Author: populist

…The government uses patriotism for its own ends, particularly its war ends. They own it, control it, and dole it out as needed. No politician has ever been able to stand up to it. You can accuse a politician of almost...

…Citizen rights and the law have gone dark. No lights. Almost nobody home. Almost nobody to say, wait just one damn minute — this is not about overturning Roe v. Wade. This is about a governing elite putting...

…One of the American elite’s (amongst whom I include their complicit disseminators of propaganda in the mainstream media) most repulsive means of grabbing and maintaining power has been its shameless use of spiritual...

….Presidential orders, even those issued as commander-in-chief, are subject to restrictions imposed by Congress. A Congressional declaration of war, for example, limits Presidential powers, narrows the focus of the action,...

…Vietnam taught us the danger and folly of going to war on a false pretext. Tonkin Gulf was to be a lesson to us all, as was the intended impeachment of Nixon for violating the law and the Constitution. We wouldn’t...