Tea Party” extremists.
Like much of the rest of the world, I watched with bated breath last week as Tea Party activists in the U.S. House of Representatives held the government hostage over the debt ceiling [...]
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Now that the U.S. and its closest allies are implementing a no-fly zone in Libya via U.N. authorization, critics are coming forth from various quarters questioning the wisdom of the mission. This is understandable, and to some extent, desirable. Whenever military action is enjoined, lives will be lost. And we have every responsibility to subject [...]
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
This is a pivotal moment for the United States, and my sense is that we are heading for a monumentally important decision regarding the carnage currently taking place in Libya. The decision before us is both simple and complex.
The vast majority of Libyans, as best we can ascertain at this moment, want freedom and [...]
Monday, February 21, 2011
I am fixated these days by two extraordinary developments that are threatening to change life–as we have known it. The first is the unprecedented emergence of the largely spontaneous people’s movement for democracy and freedom currently sweeping across the Middle East. As I write, the Libyan government appears to be at the precipice [...]
Thursday, February 10, 2011
The extraordinary events taking place in Egypt will inevitably have an enormous impact on the contours of the U.S. Empire in the Middle East. Prior to the eruption of protests in favor of democracy and freedom, the U.S, Government, and the nation’s mainstream journalistic establishment, tended to present President Mubarak as a wise, reliable, [...]
Saturday, November 27, 2010
The economic doldrums in which the United States is currently engaged threaten the nation’s long-term viability. And it is obvious to me that we need to implement major economic and social reforms if disaster is to be averted.
The signs of stagnation and decline stemming from economic weakness are both numerous, and deeply troubling. They include [...]
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
This is a curious time here in Northern California, a place where members of the comfortable classes are deeply engaged in transforming their relationship to food into something resembling an exotic sexual fetish.
It is impossible to spend time in the company of such people and not notice their incessant preoccupation with food. This is true [...]
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