RUSSIA: SAME COUNTRY, CZARIST, COMMUNIST, OR “DEMOCRACY”
If there had been any doubt—and I for one had never bought the idea that the Cold War was over—that doubt has been brutally confirmed. A tiger does not give up its stripes just on its (cunning) say...
View ArticleTHE INFERNO: ABANDON ALL HOPE ALL YE WHO SUPPORT THE NRA
The NRA (The National Rifle Association), after close council with Mephistophiles, and after rejecting out of hand Gabriel’s prudential warnings on behalf of the Lord, has lobbied the House to pass...
View ArticleECONOMICS TRUMPS POLITICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Great Britain and Germany both refuse to isolate Russia or to boycott her exports: Germany needs her gas and oil, and German companies have invested 22 billion in Russia; and England wants her cash for...
View ArticleTHE REPUBLICAN PARTY: THE PARTY OF WOOLY MAMMOTHS AND NEANDERTHALS
“At every crossway on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.” (Maeterlinck) “Those who can make you believe...
View ArticleREFLECTIONS ON A WORLD GONE MAD (Issue no. 1)
1. Now that Obama has hit Russia with sanctions, we can see how “free enterprise” works in Russia’s so-called democracy: If you are fortunate to be a friend of Putin’s, then you will find yourself...
View ArticleTHE EXXON/MOBIL FRACKING HYPOCRISY
“This type of dysfunctional regulation [of fracking] is holding back the American economic recovery, growth, and global competitiveness.” Rex Tillerson, CEO, Exxon/Mobil, 2012 “I don’t care about...
View ArticleARGUMENTS TO WIN MINDS AND HEARTS TO SEMIDIRECT DEMOCRACY BY SORTITION
The hard truth is: in those advanced societies whose parliamentary/electoral mechanisms are long established , the immediate prospects of sortition are either next to nihil ,or very slight. The...
View ArticleTHE GREAT HOAX
“You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time.” Abraham Lincoln A young professional athlete just got his...
View ArticleSORTITION WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR A GREAT LEADER WHO WILL RENEGE THE BALLOT...
Choosing the Head of State in a parliamentary republic is a contradictory endeavour. Said kind of republic stays in a smallish number of countries. Yes, it flourishes in such an important system as...
View ArticleTHE NEW DARK AGE
A young German, Diren D., an 18-year-old exchange student from Hamburg, Germany, was fired upon with a shotgun and killed while entering an open garage in Missoula, Montana: yet another death that can...
View ArticleCORPORATE GREED AND INJUSTICE IN HEALTHCARE
John and Donna McShane, citizens of Alberta, Canada, spend part of each year on vacation in Arizona in their mobile home. In 2012, while vacationing in Arizona, Donna developed a bad cough; she was...
View ArticleHENRY NEVILLE: THE REAL SHAKESPEARE!
I am just an interested reader, but several things about the Neville authorship argument strike me as compelling. First, from what I understand, Shakespeare had small Latin and no Greek at school yet...
View ArticleTHE NEW CIVIL WAR
There are several new books out on Lincoln which purport to reveal the true man behind the mask. To adapt a line from Shakespeare: “They have come, however, not to praise Lincoln, but to bury him.”...
View ArticleVOYEURISM AND THE FAILED AMERICAN EDUCATION SYSTEM
A few days ago at San Diego’s Woodland Middle School, in health class, 8th grade students were asked to stand under signs that indicated how far they would go sexually when they started dating. The...
View ArticleTHE RESURGENCE OF UNTRAMMELED POWER OF RUSSIA AND CHINA
When the Berlin Wall fell, its crashing din was heard around the world: and for millions of people it was music to their ears. This was not just any event—here was final proof that the evil and, what...
View ArticleTHEODORE ROOSEVELT: HOW WE OVERTHREW CORRUPT TAMMANY HALL
Internauta offre al Rottamatore, come a chiunque altro sogni di combattere la corruzione, la testimonianza di chi vinse una grossa battaglia contro la cupola del malcostume a New York: Theodore...
View ArticleGILEAD SCIENCES: $84,000 OR YOUR LIFE
John C. Martin, CEO of Gilead Sciences, a pharmaceutical company, has set a price of $1,000/pill in the US for the newly-approved drug Sovaldi, which has recently been proven to cure Hepatitis C. The...
View ArticleTHE PUTIN GAMBIT—CHECK!
There are some people for whom the most elementary truths are just beyond their ken. Putin is one of these. He just doesn’t get it. People—nations—want to be free. It is just that simple. His KGB...
View ArticleYAHOO’S SHAMELESS DISTORTION OF THE NEWS TO FAVOR THE NRA
We all know that most of the media is owned by a handful of people or corporations (e.g., General Electric owns NBC and Rupert Murdoch, FOX), and that nearly all media are run by ideological right-wing...
View ArticleALTRUISM VS SELFISHNESS: OR, CAN WESTERN CULTURE BE SAVED?
Only the supersensory, superlogical, unmediated merging of the object and subject into seamless oneness allows an adequate knowledge of the object or the true reality....
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