Updated 11/9/2021
Once upon a time, the term “progressive” was associated with the policies of former Vice President Henry Wallace and the 1948 Progressive Party of the United States. Those policies included a call to nationalize the energy industry, universal health care, desegregation, and an end to the Cold War…
Updated 12/29/2020
According to Merriam-Webster, a “secret police” is “a police organization that is run by a government and that operates in a secret way to control the actions of people who oppose the government.” Of course, in this day and age, it’s not easy to define “the government”. We…
Why do they want to cancel Beethoven?
2020 has been a weird year all around, but some recent developments on the cultural front really take the cake. There are pernicious efforts underway to rewrite history and re-define culture. …
Updated 1/8/2021
In April of 1964, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) was founded by a group of Democratic Party activists who rejected the policy of the official Democratic Party in the southern states, which was to exclude African-Americans from voting in Democratic primary elections and from running as Democratic…
Updated 1/24/2021
On the morning of June 30, 2020, I opened my Twitter account and received a notice that it had been suspended. Following a link that promised to lead me an explanation, I learned that I had been suspended for:
Updated July 13, 2021
Ninety years have passed since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and once again, untrammeled financial speculation has rendered the financial system insolvent. The panic-stricken oligarchs who dominate that system are once again trying to preserve their position by transferring wealth from the poor to the…
Updated 9/9/2021
For those readers who may be unfamiliar with the term “Color Revolution”, it refers to what has now become the standard technique for promoting “regime change” in targeted nations.
Television entertainment often includes a dose of social criticism (just as it, unfortunately more often, includes a heaping helping of state propaganda.) Some of the more audacious TV series, such as the 2004–2008 ABC series “Boston Legal,” have dared to wield a fair amount of snark in references to the…
Updated September 8, 2020
My interest in classical music began in the late 1970s, and I was first introduced to KUSC shortly thereafter. It was a terrific resource; I spent a lot of time on the freeways in Los Angeles, and took the opportunity to educate myself, tuning in to…
Lyndon LaRouche died on February 12, 2019 at the age of 96. In the week that followed, a frantic series of Fake News retrospectives ushered forth from the most venerable oligarchic press outlets. …
