Category: Politics

Here’s another fundamentalist essay.  Someone in a mailing list said, and I quote: This is the Socialist Party of the Netherlands version of our “Statement of Principles”.  I thought members might find it interesting and maybe use it for discussion purposes at a meeting.  Compare ours to theirs. and my response is: I also think…

Here in the USA we have a document that defines the framework we as a society will live by and declares those rights and freedoms that are granted to everyone.  The concept is reasonable, it’s a fine starting point for the rules of a community.  Obviously, we now know that some parts of this fine…

Since the NSA surveillance revelations, many government leaders have argued that it is reasonable to spy on all Americans. I guess we cannot be trusted. They are suspicious of our motives. They have reason to be, seeing how low Congressional approval ratings are. As is often the case, we demand that Congress endure the same…

This is the article that I wanted to write. Jeff Cohen, in “The Elephant in the Room: Militarism”, nicely summarizes the ridiculous scale of military spending in the US.  The War on Terror, like the War on Drugs, is misplaced action based on fear generated by a handful of politicians with a personal agenda. It’s…

It’s simple. We have the knowledge, the skill, the labor… we have all the means we need to use purely renewable energy sources for our energy needs. The capitalists aren’t doing it. Why should we wait for the invisible hand of the market to accomplish something that we can rationally see needs done and we…