We Are All Welfare Queens
Friday, February 18th, 2011A good article from Paul Craig Roberts: “Obama’s 2012 Budget: A Tool for Class War.”
And a fun one from Sherry Wolf: “A Modest Proposal for Republicans.”
Posts Tagged ‘military’
U.S. Aggression Must Be Stopped, by US
Monday, January 10th, 2011Hedges states it clearly in : “Even Lost Wars Make Corporations Rich.”
It’s up to us. Only “We the People” can make this stop; otherwise, The Machine will just continue rolling over everyone in its path. Acquiesce or fight, my friend, give up or resist.
Death and Taxes
Monday, December 20th, 2010Chris Hedges writes beautifully about war: “Bitter Memories of War on the Way to Jail“; and DMG is entertaining with his look at the fate of Obamacare: “Health Care and the Wages of Sin.”
Good-and-Hard-istan
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010David Michael Green notices the deeply regressive state of degradation we currently find ourselves in: “How’s That Recessioney, Oily Thing Working Out For You?”
H. L. Mencken, back in 1916, wrote: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
So, if you want things to go your way, you dupe the “common people” into thinking they should want what you want (e.g., don’t tax the rich, dismantle public policy, deregulate), and once they agree, you give it to them good and hard. That’s where we’re at now: we’re gettin’ it good and hard.
Addicted to War
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010A good article by Tom Englehardt on America’s withdrawal issues.
Now that we’ve zoomed past the seven- and eight-year marks on the shamefully tragic occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s instructive to remember that America’s involvement in WW1 was merely one year and WW2 only four.
America is now, sadly, quite addicted to war.