81 Articles

Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Quick Question
Will some journalist please pose this question to our lawmakers and get an answer before they vote on this bill.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Why you should not support the parties or their candidates.
(2 comments) This is why you should not vote for anyone but Nader or me. Because all the candidates knew this but only the two of us have been willing to say so and demand that these criminals be impeached:

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Obama loses it
(3 comments) So now it is now more clear than ever that there is no hope at all among the leading three candidates that any one of them has the courage, the consciousness, or the capacity to lead this country out of its quagmire.

Friday, April 18, 2008
Complaining Accomplishes Nothing
(1 comments) Have you noticed that all this complaining that commentators engage in accomplishes very little? What would accomplish something? There is only one course of action that can make a difference now. If you have a better idea, I'd like to hear it.

Monday, April 14, 2008
Why Ralph Nader Must be Our Next President
Future generations depend on us...

Thursday, April 10, 2008
Living in a Dream World
How can you wake someone up who lives in a dream world? You can't.

Sunday, March 30, 2008
No Such Thing as a Spoiler
Since Clinton and Obama both agree that there's no such thing as a "spoiler" it would be fitting, proper, courageous, and right for both of these candidates to defend the right of non-party candidates, such as Ralph Nader and others, to have their voices heard during this campaign.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
What's going on with our money?
Large and well endowed economies like the US can choose to make, sell, or engage in any number of activities and do so effectively. But US policy makers have decided to concentrate the country's energies in one specific area, and that strategic focus, while once successful, is leading the country to its inevitable decline and ruin.

Sunday, March 23, 2008
No one is leading
(4 comments) The American people have no one leading the charge for the restoration of the Constitution and the rule of law.

Thursday, March 20, 2008
Just a Distraction
(1 comments) This presidential campaign is just a distraction and we all will pay a heavy price for it. Neither Obama nor Clinton are telling the truth bout how it is or how we got here.

Saturday, March 15, 2008
The Only Legitimate Candidate for President
(2 comments) Here is proof that there is only one nationally known candidate for President who is qualified for the job.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Simple Strategy for Deciding Who to Vote For
If they haven't been doing what you think they should have been doing all along... as citizens and/or as public servants, you can be pretty well sure you will feel the same way 5 years from now.

Monday, February 11, 2008
Guantanamo Comes to Main Street U.S.A.
Our silence and indifference to the plight of others is what allows this kind of thing to happen. You probably won't get a better wake up call than this. No doubt bad public relations will force this kind of evidence into dark corners. The question is, will we wake up, or will we remain silent until something like this happens to someone we know and care about... or maybe to a lot of people we know and care about?

Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Here's Your Chance to Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
(2 comments) I see that someone is exploring whether or not there is interest in having Ralph Nader run for President in 2008. I for one am interested in having him run and would support his candidacy. I would do so because I believe that of all the people who have been candidates for President in recent memory he would make the best president.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
H.R. 1955 - Passed by the House - Will Bush now be able to arrest you simply for being intelligent?
(2 comments) We all know now that our representatives have at times, voted for bills they did not read, study, or understand. This short video illustrates how negligence on the part of our representatives puts us all in great danger.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Remembering Marting Luther King and Others
(3 comments) His contribution and the contribution of all who helped make him what he was-which is to say, all those who marched, boycotted, broke the rules, sat at lunch counters and on buses, got dog bit, hand cuffed, fire hosed, jailed and billy clubbed so that he might have a platform on which to speak-cannot be properly honored with fancy words or platitudes.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007
A Thought for the New Year
...consider what kind of society we might have if each of us had the following attitude about ourselves, our place of employment, and the larger society in which we operate?

Thursday, November 1, 2007
Your Prayers Have Been Answered
(2 comments) This is a message to all who believe in God and pray for peace (and also to all who desire peace and do not believe in God).

Sunday, October 28, 2007
The Last Man Standing
(2 comments) Somehow people who are out to fight evil are never at a loss at finding evil in whoever seems to be in their way now, or might be in the future. In that consciousness, the only real way to get rid of evil once and for all will be when the only folks left are The Last Man Standing... and his or her slaves.

Sunday, October 28, 2007
Open Letter to the People of Planet Earth
(1 comments) Please consider these thoughts and see how you might contribute to expanding and refining them as you participate in the various aspects of your life.

Friday, October 19, 2007
I Can Show You How To Build An Empire
The problem is that these would-be builders of empire have no imagination or finesse. They haven't the sense to look at history and see that what they are doing was already tried before and failed. They repeat the same stupidities like greedy idiot lemmings... Building an Empire might actually be a good idea if, it weren't always being pursued by idiots and fools.

Friday, October 19, 2007
Regarding SCHIP
(4 comments) The Democrats don't know when to fight and they don't know when to compromise... or maybe they just have a different agenda than the one they advertise.

Saturday, September 29, 2007
Nothing to Fear
(5 comments) What you should realize is that the only solutions available require self-awareness and a commitment to personal responsibility. There is no institution that can change consciousness for the better. Only individual human beings can do that one person at a time -- alone -- through personal determination and commitment. No government can do it, no corporation can do it, no religion can do it.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Paulson: Social Security approaching $13.6 Trillion Deficit
(1 comments) What I would like to suggest is that Paulson go back to the drawing board and see how the numbers come out if we assume that we actually had a foreign policy that strived to foment peace and justice in the world instead of war and discord.

Monday, September 24, 2007
60 Minutes Interviews Iran's President Mahmoud Amadenijad
(2 comments) So all Pelley demonstrated, as far as I could tell, was that no one at 60 Minutes or any other mainstream media organization would ever have the guts to interview Bush or Cheney in the same manner. If we ever could find someone who would be willing to ask tough, penetrating, unscripted questions of Bush or Cheney, I guess it would be the last interview they would ever do.

Monday, September 24, 2007
The NRA meets the Candidates
(2 comments) All of them pledged to protect the Constitution and the rule of law and most of them were met with standing ovations for saying so.... Is it really possible that these candidates have no capacity at all to look themselves in the mirror.

Sunday, September 9, 2007
Debating Iraq
(1 comments) In arguing why we should stay in Iraq during a recent debate, Republican Mike Huckabee, on stage with other candidates, gave this as his reason why: He spoke about a lesson he learned from his mother when he was a child. What he learned from her, he said, was that if he went into a store and "if I picked something off the shelf at the store and I broke it, I bought it."

Saturday, September 8, 2007
On Sub-Prime Behavior
There are those who will generate all kinds of theories as to why the housing bubble came to pass including the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, but the reason is crystal clear and bright: Poverty in the richest country in the world is self-induced and engineered.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Yahoo says it had no choice
Do not blame corporations, when individual human beings value money over education, profits over honor, and success over decency.

Saturday, August 18, 2007
Replacing Our Government With One That's Legitimate
(1 comments) Further, I suggested that folks who want to transform our failed government into a government of, by, and for the People should be spending their energies on finding new qualified candidates to support for public office so that it will be possible to replace the current betrayers. We need to replace elected officials throughout the entire spectrum of elective offices.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007
What Do Sub-Prime Loans Have To Do With The Stock Market?
(1 comments) Unfortunately, the fear associated with sub-prime loans losses appears to be carrying over into other markets and now other loans are hard to get too. Many people are arguing that the Fed should now come to the rescue by lowering rates to make it easier for individuals and businesses to get the credit they need. But for the Fed, that presents a problem.

Monday, August 13, 2007
Memo to Chris Floyd
This is my response to Chris Floyd who wrote this article today at CounterPunch entitled: "The Bipartisan Guarantee of More War in Iraq"

Friday, August 10, 2007
Time out for a moment of paranoia
Traffic at my personal website has over the years steadily increased. I get statistics from my web host as to where the traffic comes from. I can't see who is coming to my site, only in what country the visitors reside. Now traffic from one country has stopped entirely. I'm wondering why.

Saturday, August 4, 2007
Our Children's Last Chance
(6 comments) The transformation of the United States from a first world country to a failed state is well under way and perhaps close to complete when you consider the dynamics in play. No one in government is suggesting a strategy that would reverse these dynamics. In my view, the only strategy that will now reverse these dynamics must necessarily include the following four components:

Friday, August 3, 2007
An Article Everyone Should Read
(3 comments) This article refers you to an intereview with Noam Chomsky, by Gabriel Matthew Schivone. It clearly is one of the best,if not the best, interviews with Noam Chomsky that I can remember reading. Here's the link.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007
An Open Letter to Scott Ritter
I don't agree with everything Cindy Sheehan says or does. I don't agree with everything anybody does or says. But at least I can see she is steadfastly trying to do her best to defend her country, if for no other reason than to honor her son. I don't think you can point to any one member of Congress-not one-and say the same thing.

Thursday, July 26, 2007
Time's a Wasting...
(2 comments) If all we do is rant and rave for another 16 months, when election day comes we will have no choice but to put back in office the same people we put there last time... and then what? Same-O, Same-O. How do you expect things to change if we don't change things and if we don't change?

Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Be Strong, Be Yourself
(2 comments) If you keep these thoughts in mind as you plan your strategy for participation, I think whatever you do will make a difference. Discard any strategy that does not support or is inconsistent with the overall context of what has been expressed. Success will require courage, determination, imagination, goodwill, tolerance and heart. You are capable of this. We need each other and we need to express the best that's in us.

Thursday, July 19, 2007
Now What Are You Going To Do?
In 1988, when people were campaigning for president, I once wrote a commentary in which I said something to the effect, that if you elect one more president who doesn't love you, very soon you will no longer be living in a free country. I was right. No one seems to realize that it was HW who gave you W. Now what are you going to do?

Wednesday, July 4, 2007
On Scooter Libby and the Fourth of July
(1 comments) And if you haven't the courage to tell the truth, or the consciousness to honor the truth, or the love to love the truth, then one day you will not have the truth to tell, and soon thereafter you will not live in a place that will acknowledge the truth when it is told, and not long after that the truth will not be told for it will no longer be allowed.

Monday, June 25, 2007
Have You Had a Similar Experience?
Is this censorship? Has anyone had a similar experience with CommonDreams.org or any other web site?

Monday, June 25, 2007
Why Kucinish was Wrong to File Articles of Impeachment Against Cheney
(9 comments) Now let me say in his defense that he, at least, has more courage than most of his colleagues.

Friday, June 8, 2007
If You Won't Live the Dream, You'll Kill the Dream
(8 comments) If you vote for any of these people, you are voting for people who are disqualified from running for office. If you vote for them anyway, you yourself will be undermining the Constitution and what it stands for. Don't do that. Live the dream... or you'll kill the dream.

Monday, May 21, 2007
Half Hearted Attempts at Defending the Constitution
(2 comments) In a very real sense these timid attacks on Bush and his criminal administration are counter productive. What they communicate is that no public figure has the courage to tell the simple truth about the crimes and deceit perpetrated by this administration. One by one our most well known political leaders are offering these half-hearted attempts at defending the constitution, which in reality is no defense at all.

Thursday, April 26, 2007
Gee Whiz, Bill Moyers, please explain yourself
(2 comments) The special was generally informative and a good contribution to the national dialog, but why did he have to end it with an estimate offered by an administration that almost never tells the truth about anything. If the best estimate we have is that over 650,000 excess civilian deaths have occurred as a result of the war, then certainly a lot more than 35,000 Iraqis died last year.

Monday, March 26, 2007
Defending the Constitution
How do you defend the Constitution? One way is to vote for people who will keep their oath of office.

Friday, March 23, 2007
Losing The Next Election
(2 comments) I believe the Democrats are days, hours, or maybe even minutes away from losing the next presidential election.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007
The Price of Oil
(12 comments) How much will a gallon of gasoline cost? The price at the pump is a mere fraction of what we all will pay. Perhaps the highest price we will pay will be in the form of our own stupidity, our ignorance, our immaturity, and the persistence of myth in our lives... the separation of self from reality... the persistence of unenlightenment and all the sorrow that that entails.

Saturday, March 17, 2007
Regarding Signing Statements
(3 comments) I suppose you thought this was going to be about those illegal statements that Bush is in the habit of adding to his signature when he signs legislation passed by Congress. Well it's not.

Friday, March 16, 2007
What does it mean to win an illegal war?
I hear members of Congress talking about how concerned they are about the possibility of having our troops experience defeat in the Iraq war. They want the troops to experience a win. But how can soldiers engaged in an illegal war experience a win? What does winning an illegal war mean? Does it mean that we will not give up until we are able to extricate ourselves without having to pay a price for our war crimes?

Tuesday, March 13, 2007
How Bush Is Getting Jews To Give Up Judaism And Destroy Israel
(1 comments) In the end, Bush and his minions will fall and be swept away by history like all the other despots who have tried to accumulate power that does not belong to them. And in this case, many Jews are among his minions and they too will be swept away, and maybe Israel with them.

Monday, March 12, 2007
TREASON - are you giving it a pass?
(8 comments) Are you doing for the Democrats, the same thing that the Democrats are doing for Bush and his Republicans.... giving them a pass? Is that what all this commentary is.... gestures that pretend to do something when in fact they accomplish little or nothing at all?

Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Does Reform Come From The Top or From The Bottom
Mark A. Goldman announced his candidacy for President on March 5, 2007. This commentary is a follow up to questions that were put to him.

Monday, March 5, 2007
My name is Mark A. Goldman and I am herewith announcing my candidacy for President of the United States
(5 comments) I am not sure that I possess all of the qualifications that you would like to see in a President, even though I believe I do possess the essential qualities required. My candidacy gives you at least one opportunity, if necessary, to vote for someone who has those essential qualities, the most important of which his this: I am willing to take the oath of office and, to the best of my ability, keep my word.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Simple Strategy for Citizens Who Want to Renew Our Democracy
And here's how we do it:

Sunday, February 18, 2007
Talking with Jesus... again
(11 comments) Jesus brings good news.

Sunday, February 11, 2007
Obama seeks to unite all Americans...
(2 comments) Barack Obama apparently seeks to unite all Americans--Democrats and Republicans alike--on one overriding principle: TREASON.

Friday, February 2, 2007
Iran's Revenge
If the US and/or Israel goes ahead and bombs Iran under the pretext of stopping their atomic energy program, Iran might refuse to sell its oil for dollars. This probably would precipitate a world wide economic recession with the US economy being among the primary losers.

Friday, January 26, 2007
State of the Union: a defeated nation
(2 comments) The war I have been fighting has nothing to do with terrorists. But the war is about who will win: the people who continue to honor and hold sacred the Constitution and the rule of law or those who do not. Those who do not have won.

Sunday, January 14, 2007
The Truth as a Last Resort
The opportunity to convince anyone that the US will help Iraq achieve real peace and security is lost.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
To surge or not to surge
None of the talking heads in the US media or government are addressing the central issue, which is this: can you build, keep, and/or inspire democracy in a first world country, or in a third world country, by lying to and cheating its people or by undermining its Constitution and the rule of law?

Saturday, December 9, 2006
Four suggestions for solving your problem
Study the following suggestions to their logical conclusion and you will be closer to solving the problem than you are now.

Thursday, November 30, 2006
Does Israel Have A Right To Exist?
(5 comments) The simple answer to this question is "No."

Friday, June 2, 2006
On God and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
When you love God you are fearless, but you do not practice war; you are fearless in your love for others. You are not afraid of ideas and you are not afraid of the truth or your own ignorance.

Monday, May 29, 2006
Do All Human Beings Have Basic Human Rights?
I say, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is, in fact, the revealed true word of God.

Friday, May 26, 2006
On Lies, Truth, and Courage
(2 comments) You cannot be a traitor to life, and then expect to live in a free and just society.

Thursday, May 18, 2006
There is only one issue
(1 comments)

Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Nancy Pelosi forfeits the Constitution
With House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi telling us that Democrats will not try to impeach Bush now or later, we have an admission that the rule of law is now dead in America. At least it's dead with Nancy Pelosi. She wants to appease us with legislative perks. Her strategy: It doesn't matter that we've lost the Constitution, we'll make it up to you with a better drug prescription plan.

Sunday, May 14, 2006
On NSA Data Collection
If the NSA data accumulation project is allowed to stand, even if it has no other effect, it will tend to limit dissent and the effectiveness of opposition politics. This will be true even if the government never actually uses the data.

Thursday, May 11, 2006
The Lone Protestor
This article was published 5/10/06 in my local paper, The Vashon Loop.

Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Failed States
Ignorance is fertile ground for lies. If you don't know what happened, then you really don't know what's happening either. In "Failed States: The Abuse of Power and The Assault on Democracy," Chomsky gives you the foundation you need to dispel the lies and open yourself to the reality of what's happening with the American Empire.

Wednesday, April 26, 2006
On Mary McCarthy and the Bush League Players
The crimes Bush and his Bush league players have perpetrated on so many innocent victims are among the most violent and unconscionable acts that human beings can inflict on other human beings, and no shuffling of staff, or future change in attitude or policy, can exonerate him for what has already been done in our name.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Who has time for such naivete?
What we need is a fundamental paradigm shift.

Tuesday, April 4, 2006
The Big Lie Persists
(2 comments) I am talking here about the first lie out of Bush's mouth immediately following 911...

Saturday, April 1, 2006
On Rice's Blackburn Lecture

Monday, March 27, 2006
Simple, Not Easy
To get out of the mess we're in, ordinary citizens will have to have as much character, vision, and courage as they wish their representatives had.

Wednesday, February 22, 2006
New Government
Don't think outside the box. Get rid of the box

Monday, February 20, 2006
Saving America by Losing Elections
(1 comments) Perhaps the greatest irony of our time will become obvious when citizens finally realize that to save our country they will have to be willing to lose elections… maybe quite a few of them.

Tuesday, January 31, 2006
The State of the Nation
(1 comments) The state of the Nation is not good.

Sunday, January 29, 2006
Our Late Republic
(2 comments)

Saturday, January 28, 2006
My fantastic dream