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I've been participating in online forums since the mid-90s when I subscribed to the Delphi online service . Since then I've experienced different environments, from highly moderated forums where you'

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 ...

This is a short commentary since I'm writing it with a Nook typing one letter at a time... Why is everybody talking about the Republican nut-jobs, teabaggers, and the assorted racist, white ...

There is nothing more I want than to believe that somehow decent people of good will will triumph over those who embrace vulgarity, dishonesty, opportunism, greed and deception, as integral parts of ...

On a few occasions during different debates here I've read statements that pretty much claimed that Daily Kos was kind of like a friendly neighborhood sports bar where people talk about this and that,

Photo: Occupy Wall Street Facebook page As corporatist control over the levers of power--including our political system--consolidates, the level of ...

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 almost anybody that hasn't been living in a cave for the last decade has a pretty good idea about the biggest heist in history perpetrated by Wall Street crooks with the help of the bought ...

When Bush was installed by a corrupt Supreme Court in the year 2000 landmark case,

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've been arguing for some time now that the graphic reports of police brutality across the country, against peaceful protesters of the Occupy movement, is a double-edge sword. On the one hand (or ...

For a very long time I've been obsessively trying to figure out why the Left doesn't seem to be able to coalesce into a cohesive movement in American politics, at a moment when it is needed the most.

I hardly ever write about the Tea Party, the Republican party, and the assorted loonies that make up their membership, including the racist, homophobic, ultra-nationalist, gun-nuts, and wild-eyed end-

I'm not sure how things work over there, but I'm looking forward to the comments of typical redstate visitors. Here it is:

I'm going to ask you a few questions: Can you imagine a situation where hundreds or potentially thousands of financial criminals from the Wall Street racketeering cartel are properly investigated, ...

Dissent is in the air. Many, many groups around the country are gearing up to engage in constitutionally protected protests against the criminal oligarchy that has taken over the levers of power. ...

I have little bit of experience with issues related to the handling of sensitive information and restricted access to secured environments. I served in the military years ago, and in the private ...

I just watched a report on 60 Minutes about how U.S. Congress members are able to trade stocks using privilege information they get access to as part of their official duties. Even to me, ...

What terrifies me the most about the current state of affairs in the United States is not necessarily the fact that corporatist cartels and their billionaires' funders are working diligently to ...

This is going to be a short comment. In light of the GOP latest overt attempt to cause a general state of emergency by shutting down the government (

The United States could easily print her own money, and maintain control of both, the money supply, and interest rates. Instead, every (paper) dollar in circulation is borrowed from commercial ...

For a very long time I've been pointing out that in the battle against the corporatist forces that have taken over our entire government and society, the number one priority should be counter-...

It's kind of perplexing to me that there seems to be an almost manic focus on what the right wing lunatics gun-nuts say or do about their silly infatuation with guns. As I usually write in my ...

I'm really looking forward to Black Friday! You see, this year I feel that both, Thanksgiving Thursday, and what has come to be known as "Black Friday," are going to be days of sharing, of ...

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. ...

I understand this topic is very sensitive, and because of it I'm going to do my level best to present as many confirmed facts as possible as supporting evidence of my conclusion: There is some sort ...

It's not as if I've completely given up on TV watching altogether. I do like to watch some HBO shows, documentaries, and when it comes to news, I'm finding that Moyers & Company , Democracy Now! , ...

There are many reasons why Rick Perry is likely to win the presidency in 2012, but the main ...

Thinking readers (people), I know many of you are dismayed at the spectacle of watching the country careening towards a veritable billionaires-funded total-information-awareness police state ...

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 ...

Let me acknowledge right off the bat that the attitude and world view I'm about to share with the readers are not things every person is able to embrace, for many (obvious) reasons, the main one ...

One of the official definitions of the word "zealot" is: a fanatically committed person. I start this diary by pointing that out because I've come to the conclusion that nothing short of zealotry ...

In America today, the most important condition the tiny ruling elite running things depend on is a deceived and propagandized population incapable of figuring out how they are being manipulated, ...

I've written many times that I only watch the U.S. corporate propaganda channels (MSNBC, FoxNews, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS) when I'm doing research on the subject of public opinion manipulation through ...

Remember George W. Bush? A mediocre buffoon who plunged the country into illegal wars, presided over the dismantling of U.S. constitutional protections, and the use of torture, and the day-light ...

Don't get me wrong; I think we can all agree that as diarists or writers or bloggers, the main reason we ...

Earlier tonight the title of a New York Times article caught my attention: " Brazil’s Leftist Ruling Party, Born of Protests, Is Perplexed by Revolt ." The reason it did, is because it reminded ...

The international corporate state has failed. It was bound to fail from the beginning because it was based on the type of value system and ethos that engenders tyranny. It functions on the spread ...

By now is becoming clear to more and more people that Wall Street bankers, the corporations they represent, and their enablers in government perpetrated a scam on the American people (and the world) ...

I'm perplexed. Millions and millions of Americans have been plunged into despair, economic uncertainty, and actual harm by the actions of a very small group of people. Trillions of dollars stolen ...

It was just a matter of time. After the massive looting of the country's treasury by the parasitic ruling elite and their bag-men in Wall Street, having caused an economic collapse that weakened ...

We have a situation where after three or four decades of deliberate and careful planning , a depraved group/junta of corporatist sociopaths has finally taken over the entire system of government. “

Dear Senator Warren, Please consider this letter an urgent call for help. Our nation is in distress, and when it comes to political leadership, there doesn't seem to be any. At least not at ...

There are a lot of social justice and civil rights organizations doing great work in the United States. From CREDO, MoveOn, and Bold Progressives, to Daily Kos, ColorOfChange, ACLU, Electronic ...

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 ...

THE DAY WE FIGHT BACK Let's stipulate that one important function of the massive military industrial complex and national security apparatus (security state) in the United States is the ...

I've often written about the usefulness of being ruthless when the situation and the times demand it, and on occasion some readers have taken issue with that proposition, clinging to the notion that ...

I think it is fair to say that most people reading this have a general understanding about the reasons behind the Occupy Wall Street movement uprising. We became familiar with the concept of ...

There is a conspiracy; I have no doubt about it. In a rare TV-watching spree today, I was kind of channel-surfing from one news broadcast to another, paying attention to the reporting on the ...

Chris Hedges : The Last Gasp of American Democracy We, like those in all emergent totalitarian states, have been mentally damaged by a carefully orchestrated historical amnesia, a state-induced ...