Three (now four) recent posts on the web have brought home the truth of the class war being waged in this country – by the corporate and financial aristocracy of privileged chislers against everyone else – with a cheering section of so-called “free-market” supporters who blind others, and are often themselves, singing rhapsodies about “the…

Christine O’Donnnell, the “Christian” right’s candidate for US Senator from Delaware reports she dated a witch and  did so  “on a Satanic altar.”  Very interesting at many levels beyond the likely possibility  that she made it up or embellished it beyond recognition. Let’s assume for the moment there is some truth in her words.  What…

I will always remember my shocked amazement as I stood in the office of the Politics Department at Whitman College, watching as television news repeated over and over the image of the first World Trade Center tower in flames after being struck by an airliner.  And then, the images of a second airliner hitting the…

Weeks ago I was called by Jane Mayer, a writer for The New Yorker asking me questions about the Koch (pronounced ‘Coke’) brothers Charles and David.  She was doing an investigative piece on their political influence, had seen my Beliefnet piece on Charles Koch,  and wanted to ask me more questions about what I knew. …

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