WHAT WOULDN’T YOU MAKE THEM DO?What Horrors Do They Commit …TO GET YOUR VOTE?

Our election spectacle suggests that we are seriously contemplating being “led” by some very questionable people. Their ideological compatriots are in office, but these particular individuals do not (yet) represent us. (more…)

Democratization Has Never Been: Immanuel Wallerstein

“Democratization is not and has never been in the interest of capitalists.”

Immanuel Wallerstein: The End Of The World As We Know It. Minneapolis, 1999. The University of Minnesota Press.

Long Submission to Despots: Johann Gottfried Herder

“Everywhere human beings are what they have made of themselves, what they had the power and the desire to become. … (more…)

DISTURBING ATTACK ON FEMINISM: The Insidiousness of the Palin Circus

Friday, 05 September 2008. Heard on “Talk Of the Nation” on NPR.

A woman is interviewed about her perceptions of Governor Sarah Palin and her voting intentions. She describes how a media pundit has raised questions about Governor Palin’s suitability as prospective Vice President because of (more…)

WRONG PERSON: McCAIN/BUSH. It’s Not Personality, It’s Conspiracy

Things have gone wrong. Dear God, I am glad we are not going to have Bush in office again. I bet you hope I won’t vote for the likes of him.

THAT WAS A MISTAKE.

Not long ago, in fear and hatred, we conflated reservations about Bush with unpatriotism and terrorism. Then, referring to that asshole as (more…)

Any Decent Individual is Free From Responsibility: Karl Polyani

“No society is possible in which power and compulsion are absent, nor a world in which force has no function. It was an illusion to assume a society shaped by man’s will and wish alone. (more…)

The Feet that Trample Down your Cities, They Are Your Own: Ettiene de La Boetie

“Poor, wretched and stupid peoples, nations determined on your own misfortune and blind to your own good! You let yourselves be deprived before your own eyes of the best part of our own revenues; (more…)