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Reclaiming America Last Updated: Jan 29th, 2010 - 00:35:32


Reclaiming America
Restore the power to the people: Amend the Constitution!
By William John Cox

Plata o plomo? Colombian and Mexican drug gangs ask government officials, judges and police officers which they prefer, “silver or lead,” when offering bribes and threatening violence.

Jan 29, 2010, 00:26

Reclaiming America
Taking back America
By Jerry Mazza

After eight years of Bush, his deficits, 9/11, two wars, a several trillion dollar price-tag, his USAPATRIOT Act, suspension of habeas corpus, plus trillions in tax cuts for the rich, NSA spying, CIA torture, Justice Department manipulation to legalize the latter, Supreme Court interference in the first election; after all that, Katrina, the Department of Homeland Insecurity, and even more than I can bore you to tears with, we have Obama and Change -- except there’s no change but the faces.

Jul 13, 2009, 00:26

Reclaiming America
Taking back the USA
By Jerry Mazza

I have a vision, as Martin Luther King once said. A vision of racial and economic equality, equal opportunity and civil rights for people of all colors. The question is how do I, we, go about realizing this vision?

Mar 27, 2009, 00:26

Reclaiming America
Fixing the system: There must be some way out of here
By Joseph Danison

Ask the American Everyman about the political economy that he calls home and the responses will always include words such as “freedom” and “capitalism” especially if it is a compare and contrast sort of question, such as: “Why did the United States defeat the evil Soviet empire in the Cold War?” Well . . . Duh! Because we have a superior capitalist free market system! Capitalism is king! Communism sucks! Everyone knows that!

Aug 19, 2008, 00:21

Reclaiming America
Restore constitutional government to America
By Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

Every day we move closer to disaster; every time we open the paper, surf the Internet, it is worse. Left, right, libertarian, green, we know in our bones and hearts that we need to take action.

Aug 7, 2008, 00:14

Reclaiming America
Reinventing America: A return to thinking
By Gary Simon

For the last five years the Bush administration has postured itself as the apocalyptic crusader of Iraqi freedoms. In reality, its true purpose from the outset has been the creation of mayhem in the Mideast, the strengthened distribution of corporate power, particularly that of the Carlyle elite and last, Machiavellian ownership of Iraqi oil leases and contracts (money that was initially to go back into the rebuilding of Iraq, remember?).

Jun 13, 2008, 00:12

Reclaiming America
Taser jolts on the road toward mutiny; hope is not enough!
By Gaither Stewart

What if in the shaky super power in decline, the United States of America, tottering on the brink of disaster, the next turn of events was a popular mutiny against the gradual, little-charted American Counter-Revolution that has been going on for decades?

Nov 14, 2007, 00:23

Reclaiming America
Democracy dreaming
By Joel S. Hirschhorn

What is this thing called democracy? So easy to talk about, so difficult to make real.

Mar 23, 2007, 01:15

Reclaiming America
Delusion destroys democracy
By Joel S. Hirschhorn

Will Americans learn to trust their fellow citizens or stay stuck on stupidly backing serial political betrayers?

Feb 8, 2007, 00:18

Reclaiming America
Energy depletion & the US descent into fascism
By Dale Allen Pfeiffer

In October of 2001, a little over a month after 9/11, I wrote an article titled The Background is Oil. The hypothesis laid out in this article was that the 2000 US presidential election resulted in a coup of neocons and oil interests who had taken control of the US in order to prepare for the coming peak and decline of world oil production. Furthermore, this coup engineered the 9/11 terrorist attacks to further their own interests.

Oct 23, 2006, 00:58

Reclaiming America
The government no longer serves the people
By Bev Conover

Actually, the government hasn't served the people for a long time. But now, with a stroke of a pen, George W. Bush wiped out the last vestiges of the US Constitution, nullifying our democratic republic, and has all but declared himself dictator. So what are we going to do about it?

Oct 20, 2006, 01:34

Reclaiming America
The "F" word and how to escape from its clutches
By Bernard Weiner

So we're here. No more shilly-shallying about whether America is beginning to resemble a fascist society. We're now plopped right down into it.

Oct 5, 2006, 00:23

Reclaiming America
Within the gated subdivision of the American mind: A monument to my comfort zone
By Phil Rockstroh

There is something missing in The Oakdale Estates subdivision. Oak Trees. Years ago, they were cut down to clear the property for development.

Sep 21, 2006, 01:19

Reclaiming America
Blame It on the Hundredth Monkey
By Kevin Quirk

Have you seen the new book, The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right by Michael Lerner? If not, get it. Lerner, editor of the magazine Tikkun, is on to something vitally important.

May 19, 2006, 01:26

Reclaiming America
Talking points and mobilization
By Frank Pitz

Recently, one of my editors gently chided me for “ranting” and “raving.” To which admonition I responded -- inwardly -- with a resounding touché, since I do rail (silently) and, in print, against the plethora of rhetoric, and dearth of action-as it were.

Mar 2, 2006, 01:28

Reclaiming America
Perception is reality
By Ernest Partridge

Yogi Berra said it best: “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.”

Feb 24, 2006, 22:41

Reclaiming America
Cindy Sheehan’s outrageous treatment is mandatory cause for rising up angry!
By Dennis Rahkonen

While they were still able, certain perspicacious Jews left Germany in the 1930s because they understood what the ultimate outcome of rising fascism would mean.

Feb 3, 2006, 16:01

Reclaiming America
Refute the policies of Bush and Clinton; declare war on the Nationalist-Globalist Class
By John Stanton

When will Americans recognize that theirs is a polarized, politically segregated society, not unlike those they helped create in Iraq and Palestine? When will they come to the realization that their political process is nothing more than a collusive duopoly and, as such, borderline totalitarian? There is no opposition political party of substance, of courage and, of course, there’s no real choice between two political parties. When will Americans refuse to participate in sham federal elections? When will they recognize that all the accumulated data from study after study clearly shows that America is in real crisis across the entire socioeconomic, political and foreign policy spectrum?

Jan 27, 2006, 22:14

Reclaiming America
Countermeasures for US citizens: Monitoring the US government-corporate leviathan
By John Stanton

Whew! Life is imitating art. President Bush stars as Sgt. Bob Barnes, the maniacal soldier in Oliver Stone's Platoon, who proclaims that he "is reality". Vice President Cheney is Dr. Phibes as portrayed by Vincent Price in the movie classic, The Abominable Doctor Phibes. You want torture? Talk to Dr. Phibes. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld brings to life Colonel Walt Kurtz, the rogue US Army soldier from Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now.

Dec 23, 2005, 00:31

Reclaiming America
Toward a realistic antiwar strategy
By Tom Crumpacker

Sunday's New York Times reports that the use of the word "victory" 15 times in President Bush's brief address at Annapolis last week was due to the influence of his National Security Council special advisor "Dr. Weaver," a scientist whose research on public opinion about the Iraq war has established that Americans will support such a war with mounting casualties on condition they believe it will ultimately succeed.

Dec 9, 2005, 01:15


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