For the end of the year… Thirty-six separate commentaries from throughout the year. 2006: My Year with the Liberals By Stan Goff Spouting off on everything from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Anorexia nervosa, from gay marriage to vice-presidential gun safety, a middle-aged Army veteran without qualifications or credentials takes caustic potshots at the rich and infamous. [...]

The pundits exclaim. See the pundits exclaim. Exclaim, exclaim, exclaim. The Commander-in-Chief pronounces. See the Commander-in-Chief pronounce. Pronounce, pronounce, pronounce. (Just don’t pronounce “nuclear.”) I must be living in a parallel universe where why everything that is deemed most significant by the New York Times, CNN, and Harvard professors, is hidden from me. I watch [...]

The 3,000 Milestone is the my most recent essay on the war. It is written as US troop fatalities in Iraq have passed 2,950, and 3,000 will likely be reached by New Year’s Day or shortly after… before the Democrat-majority Congress is seated on January 20th. I want people to use it as they see [...]

Insurgent American Core Beliefs * The United States is the politically dominant core in a global system that is on a catastrophic historical trajectory. * That catastrophe has social and ecological dimensions that are held inside the same destructive dynamic. * The global system is one system, with features that deny the independence of many [...]

Coming appositely on the heels of our film review of FFN, is the real-world reportage of INS raids on — guess what — huge industrial meat-packing operations in the Midwest. David Bacon reports for The American Prospect [excerpt and discussion below the fold]: “Tuesday’s immigration raids on meatpacking plants weren’t about curbing identity theft, they were about union-busting.”

This post is from Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff aka Heart, at Women’s Space, on the outrageous and draconian ban on abortion just pushed through in Nicaragua, with full support from president-elect Daniel Ortega… a so-called leftist. Shame! *** War on Women in Nicaragua: Left and Right Unite in Total Ban on Abortion Protest at Embassies in [...]

Manifestoon Bit of weekend political fun.

Just a general appeal. What substitutes for my employment right now will end on January 31. If anyone has any lines on stuff I can do, I’ll appreciate it. My email is stan@feralscholar.org/blog. I’m 55, with a Bachelors Degree that I got by correspondence when I was in the Army, from a college I’ve never [...]

Jim Craven (Omahkohkiaayo i’poyi) teaches economics in Vancouver. He is a veteran and long-time activist on behalf of anti-imperialism, which includes the ongoing imperial predations of the US and Canada against the First Nations. We (virtually) met on the former “Crashlist” hosted by Mark Jones, to whom Jim refers in this post pasted in below. [...]