Basque-like Bombings: Get Ready For the Greek Olympics and Your Next NYC Subway Ride
For a long time, while the invasive influences of Christian life surrounded the Basques, the indigenous Euskera-speaking people of their region survived (with their culture intact); they only became Christian during the period of the Reconquista when the infidel Muslims were driven out of Spain….
On Queues: The Chinese and USers
At the Chinese New Year celebration in San Francisco, Iris Chang spoke to me in a dream. With noisemakers blaring and dragons writhing serpentinely, she spoke of the memorization and mastery of Chinese classics which served as a safe outlet…
How Osama Helped George W By Scaring Millions of Un-American Jellyfish
Cry, beloved country, cry! The America of George Washington, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin is on her death bed giving premature birth to a hideous abortion: the Divided States of Amerika, a neo-nazi-mongrel. Normal citizens – the REAL Patriots…
NUTS & BOLTS
It really isn’t that difficult to meet a mechanic and my first run in with this class of workman was fairly typical. Our car broke down. One minute we were chugging along (I say “chugging” because, contrary to the vehement…
THE SURE WAY TO A DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN 2002 AND 2004
The best defense is an unexpected and overwhelming offensive. Vicious Republican attacks against democracy can be defeated by a sudden surprise, vigorous, and unrelenting offensive on all points and issues they want Americans to forget. Democrats must strike the…
HOW BEST TO SUPPORT OUR TROOPS
You have heard the political mantram: “I support our troops!” from all the wimpy traitors in Congress who voted to abdicate the Constitutional separation of powers and surrender their congressional power to declare war into the dirty hands of an…
No Holds barred
America started the new millennium with a coup that violated the most sacred prerogative of a free people: the right to have every vote counted when they elect their President. More that 700 constitutional law experts from nearly every law…
I’m no Michael Moore, but…Racism, Arrogance, and the 9/11-Pearl Harbor Connection
When Sander Hicks asked me to consider reading and/or reviewing Daniel Hopsicker’s new 9/11 book, “Welcome to Terrorland,” I wondered: How does one discuss September 11, 2001 without sounding naïve, paranoid, or complicit? If you’re Michael Moore, well, you film…
Get On The Bus: 150 Years After Elizabeth Jennings / 100 Years Before Rosa Parks
On the mornings I board the Q101 bus from Queens to Manhattan, it’s not uncommon for the majority of my fellow riders to be people of color. This is an unremarkable observation in 2004 New York where integrated buses are…
D(isinformation) Day: 60 Years is Enough
Alexander Cockburn has called D-day a “sideshow,” explaining that W.W.II had already been won “by the Russians at Stalingrad and then, a year before D-day, at the Kursk Salient, where 100 German divisions were mangled. Compared with those epic struggles,…