America Cannot Survive Multiple Languages

“A nation is much more…it is a state of mind, a shared vision, and a recognition that we are all in this together. A nation needs a common language as it needs a common currency,” said Governor Richard D. Lamm of Colorado One look around the world and you will see conflict in many countries in the Middle East, Africa and Europe. The great philosopher Kant said, “The two great dividers are religion and language.” Today, the United Kingdom finds itself more the Divided Kingdom while the French find themselves becoming... Read article

If I can’t laugh and “If I can’t dance, it’s not my Revolution.”

The night Jon Stewart announced a “Rally to Restore Sanity” and “The Rev. Sir Dr. Stephen T. Colbert” joined in with a “March to Keep Fear Alive” this American ‘girl’ was dancing to every song ZZ Top and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performed at the St. Pete Forum. I grew up on the promise that the U.S. was always the good guy and that fear always closes ones mind and heart. In the Colbert universe, “America, the Greatest Country God ever gave Man, was built on three... Read article

Bill Clinton Helps the Republicans Run against Bush

You’ve probably heard that joke concerning what’s actually happening when Bill Clinton’s lips are moving, but sometimes the truth does manage to negotiate his tongue.  And his recent trip to Minnesota to campaign for Democrat gubernatorial candidate Mark Dayton might just be one of these instances — well, sort of. While speaking at a fund-raising event for Dayton, Clinton played the tired old leftist game of trying to paint his opposition as radical, saying that the Republicans are placing ideology over evidence... Read article

As Garrett Hardin said: “No one ever dies from overpopulation”

The University of Colorado features the foremost thinker, writer and speaker on overpopulation in the United States and worldwide: Dr. Albert A. Bartlett, www.albartlett.org . Recently, most Americans watched the Indus River in Pakistan flood to the point of placing one-fifth of that country under water.  Media reported it as one of the greatest disasters on the planet—caused by rain, flood and storms.  Nonetheless, Dr. Bartlett reached a little further into the reasons for Pakistan’s tragedy: 185 million people living... Read article

Dental Tourism: The price of saving a tooth

Recently I’ve been having lots of trouble with my upper right-hand bicuspid — but it’s been years since I’ve been to a dentist and I’m not all that familiar with the price of having one’s tooth fixed. But I figured that it might cost me perhaps a hundred dollars, possibly two. “‘How much will this cost?” I naively asked my dentist. “Hmmm. I would say around $3,000.” $3,000 for one tooth? Yikes! The cost of dentistry has truly gone up. At this... Read article

The Hate Mongers Among Us – Part 2

Signs of a Rift Between U.S. Politicians and U.S. National Security? Even with the media support required to sustain hate in plain sight, today’s background chatter suggests that those worried about U.S. national security are at work in the shadows to counter the influence of the Israel lobby. If so, that is good news—for the United States. When Israeli-American writer Jeff Goldberg appeared again in the news, you knew psy-ops were underway. In March 2002, Goldberg published in The New Yorker a lengthy story alleging... Read article

Assange Besieged

The Amazing Adventures of Captain Neo takes a decided turn for the worse. By Israel Shamir and Paul Bennett The plot thickens as our favorite hero of the Matrix; our own “Captain Neo” Julian Assange, faces danger yet again. When we last parted company with the legendary founder of WikiLeaks, he was breathing a sigh of relief after dodging spurious double-rape charges. The complaints were dropped, and our hero was free to roam the globe once again. But soap opera plots are repetitive; the story was quickly recycled... Read article

Immigration Cannot Continue – Long term impacts of immigration and solutions

Part 3: Long term impacts of immigration–solutions… In this three part series, you may enjoy Maria Fotopoulos, Senior Writing Fellow at www.capsweb.org as she examines amnesty for 20 million illegal aliens now residing within the United States.  She addresses the key word ‘sustainability’ in “No home for amnesty in a sustainable America.” LONG-TERM IMPACTS “Open-border advocates often characterize those who enter or remain in the U.S. illegally as “just looking for a better life,” said Fotopoulos.... Read article

Interview with Kenneth O’Keefe

Kenneth O’Keefe is a world citizen. As an anti-war activist and social entrepreneur, he renounced his U.S. citizenship on March 1, 2001 and burned his American passport on January 7, 2004 in protest to the United States’ Imperialism and called for the immediate withdrawal of American forces from Iraq. O’Keefe is a former U.S. Marine who served in the 1991 Persian Gulf War and subsequently revealed the use of depleted uranium by the United States as a crime against humanity. O’Keefe has taken... Read article

Surge in Housing Supply Will Drive Down Prices

Home ownership has become an albatross. Prices are falling, demand is weak, foreclosures have skyrocketed, and inventory is backed up to the moon. If there’s an upside, it’s hard to see. Everyone who bought a house in the last 6 or 7 years knows that he was fleeced by bankers who were pushing “fishwrap” mortgage paper to line their own pockets. Prices did not reflect the underlying supply/demand fundamentals as much as they exposed the massive mortgage laundering operation that was taking place in... Read article

How Corporations Own Congress

With the November elections quickly approaching, the majority of Americans will be thinking one thing: “Who cares?” This apathy isn’t due to ignorance, as some accuse. Rather, working people’s disinterest in the two party system implies intelligence: millions of people understand that both the Democrats and Republicans will not represent their interests in Congress. This begs the question: Whom does the two party system work for? The answer was recently given by the mainstream The New York Times,... Read article

The Hate Mongers Among Us – Part 1

First in a 4-part series… Hate is a harsh word. As the counterpoint to love, hate reigns supreme among the emotions that the faith traditions seek to expunge from the human heart. Hate we’re told is the face of evil seen in plumes of smoke and ash on 911. Yet hate also serves a purpose for those adept at catalyzing conflicts. In the aftermath of that horrific event, hate we’re assured is a desired emotional state. Yet induced hate led us into two unwinnable wars. Hate may yet take us into Iran. Or Pakistan. That... Read article

The Settlements are a Symptom the Disease is The Occupation

Every Israeli settlement in the West Bank, and all are illegal under international law are ‘entitled’ to receive a “balancing grant” from Israel’s Interior Ministry to help balance their budget. In 2009, the ministry allocated NIS 265 million in “balancing grants” to the West Bank colonies. As a result, each settler received an average of NIS 115, which is 22% more than those who live within the Green Line. Settlers also receive 22% more budget grants than other Israelis. Altogether, the ministry distributed... Read article

The Hyperinflation Mirage

The Fed can create as much money as it likes without any risk of inflation provided the money is tucked away where no one can spend it. And this, in fact, is what the Fed has done. They have exchanged $1.7 trillion in reserves for non performing loans and mortgage-backed securities with the banks. But the banks loan book continues to shrink. In other words, the Fed has increased the money supply, but in real terms, the money supply has shrunk. Thus, the Fed’s so called quantitative easing (QE) program has failed to... Read article

The TUN – a true representative council

Only a foolish citizen could belief that Democracy is a sensible method for electing a legislative body or administrative officials. Most are in denial that Democracies cause untold harm. Reflecting the will of the people, in endless elections, is but a substitute for mob rule. The certain incompetence of the voters, guarantee that the most corrupt take control, through the casting of meaningless ballots. The election cycle is a waste of time, energy and money that never provides a meaningful change in government direction.... Read article

Nine years after 9/11, has al-Qaeda finally won?

As America and the world observed the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it occurred to me that perhaps the terrorists have finally won. No, not perhaps. It really seems like they have won. After all, we are no safer today than we were in 2001. In fact, I suspect we’re becoming less and less safe with each day that the tea partiers, the anti-mosque protestors, and that crazy Florida preacher demonstrate their belligerent hatred of Muslims, which is founded on ignorance and right-wing fear mongering. That... Read article

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