“Real bastards are people who have power and abuse their power to afflict people who are weaker than they are.” ~Julian Assange It is quite scary to witness the media, politicians, and ordinary citizens talk of treason, imprisonment, and even assassination of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Assange is simply giving the American citizens the information […]
The false dichotomy of this election representing “good vs evil” has come up repeatedly in many/most of the political discussions I’ve had on fb recently. I assert this false binary occurs for three reasons: A) a failure to see a beyond stark black/white options we have created in our minds, b) the result of the […]
From the Guardian: Decline and fall of the American Empire Key passage: “Let me put an alternative hypothesis. America in 2011 is Rome in 200AD or Britain on the eve of the first world war: an empire at the zenith of its power but with cracks beginning to show. The experience of both Rome and […]
