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Reclaiming America Last Updated: Jun 14th, 2008 - 17:09:42


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 touch�, 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

Reclaiming America
Confessions of a repentant Republican
By I supported George W. Bush in the presidential election in 2000, believing then that he best reflected my love for America and for our tradition of liberty. I supported the war in Afghanistan. In March of 2003, I believed that the invasion of Iraq was justified based upon pre-war revelations presented to Congress and to the American people. Accordingly, the indictments contained herein apply, first and foremost, to myself.
Nov 17, 2005, 20:10

Reclaiming America
In praise of disobedience
By Luciana Bohne

On the MoveOn.org website, I accessed an interactive map showing participation by American citizens in the national vigil called for by Cindy Sheehan on 17 August 2005. The most touching thing about this exercise was clicking on counties and viewing this count: one person in a county in Maine, two in a county in Texas, one person in a county in Colorado. It must take guts to do that -- to show up with a candle, alone. These are the people whom you can trust to stand up in a room full of polite, scared, or obedient people to say, �No, I will not go along. It is wrong.�

Aug 23, 2005, 16:44

Reclaiming America
American revolution, now: Eliminate the one party system with two faces
By John Stanton

To all but the most critically astute American minds, a precious few it must be said, the USA is the most dynamic country to appear in recorded history.


Jul 23, 2005, 23:32

Reclaiming America
Learning to become free
By Luciana Bohne

The nineteenth-century English historian, Lord Macaulay, wrote, "Is it not under oppression that we learn to use freedom?"

Mar 22, 2005, 23:14

Reclaiming America
Who will stand?
By T. Kepner

It is said that if you do not stand for something, then you will fall for anything. It must be true, because it appears as if most of us are lying flat on our backs, either unable or unwilling to stand. Is it because we are too comfortable, lying prone? Have we no energy left to lift ourselves onto our feet? Or is it that we are afraid that if we stand, we will be knocked down? Whatever the reason, it�s time to get up. Time to get on your feet. It�s time to stand. Question is, who will stand?

Jan 7, 2005, 01:26


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