The excerpt below summarizes the most fundamental truth about Russia today that informs anything else we might know about the country and how it arrived in 2007. The sums handed over to “the oligarchs” defy comprehension. Cold Wars, Hot Wars, Wars on Terror be damned….that place is run on pure greed and brutality with far […]

“They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.” -Bob Dylan
Yea, I’ve gone to that well one too many times. But when someone can consistently say it better than you in one line why bother attempting to reinvent the wheel? […]

It’s becoming easier and easier for me to not care about the state of the Iraqi invasion and occupation by the Bush administration …… especially since the MSM(main stream media) isn’t even showing the shocking bits.
It’s like you couldn’t even be desensitized if you wanted to be. Most of what you see is some […]

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.
I tell you, we are […]

Doubtless Iran’s government merits harsh condemnation, including for its recent actions that have inflamed the crisis. It is, however, useful to ask how we would act if Iran had invaded and occupied Canada and Mexico and was arresting U.S. government representatives there on the grounds that they were resisting the Iranian occupation (called “liberation,” of […]