I have written about how the world of human-created systems collectively constitutes an all-consuming program that is, in many ways, analogous to the Matrix in the sense that it has conditioned our worldview from top down to the micro-granular details of our lives. The only way to avoid this conditioning is to initiate out of …
Rebranding the Democratic Party:
Call it the WAR PARTY
My colleague and long-time friend Dave Lindorff did it. He provoked me to rescind my vow, quite temporarily I’m hoping, to stop writing about political matters, at least directly. Dave’s desire to rename the Republican Party as the “Bad Losers Party”, and his closing remark opening others to rename the Democratic Party, motivated …
Accuracy in labeling matters:
Let’s Rebrand the Misnamed GOP as the BLP
David Kiphuth is a new contributor to ThisCantBeHappening! He will be contributing his own political cartoons to the site and will also be working with our writers on illustrations for article illustrations like this one today. We need to start calling the Republican Party by a new nickname that more accurately reflects what it …
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Abortion Haiku
Another voice. Choked. Years of medical training now transformed to crime. This angry and pained haiku was offered anonymously by a physician who has courageously traveled to offer her medical skills in Texas and several other states that have been trying to outlaw abortions and where violence against clinics and abortion providers has made it …
Julian: Let’s Take a Stand!
Julian Assange is the most important political prisoner in the world today, and we need to act in a myriad of ways to get him freed from the torturers’ prisons. As he faces extradition from a supine and accommodating Britain to the waiting assassins in Washington who already stand exposed for plotting to murder …
Turning a San Francisco Recall into a Rout for Police Reform
(This article appeared first in FAIR.org, the media criticism web site) San Francisco voted on June 7 to recall its district attorney, Chesa Boudin, a reformer who had challenged the traditional “lock ’em up” policies of big-city prosecutors. The margin was initially reported as a lopsided 61%–39% landslide, in what major news media across …
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Ka-ching
Right where I am sitting with my latte On a stool by the window Looking out at the harbor There is an antique cash register On a shelf above me Ornately conceived of brass and iron And wood and glass With keys like a giant typewriter Built tough as nails By the National Cash Register …
We know what the real Jesus would do with this government, but how about this?
What would a real Opposition Party of the People Do?
We are currently at the mercy of a cabal of self-righteous Christian zealots with a 6-3 grip on the US Supreme Court and on Congress, thanks to an arcane structure designed by slave-owning wealthy men who handed the power to a Senate dominated by small-state rich people and to their party of Christian fascists and …
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Half-century of hard-fought freedoms on the line:
High Court’s Roe v Wade Ruling Attacks Full Humanity of US Women, But it Won’t Stop There
The 6-3 ruling last week by the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade is both the culmination of a decades-long strategy by the Republican Party and the religious right to which it long ago tied its fortunes, and the beginning of a long war by progressives to wrest back control of the Democratic Party …
Little Crime, Murder, Violence—But Both are Increasing
Could Icelanders Herald Path to Economic Equality with Prosperity and Peace?
(Part II of CAM Correspondent Ron Ridenour’s Perspective on Near-Pristine Island-Nation — Part 1 here in Covert Action magazine) By Ron Ridenour We can learn from the Icelandic people’s sense of assuming political responsibility, their tightknit togetherness—98% know people they can rely on—and from their culture, which fosters more authors per capita than any …
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