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I was reading some of the comments in diary where two people were debating the progressive bona fides of Daily Kos. One of the commentators suggested that perhaps someone should write a diary about ...

There is a very small group of users here at Daily Kos creating havoc in multiple diaries. With the pretext of "protecting the reputation of the site" they are bullying people that write diaries ...

I think I heard that Hillary Clinton has been collecting payments from Wall Street bankers for speeches. Meanwhile, some are asking if we are "Ready for Hillary?" Given the mood of the ...

I'll start this diary letting readers know that I'm extremely overjoyed with what I'm about to report... For years I've been arguing that when it comes to the control the corporate state has over us ...

Sockpuppets Series One of the research areas I'm focusing on as part of a book project I'm working on is state- and corporate-sponsored propaganda and how it affects the population at large, and ...

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

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 ...

It never fails to amaze me. As I watch now, in real time, how the U.S. in engaged in government destabilization campaigns in Venezuela , Ukraine , Syria (The C.I.A. has been involved in that ...

I'd rather write about important issues, but since there is a little bit of what we colloquially call a pie fight prompted by a rec list diary I wrote, I'd like to take this opportunity to share ...

I received an email from Juliana Smoot from the Obama for America 2012 campaign this morning. The email starts like this: "We just launched our full 2012 campaign online store, where you can pick ...

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 ...

Let me start with the conclusion in order to get straight to the point: Modern stock market crashes can be looked at as periods of "harvesting" by the plutocratic ruling class. In the aftermath of ...

You haven't seen nothing yet! There is very likely to be an overwhelming confluence of very ...

Although it has been in the works for decades, and during that time there has been people sounding the alarm, it seems that finally a consensus is building around the notion that a small ruling ...

I've been an avid "student" of protest movements for years. I've attended many protests and I've noticed that there are a few things people do that tend to diminish their potential effect. I'm not ...

It's an open secret. Everybody seems to know by now: A massive fraud--sophisticated Ponzi scheme--caused the 2008 financial system panic and subsequent Great Recession, and the failure by ...

Don't you find it almost insulting by now? Insulting to your intelligence? Every time the markets go up, all the news outlets, like parrots, repeat the same inane reasons for it. Every time the ...

Reality is stranger than fiction, as they say. What fiction writers have been writing about for decades is now reality. As you read this, there is a total information awareness police state ...

The only thing standing in the way of a total takeover by an international (and connected) ruling class is the remnants of representative democracy in the U.S. and Western Europe. You are ...

As it's the case in every generation, the general public has a tendency to miss the signs of the rise of fascistic threats until it's too late. We are now entering a new phase in that threat, and ...

The reason corporatist lobbying groups like ALEC and the NRA push for seemingly irrational so-called "gun rights" is because their ultimate goal is to normalize the use of organized violence and ...

There is so much potential for good in the world, for brotherly love, for peace and harmony. All the elements are there, here, with us, now, at this very moment. In order to realize that potential ...

Don't get me wrong; I believe in social activism and I'm also aware that there are countless groups of people doing great work, addressing social injustices, hunger, homelessness, corruption, gross ...

Throughout much of human history most common folks have live a brutish existence, subjected to oppression and exploitation, and to the terrible consequences of widespread ignorance. Civilization ...

In my writing I've expressed concerns about a phenomena I've noticed throughout the years, when it comes to the way Progressives (sane, modern, just, reality-based), and Right-wingers (thugs, liars, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whatever happened with all those Occupy Wall Street study groups about Alternative Banking Systems? In the face of the continuing pillaging and criminality by the Wall Street criminal financial ...

I've always been intrigued about the degree to which power elites control the population. I don't know exactly how or why, but just by simple observation about how society works, I've come to the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 not a religious person, but I think Jesus was on to something when he took on the money changers at the Temple. He accused them of "turning the Temple into a den of thieves through their ...

Throughout the years I've been writing, agitating, and blogging about the ascendancy of the increasingly oppressive and corrupt Corporate State, one recurring theme in my writing has been the ...

Folks, we've been on a quiet (creeping) path towards a total-information-awareness surveillance police state for a very long time. As this historic trend has been developing, we have been exposed ...

Because every time the MIC wants to take us into another war of choice against a third rate country the war propaganda increases exponentially, I've been forcing myself to sample some of the toxic "...

I'll start this essay with some generalizations about some basic principles with which I think most people of good will agree. Namely, our overall understanding about the meaning of living in a ...

People all across the country are finally waking up to the reality of our socioeconomic system; a reality based on the fact that our government institutions have been captured by the wealthy to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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,

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 ...

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 ...

Market crashes have always been good for the oligarchs, without fail. Thank God they don't have the incentive nor the mechanisms to orchestrate them ! Back in 06', 07', and 08' I was a small ...

Photo: Occupy Olympia Yesterday I was at the Emeryville Public Market having lunch with an associate, and when we were done, one of the workers that has been cleaning nearby ...

The operative word is "organized". I'm aware that many individuals, groups and organizations are engaging in activities to resist the corporatist takeover of the country, but sometimes I wonder if ...

At this point I find most of the debates about the 2012 elections to be quaint. I also feel sorry to see how many people want to believe that things are normal and that even though we are going ...

Not a pretty image of a president; but there you have it. Then (in today's remarks and press conference) he goes on to recite what until now has been extreme right-wing talking points: "Medicare ...

When people think about golpes , what they imagine is some sort of mutiny within the ranks of the military, which results in some renegade general (or generals) bursting into the ...