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Countering the GOP “Sabotage America” Campaign

As everybody knows, our GOP-dominated Congress is deep into a full scale “sabotage America” campaign. Everything is under massive attack, from our negotiations with Iran to the perfectly legal way Social Security Disability Insurance has always been funded. (More  info here in 1. below.)  Their full scale demolition derby could dismantle almost everything about America […]

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See our “Speaking American” TEDxVail Video on YouTube.

See our “Speaking American” TEDxVail Video on YouTube. Our short 1.09.15 TEDxVail Talk video, How Speaking American Can Help Save America, is still available on YouTube. It’s about how to address those who don’t agree with us. And it includes proof that with the right verbal and social tactics, it’s possible for grass roots Americans […]

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The “One Big Family” Frame in 2015

As everyone knows, the most fundamental crisis in America today is the fierce partisan divide we have in government. This situation makes collaboration or cooperation in solving the nation’s problems across party lines appear impossible everywhere. Appear? Certainly in national and state politics it’s real. But what about at the grass roots level? In 2014 The Pew […]

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A Watershed Metaphor for These Times

Of course right now everyone on the left and among the Democrats is feeling shocked and down because of the horrid 2014 election. There’s been a torrent of analysis and blaming on our side. Although many factors were in play, one stands out. That’s the role of corrupt corporate money in fueling Right wing victories […]

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Framing a “Why vote?” Message

At this point the Right has got their election rap down pat, and the Democrats have already written their ads, phone scripts, door to door canvassing messages and other media. So what’s left for us regular citizens to do about framing the issues and getting out the vote? Folks in the know are deeply aware […]

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Stopping the Mega-Corp Coup

What could make Americans say “enough!” to mega-corporations’ meddling?  Examples of it are everywhere now: the attempt to privatize water in Detroit, massive cuts to public education in Mississippi, Burger King’s tax evading move to Canada, to name just a few. (1)  Their goal?  Extracting the last dollar of corporate profit from increasingly desperate people […]

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Say “Let’s get to climate safety fast!”

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released 4.03.14, strongly urges a  fast shift to clean energy.  Since the last report, carbon emissions have accelerated to unprecedented levels. Impact on land, sea, and air is growing catastrophic much faster than scientists predicted. Yet national governments continue to drag their feet about mandating the […]

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National Security: Going “Up” or “Down”?

In his January State of the Union message, President Obama said two noteworthy things: the first was “America must move off a permanent war footing.” Of course this remark was preceded and followed by a lot of predictable stuff about keeping America strong by military means. But the President did preface the bold remark I’ve […]

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SOS: Framing the Climate Protection Act Now

Senators Boxer and Sanders are now back on track promoting their Climate Protection Act, and I am happy to note that they describe what companies would pay as a carbon ‘fee,’ not a ‘tax.’ After all, it’s a ‘pay to play’ situation for business, and that is the definition of a ‘fee,’ not a tax. […]