Guest Column: Russell Means, in Memoriam

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Brian Wright

A Great Soul returns to the Great Spirit
by Brian Wright

They say that when a true scholar or a person who has led a particularly rich and robust life dies, “another library closes.” And that is certainly a poignant observation for the counter-culture American Indian leader, Russell Means… a noble soul-warrior I was privileged to know and befriend. The ‘library’ in this case is full of volumes of sentiment and inspiration of “a People”—not just the Lakotah Sioux nation that bore him, but the world community that Russell gave courage to. Courage to see the truth and courage to fight, and overcome, the Western Patriarchy that aims to crush the life blood from us all. Continue reading →

Guest Column: TSA Lethal Radiation and its Cures

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Brian Wright

Two stories you won’t get from the Lamestream
courtesy Infowars and Brasscheck TV

Editor’s Note: Normally, when publishing a guest column I try to excerpt with reference to the author’s article or column. In this case, I don’t think Infowars—in the person of Paul Joseph Watson will mind in the least my practically full transcription of his piece. It astounds me that—in this day of exposure of multiple high-level crimes and felonies, including the recent assumption by Obama of dictatorial powers of indefinite detention without trial and murder of ‘enemies of the state’—so many ‘good Americans’ accept that they must be either sexually assaulted or lethally irradiated by government agents (with the combined IQ of toast) for the privilege of flying. Maybe when these low-life morons start dying like flies, the rest of us will have the moral courage to end the Ongoing atrocity of the TSA. Continue reading →

Guest Column: Free Don Siegelman

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Brian Wright

… then the rest of us
Support the effort to free former governor
Don Siegelman from the Federal Prosecutocracy
by Various

So why would the Coffee Coaster care about a public official who was subjected to blatantly malicious federal prosecution then convicted in a federal kangaroo court and imprisoned in the federal Gulag. Because if it can happen to Don Siegelman (governor of Alabama 1999-2003) it can happen to you, to me, or to your grandmother munching on marijuana brownies… and IS! Continue reading →

Guest Column: ‘Expose and Expunge’ Illegal Records on Citizens

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Brian Wright

Take action now to erase the DHS spy files
by Partnership for Civil Justice

Most people are not aware that silently, but constantly, the government is now watching, recording your everyday travels and storing years of your activities in massive data warehouses that can be quickly “mined” to find out when and where you have been, whom you’ve visited, meetings you’ve attended, and activities you’ve taken part in…. This column comes from a mailing of Partnership for Civil Justice that fights the Grid, specifically the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its vast indiscriminate ‘spy files’ on American citizens. Continue reading →

Guest Column: Fork the Drug War, Now!

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Brian Wright

The War on Drugs is the War on Freedom
by Camille Brockman

This is another in a series of liberty-focused banners that have been assembled by an interesting group of Web-savvy entrepreneurs or writers associated with something called the Online Criminal Justice Degree Project. Going to their site, I see these are people who are truly for justice: justice WITH liberty. All the corporatist government infringements of rights are held to high scrutiny. I love their banners (that unfold as facts and figures about serious public issues), which someone over there sends me periodically. Thank you, Camille. The War on Drugs: Don’t leave the Inquisition in first place in history’s greatest ongoing multidecade crimes against humanity. Continue reading →

Guest Column: Impunity at Home, Rendition Abroad

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Brian Wright

How two administrations and both parties made illegality the American Way of Life
by Alfred W. McCoy
excerpted from HuffPost column 08/14/2012

After a decade of fiery public debate and bare-knuckle partisan brawling, the United States has stumbled toward an ad hoc bipartisan compromise over the issue of torture that rests on two unsustainable policies: impunity at home and rendition abroad.

President Obama has closed the CIA’s “black sites,” its secret prisons where American agents once dirtied their hands with waterboarding and wall slamming. But via rendition — the sending of terrorist suspects to the prisons of countries that torture — and related policies, his Continue reading →

Guest Column: Motor City Rambles

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Brian Wright

Dunkin’ Donuts, Shots, Old Drivers, Christian Dating
by John Worster

Picking up where we’ve left off with my good friend John Worster, former mixologist and Detroit-area working man, entrepreneur, and, lately, social critic. I always look forward to JW’s rapid-fire take on things absurd or out of sorts in our neck of the universe. The acronym ROFLMAO had to originate in his imagination. I hope one day he will write a book, because it will be therapeutic to be its editor. In this column John responds to my own bit of daily-grind observations about the famous Dunkin’ Donuts enterprise and its foibles. Continue reading →