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 A PLEA FOR NET NEUTRALITY By Charles Sullivan | It is important to understand that capitalism rarely works in the public interest. Profit motive is the driving force. Any public good that stems from it is purely accidental.
THE STRANGE LANGUAGE OF CAPITALISM By Charles Sullivan | When George Bush and other capitalists speak of bringing freedom to the world you must understand that they do not mean freedom in the sense that most of us understand it. We must realize that they are speaking from the perverted, oddly-skewed language of capitalism.
EMPIRE'S WAR ON LABOR Most of the workers in this country are at will employees who have no protection from the tyranny of their employers, and no recourse to the law when they are unjustly fired, as so many are. Yet they are too timid and too frightened to rebel. The situation demands bold action. The streets should be filled with angry and indignant protestors committing acts of civil disobedience, economic disruption and sabotage against an unjust system of wage slavery. (4.12.06)
IGNORANCE BY CONTENT & OMISSION Know that the consumption of commercial media content, whether news or entertainment (they are really one and the same these days), is hazardous to your health. Owned by only five major corporations the world over, the content is sweet to the taste but devoid of nutriment. It consists of addictive substances and empty calories—the kind that leads to mental and spiritual obesity typified by an array of serious health problems that may result in permanent blindness. (3.31,06)
THE MAKING OF A ZOMBIE CULTURE The effectiveness of the corporate propaganda campaign in accomplishing this end is demonstrated by the following example. Millions of viewers refuse to believe that the US engages in a world wide campaign of torture and prisoner abuse. These viewers summarily reject the documented evidence to the contrary, and the graphic testimony of the gulag survivors themselves. (2.17.06)
DEMOCRACY OR PLUTOCRACY? It is universally assumed by the great majority of citizens that we are living in a free and Democratic society. The idea has been ingrained in us from cradle to grave. In spite of this, I have come to believe that the term ‘Democracy’ is bandied about to our detriment with great recklessness. Its legitimacy is assumed, not proven, because we do not often think deeply about the enormous responsibility that Democracy requires of its practioneers. (1.30.06)
WHEN IGNORANCE RULES Ignorance serves as blinders to vision and hope. It makes us susceptible to the most fantastic lies that inevitably lead to self deception. It makes us look like fools in the eyes of the rest of the world. It allows us to live in denial; to ignore reality. It fosters fear even as it shuns understanding. (1.27.06)
REIGNING IN SOCIOPATHIC CORPORATIONS One of the most disturbing and regrettable decisions ever rendered by the American judiciary was that issued by the Supreme Court in the 1800’s to recognize corporations as persons. The case known as Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific was heard in 1886. Perhaps more than any single legal decision handed down in America that is the one that has done the most damage to the creation of a democratic society. (1.14.06)
UNHITCHING OUR WAGONS Working class people, especially progressives, must come to understand that our interests are not being served by hitching our political wagons to either the Democratic or the Republican Party. The Republicrats represent a capitalist system that has given rise to class division, the unequal distribution of wealth, private ownership, and a system of wage slavery that does not serve democracy, but plutocracy. It condemns workers to being the property of their employers. Capitalism is the opposite of Democracy. (1.23.06)
VICTIMS OF CREEPING FASCISM Easily misled by false idols intoxicated with power and driven by insatiable greed, we are witnessing nothing less astonishing than the demise of the American experiment. Dreams of democracy, justice, peace and hope are receding into the dim recesses of ever more distant memory. (12.16.05)
AGE OF REASON IN ECLIPSE: NATION OF FOOLS Where's the righteous rage, asks the author? How and when did we become a nation of morally incapacitated people? Were we always like this? But, more importantly, is there a way out of this downward spiral? (8.29.05)
THE FAILURE OF MASS EDUCATION Thoreau said, "Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook." Schools are effective institutions for controlling the masses. It is no coincidence that they closely resemble the factory system in their methods of production. A homogenous population is easier to control than a diverse, free-thinking population. A critical thinking society is downright dangerous to the rule of those in power. I doubt whether this is done by conscious design; but nevertheless the results speak for themselves. (2.24.03)
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