As the plutocrats gain momentum in American politics and with the Obama administration falling into despicable disgrace in face of corporate hegemony, there is little doubt that there will be more suffering in America.  The savage cuts to government programs foisted on the American people by a rabid oligarchy operating through the Republican Party [...]

  In the U.S., the selling pornography is a legally protected expression of free speech. Also protected speech  is the publishing and distributing of racist, hate material that advocates violence. Marching in front of woman’s health care clinics with graphic posters of aborted fetuses is also protected by the First Amendment. However, feeding homeless people [...]

“AM I A Socialist Like Bernie Saunders?” was a question someone, who friended me on FB, asked.  I think my answer to her is worth publishing here… Thank you Jennifer.  I am not a socialist, per se.  I do believe, however, that the government “could be” better able to provide us with certain services.  Neither [...]

Debt Ceiling Crisis, Debt Ceiling Talks, Medicare, President Obama, social security, Tea Party Let the word go forth from Washington! The corporate rulers occupying our nation’s capital have declared war on just about every citizen. Have no doubt: those in the upper ranges of the top 1% of wealth in this country (aka The Money [...]

source: Carl Herman On Bullshit, Princeton professor Harry Frankfurt’s 2005 best-seller, defines “bullshit” as saying whatever necessary to dictate an audience’s interpretation of a subject. Bullshit is comprised of lies of omission and commission, of course, but shifts as needed to maintain the desired dictatorship (the literal “say” of what people perceive). Frankfurt observes that [...]

What sort of person would deliberately ignore the obvious fundamental reality of any budget? By Numerian It’s hard to say if the Tea Party has an acknowledged leader, but someone who professes to be just that has chosen a very opportune moment to trash Speaker John Boehner’s attempts to craft legislation that would allow an [...]

By Saul Landau “The reason we have a Department of Defense is to break things and kill people. The problem we have now is that so much of the money is not going to the people who are breaking things and killing people.”  -Ret. Marine General Arnold L. Punaro, Member of the Defense Business Board, [...]

Is this true?  Or is it simply sardonic realism? Progressive Avenues www.progressiveavenues.org info@progressiveavenues.org 415-702-9682    July 27, 2011 By Luke Hiken     Republican lawmakers were ecstatic today to announce passage of the Corporate Education Act (CEA). The President expressed his support for the Act because the Republican sides of both the House and the Senate had backed it, and that [...]

If we defaulted on our debt when we were perfectly capable of paying it, we would be be prosecuted for fraud. But when Congress does it, they call it politics. The crazies in the United States House of Representatives would have you believe it were so. They say fix that budget before we’ll raise the [...]

source: Carl Herman In our current debt-based monetary system, we’re never going to pay off the national debt. The debt-deal political theater is a tragic-comedy and essentially lies of omission and commission costing Americans trillions of their dollars every year. The heart of the lie is Orwellian: US “leadership” tells us that debt is a [...]