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The “Lesser of Two Evils” Sucks
Monday, 19 November 2012, 11:26 am | Marti and Luke Hiken
Voting for the lesser of two evils? Why? The Democratic Party has moved so far to the right to capture the “centrist” voters that neither the Republicans nor the Democrats will ever represent the “people” and what is best for us. At this point ... More >>
Police in the U.S Are an Invading Army
Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 5:24 pm | Marti and Luke Hiken
The police have become a colonial army in virtually every city in the United States. With 18,000 state and local law enforcement agencies in the U.S., they constitute a greater danger than they serve as protection. More >>
Proxy Wars – They Don’t Exist
Tuesday, 24 July 2012, 1:37 pm | Marti and Luke Hiken
It is not possible to turn on a television set, read a newspaper or go on the internet without hearing about “proxy wars” taking place around the world. A proxy war is a “conflict in which superpowers provide support to either groups or states ... More >>
Whom Should We Put On Our Kill List?
Monday, 25 June 2012, 11:57 am | Marti and Luke Hiken
Now that Obama and his handlers at the Pentagon have informed us that it is legal, appropriate and acceptable to have a “kill list,” we’ve actually warmed up to the subject. After all, if Obama can have a kill list, so should every good American. More >>
Obama Calls Unexpected Press Conference
Friday, 4 May 2012, 11:26 am | Marti and Luke Hiken
President Obama appeared at an unexpected press conference in Afghanistan earlier today, surrounded by 26,000 U.S. military troops in uniform, 6300 civilian mercenaries (“private contractors”) and an undisclosed number of Special Forces Assassins. More >>
Hunger Games on Stage
Wednesday, 11 April 2012, 5:23 pm | Marti and Luke Hiken
Americans are soon to be rewarded with the bizarre and inexplicable spectacle of watching Abd al Rahim al Nashiri be “tried” for treason before a “Military Commission” at our Guantanamo concentration camp in Cuba. Actually, we will not ... More >>
Hunger Games on Stage
Wednesday, 11 April 2012, 5:23 pm | Marti and Luke Hiken
Americans are soon to be rewarded with the bizarre and inexplicable spectacle of watching Abd al Rahim al Nashiri be “tried” for treason before a “Military Commission” at our Guantanamo concentration camp in Cuba. Actually, we will not ... More >>
The Unnamed Sergeant
Monday, 19 March 2012, 12:56 pm | Marti and Luke Hiken
Since the end of the draft, and the failure of VOLAR, to fill our bottomless need for more combat soldiers to participate in our permanent wars in Asia, the Middle East and wherever else the Pentagon can find an excuse to attack, the military has ... More >>
The Pathology of the American Voter
Wednesday, 14 March 2012, 10:12 am | Marti and Luke Hiken
What is going on in this country? Have the citizens of the U.S. gone totally mad? The U.S. Congress has an approval rating of less than 10%. Greedy, unprincipled billionaires own virtually all of the wealth of the nation, and pay a lower percentage for taxes ... More >>
Puppets and Lackeys
Wednesday, 22 February 2012, 12:12 pm | Marti and Luke Hiken
On RT (Russia Today) television the other night, it was reported that a recent poll indicated that over 50 % of the American people considered Iran to be a threat to the U.S. and felt it would be appropriate to invade them. It would not have been ... More >>
War, War and More War
Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 3:51 pm | Marti and Luke Hiken
As one would expect from the Obama administration, the U.S. is currently preparing to go to war in the Middle East again: this time against Iran and Syria. The American people are oblivious as to the reasons for the troop build-up in the Middle East, ... More >>
US SupremeCourt to Rule If Poor Have Standing to Live or Die
Monday, 10 October 2011, 4:26 pm | Marti and Luke Hiken
Doctors, nurses and their patients are not happy. The 15-minute visits, medications taken unexpectedly off the market, the high price for health insurance driving families and retirees into bankruptcy, lack of medical care, and the decisions not to take ... More >>
Privatization – A Move Backwards
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 5:01 pm | Marti and Luke Hiken
Republicans, neo-conservatives and tea party fanatics are all clamoring for “privatization,” characterizing it as the panacea for America’s economic woes. And, as privatization moves forward rapidly in the United States, there has been no overall collective ... More >>
