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Democratic Precinct Committee Officer, activist, writer, and programmer. My op-ed pieces have appeared in the Seattle Times, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and elsewhere. See http://WALiberals.org and http://ProgressiveMemes.org for my writing, meme images, musical creations, and animations. OpEd News Member for 834 week(s) and 3 day(s) 159 Articles, 627 Quick Links, 2059 Comments, 45 Diaries, 1 Series, 30 Polls
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Tuesday, December 19, 2023 (2 comments) SHARE
The Democrats plan to agree to harsh immigration policies to get funding for wars in Ukraine, Israel, and China
The Democrats seem prepared to give into extreme Republican demands about immigration and deportation to fund the war in Ukraine, Israel's brutal destruction of Gaza, and preparations for war with China. Yet the U.S. is lying massively about the background to the war in Ukraine, and U.S. militarism is a major cause of the migration crisis.
Thursday, November 17, 2022 SHARE
AI-generated images about Donald Trump
Some AI-generated images making fun of Donald Trump. The AI has gotten scary smart.
Friday, July 29, 2022 (9 comments) SHARE
Summary of The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the C.I.A., and the rise of America's secret government
Summary of David Talbot's book The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles and the Rise of America's Secret Government. Allen Dulles comes across as a supremely evil man who aided Nazis, overthrew democratically elected governments, authorized assassinations of foreign leaders, and (allegedly) helped plan the assassination of JFK.
Monday, July 18, 2022 (6 comments) SHARE
Can non-violent protest and civil disobedience achieve justice in this era?
Some progressive activists call for mass protests, civil disobedience, strikes, boycotts, tax refusal, or other forms of nonviolent resistance to injustice. This essay discusses how the right wing and neoliberal opponents of progressives will likely be able to subvert and undermine such resistance.
Thursday, June 23, 2022 (3 comments) SHARE
Warning to Dems from antiwar conservatives: Dems' militarism "is going to bite them pretty hard very soon"
Antiwar conservatives vow to make Dems pay for supporting out-of-control militarism such as the war in Ukraine.
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 (1 comments) SHARE
Putin is a neocon's wet dream come true
You gotta hand it to the people in the U.S. MiC (Nuland, etc) who planned the situation in Ukraine. They backed Putin into a corner, made him look bad -- which he is -- and covered their tracks. Yes, the U.S. provoked the war. Yes, Putin felt that he needed to defend his people. And, yes, the U.S. has launched plenty of evil and stupid invasions all over the world. But the MiC won the messaging war and Putin is evil.
Tuesday, December 28, 2021 (1 comments) SHARE
The situation is dire, but the GOP is fragile
Progressives' highest priority should be to stop the GOP from winning in 2022, because if the GOP wins, we lose on every other issue. This may require some painful sacrifices. But there are rays of hope.
Monday, September 20, 2021 (1 comments) SHARE
A difficult discourse about Dems and abortion
This is a difficult and necessary discourse about abortion rights. It may piss some people off.
Democrats have election after election and many other issues over the single wedge issue of abortion. And now the Supreme Court has a solid conservative majority, so Roe vs. Wade is likely to be overturned.
Here's why the Dems mismanaged the issue.
Tuesday, August 24, 2021 SHARE
The New York Times regrets that Afghanistan may distract from the need to fight China and Russia
The New York Times continues its tradition of promoting a militaristic foreign policy.
Thursday, July 29, 2021 (17 comments) SHARE
On the stupidity of preparing to wage war with China
Despite disastrous wars against poor, third world countries Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, the U.S. is preparing to to wage war with China, a technologically advanced nation four times its size. And the U.S. is doing this in China's backyard. How stupid is that?
Monday, January 11, 2021 (1 comments) SHARE
Sam Harris' false equivalence
In a podcast dated Jan 11, 2021 Sam Harris denounces both Trump supporters and BLM social justice activists and calls them both "grotesque" and hysterical. This false equivalence reveals Harris' biases.
Thursday, July 2, 2020 (1 comments) SHARE
The U.S. is preparing for war with China
The Pentagon is releasing videos promoting preparations for war with China. Congress is funding a Pacific Deterrence Initiative meant to confront China. Do Americans know or care?
Wednesday, April 15, 2020 (15 comments) SHARE
Yes, Nader and his supporters DID cause Gore to lose to Bush
Many progressive writers have claimed that it's a myth that Ralph Nader caused Al Gore to lose the 2000 presidential election to Bush. They're wrong. Here's why.
Wednesday, January 29, 2020 (1 comments) SHARE
The Warning: a summary
Anonymous, a self-styled "senior Trump administration official," has written a book A Warning as a follow-up to his (or her) September, 2018 op-ed in the New York Times, "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration." The Warning describes a White House in chaos, with aides struggling to protect America from an impulsive and ignorant president.
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 (16 comments) SHARE
How conservatives and evangelicals are smarter than Dems and progressives
Progressives and Democrats like to look down on conservatives, including evangelicals. But the facts suggest that it's the progressives and Democrats who aren't so smart. This article has some painful truths for progressives and Dems.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 (6 comments) SHARE
Dems agree to a horrible National Defense Authorization Act
House Dems agreed on a compromise National Defense Authorization Act that eliminates virtually all the progressive amendments that had originally appeared in the bill this summer.
Sunday, September 22, 2019 (1 comments) SHARE
UFOs, Climate Change, and Trump: an explanation
There has been a recent uptick in UFO sightings, as reported by U.S. Navy pilots and others. The explanation for the uptick is related to the climate change crisis, as described in this video.
Saturday, September 7, 2019 (4 comments) SHARE
Do it, Jeff!
A poster seen on a wall a few blocks from Amazon.com's headquarters in Seattle, WA suggests a focus for activism.
Sunday, September 1, 2019 (10 comments) SHARE
The debate about Russiagate and the fight against Trump
On social media and online discussions, there's a big battle between believers in and deniers of Russiagate. It's highly politicized, with progressives like Glenn Greenwald supporting the views of Fox News and other defenders of the president. Deniers of Russiagate go too far -- the Russians did interfere in the election, and their were numerous links between Russian and Trump. But the Mueller Report was no silver bullet.
Thursday, August 29, 2019 (7 comments) SHARE
Cenk Uygur of TYT is a believer in Russiagate
Surprise, surprise. Cenk Uygur of The Yong Turks sounds like a true believer in Russiagate in this youtube video describing apparent connections between Trump and Russian oligarchs via Deutsche Bank loans.What is Trump trying to hide? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. MORE TYT: .com/trial Read more here: ...
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