William Hughes
Articles by William Hughes
September 03, 2009
America is in deep doo doo! It goes beyond the Wall Street-induced financial meltdown. David Swanson´s "Daybreak" book is a wake-up call and a plan for "Citizen Power" action. The Bush-Cheney Gang is gone, but President Obama acts like he is serving out Dubya´s third term. How presidential power was enlarged and the Congress collapsed is good to know. However, how to fight to get our country back from these usurpers, is even more important.
August 27, 2009
In early August, 2009, I had a chance to visit New York City with my grandson, Kynan. We walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and rode to the top of the Empire State Building. What a view there is from that 102nd floor! My memories of the "Big Apple" go back to "The Greatest Game," Dec. 28, 1958, the Baltimore Colts versus the New York Giants. They also include attending the Democratic National Convention, in 1976, at Madison Square Garden. The best thing about New York City? For me, it´s the locals!
August 25, 2009
The Israel Worshippers (IWs) are clever! As I write, 1.5 million Gazans are languishing under Israeli occupation. The IDF´s siege of Gaza from Dec. 27, 2008 to Jan. 18, 2009, took about 1,400 innocent lives. To change the subject from Gaza, the IWs orchestrated a campaign against Mary Robinson, whom President Obama had nominated for a "medal of freedom." The IWs´ campaign failed. Ms. Robinson got her medal and the focus remains on Gaza.
July 11, 2009
President Barack Obama´s main duty under the U.S. Constitution is to see to it that the laws are "faithfully executed." By a UN Treaty, approved by the Senate, in 1994, torture is against U.S. law. No ifs, ands or buts about it. No exceptions! In Honduras, some apologists for the "de facto" regime, are pretending that they followed the law, when they gave their president the boot. Will Obama play the same "pretend game" on Torture? Stay Tuned.
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June 09, 2009
James Scott´s book, "Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel´s Deadly 1967 Assault on the U.S. Spy Ship," makes for a compelling read. The onslaught, on June 8, 1967, in international waters, during the Six-Day War, off the coast of Sinai, killed 34 crew members and injured 171 others. Israel claimed that it was all "just an accident...a case of mistaken identity." Scott makes a very strong case that the assault on the "Liberty" was deliberate.
April 06, 2009
Notre Dame U. plans to bestow an honorary degree on President Barack Obama. This caused the ultra Iraq War Hawk, Rep. Peter T. King (R-3-NY), to toss a major hissy fit. He insisted that because of Obama´s support for abortion, that the award would be an insult to "Catholic moral teachings." Why weren´t these Catholic standards applied to the Bush-Cheney Gang´s War without End, torture policies and the shredding of the U.S. Constitution?
February 23, 2009
William Kleinknecht takes the gloves off in his new book,"The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America." He shows that the so-called "great communicator," was, in fact, the "great enabler of corporate greed." The Vulture Capitalists were set loose on the people by "Reaganism." I say: Take Reagan´s name off that airport in D.C. Let his Fat Cat cronies pay for his memorials, not the taxpayers.
January 29, 2009
Edgar Allan Poe, poet, novelist and literary critic, died in 1849, age 40, under mysterious circumstances, in Baltimore, MD. The British author, Peter Ackroyd, insightfully captures the trials and tribulations of this great man of letters in his latest tome, "Poe: A Life Cut Short." Poe invented the modern detective story and his poem, "The Raven," is a classic in the genre. Ackroyd reveals Poe´s battle with the bottle, and adds a wrinkle: his aversion to sex!
January 20, 2009
A rally and march was held in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 19, 2009. It´s objective was to give President George W. Bush "the boot" as he exited an office that he has disgraced by his failure to uphold the law. David Swanson, cofounder of afterdowningstreet. org, was one of the speakers at the event. He underscored the importance of appointing a "Special Prosecutor" to look into and hold accountable the culpable members of the Bush-Cheney Gang.
December 29, 2008
The greed of some of the Wall St. banksters, and the Fed´s inept policies, like condoning deregulation, are the real causes of the current financial meltdown. Nevertheless, the U.S. Congress has given them a green light to rake in trillions of dollars in taxpayers´ bailout money, with little or no public disclosure. The Fed´s functions should be taken over by the Treasury Dept. Main St. needs to be Congress´ prime concern, not Wall Street.
December 11, 2008
Justice nailed O.J. Simpson when a judge in Las Vegas sentenced him, on Dec. 5, 2008, to nine, and possibly up to 33 years, for his role in an armed robbery. Now, it looks like Gov. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois has committed political suicide. US Attorney Patrick "Pit Bull" Fitzgerald has accused him of trying to "sell" the US Senate seat vacated by Prez-Elect Barack Obama, "to the highest bidder." Who´s next? Will Justice catch up with Dubya, too.?
December 04, 2008
Recently, a RC priest in Modesto, CA, got upset about Catholics voting for the Prez-Elect Barack Obama. He said if they did so because of his pro-abortion position, then they needed to go to Confession before receiving Holy Communion. Didn´t the good padre every hear of the "Separation of Church and State" clause? Also, as a result of the priest-pedophile scandal, many feel it´s the wrongdoers in the RC Church who need to do the confessing.
November 20, 2008
Alan Keyes has filed a lawsuit to stop the state of California from casting its electoral votes for Prez-Elect Barack Obama, unless he can prove he is a "natural born" citizen of the U.S. The record shows that Obama was born in Hawaii, on Aug. 4, 1961, and a "Certification of Live Birth" has been posted online to back up that position. Is Keyes just a sore loser? In 2004, he lost his bid for a U.S. Senate seat in Illinois. Who won that race? Barack Obama!
November 12, 2008
Ronald Reagan´s persona was crafted from 1937 to 1965, working in B films. The Shadow side of Reagan, however, reveals that he was a snitch for the FBI and ratted out his fellow members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), during the days of the "Red Scare." He also was a notorious womanizer, according to Marc Eliot's expose: "Reagan: The Hollywood Years." It was Reagan, too, as U.S. President, who ruthlessly busted PATCO in 1981.
November 06, 2008
Sen. John McCain´s presidential candidacy was done in mostly by a Wall Street-Financial Meltdown, in late Sept. 2008. This phenomenon took the issue of "national security," which favored him, off the table, and replaced it with "the economy," which was Sen. Obama´s strongest suit. The fact that Dubya is the most unpopular president in history, coupled with having $639 million to spend, all added up to a smashing victory for Prez-Elect Obama.
October 31, 2008
The candidates for the White House have raised over $1 billion in their quest to win the election on Nov. 4, 2008. The Dems´ Sen. Barack Obama has racked in $639 million, while the GOP´s nominee, John McCain, has taken in $360 million. The four other Third Party candidates for the presidency have brought in about $5.5 million. The only thing we know for sure is this: When big money contributions dominate the electoral process, the people lose!
October 21, 2008
Political and religious authority is crumbling in a crisis of faith. The late Leonard Bernstein put those themes, and much more, in his concert triumph, "Mass." After eight years of Bush-Cheney, the priest/pedophile scandal, coupled with the costly Wall St. Bailout, the loss of trust in our institutions is rampant. If the people want real change, they are going to have to rely on themselves, and on each other to create, in unity, the world that they desire.
September 29, 2008
When the Congress was debating the $700 billion bailout of the bankers on Wall St., an overconfident Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in Baltimore hawking her book, "Know Your Power." On Sept. 29, 2008, the House of Representatives, responding to a taxpayers´ revolt, rejected the Bush-Cheney Gang´s bailout plan. Speaker Peolsi, in her library talk, conveyed a false sense of security about the grim economic situation facing the nation.
September 21, 2008
Yankee Stadium in NYC closed down for good on Sept. 21, 2008. A new stadium costing $1.3 billion will soon takes in place. My memory of Yankee Stadium goes back to Dec. 28, 1958--to a pro football (NFL) game, which pitted the Baltimore Colts against the New York Giants. It went into sudden death overtime and the Colts won by a 23 to 17 score. I was 21 years old then, but I can remember being at that game as if it were yesterday.
September 21, 2008
"The Fed," William Greider said, "decides who shall prosper and who shall fail." American International Group (AIG), Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Bear Stearns, all private entities, will be bailed out by the taxpayers. Third Party candidates want an audit and investigation of "The Fed," an unelected clique. "The Fed," and the Treasury Dept., are currently submitting a Mother of All Bailout schemes to the Congress. It may cost the public $1 trillion!
August 04, 2008
How did the country get into this unholy financial mess? Think usury! Acclaimed author William Greider points the finger at banks, and people of great wealth, "taking advantage of poor people by lending them money on terms that are sure to fail." He blames others, too, like "The Fed," under the reign of Alan Greenspan, the U.S. Congress, and Wall Street. Mr. Greider charges that these parties worked to "castrate" the watchdogs.
July 19, 2008
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, TX, as the result of a conspiracy. Why did the Shadow Government decide to eliminate him? We now know he wanted to get U.S. troops out of South Vietnam. JFK had also been taking on Wall St. and The Fed. He threatened to disband the CIA and close tax loopholes beneficial to "Big Oil" and the multinationals. JFK made a lot of powerful enemies--one too many!
July 15, 2008
Conspiracy is as American as apple pie. Every day in America, in state and federal courts, some defendant faces charges of conspiracy. I submit that since 1891, a conspiracy has existed, forged by British imperialist Cecil Rhodes, and others, to reduce America to a vassal state of the New World Order. It is beyond cavil that the policies of Dubya (George W. Bush) have been an absolute disaster for America. Could Dubya be working for the NWO?
July 03, 2008
It´s painful to watch Sen. Barack Obama slide over to the Right on so many important issues, as the presidential election heats up in ´08. FISA, NAFTA and Israel are a few. He´s also met with Colin Powell and suggested that he might keep Robert Gates on as his Secretary of Defense. What´s next? Irv "Scooter" Libby as head of his Justice Department? If Obama doesn´t want to flop, like Sen. John Kerry did in ´04, he better ponder changing his ways.
June 28, 2008
There is never a dull moment in Baltimore, Maryland. It seems as soon as HBO´s "The Wire" program left town, our Mayor, Sheila Dixon, became the subject of a state corruption probe. It´s all mostly about two fur coats and some travel trips with an ex-boyfriend. At the time, he was a developer doing business with the city. Does it add up to bribery or is it a tempest in a teapot? The Grand Jury holds the answer to that question. Stay tuned.
June 20, 2008
The fur was flying fast and furiously at the National Press Club on June 18, 2008. Larry Sinclair was in town--the bete noire of U.S. Sen. Barrack Obama (D-IL). After making an opening statement, the media ripped into Sinclair, challenging just about every aspect of his anti-Obama yarn. It wasn´t a good day for the accuser. He was also arrested after his spiel by the DC cops and turned over to two Federal Marshals on an outstanding Delaware warrant.
June 03, 2008
What is the role of the intellectual in the Age of Bush and Cheney? On May 19, 2008, David McCullough, gave a commencement address at Boston College, a Jesuit institution. He never said one critical word about the Iraq War or the serial lies of the Bush-Cheney Gang that got the U.S. involved in that Neocon-inspired conflict. I believe Mr. McCullough missed an opportunity to speak out and to inspire the students to take their country back.
May 19, 2008
President George W. Biush and Israel´s PM, Ehud Olmert, are setting the stage for a U.S. led attack on Iran. Only a mostly spineless Congress can stop Bush from committing yet another War Crime. Recently, the war-loving duo visited Masada, a desert fortress in Israel, where 960 Jewish zealots committed suicide, in 73 A.D., rather than surrender to Rome´s legions. Are Bush and Olmert both suffering from "The Masada Complex?"
April 30, 2008
The Iraq War is crashing our economy! We also now know that it was launched by the Bush-Cheney Gang based on 935 certifiable lies. Yet, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) continues to vote to fund it to the tune of $514 billion. Her excuse is that she "supports the troops." Vietnam War veteran, nurse and Peace activist, Ms. Madeleine Mysko, isn´t buying Mikulski´s dubious line. She wants the war ended and the troop brought safely back home, now.
April 25, 2008
Surging oil prices are sinking the U.S. economy, while Big Oil is raking in obscene profits. For example, ExxonMobil recorded profits in 2007 of $40.6 billion. Its CEO´s pay averaged out to $13,700 an hour. Today, gas is selling at $3.50 a gallon with no end in sight. Truckers are paying more for their diesel fuel and as a result food prices are rising. Globally, nationalization of the oil industry is the trend. It´s time for the U.S. to join that club.
April 19, 2008
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) has taken a lot of hits during his campaign for the White House. What scares folks about this guy? I went to hear him speak, on April 14, 2008, at Goucher College, Towson, MD. Unlike some dubious liberals in the Congress, Rep. Paul voted against the USA Patriot Act. He also wants to end the Iraq War and bring the troops home, now; and to dismantle America´s global empire before it bankrupts the country. Sounds like Ralph Nader to me!
April 16, 2008
On April 8, 2008, John J. Sweeney said in Baltimore, MD, that the country is going down the tubes and dragging working class people with it. He´s the head of the national AFL-CIO. He added that in November: "We have an opportunity to reverse these awful trends." On May 1, 2008, West coast dockworkers are calling a work stoppage to protest the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Perhaps, Mr. Sweeney will join them on the picket line. Stay tuned.
April 10, 2008
"We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
On April 6, 2008, I drove by the farm in Gettysburg, PA, that the late President Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower called home after he retired from public office. The old warrior, loved by the people, would ...
April 04, 2008
In Washington, D.C., President George W. Bush was loudly booed on opening day, March 30, 2008. He tossed out the ceremonial first pitch and the huge baseball crowd gave him an earful. Too bad, the "Gang of Three," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Hillary Clinton, and Sen. Barbara Mikulski, weren´t with him on the mound. They have enabled the Iraq conflict by voting to fund it, despite their promise to "end the war." They deserve boos, too!
April 01, 2008
I would like to blame the Neocons for America´s sordid record of "regime change" around the globe, but I can´t! For Iraq, yes! But, sadly, the U.S. has been in the dirty business of "regime change" for at least 110 years going back to the days that it unlawfully seized Hawaii. Author Stephen Kinzer´s book, "Overthrow: America´s Century of Regime Change," tells the story of how 14 countries, many in Central America, came under our hegemony.
March 29, 2008
The supposed financial guru, Alan Greenspan, was nominated to head the Federal Reserve, in 1987, by that union-bashing dunce, President Ronald Reagan. At his confirmation hearing, the late Sen. William Proxmire (D-WI), exposed the fact that Greenspan´s economic forecasting record was "dismal" and "wrong" most of the time. In his book: "Greenspan´s Bubbles," William A. Fleckenstein proves Sen. Proxmire´s instincts were prophetic.
March 26, 2008
How would you feel if that raving Neocon Jonah Goldberg praised you? Well, this is the position that lapsed liberal David Mamet, a knee jerk supporter of Israel, is in. Mamet endorsed a "Free Market" system and bashed NPR, as "National Palestinian Radio." In a rant for the Village Voice he explains his conversion to Conservatism and underscores how government should "get out of the way." Goldberg lionized him for rejecting "the pieties of the Left."
March 05, 2008
It´s here! Author Charles R. Morris calls it: "The greatest credit bubble in history!" He insists that the "writedowns and defaults" of credit devices will "come out about $1 trillion." Problem: President George W. Bush, Jr. is in denial about the crisis. Like that amiable dunce, President Ronald Reagan, he contributed to this horrible mess by turning the country over to the Vulture Capitalists and also by launching the Iraq War with its price tag of $3 trillion!
February 28, 2008
Did you know that the wealth of Hillary and Bill Clinton is now estimated at $54 million? Pretty good, considering he was in debt when he left the White House. In any event, Hillary´s bid to capture the Democratic Party´s presidential nod is fading faster than the value of the U.S. dollar. In the debates, she´s come across as abrasive. Her attack dog tactics are failing. If Sen. Barack Obama carries Texas and Ohio, will Hillary fold? Stay tuned!
February 25, 2008
There was little chance that the 9/11 Commission was going to establish the full truth. One reason why: Its Executive Director, the Neocon-loving Philip D. Zelikow, had his own agenda, to wit: protecting the interest of the Bush-Cheney Gang and linking "Al-Qaeda to Iraq." Zelikow had previously written a book with Condi Rice, authored a paper used to justify the preemptive attack on Iraq and worked on Bush´s presidential transition team in 2000/2001.
February 19, 2008
One of the prime enablers of the Bush-Cheney Gang has been Sen. "Turncoat Joe" Lieberman (IND-CT). This guy loves the Iraq War and is foaming at the mouth pushing for the U.S. to attack Iran. Now, he´s come out for waterboarding! Sen. Lieberman insists it isn´t torture. How would he like it if Jonathan Pollard, the Israeli spy, is waterboarded? Torture is inhumane. Would Sen. Lieberman like to have a torture school named after himself?
February 16, 2008
Civil Resistance to the wrongdoings of U.S. regimes has a long, and honorable, history. In his well documented tome, "Protesting Power: War, Resistance, and Law," Professor Francis A. Boyle captures the essence of that story. He explains how "civil resistance" differs from "civil disobedience." He also cites cases, where he was involved as an attorney and/or expert witness. Professor Boyle's book is, indeed, timely and needed.
February 13, 2008
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) gave Sen. Hillary Clinton a decisive thrashing in Maryland´s primary election on Feb. 12, 2008. He beat her by about 180,000 votes. Despite Clinton having the state´s senior U.S. Senator, Barbara Mikulski, in her corner, along with its governor, Martin O´Malley, and also the party´s entire political machine, Obama won by a 60% to 37% margin. David Lindorff is right: "Obama...may be creating...a constituency for real change."
February 07, 2008
Will the presidential election of 2008 reprise, to some extent, the 2000 event? Don´t be surprised if Sen. "Turncoat Joe" Lieberman (IND-CT) ends up as the V.P. choice of Sen. John McCain on the GOP ticket. At every photo op during this election year, Lieberman´s mug has showed up next to McCain´s. Lieberman helped to drag Al Gore down to defeat in 2000. Will he do the same for McCain or will another Israeli Firster get the nod? Stay tuned.
February 05, 2008
Thanks to the great Dante, we know there is a Hell. President George W. Bush, Jr. is headed there, along with Dick Cheney, for the "935" lies, which they concocted that got the country into the Iraq War. Many politicos, who ignored the "935" lies, and also voted to fund the war, like Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Mikulski, will be suffering, too, in the inferno. The cunning Neocons are set for a "Special Place," and the implosion of WTC-7 becomes an issue.
May 01, 2007
“It is truly frightening what is going on in this country.” - Ex. Rep. Bob Barr (R-GA)
Los Angeles, CA - It is one of the most visited sites in the U.S. The La Brea Tar Pits, aka “The Page Museum,” is located on famed Wilshire Boulevard, in an area known as the “Miracle Mile District.” Its 23 acr...
January 15, 2008
Tommy Tomorrow, the cartoonist, said that William Kristol´s career as a warmonger had "failed upward!" On Aug. 11, 2008, activist Russell Mokhiber picketed the NYT´s office and demanded that Kristol, who was recently named to its Op Ed Page, meet with severely wounded Iraq War veteran, Tomas Young. Young is featured in Phil Donahue´s film, "Body of War." Being a repulsive Neocon, like Kristol, means you never have to say you´re sorry.
December 28, 2007
“Sen. Mikulski has violated her oath of office!” - Ms. Diane Wittner of the Chesapeake Citizens, a peace advocacy group. (1)
You could see it coming a block away! I’m talking about the Democrats’ cynical gambit for capturing the White House in 2008! It goes like this: Let the Iraq War drag on an...
December 18, 2007
“Tell Stalin I shall be dying with his name on my lips.” - Nikolai Ezhov, ex-boss of Russia’s feared secret police, the NKVD, prior to his execution on the orders of the dictator.
Before he was known as a Marxist revolutionist in his home town of Gori, Josef Stalin was a published poet. Gori, lo...
December 05, 2007
“One’s first obligation is to the moral truth buried deep inside our own souls.” - Ex-Private First Class Joshua Key, U.S. Army (1)
From soldiers in the U.S. Army, who refused to be deployed to Iraq; to diplomats who resigned their offices rather than endorse an illegal war; to courageous whistl...
December 03, 2007
“Time’s glory is...to wrong the wronger, till he render right.” - William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon
On Nov. 27, 2007, an ultra-hyped, one-day Mideast parley was held in Annapolis, MD, the capital of the state. This is also where the U.S. Naval Academy is located. The idea that the hawkish Bu...
November 27, 2007
“The evil...in man...is of gigantic proportions.” - Carl G. Jung
Baltimore, MD - On Saturday, Nov. 24, 2007, my wife and I went to the new movie theatre in town. It’s called, the “Landmark,” and it is located in the Inner Harbor area, just south of one of my favorite neighborhoods, “Little Italy....
November 23, 2007
The Locust Point of my early youth bustled with maritime commerce and social activities. During the years of World War II, (1941-45), when the Point had twenty-four taverns, it was commonplace to find tough dockworkers, gung-ho sailors and soldiers, drunken brawls, merchant seamen, floating di...
November 18, 2007
Baltimore, MD - They met in one of this city’s swankiest hotels. It’s a Marriott, located on the waterfront, just east of Harborplace, where the per diem rates begin at $260. I just can’t imagine Jesus and the Apostles hanging out at a place like that discussing their soul-awakening agenda. But, the...
November 13, 2007
“There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the two parties.” - George C. Wallace
Pakistan’s President, General Pervez Musharraf, suspended his country’s Constitution on Nov. 3, 2007, and began arresting opponents of his dictatorial rule. President George W. Bush doesn’t have to resort to ...
October 22, 2007
“What’s going on now [in Iraq]. We’re saving the President’s face!” - Rep. Bob Filner (D-CA)
On Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007, President George W. Bush spent the afternoon at the waterfront mansion of V.P. Dick Cheney. Cheney’s $2.5 million manor is located in St. Michaels, on the Eastern Shore of Mar...
October 17, 2007
“If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” - Harry S. Truman
I’ve been waiting and waiting for her to do the right thing and end the Iraq War. I’m talking about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). She has made one lame excuse after another why she “can’t do,” what she and the other De...
October 04, 2007
“Our lives begin to end the day we become ‘silent’ about things that matter.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
He held one of the highest positions that can be bestowed on a public servant. I’m referring to Alan Greenspan, the former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (1987-2006)...
September 27, 2007
“The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.” - Stendhal
The propaganda machine of the Evangelical Christian Right will soon be in counter attack mode. One of its darling preachers is about to take it on the proverbial chin. The Rev. Billy Graha...
September 12, 2007
“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.” - Abraham Lincoln
Washington, D.C. -- It was just a press conference! The northwest corner of Lafayette Park, just north of the White House, was the site. It was called on September 6, 2007, by the ANSWER Coalition to promote the ...
August 26, 2007
“Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.” -- Mark Twain
What would we do without him? I’m talking about Abe Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Although, he mostly pretends to be one of the guys, he actually does have some super abilities. Working 24/7, he fu...
August 15, 2007
“All of these people [in the Israel Lobby] are pleading a special interest. I am an American.” -- President Harry S. Truman
Grant F. Smith’s latest book, “Foreign Agents: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee From The 1963 Fulbright Hearings to the 2005 Espionage Scandal,” reveals the con...
August 12, 2007
“The actual outlook [for the survival of Civilization] is very dark!” -- George Orwell
Baltimore, MD -- The commuter train belonging to the MARC Line, pulled out of Penn Station, on Aug. 7, 2007, at exactly 5:32 AM. I was lucky to get a seat. It was overbooked and headed for Washington, D.C. abou...
August 07, 2007
“One might expect [her] to consult [her] conscience...But, since it’s a matter of moral conclusions...there is, unfortunately, no cause for optimism.” -- Carl G. Jung
Baltimore, MD - August 3, 2007, was the ninth consecutive Friday afternoon, when pro-Peace activists gathered in front of the luxu...
July 17, 2007
“It is quite possible that we are now descending into an age in which two and two will make five when the Leader says so.” -- George Orwell
Until April 5, 2007, Baltimore, Maryland was a one-daily-newspaper town. “The Sun” monopolized the print scene. Now, it has competition with the arrival of ...
July 08, 2007
“It is time to remove [Vice President Dick Cheney] from office.” - Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA)
Eureka Springs, Arkansas - Lewis “Scooter” Libby is not going to a federal prison for 30 months, or even for one day. His boss, Vice President Dick Cheney, made sure of that. U.S. District Court Judge, th...
June 25, 2007
“If I’m elected, I will fire [the] PSC and replace them with...members who will ‘protect’ the public.” - Martin O’Malley
Annapolis, MD - During his campaign, in 2006, for the office of governor of Maryland, Martin O’Malley, a Democrat, repeatedly promised the voters that if he were elected he wou...
June 18, 2007
“It is an extraordinary subversion of the [U.S.] Constitution to send people to die...on the basis of a lie.” - Elizabeth Holtzman (1)
There is a story told about a criminal defense lawyer, a colorful kind of character at the Maryland Bar, who has since gone on to his final reward. Supposedly, h...
June 10, 2007
“Anybody who couldn’t identify the [USS] Liberty could not tell the difference between the White House and the Washington Monument!” - The late Admiral Thomas Moorer
Arlington, VA - On a beautiful, but very humid morning, Friday, June 8, 2007, I joined about two hundred others at the National Cem...
June 07, 2007
“The evil...that dwells within man is of gigantic proportions!” - Carl G. Jung, on the unconscious aspects of the human psyche.
History may say they had a lot in common! They were both fanatical fundamentalists in politics, and in religious beliefs, too, and totally indifferent to the loss of h...
May 31, 2007
“When a man has learnt to yield to his essential being, he has overcome...fear of the world.” - Karlfried Graf Von Durckheim
Baltimore, MD - The Lord called him home on May 28, 2007, the same day ten more U.S. troops had died in the Neocon-inspired Iraqi War. (1) His name was Parren J. Mitchell. ...
May 28, 2007
“History...has no present, only the past rushing into the future.” - John F. Kennedy, our martyred President. (1)
Jamestown, VA - For some reason, I wasn’t invited by the British Embassy to welcome QE II to the 400th reunion bash, which celebrated the founding of the colony here a few weeks back....
May 15, 2007
“Failure is impossible!” - Susan B. Anthony, a leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement
Washington, DC - On May 14, 2007, under a sunny sky, anti-war activists launched a “SWARM on Congress” campaign to end the Iraqi conflict and to bring the troops home. An estimated 250 peace activists, led by C...
May 11, 2007
“The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom. These are the pillars of society.” - Henrik Ibsen
Washington, D.C. - Dr. Gilbert Burnham is the co-author of the report entitled: “The Human Cost of the War in Iraq: A Mortality Study (2002-2006).” (1) It was published by ”The Lancet,” a British M...
May 09, 2007
“The U.S. military announced the deaths of 11 more U.S. troops in Iraq.” - AP Report, May 7, 2007
“She has literally ‘paved’ the way for me and countless other women who now serve in the Congress,” gushed the want-to-be president, Sen. Hillary “War Lite” Clinton (D-NY). Bubba Bill’s other half w...
May 04, 2007
“We must guard against the...unwarranted influence of...the Military-Industrial Complex.” -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Baltimore, MD - At center/city’s Mt. Vernon Square, on May 3, 2007, a rally and march was held to protest the Bush-Cheney Gang’s Iraqi War and the insane “Surge” strategy to...
May 01, 2007
“It is truly frightening what is going on in this country.” - Ex. Rep. Bob Barr (R-GA)
Los Angeles, CA - It is one of the most visited sites in the U.S. The La Brea Tar Pits, aka “The Page Museum,” is located on famed Wilshire Boulevard, in an area known as the “Miracle Mile District.” Its 23 acr...
April 18, 2007
“No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” - Edward R. Murrow
Westminister, MD - Helen Thomas was a speaker at the Forum at McDaniel College, on April 12, 2007. The school couldn’t have chosen better! Ms. Thomas is a veteran White House reporter and she was in top f...
April 15, 2007
“The Press is Free, but for Whom? - Oswald Spengler
When I was in high school back in the early 50s, I delivered the Baltimore Evening Sun newspaper to homes in my South Baltimore neighborhood. This was the afternoon edition of the Baltimore Morning Sun, a paper that traced its history back to 1...
April 07, 2007
About 20 percent of the Maryland National Guardsmen are being called up for service in Iraq. They will be part of the Bush-Cheney’s Gang’s insane “Surge” strategy in that over-four-year old, no-win, no-end conflict. We’re talking about 1,300 Army and Air National Guard from the state, whose lives wi...
April 03, 2007
“It is the common people, who must, under God, save us.” - Sam Adams, patriot and rebel against British rule in America. (1)
Baltimore, MD - The goldfish in our pond had a pretty rough time this winter. The great blue heron, a majestic bird, which is usually found on the waters of the Chesapeake ...
March 26, 2007
“Iraq, like Vietnam, is a no-win, no-end war.” - Ex-U.S. Sen. Max Cleland (D-GA), and also a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War.
Baltimore, MD - If her administrative aide said one more time how much her boss, U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), “cares about the troops,” I think I would have ...
March 18, 2007
“There was never a good war, or a bad peace.” - Ben Franklin
Washington, DC - At 12:30 PM, on March 17, 2007, near the Lincoln Memorial, at Constitution Ave. and 23rd St., NW, peace advocates, in the tens of thousands assembled for a “March on the Pentagon.” A blustery wind was blowing in from th...
March 13, 2007
“[Israel’s Ariel] Sharon has him [President George W. Bush Jr.] wrapped around his little finger.” - Brent Scowcroft
Washington, DC - Leave it to the controversial pro-Israel Lobby, “AIPAC,” the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, to attract a crowd of very vocal protesters. On March 12, 20...
March 07, 2007
“Time’s glory is to...unmask falsehood and bring truth to light.” - William Shakespeare
Irving “Scooter” Libby, V.P. Dick Cheney’s ex-chief of staff, has been a very bad Neocon! He was convicted on March 6, 2007, by a federal jury, in Washington, DC, on four criminal counts dealing with perjury ...
March 07, 2007
“Great trials express--bear--the soul of a nation...” The late historian, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1)
It read like the kind of brutal crime--especially in that Roaring Twenties era--that might have been pulled off by gang headed by a trigger happy John Dillinger, or someone of that ilk. At 3 PM, ...
February 22, 2007
“People cannot stand too much reality.” - Carl Jung
Baltimore, MD - James Howard Kunstler, controversial author and civic gadfly, was the keynote Humanities Symposium speaker on Feb. 20, 2007, at Loyola College. For years, he has been raising unholy cain about the decline of our major cities, and...
February 20, 2007
“[President Bush’s] soul was already closed down!” - Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), on meeting with George W. Bush. (1)
George Washington deserved the title, “Father of the Country.” For eight and one half years, refusing any pay, he led the Continental Army, a gallant force which he helped to ...
February 13, 2007
“The Church in America is...in near perfect allegiance to the State!” - The late Phil Berrigan, Apostle of Peace, and Dissenter Emeritus. (1)
February 11, 2007William Cardinal KeelerBaltimore, MD
My dear Most Eminent Cardinal:
The Bush-Cheney Gang is evil! It’s like a Vampire preying on its ...
February 09, 2007
Baltimore, MD - McGuire Hall, at Loyola College, a Jesuit institution, was standing room only, on the evening of Feb. 6, 2007, as David Simon, the creator of the popular HBO program, “The Wire,” began his talk. His lecture was part of the school’s “Humanities Symposium.” While a police reporter for ...
February 06, 2007
“Live by the truth..It is the only [choice] for a soul.” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1)
On Feb. 2, 2007, the deaths of six more U.S. troops in Iraq were reported, bringing the total dead in that illegal war to 3,092. This is the same conflict, hatched by the scheming Neocons, that is costing the n...
January 31, 2007
“They [the Israeli Zionists] are imposing a system...of Apartheid on the Muslim and Christian citizens of the Occupied Territories.” - Ex-President Jimmy Carter (1)
Washington, D.C. “I think it is long past the time for the Palestinians to...[abandon] the Israelis’ ‘Master Narrative,’ [a two stat...
January 29, 2007
“It’s so irresponsible that they can’t be quiet.” - William Kristol, a Neocon, in referring to critics of the Iraqi War. (1)
Washington, D.C. On a sunny day, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007, with the temperatures in the high-40s, the National Mall, was filled with protesters against the Iraqi War. A Who’...
January 25, 2007
“Powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.” - Ambrose Bierce
Washington, D.C. - While George W. Bush was giving his so-called “State of the Union” message inside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday evening, Jan. 23, 2007, demonstrators were outside robustly exercising their Fir...
January 23, 2007
“Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” - Mark Twain (1)
On September 26, 2006, Lt. General William E. Odom, USA, Retired, testified before the House of Representatives’ Out of Iraq Caucus, at a Capitol Hill forum chaired by Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA). He said: “T...
January 18, 2007
"The best way to hide something is to place it in open view." - Dr. John Coleman, author and an ex-member of British MI6.
Irving “Scooter” Libby went on trial this week in the nation’s capital on charges of perjury, making false statements and obstruction of justice for lying to the FBI and to a...
January 16, 2007
“The ultimate measure of a man is...where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
Baltimore, MD - On Saturday, January 13, 2007, Dr. Suzan D. Johnson Cook gave the annual Enoch Pratt Library’s Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative lecture. It was held in the Whee...
January 11, 2007
“A stain on the character of the United States.” - Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in speaking of the U.S. gulag at Guantanamo, Cuba
Washington, D.C. - If there is any one thing that reflects the utter evil that is the collective psyche of the Bush-Cheney Gang, it’s the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cu...
January 10, 2007
“Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.” - Eugene V. Debs
Washington, D.C. - On Jan. 4, 2007, at the National Press Club, the World Can’t Wait organization put on a first rate program, entitled, “Voices for Impeachment.” (1) It featured speakers, like: “Peace Mom” Cindy Sheehan...
January 06, 2007
“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” (1)
Baltimore, MD - One of six children, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi (nee D'Alesandro), age 66, grew up in this city’s charming “Little Italy” area. Her modest family home at the corner of Albemarle and Fawn Streets is...
January 04, 2007
“Nothing else in the world...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” - Victor Hugo
Let’s face it! The year 2006 was another hell on earth for the Palestinians. Since 1967, they have been suffering under the heel of the Zionist Death, Mayhem & Occupation Machine. Earlier this summer, as t...
December 22, 2006
“We’re not disturbing the peace. We’re disturbing the war.” - Activist Patrick J. Elder
Montgomery County, Maryland - A protest action was held on Friday morning, Dec. 22, 2006, in front of and along the sidewalk of a huge complex of office buildings, housing the national headquarters of Lockhee...
December 21, 2006
“Hands stained with the best blood of our nation.” - The Gazette of the United States, a Philadelphia newspaper, in an editorial, denouncing Aaron Burr for killing Alexander Hamilton. (1)
After Aaron Burr, the then V. P. of the United States, shot Alexander Hamilton to death in a duel, he becam...
December 18, 2006
“Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.“ - Noam Chomsky
I always thought that Barbara “BaWa” Walters, who does all of those silly, celebrity gabfests, was the worst interviewer--ever! I confess I never liked her, even when she was doing the nightly news for ABC...
December 14, 2006
“Myths which are believed in tend to become true.” - George Orwell
Since the release of the Iraq Study Group report, have you noticed how President George W. Bush, is displaying more often those wild, piercing eyes? Can you see the fear? He’s like a character in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel “Crime ...
December 06, 2006
“No American should ever have to give one drop of blood for a lie-ever!” - Elizabeth Holtzman (1)
Baltimore, MD - Despite the temperature hovering in the low 20s, over thirty activists showed up, on Dec. 5, 2006, at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, only blocks from Penn Station, to protest Colin Powe...
December 03, 2006
“’Imprisonment Wall’ is more descriptive than ‘Security Fence.’” - Jimmy Carter, former U.S. President, in writing about Israel's notorious Apartheid Wall. (1)
Washington, D.C. - "The logic of both Israel and Apartheid-era South Africa can be found in their common origins as settler states," said...
November 30, 2006
“No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.” - Theodore Roosevelt
Washington, D.C. - On Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006, Mohammed Omer, a 22-year-old Palestinian journalist/photographer, shared his eyewitness account of living and working in Israeli-Occupied Gaza, a densely population ...
November 28, 2006
“The hardest tumble a man can make is fall over his own bluff.” - Ambrose Bierce
President George W. Bush is in denial about the hell-on-earth that he and his Neocon cronies have created in Iraq. O.J. Simpson is in denial, too, about his supposed involvement in a sensational, grisly double murde...
November 22, 2006
“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” - John F. Kennedy
Catonsville, Maryland - On the evening of Nov. 20, 2006, peace activist, Kathy Kelly, gave a talk at the U. of Maryland’s Baltimore County campus (UMBC). It was entitled, “Eyewitness to War, Witness for Peace.” ...
November 19, 2006
"Man is kind enough when he is not excited by Religion." - Mark Twain.
Washington, D.C. - On a rainy, windy afternoon, Nov. 16, 2007, before a capacity audience at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, only a few blocks east of the U.S. Capitol, Karen Armstrong, a distinguished author, Feminist and schola...
November 12, 2006
"In the U.S., our first executive magistrate is...subject to censure, if necessary, to punishment. He is the...'accountable' magistrate of a free and great people." - Del. James Wilson (1)
Philadelphia, PA - Within shouting distance of fabled Independence Hall, representatives from a nationwide c...
November 10, 2006
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Take a bow Cindy Sheehan, Ann Wright, Ramsey Clark, Mike Ferner, Max Obuszewski, Michael Berg, David Swanson, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Ray McGovern, Medea Benjamin and Brian Beck...
November 06, 2006
Baltimore, MD - On Nov. 4, 2006, a colorful ceremony was held to mark the restoration and reopening of the 200-year-old Baltimore Basilica-America’s first Roman Catholic Cathedral. (1) It was designed by the architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the same man who designed the U.S. Capitol. There were sp...
November 03, 2006
“Where...do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.” - Eleanor Roosevelt (1)
Adelphi, MD - On the evening of Nov. 1, 2006, Mary Robinson, the first female President of Ireland (1990-97), and a former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002), gave a lectu...
November 01, 2006
"Amoralism is only possible if you are...always somewhere else when the trigger is pulled." - George Orwell (1)
The voters in the state of Connecticut may hold the key to the future well-being of our Republic! I'm not overstating this matter. If the rabid warmonger Joseph I. Lieberman, an unrepe...
October 26, 2006
“You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.” - Sean O’Casey, Irish Playwright
Bahrain is an island nation located in the Persian Gulf. Like so many countries in the region, it was a former colony of Imperial Britain. (1) It’s the early 1970s, just outside its capital city of Manama, in th...
October 15, 2006
“The Republican and Democratic Parties...morph into one corporate party with two heads.” - Ralph Nader
Owings Mills, Maryland - The Maryland Public Television (MPT) station, one of the largest in the state, decided to hold a debate on Oct. 14, 2006, between the candidates running for the office ...
October 11, 2006
“Good doesn’t exist anymore...everything is like Moral Ground Zero!” - Film director, Martin Scorsese, in discussing the script of his latest classic, “The Departed.”
On Oct. 10, 2006, the Department of Defense announced the death of yet another American solder in Iraq. His name is Cpl. Benjami...
October 07, 2006
“Cassius has a lean and hungry look.” - William Shakespeare
Baltimore, Maryland - This state is in the midst of the roughest, toughest and dirtiest political gubernatorial campaigns in modern history. And, guess what? It makes for great theatre, too! Millions of bucks are pouring into the coffers...
October 04, 2006
"We need another political party. We’re certainly choosing between the lesser of two evils, and as the saying goes--’You are guaranteed evil!’” - Jonathan Turley (1)
Baltimore, MD - An historic three-way debate, at a "Town Hall Forum," for the office of U.S. Senate in Maryland, was held on Oct. ...
October 03, 2006
“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government, when it deserves it.” - Mark Twain
Washington, D.C. If you need a boost to your morale, or better yet something to restore your faith in our fast-fading Republic, then I suggest that you make room on your schedule to attend a hearing of ...
October 01, 2006
“The evil that men do lives after them.” - William Shakespeare
Washington, D.C. On September 27, 2006, a capacity audience, at the Palestine Center, heard from Curt Goering, Senior Deputy Executive Director of Amnesty International, USA, (AI), and Joe Stork, Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch...
September 27, 2006
“The times are ominous!” - The late Phil Berrigan, Dissenter Emeritus, in his final public appearance, March 19, 2002. (1)
Washington, D.C. - A rally against the Iraqi War at the U.S. Capitol, on Tuesday, September 26, 2006, led to the arrests of 71 protesters by the police, according to a spokes...
September 20, 2006
“Wherever the real power in a government lies, there is the danger of oppression.” - James Madison (1)
Baltimore, MD - On September 18, 2006, the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) held a very informative program to honor the 219th anniversary of the birth of the U.S. Constitution. One of t...
September 17, 2006
“Bombing Iraq (after 9/11) would be like our invading Mexico after the Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor.” - Richard Clarke, former National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush
Washington, D.C. - “The U.S. has put in place policies in the Middle East for many decades that give people ...
September 15, 2006
“He ate, drank, slept and talked politics.” - John Cunningham
Baltimore, Maryland - It was back in the late 50s, in this then predominately working class city, when I first met- “The Character” known as - William Donald Schaefer.
Thanks to the awesome Political Machine of Irv Kovens, later M...
September 13, 2006
“The government is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people...it emanates from them...its powers are granted by them...” Chief Justice John Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. (1)
Washington, D.C. - At “Camp Democracy,” on the National Mall, on September 13, 2006, a year-long investig...
September 08, 2006
“Bibi (Benjamin Netanyahu) wants to destroy everything for his own personal interests.” - Ehud Olmert, Israel’s P.M. (1)
Philadelphia, PA - On the early evening of September 6, 2006, Benjamin Netanyahu, ex-Israeli Prime Minister (1996-99), and presently the Likud Party boss and a member of the Kn...
September 04, 2006
President George W. Bush’s reply to a reporter’s question about whether Iraq had anything to do with 9/11: "Nothing!"
Washington, D.C. - On two consecutive days this week, the Israel Lobby, aka “The Lobby,” took direct hits from opponents. On Monday, Aug. 28, 2006, two distinguished scholars, aut...
August 28, 2006
“The lie was that we were ready and that everything was working as a team." - Michael Brown, ex-Director of FEMA
Silver Springs, MD - On Saturday afternoon, August 26, 2006, a rally was held at the site of the main headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, (NOAA), a fed...
August 19, 2006
“Our ‘Neocons’ are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and, evil as Hell.” - Edward Abbey
Takoma Park, Maryland - Kevin Zeese got right to it in his opening remarks at a Forum, entitled, “Independent Solutions for the Middle East Crisis.” It was held in the town’s City Hall on Thursd...
August 12, 2006
“The evil that men do lives after them.” - William Shakespeare
Washington, D.C. - As Israeli terror bombing of civilians continues relentlessly over Gaza and Lebanon, demonstrators took to the streets near the White House, on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006, to protest. Led by Arab-American organizers, a...
August 09, 2006
“Do you represent Israel before you represent America?” - U.S. Senate Candidate Kevin Zeese's query to Rep. Ben Cardin (1)
The Neocons’ scheme to destabilize the Middle East, aka “The Clean Break Document,” and to create a “safer Israel” is backfiring. (2) Instead, residents of Haifa, Israel, ar...
August 04, 2006
"Time's glory is to unmask falsehood and bring truth to light." - William Shakespeare
In an action unprecedented in Maryland politics, Kevin Zeese, an Independent candidate in Maryland for the U.S. Senate, has demanded that an incumbent congressman, who has close ties to the powerful Israel Lobb...
August 01, 2006
“No one dies from being uncomfortable.” - Ehud Olmert, Israeli Prime Minister
Washington, D.C. - It was steamy at “Foggy Bottom,” the site of the U.S. State Department’s headquarters, on Monday, July 31, 2006, near the campus of George Washington U., at 23rd and C St. (NW). The noon time heat and...
July 26, 2006
“Hell is empty, all the devils are here.” - William Shakespeare
Washington, D.C. - Close to 400 protesters showed up for a spirited demonstration on Tuesday, July 25, 2006, at the Israeli Embassy, 514 International Drive, NW, in the nation’s capital. They were there, despite the sweltering heat, ...
July 13, 2006
“Phil Berrigan took the Gospel...personally!” - Martin Sheen
Baltimore, MD - The Rev. Billy Graham, now 87 years old and once a crony of the disgraced President, Richard M. Nixon, was in town recently doing his evangelical thing. He rallied the faithful at Camden Yards, located near Harborplace, ...
July 11, 2006
“Imagine there’s no countries...Nothing to live or die for...Imagine all the people living life in peace.” - John Lennon
Thanks mostly to U.S. President Harry S. Truman and his “susceptibility to Zionist influence,” Israel came into existence in 1948. (1) Humanity, and in particular, the Palesti...
July 06, 2006
“Man needs...the sense of wonder.” - George Orwell
It was early May, 2004, and almost dusk in northern California, near its border with the state of Oregon. The Pacific Ocean was close by; I could feel its cooling breeze. I was tired from driving all day, but my wife, Ann said, “We’re getting cl...
June 30, 2006
Washington, D.C. - The topic under discussion was grim - “The Politics of Starvation: The Humanitarian Crisis in Palestine.” In Room SC-6 of the U.S. Capitol, the Council for the National Interest (CNI) authored a public forum, the 18th in a series over the last few years, dealing with Middle East i...
June 29, 2006
Baltimore, MD - On Saturday afternoon, June 10, 2006, Ralph Nader, a 3rd Party candidate for the presidency in 2004, spoke at a political rally, held in a conference room at the U. of Baltimore’s Langsdale Library. (1) The primary purpose of the affair was to boost the candidacy of Kevin Zeese, who ...
June 01, 2006
“Every religion is true...when understood metaphorically.” - Joseph Campbell
According to the novel, “The Da Vinci Code,” Mary Magdalene wasn’t just a devout follower of Jesus. She was also his wife! They even had a child together and their bloodline extends down to present day France. The Vatica...
May 18, 2006
?The people have an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform or change their government...? - James Madison
Washington, D.C. - On Thursday afternoon, May 18, 2006, over a hundred protesters, led by Cindy Sheehan, exercised a right older than the U.S. Constitution itself: the ?Rig...
May 14, 2006
Washington, D.C. - On Sunday, May 14, 2006, a colorful protest action, sponsored by ?Code Pink: Women for Peace,? was staged directly in front of the White House. It included a mini-parade, a sing along and plenty of roses waving around. The event, a 24-hour vigil, began the day before. Its theme wa...
May 10, 2006
"Time's glory is to...unmask falsehood and bring truth to light...To wrong the wronger till he render right." - William Shakespeare
A few months ago, I was in Washington, D.C., working as an extra in a movie. Hollywood loves to shoot films in the nation?s Capital because of its ambiance. Robert De...
May 04, 2006
“Saints should always be judged guilty before they are proved innocent...” - George Orwell
On March 18, 1991, not long after 88,500 tons of lethal cluster bombs, guided missile, BLU-82s, and smart bombs had stopped falling on the Iraqi people in the first Persian Gulf War, a surreal ceremony took ...
April 30, 2006
“War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Washington, D.C. - On April 27, 2006, at 9 AM sharp, in Room 2325 of the Rayburn Building, on Capitol Hill, the highly-respected Chairwomen, Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), called to order the second Congressional public forum on ho...
April 25, 2006
?So likewise ?a passionate attachment? of one nation for another produces a variety of evils...? - George Washington?s ?Farewell Address,? September 19, 1796
Washington, D.C. - Kevin Zeese was the first speaker at a public forum held on Monday evening, April 24, 2006, at the West End Neighborhood ...
April 18, 2006
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?" - Mahatma Gandhi
She looks like a liberal. Walks like a liberal. Talks like a liberal, but on the Iraqi War...
April 11, 2006
?He had taken a high seat amongst the devils of the land.? - Joseph Conrad
American policy maker Paul Wolfowitz reminds me a lot of Joseph Conrad?s character, Kurtz, from his seminal tome, ?Heart of Darkness.? Kurtz never allowed himself to be judged by the same standards as other mere mortals, no...
April 05, 2006
?We are all born mad. Some remain so.? - Samuel Beckett
Major league baseball is as American as apple pie. For the first time in the history of the storied Cincinnati Reds? franchise, a sitting president, George W. Bush, threw out the ?ceremonial? opening day pitch, on April 3, 2006. Comedian Jay ...
March 26, 2006
If I hear one more time that Maryland?s GOP Governor Robert Ehrlich is ?pro-business,? I?m going to scream! Didn?t he put his hand on the Bible when he was sworn into office, in Annapolis, and implicitly promise to act as a trustee for the public good, ?without partiality or prejudice?? Ehrlich is d...
March 20, 2006
“The concept of a 'preventive war' does not appear in the Catechism of the Catholic Church." - Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI
The Pentagon - It’s the nerve center of the U.S. Department of Defense’s War, Death and Spending Machine. It’s a virtual city undo itself, located in the state of Vir...
March 08, 2006
"Sacred cows make the best hamburger." - Mark Twain
The 11th Commandment states: “Thou Shalt Not Criticize the Zionists!” Most Americans of my generation know it by heart. It’s the first thing a politician learns if he or she wants to get elected, and reelected, to public office, especially to the...
February 26, 2006
It’s been surreal! Suddenly, the mostly conscience-challenged U.S. Congress in recent history sprang upright into bipartisan action on all fronts. Its members held press conferences, did talk shows, while its chairpersons called their respective committees to hearings. In unison, they demanded, alon...
February 24, 2006
"I may not agree with what a man says; but I will defend to the death, his right to say it.? ? Voltaire
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Feb. 24, 2006
Yesterday, spectators in the court room broke out in cheers as Judge Pat Robinson announced his decision: "I find you guilty and sentence ...
February 20, 2006
A deal to permit an Arab company to do business in a number of East and Gulf coast ports in the U.S., has brought out the worst in some politicians, particularly, the Mayor of Baltimore, Martin O?Malley. He went over the top when he heard that an enterprise, Dubai Ports World, based in the United Ar...
January 31, 2006
Washington, D.C. - Cindy Sheehan is back in town! I’m sure that big bully in the White House, President George W. Bush, will be shaking in his cowboy boots when he hears that news. When Sheehan, the popular anti-Iraq War activist, showed up at Crawford, Texas, last summer, Bush refused to meet with ...
January 25, 2006
The governor of Maryland receives an annual salary of $150,000 for fulfilling his official duties. Nevertheless, the incumbent office holder, Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., a Republican, and Pavlovian lapdog for the warmongering President George W. Bush, raised $4.6 million last year for his November 7, 20...
January 23, 2006
Harry C. Ago died on Jan. 13, 2006, in Baltimore, Maryland, in a hospital, not far from his boyhood home. He was 81 years of age. Agro was one of my personal heroes-the kind of guy who was a straight shooter. I first met him when I was involved in politics in South Baltimore, before most of that onc...
January 07, 2006
?Money talks in this business and b...s... walks!? Ex-Rep. Michael ?Ozzie? Myers (D-PA) (1)
The breaking saga of the ultra-lobbyist, Jack Abramoff, and his massive influence-peddling ways in the nation?s capital, and beyond, too, has brought back some memories for me. In the late 70s, I was worki...
December 22, 2005
“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.” - Cicero (1)
The Roman masses finally figured out that their highly eccentric Emperor, Caligula, was a raving lunatic when it was revealed that he was having lavish dinner parties in honor of his favorite horse and that he had e...
December 07, 2005
Dear Ex-Rep. Cunningham:
On Nov. 28, 2005, you copped a plea before a federal judge, the Hon. Larry Burns, in San Diego, CA, to assorted criminal bribery, mail and wire fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy charges. (1) You confessed to taking $2.4 million in bribes in order to steer lucrative defense...
November 25, 2005
For a moment, I thought I was reading the obituary of an heroic figure who had stood fearlessly, risking life and limb for the truth, God, Motherhood and country. I was wrong! Instead, it was a local TV critic, one David Zurawik of the Baltimore Sun, wildly spinning, in a Barbara Walters-like fashio...
November 18, 2005
“Where will the [British] Lion strike? It depends on one thing alone - opportunity!” - John Michael’s “The Way of the Aggressor”
Washington, D.C. On Nov. 18, 2005, Georgetown U.’s Law School played host to a “Forum,” sponsored by the Irish American Unity Conference, (1) to discuss the status of t...
November 16, 2005
Baltimore, MD - Only a stone’s throw from fabled Penn Station in this historic port city stands the University of Baltimore. It is best known nationally for its prestigious “School of Law.” (1) On Nov. 14, 2005, ex-U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson spoke in the Lansdale Library there, at a “citizens...