WHEN DO WE KILL THE HIJACKERS? The Outrage of Executive Financial Extortion

“Beecher declared that men “who have been cast down from affluence to poverty should not grunt and grumble, but bear matters unflinchingly. (more…)

Anyone But A Madman: Herodotus

“For if anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations of the world the beliefs which he thought best, (more…)

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…)

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…)

THERE IS NO WAR: Our Misuse of the Term Masks Worse Crimes and Abuses

There Is No War.

Some recent wars: War on Poverty. War on Drugs. And, no shit, a recently declared War on Global Warming. War on you. War on Christmas. War on Mr. and Mrs. America. War on the Religious Right. War. What manner (more…)

The Monstrous Institution of Rumor: Robert Pogue Harrison

“We live in a world that traffics in rumors. From prophet to disciple, neighbor to neighbor, binding the living to the dead and the dead (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…)