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A Dickensian Christmas
Posted on January 22, 2012 | No CommentsBy the time this is in print, the holidays will be over, but the Dickensian nature of today’s world will not be. Charles Dickens portrayed the savage inequalities produced by... -
Thrown Under the Bus
Posted on December 4, 2011 | No CommentsI write this piece as a concerned citizen who has spent most of his life connected with higher education, now as board member at Clatsop College. In that capacity, I... -
Power to the People
Posted on November 5, 2011 | No CommentsThe spontaneous uprisings characterized by the Greek General Strike, as well as the “Occupy” movement that began with Occupy Wall Street and has spread virtually everywhere indicate that a true crisis is now occurring in the neoliberal world order. -
Boomers, Unite!
Posted on October 11, 2011 | 1 CommentAs anyone with the slightest familiarity with American demography knows, the generation born between 1946 and 1963, also known as the “baby boom generation,” is the largest in U. S.... -
The Road to Serfdom
Posted on September 8, 2011 | No CommentsThe above phrase is the title of the best known work of economist Friedrich von Hayek, mentor to Milton Friedman, and with him creator of the Chicago school of economics,... -
The Poison of Extremism
Posted on August 7, 2011 | No CommentsFOLLOWING THE Democratic victory in 2008, Republicans listened to their most ideological spokespersons and instead of moving toward the center, started the Tea Party movement and moved further to the... -
Undermining Education
Posted on July 11, 2011 | No CommentsDURING GEORGE W. BUSH’s first term, Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act. Like so many “improvement” acts of the Bush years, No Child Left Behind did pretty much... -
What Are We Fighting For?
Posted on June 5, 2011 | No CommentsShortly after Osama Bin Laden was killed, Spc. William Baxter, a parachute rigger with the 101st Sustainment Brigade, was quoted as saying, “OK, he’s dead, can we go home?” Much... -
Spiked Tea Party Hangovers
Posted on May 10, 2011 | No CommentsLast fall a corporate funded noise machine succeeded in motivating a minority of the electorate to vote in Tea Party Republican extremists, and now the sleeping giant, American voters-at-large, is... -
Our Warped Priorities
Posted on April 8, 2011 | 135 CommentsDURING the “age of enterprise,” which saw the development of the United States as a leading industrial power, ruling ideas made the market king and the laws of supply and...