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dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphere is speculation that Bernie’s Big Misadventure in the sucker-fleecing, traveling carnival of the Democratic Party Primary...

Machismo and Violence – The Heavy Doors of Another Closet

18/06/2016

Trump calling Obama a closeted Muslim misses the point. Obama's presidency uses Muslims as cannon fodder ...

And then there was just Madame Hillary. Hold the Champagne.

08/06/2016

Hillary Clinton may have taken the Democratic nomination, but that leaves little to celebrate...

Killer Hillary or the Lumpentrumpetariat; On Choosing the Lesser of two Evils

16/05/2016

A presidency headed by either Donald Trump or the Clinton Cartel will make the world a more dangerous place. Essay...

Does Bernie Have the Balls for an Independent Sanders Bid?

29/04/2016

Beaten by the occult machinations of the Democratic National Committee, should Sanders mount his own campaign?...

Mantra for Fulfilled Living: Battling distraction, addiction and domination

20/04/2016

Be weak, for strength in a violent world is an ignoble tool...

Madam Hillary: A Timeline of Serving the Powerful

13/04/2016

A presidential hopeful reserves the right to change her mind, but Hillary Clinton repeatedly shows that this lady IS for turning....

Smoke, Mirrors, and a Dishonest Lexicon.

02/04/2016

Even the words we use are skewed to obfuscate truth and maintain elites. What we call 'terrorism' could also be termed 'effect'. Essay...

Hillary’s Hair-Trigger Partisans Versus Trump’s Smalltown Nostalgists. A Zero Sum Game

24/03/2016

In a battle between Trump and Clinton, should it come to that, no-one wins. Essay...

Feel the Bern if it Makes You Happy, but Don’t Hope For a Fairytale Ending

19/03/2016

Sanders as president is a dream too far, writes Phil Rockstroh from New York...

Sanders’ Super Tuesday Smackdown? The Surprise is that he made it this far.

03/03/2016

Still Hope for Sanders? Not unless you hope he'll roll over for Hillary. Super Tuesday, reaction....

Adios, Sandernistas, Clintons Don’t Take Kindly to Revolution

19/02/2016

Slurs and superdelegates. Now that Sanders has rattled the Clinton camp, the slapdown begins. Essay...

When All is Dark, Have Faith in Night

07/01/2016

By a poetic descent into the underworld, one is confronted with truths that only can be revealed in darkness....

Star Wars and the Escapism of the Mindless

29/12/2015

What will a future Democratic president's agenda will entail? Hint: Take note of which Republican declarations Democratic partisans are fuming in self-righteous outrage against now....

Weapon Wielding White Males and Imperial Warmongers

16/12/2015

Homegrown terrorists perpetrate rampage after rampage. And yet again: Mainstream pundits ask why...

Fear and Fascism: Tools of the Trade

05/12/2015

To persist, the capitalist order demands submission to ruthless authority and must peddle fear of an alien other....

Attack, Retaliate, Attack. When Will it End?

23/11/2015

If their designs work out as planned, the elite will, as they always have, enrich their already engorged fortunes on the suffering and death of the powerless....

Move Both Directions at Once: Traversing the Greed-Deranged Earth of Neoliberal Capitalism

07/11/2015

Our trajectory must be halted; it is crucial that we become waylaid by the pull of a force larger than ourselves...

A Viagra Republic will Rise. Or Not. Election Cycle Anomie

03/11/2015

Return of the carnival of false hope and manufactured fear. The US Election Cycle hots up. Or, more accurately, reheats a tired forula...

You Know Things are Bad When Putin Looks Good.

10/10/2015

Irksome Geopolitical Strategy. Is there no end to the casuistry required to be a member in good standing of the Liberal Class?...

The Carnival of Consumerism and its Tawdry Trinkets

03/10/2015

How sensation replaces experience in the Late Capitalist Empire...

Delighted! On Bernie Sanders Congratulating Jeremy Corbyn

21/09/2015

Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn may use a similar rhetoric, but there it stops....

Not in it to Win it – Calling Out The Bernie Sanders Bluff

10/09/2015

The barriers that Sanders cannot overcome involve the manner in which the Democratic Party primary system is devised...

Powerlessness, Anxiety and the Political Tides: A Coping Strategy

07/08/2015

We build a structure of false consciousness… that we, often, mistake for our convictions, and tragically mistake this dismal dwelling for the whole of existence....