Believing that God supports you is empowering... but it's also led to horrible cruelty, theft & murder. Nothing stopped U.S. settl...

Reports of atrocities by the (now seemingly former) Libyan government leader are perplexing. Quadaffi is blamed in most reports for many t...

Most people swept up in warfare would avoid brutality & violence. They're pressed to participate, under threat, to support one or an...

Greece has overextended itself. As the Greek government is unable to easily repay assorted (mainly private) lenders, pressure has developed ...

Interfering foreigners are creating a new regime in Libya. We should hope it will be an improvement on the last government, but positive sig...

Violence & looting are wrong. The looting now overtaking the UK is a black eye for every community. But serious looting of far larger...

The United States of America suffered a sovereign credit downgrade last Friday by rating agency Standard & Poor's. Media's now...

A great title to criticize cosmetics firms. But my target is finance. Listen to the stupid pronouncements of market analysts & financi...

I protest against war and the military industries as socially brutalizing, monetarily costly, and personally repugnant. I'm also opposed...

Bully methodology has taken root in the administration of many institutions. When local government, schools, banks, the airlines & the t...

Hundreds of America's millionaire politicians gather in Washington and decide:   ---   great wealth pays no new taxes   ---   less fun...

Many highly talented people are never attracted to government service. Government downsizing demoralizes & leads to personnel cutbacks...

I'm willing to believe Fukushima's engineers & scientists are doing everything possible to fix or limit problems at the stricken...

A smarmy weasel in Norway murdered some 77 people, mostly teenagers a generation younger than the killer. The dead were not directly known t...

Today is New York's first day allowing same gender couples to marry.     Congratulations ! From today's New York Times : "New...

Rupert Murdoch has positioned himself and his companies in a key nexus of power. Information is essential for democracy to function, and Mur...

Community is undermined by the incidents described below. It's painful to examine the assorted legal & ethical problems of Mrs. Gina...

Private bankers lend money & collect interest. They get more interest from weaker borrowers. When a borrower can't pay on time, the ...

When media baron Rupert Murdoch and son James Murdoch were invited to appear before the British House of Commons (Culture, Media and Sport ...

  Obama criticizing Alito: "... he consistently sides on behalf of the powerful against the powerless ; on behalf of a strong governme...

Corporate control of US politics is now threatened by a planned Wall Street invasion. Adbusters (link) invites activists to build a tent ...

Don't be a passive consumer, inhaling the smoke of corporate media & government spin while not yourself communicating. Passivity is...

The US national debt is in the daily news. Elite government officials reportedly spend many hours, day after day, discussing options for cut...

Friday, 8 July, the US House of Representatives passed a new Defense Spending Bill. Support was strong & bipartisan, the bill passed 336...

A key lie:       America = independence     but elsewhere, no I love independence. And I'm independent -- more than most people. I...

Bottom line of US government "economic downturn" policies:   government bailout   =   government subsidy Unfair elsewhere. - ...

  What slowed the Libyan anti-Gaddafi advance? --- Each rebel realized the foreign promise he'd be next Oil Minister was shared by ma...

Vignettes of life and experience seldom distill into verse a few fragments or better nothing? Yet even glimpses on paper cheer the unk...

The 3/11 disasters (earthquake, tsunami, nuclear accident of March 11th this year) have been - and will continue to be - pivotal for Japan. ...

We're bred to ignore power, as if it weren't there. But by understanding power, we're empowered. So beware of fraud & decept...