Obama confidant’s spine-chilling proposal

(The Cass Sunstein story is even worse than I thought. Not only does he suggest that “conspiracy theory” groups can and should be infiltrated for the purposes of undermining their credibility but he also goes on to suggest that there are “imaginable conditions” when conspiracy theories themselves could be “banned” or made illegal. Cass Sunstein, advisor to President [...]

Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence

(There is an eerie symmetry between the politics behind the conflict of Vietnam and those of our current “War on Terror”.  They seamlessly fit together as if constructed by the same callous craftsman. For they were.  While ideologically identical, both wars are waged with an almost self-consciously obsessed loathing for the poor and disaffected of all sides, theirs and ours, as if [...]