Andy96

LATEST ARTICLES ( 210 )

• Hidden Threats Strain Both the Earth’s Life-sustaining Resources and Life Itself

  Unsustainable economic growth and its systemic impacts on the wealth gap, human population, and Earth’s climate are enslaving and abusing all Peoples. Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ending American Authoritarianism – A Hybridization of Orwell and Huxley...

  

  Henry Giroux re-evaluates the works of Orwell and Huxley compares them to the new American Authoritarianism and proposes actions to reverse it. Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The New Socialism and Bernie Sanders, #FeelTheBern

  From Bernie Sanders is a democratic socialist, but what does that term mean?: There are essentially two types of socialists in modern Western democratic... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Pro-war, Regime Change, Neocons Have Controlled Our Interventionist Foreign...

  Back in January, 2007, as The Shrub, GWB, began his final year in office I wrote a blog post titled Bush’s Administration – Neocons Everywhere According to... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Winning in Politics – Inspiring Your Supporters to Vote

  Know Your Values and Frame the Debate Communicating Our American Values and Vision Why You Can’t Understand 21st Century American Politics with an 18th Century... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trans Pacific Partnership, Pros and Cons – Good for Corporations, Very Bad for...

  

  Here is a list of typical “pro TPP statements” with my cons. “free trade has boosted American commerce more than it has hurt.” On a macro scale, I’ll stipulate... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Checks and Balances – Supporting the United Steel Workers

  The founders of America included a fundamental idea in our Constitution: checks and balances – one branch of government checks another. Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Supressing Hope Is Futile – Integrity, Moral Values, and Insurrectional Democracy

  Externalizing hope will defeat the casino capitalism of the authoritarian right. Here are three requirements for getting there: 1. Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Inequality is Worse Than You Think, Why So Many Accept It, and The Inevitible...

  

  Peak Inequality: The .01% and The Impoverishment of Society Beyond these baseline costs, looking at moderate costs for a family of four owning a home in a media... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Recent Tweets on #AmericaInFiveWords – Reliving the American Revolution of...

  – Corporations/Billionaires own our government – Obedient shoppers or Critical Thinkers? – Enslaved by paychecks and debt – Where freedom is an illusion –... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Texas Democratic Party Wanted to Know …

  

  I just responded to a Texas Democratic Party Survey. Here are their questions and my answers: What do you think we could have done differently? Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Erik Prince Still Free, Ferguson Police Abuse, Who Can’t Vote in Texas, Corp...

  

  Suggested Reading for Week Ending 10/26 Christianist Erik Prince Remains Free as Blackwater Guards Convicted for Killing 14 Iraqis in Massacre First of all, Eri... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Fixing Our Broken Economic and Law Enforcement Systems, Private Empire Vs...

  

  Suggested Reading for Week Ending 10/19 Beyond Orwellian Nightmares and Neoliberal Authoritarianism Those who fight against neoliberalism [free market... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Unconstitutional Gerrymandering, RGA Funneling Corp Dark Money, Privatizing...

  

  Suggested Reading for Week Ending 10/12 Federal Court Strikes Down One of the Most Aggressive Gerrymanders in the Country One of the most aggressive gerrymander... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Activist Supreme Court, America’s Tyrannical Theocracy, Koch Destruction, ISIS...

  

  Suggested Reading for Week Ending 10/5 The Supreme Court That Made It Easier to Buy Elections Just Made It Harder for People to Vote in Them In case there was... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Peoples Climate March, Flood Wall $reet, Embedded Neocons Force War, Students...

  

  Suggested Reading for Week Ending 9/28 The People’s Climate The People’s Climate March on September 21 was a watershed for the emerging global climate... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Neocons Have Regained Control of the Executive Branch for Never Ending War In th...

  Back at the start of the seventh year of the Bush II administration, January of 2007, I wrote a post about all the leading neoconservatives, and their think... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• War with ISIS?, Kock Brothers Teaching Our Kids, MSM is a Failure, NeoCons...

  

  Suggested Reading for Week Ending 9/21 The Questions Congress Should Ask About Obama’s War on ISIS “The public is told there’s no imminent threat to the US, so... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Lawrence Lessig’s “The USA is Lesterland” – But It Take More Than Spreading the...

  

  Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim Please watch the video first. Lessig ends by saying, “We have lost that Republic. All of us hav... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Resisting Urban Shield, Billionnaire God-like Desires, Public Gas Station,...

  

  Suggested Reading for Week Ending 9/14 Militarization, Surveillance, and Profit: How Grassroots Groups are Fighting Urban Shield “The line between police and... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY