An analysis of Democratic Party

We think most people agree that money has corrupted our politics. Some even think that we now live in a Plutocracy, and not in a Democracy, and that both parties are corrupted and now represent only the financial oligarchy. So, the central issue of our time is how can we break its hold? How can we overcome the influence of money in politics and make our political system more responsive to most Americans once again?

President Obama has abolished the position in his White House dedicated to transparency and shunted those duties into the portfolio of a partisan ex-lobbyist who is openly antagonistic to the notion of disclosure by government and politicians.

Historically, the US does not want the American people involved in deciding what the US does in its foreign policy. Contrary to American tradition, Julian Assange and Wikileaks display a belief in the value of citizen participation and interest in the business of governments worldwide. As Assange said of the leak, “People who are around the world who are reading this are able to comment on it and put it in context and understand the full situation.”

The federal government has begun to acquire an almost reflexive opposition to transparency. Many of the usual explanations for that may be true, but there could be a more philosophical reason as well.

For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning Shears.

Should our government have the right to kill U.S citizens abroad without a trial or due process? Apparently we already have the answer.

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It was no surprise when the Wall Street Journal reported that senior officials at the Federal Communications Commission were meeting privately with affected industry to consider possible solutions to the disagreement over “net neutrality.” But why are they allowed to do that?

The rogue whistleblower site keeps popping up in the news, and the reasons it does illustrate why it has become so important.

For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning Shears.

Too bad we can’t get any submarines down there to start tracking all that Oil, which scientists previously reported, looked to be spreading far and wide, at the mid-levels of the Gulf waters.

Luckily, the Scientist behind the first effort to track the underwater oil plumes, is mounting a second effort, with some new sciencey gadgets …