How to Ruin a Life
Sep 26, 2008 politics
Gather ’round boys and girls, I have a story to share with you: This is a story about unmitigated greed. A tragic story about obscenely wealthy people eager to fleece middle-class Americans, and how those same people had to destroy the life of one man to do so. You see, our current mortgage & loan [...]
“Democracy is always a hindrance to the market plan.”
Sep 25, 2008 politics
That title is a quote from Naomi Klein, whose Shock Doctrine perfectly explains what is currently going on America right now viz. our incredible economic upheaval. According to Milton Friedman, “Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that [...]
Tags: capitalism, corporatism, free market, Paulson, Shock Doctrine
Ahmadinejad Speaks
Sep 24, 2008 politics
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s two speeches at the U.N. this week are absolutely worth reading. Transcript from today’s is here, while the one from the 19th is at NPR. Vast portions of the latter could’ve been given by most US presidents; say, Reagan to the USSR. Both speeches contain large amounts of truth, though obviously my favorite [...]
“Creating is living doubly.”
Sep 22, 2008 philosophy, politics, reading
In “The Push to ‘Otherize’ Obama” Nicholas D. Kristof has a throwaway paragraph that’s better than the whole rest of the piece: Just imagine for a moment if it were the black candidate in this election, rather than the white candidate, who was born in Central America, was an indifferent churchgoer, had graduated near the [...]
Say Hello to Republican Jesus
By the way, if you’re sick of the torrent of lies and obfuscations from the McCain-Palin camp, here’s an article on the real case against Obama: The Obama Craze: Count Me Out by Matt Gonzalez, vice presidential candidate for Ralph Nader.
An Open Letter to Christian Troops
Sep 18, 2008 politics, theology
An Open Letter to Christian US Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan: Who and Whose are you? An ex-Army elite powerfully describes why our culture of violence and revenge is diametrically opposed to the radical message of Jesus. Loving the enemy neutralizes the category of enemy.Unfortunately, even with phalanxes of chaplains ready to distort and press [...]
An Alternate History
Sep 13, 2008 politics
For some time now I’ve been trying to compose the speech President Bush should’ve given on 9/11/01. Someone much wiser beat me to it: My fellow Americans: We have been hit. The attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon have damaged every one of us. We are filled with anger and rage, for in [...]
Tags: 9/11, Bush, nationalism, patriotism, terrorism, violence, war
A Wretched Anniversary
Tags: 9/11, nationalism, patriotism, terrorism, violence, war
Wait, so who am I supposed to vote for?
Sep 11, 2008 philosophy, politics
Via http://www.politicalcompass.org
Tags: anarchism, communism, Edwards, fascism, Gandhi, Hitler, Huckabee, libertarianism, McCain, Obama, Ron Paul, Stalin