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Deep down, I knew this day would come. And I knew that it would happen once people realized three things: (1) Corporate interests were paying off (corrupt, money-grabbing, dishonest, and greedy) ...

The script is getting old. In a process that is starting to look so programmatic, Defense Chief Chuck Hagel makes a statement last April saying something to the effect that the Obama administration ...

I knew that the prospects of people heeding my call for a peaceful uprising in San Francisco Union Square today were very low the minute I got off BART at the Powell (and Market) station. It was a ...

There are a lot of passionate writers here at Daily Kos. Sometimes, depending on the topic on any given discussion, those passions may run very high. I'm aware that lately, because of the ...

I keep trying to convince reality-based activists and other concerned citizens that the greatest challenge we face has nothing to do with factual arguments about the wrongness of our system, but ...

First, I salute and extend my most sincere thanks to all social justice activists around the country, and around the world. I pay homage to good-hearted, decent people who advocate for the poor, ...

We're almost there folks. The righteous outrage by an increasingly aware population is about to burst through. Of course, my advice is that we get going now because I believe that there is still a ...

The other day I read a diary here at Daily Kos where the diarist suggested that all the necessary elements for a citizens' uprising have been met, and that we just need something to spark it. I ...

I've heard people mentioned (and reference) Chris Hedges' " Calling All Rebels " essay (published on March 8th, 2010 at TrughtDig.com), but until tonight, I have never read it, and thus I wasn't ...

This argument is highly (some may say, extremely) simplified, but I'm going to use it to make a point I think needs to be made... We have a ruling class (I guess the .05 or .01 percent at the top).

Let me start by making two important points. Personally, I'm aware that as individuals we are vulnerable to being wrong on any given issue; that our conclusions, our world view, our understanding ...

By now more and more people are realizing that in the face of government paralysis and dysfunction as the result of influence peddling corruption by an increasingly ruthless corporatist elite , ...

Revolution may mean different things to different people. Some speak of "peaceful" revolutions; others speak of "violent" revolutions; others think of them as something in between. Regardless, in ...

I've been observing, analyzing and studying corporate media propaganda in the U.S. for years now. If one were to summarize its workings, one could say that because of a confluence of interests ...

Before I go on to define "The Agenda," let me start by pointing out that the one thing that's going to prevent you from having a clear agenda and from being fully committed to it is exposure to the ...

Yes, I understand; it's going to be hard for some people to wrap their heads around the title of of this diary, and around its content. Cognitively, I'm leapfrogging a bit over the vast gulf ...

I'm still perplexed about this. In fact, I'm dumbfounded. I've written about it many times, over and over. And here I go again... I usually sign every petition-signing request I get, be it from ...

There is a group of wealthy individuals and corporatist organizations exerting undue influence on our system of government, and on society in general. Because of the power and money at their ...

What do you think are the top three problem we face as a country? This topic is of great interest to me. My perception is that there is a huge disconnect between the actual (root) problems we face ...

The billionaires-funded propaganda that has engulfed the entire media landscape in the United States has gone into hyper-drive. The deception is being carried out with ruthless efficiency across ...

Here's the thing about gun-nuts: They are mainly fools and victims. They are fools because they spend an extraordinary amount of money on their arsenals, thus keeping the gun lobby manufacturers ...

I have to admit it: I'm envious. For many years now I have been trying to get the message across to social justice activists and liberals that in order to take on the all-out assault on our ...

The odious right wing is marching in lockstep, displaying an incredible high degree of discipline, focus, unity of purpose, vision, and strategy, just like former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. ...

By now a large-enough segment of the population is becoming aware of what's going on: Corporatist cartels ( like ALEC ), billionaires, and their front groups have a stranglehold on our democracy. ...

Regarding the current state of affairs in this country, what should be the number one priority of the citizenry? Ending the the control over our government by a tiny group of billionaires and ...

Let me state right off the bat that this advise does not apply to the most dangerous criminals in our society, since they have bought immunity for themselves. Wall Street banksters looting the ...

Folks, this is really, really bad. I can't even stand listening to NPR, one of my last refuges in this sea of putrid and debased American corporate media conglomerate. When I think they can't ...

Put your emotions aside for the duration of this reading. Put aside your political affiliation, or your particular interests when it comes to civics, to social activism, to causes you support, ...

These are truly historic times. The adage that says that people can get drunk on power applies perfectly to what the billionaires trying to take over the country and their front groups are doing. ...

People, they don't give a shit! We are not dealing with decent, normal actors here. When one says that the government has been taken over by Wall Street and corporatists cartels, that's not some ...

I'm not going to spend too much time here presenting proof to this truism: Our system of government has turned into a plutocratic corporatocracy headed by a ruling elite composed of moneyed ...

During the last couple of weeks I've been working 12+ hour days on a couple of projects since like anybody else, I have to work to make a living. As I gave RP a break from organizing the (peaceful) ...

Before we entertain the notion that it is possible for average citizens to address the nation's problems, the most important step is to define the root causes of those problems. It took decades of ...

This is going to be quite short, since I've been hammering away at this topic in several previous diaries . I've been doing a lot of reading and studying about how right wing thinkers, ...

For a very long time now I've been arguing that the international banking system is basically a quasi-criminal racketeering organization. I would ask the reader to consider the vast amount of ...

I've been sharing this idea I'm about to describe below and although many people agree with it in theory, I think we now have an opportunity to test it in practice by starting with a very worthy ...

As a social justice and anti-corruption activist I have three main goals in mind: to prove it is possible to organize an overwhelmingly powerful coalition of progressives into an extremely organized ,

I'm a registered Democrat. I've been voting for over 25 years, and I have never missed a national, state, or local election, and I always vote for Democrats. I always encourage people to exercise ...

This is an experiment related to the media. I'm going to write the content in two parts. In the first part I'll just add the photos and the headlines related to the photos. In the second part (...

As part of my involvement in social justice and anti-corruption activism, I'm joining forces with other activists in order to identify best practices and solutions to address the terrible ...

We all continue to get outraged about the increasingly bold examples of influence-peddling corruption that have infected every single federal regulatory agency in the country. Now they don't even ...

Tomorrow, Monday, March 11th, 2013, we will begin the SPRING REVOLUTION USA. It will be a scarier and more powerful revolution in the eyes of the corrupt Powers That Be because they don't expect ...

It's about 11:05 A.M. here in the San Francisco Bay Area as I write this. It's a beautiful day, with blue skies, and a cool 55° F. My wife and I just came back from one of our favorite places we ...

We live in a de facto Corporatocracy (Plutocracy) where corporatist cartels control all the levers of power, including the Republican and Democratic party establishments. As much as the situation ...

I'm a agitator. That means that when I see blatant injustice in society I don't only oppose it or criticize it, but I also want to see people rise up against it in mass. Over ten years ago I was ...

I'm looking for Che Guevara. I'm also looking for Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Gandhi, Frederick Douglass, Malcom X, Mario Savio, Genevieve Clark, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and William Lloyd ...

Every day I try to take a 3-mile walk. I often walk by a lake with a beautiful scenery. There are all kinds of birds chirping; a nice breeze. The trees sway with the wind. It's so peaceful. I ...

Given the multiple examples of outright government cover up of the crimes committed by Wall Street, when I heard the president announce the much touted Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities working ...

I have a confession to make: I'm a propagandist. I don't necessarily write to inform, or to set the record straight, or to put an argument forward. I write, first and foremost, to influence, to ...

I don't know if it's because of my many years of sales, advertising and marketing (both at corporate and small-business levels), but when I try to get the concept across to liberals that even the ...