The Election From Hell
As the world careens toward “an environment never experienced before,” according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the two parties to the American spectacle continues to insist…
US Elections 2016
Still The Political Project Calls To Us
“But the state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen.”—Friedrich Nietzsche, The New Idol,Thus Spoke…
The Decay Of American Politics
My earliest recollection of national politics dates back exactly 60 years to the moment, in the summer of 1956, when I watched the political conventions in the company of that…
America’s Oligarchs Support Clinton Almost Unanimously
The results are already in, even before the official campaign-finance final figures will become available after the election. Though a large percentage of the people funding the campaign advertising will…
It Is Not “Ridiculous” To Reject Hillary; It Is Not Undemocratic To Disrupt The DNC
In a post on Aotearoa's The Daily Blog, a supposedly “leftist” blogger, Chris Trotter, took “Bernie's die-hard supporters” to task for being “ridiculous”. He was endorsing Sarah Silverman's words, but…
Humanising Hillary Clinton: The Democratic National Convention
“He [Bill Clinton] wanted people to know the real Hillary.” John Podesta, Jul 28, 2016 Moving beyond idea, beyond type, beyond cardboard cuts, was always going to be a central…
Like Trump, Hitler Also Liked His “Small People”
Possibly I have spent too many years ‘abroad’, outside of North America and Europe. Perhaps I don’t feel ‘white’, or ‘Western’ anymore. Or who knows, maybe I never really felt…
DNC: A Display Of Militarism, Bloodshed, Violence And Warfare
I was on the Floor of the Chicago Amphitheater for all 4 nights of the DNC Convention in 1968. Most of us were against the Vietnam War. In any event,…
Hillary’s Campaign Director Podesta And Democratic National Committee Were For Bush’s War Against Iraq!
Despite all of the serious flaws demonstrated by successive United States governments that this author has amply documented elsewhere during the past quarter century as a Professor of Law, the…
How America’s Press Are Covering The Trump Campaign
America’s press cover the Trump campaign with barely concealed hostility toward it, and with an obsessive emphasis upon the candidate’s positions regarding Russia; they’re attacking Trump as being (wittingly or…
It CAN Happen Here !
So, I recently told you all about Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s positive assessment of Mussolini and how FDR was the architect of U.S. prison camps. There’s much more but even with…
The Kochs Want Hillary Clinton To Become President
The signs are now clear and unmistakable: On July 25th, CNN headlined "Mike Pence to skip Koch brothers event” and reported that, "GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence will not attend the summer…
Trump And Manzanar
On the first day of the Republican National Convention, while Republican delegates were arguing about voting rules, and the anti-Trump delegates were being put in their place, I was touring…
Undermining Bernie Sanders: The DNC Campaign, WikiLeaks And Russia
Two aspects of Hillary Clinton’s response to the Bernie Sanders campaign have been notable in 2016. One has involved her attempts to “adjust” to his views to make tactical gains.…
Who Are The Real Pariahs This Election?
Co-Written by Mateo Pimentel and Edward Martin “Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?” – Shakespeare, The…
Laura Ingraham And Trumpism
Never doubt the ballistic factor of Laura Ingraham. Ingraham is never into facts, which tend to be the unwanted gate crashers of her party. What matters in that particular world…
Koch Brothers Now Supporting Hillary Clinton
On July 20th, a Republican U.S. Senator lost his main financial backers for having urged Republicans to vote for Donald Trump instead of for Hillary Clinton. The Koch brothers speak…
Money Talks As Trump Does U-Turn On Israel
Nazareth: The grubby underside of US electoral politics is on show once again as the Democratic and Republican candidates prepare to fight it out for the presidency. And it doesn’t…
Open Convention
A practical solution for re-invigorating a moribund Democratic Party and renewing faith in a broken political system is to have Hillary Clinton release her delegates and open the convention floor
Trump Writes Himself Off By Choosing Pence As Running Mate
Donald Trump, the Republican Presidential nominee-to-be, has effectively ended his chances to become U.S. President, by his choice of the Mike Pence to be his Vice Presidential choice. Pence’s only articles…
Bernie Sanders: The End Of A Campaign
The slimmest of hopes, which got extremely threadbare in the last month, was nursed that Bernie Sanders might have taken his support base and made it into a third movement. …
Our Political Portraits In 2D
It wouldn’t be strange for a contemporary 2D artist to imagineher sketchbook as a kind of immediate scientific laboratory, a site wherever repeated experiments and knowledge-building practices get drawn…
US Elections Cry Out For Reform!
As many observers around the world have pointed out, the United States is no longer a true democracy. It is an oligarchy. The US government ignores the safety, wishes…
Clinton Backs Monsanto’s Case That To Be Anti Monsanto Is To Be Pro Global-Warming
On June 27th, I reported Hillary Clinton’s having privately told GMO industry lobbyists, on 25 June 2014, that the federal government should subsidize GMO firms in order to enable…
The Right To Vote—Effectively
With their government under the control of corporations and special interests, the People of the United States may think they have the right to vote, but, unfortunately, they do not.…
All Opposed To The Blind Fascism Of Hillary’s Lackeys:Let the Dead Bury Their Dead!
Katherine Hoof Illinois—probably your average Hillary supporter. She published a letter to the editor in the Times the very day after Bernie’s piece and titled it“Dear Bernie Sanders: What You…
All That Glitters Is Feardom- Go Green, Not Purple
If Salvador Dali were around today he might have captured the mood of the nation best in a painting. But, you could simulate one for yourself by piecing together these…
Here’s Why Hillary Won’t Allow Her Corporate Speeches To Be Published
In a previous report, I indicated "Why Hillary Clinton’s Paid Speeches Are Relevant”, but not what they contained. The present report indicates what they contained. One speech in particular will be…
Who Should Make Political Policy, The People or The Politicians?
In the midst of what undoubtedly will be the nastiest and most expensive presidential campaign in American history, it is important to remember that the question is not so much…
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