The Wild Wild Left

Tonight Joe Bageant returns to WWL Radio, with tales from his recent book tour for "Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir," flashbacks to Leary and HST interviews and a little perspective on the American psychosis as an observable phenomenon from a beach hut in Belize.

ADDENDUM:  Sadly, this was Joe's final interview... RIP, my friend

Apparently p*rn*gr@phy and sexu@l assault are legal if the Fed's are doing it. The full body scans have gone full press, so to speak, and the buy-out of the r@pe is an 11 thousand dollar fine. Sounds remarkably like extortion to me.

This & much more!

In a perfect trifecta of theft and misinformation, the PTB have squeezed us like the lemons we are, and all thats left is to zest our skins dry!

The biggest battle in the Class War has begun, arm yourselves with FACTS, my friends, and join Diane G and the WWL project to fight back!!

Ernest Stewart a.k.a. Uncle Ernie is an unabashed radical, author, stand-up comic, DJ, actor, political pundit and for the last 9 years publisher of Issues & Alibis magazine. He is an actor, writer and a producer for W the Movie.

His weekly Magazine, Issues and Alibis was kind enough to reprint my essay, I Want to be a Real Boy this week. Our own Phil Rockstroh is also a regular in his issues, along with Amy Goodman, Uri Avery, Jim Hightower, Chris Hedges and Glenn Greenwald. I am thrilled to be included in such company.

This should be a great evening.

Well, hell... by the Comedy Channel's standards I am thoroughly insane. I think its time to open the windows and scream, "I'm mad as hell, and i'm NOT going to take it anymore." I mean really? Lumping Anti-War Protesters in with TEABAGGERS? Thats not Comedy, it is trying to subvert activism and turn it into slackerism.

Restore Sanity? My version of sanity includes raging against the Headlines this Week. No sane people would take this shit quietly.

BP & HALLIBURTON KNEW THE CEMENT WAS BAD PRIOR TO THE OIL SPILL IN THE GULF.

THE US IS TRYING A CANADIAN BOY THEY KEPT AT GITMO FOR 1/3 OF HIS LIFE, WHILE FUNDING OTHER CHILD SOLDIERS IN YEMEN.

A SMALL FEMALE PEACE PROTESTER GETS HELD DOWN AND STOMPED BY TWO HUGE MALE TEA BAGGERS AND THEY ARE DECIDING (!!?wtf?!!) WHETHER OR NOT TO PRESS CHARGES.

ARIZONA'S RACIST IMMIGRATION LAW WAS THE BRAINCHILD OF PRIVATE PROFITEERING PRISON COMPANIES.

WIKILEAKS IS BEING TARGETED AS AN ENEMY FOR BEING A WHISTLEBLOWER, AND NO ONE IS REPORTING/CONDEMNING THE ACTUAL ATROCITIES DONE IN OUR NAMES.(& we remain skeptical whether this is an "approved" leak or not)

Call me insane. I think louder yelling is EXACTLY what is called for here.

Join us for an interview with esteemed Guest Jon Kozy PHD, a prolific professional author of both print and electronic media, retired professor of philosophy and logic, veteran who understands EXACTLY how Capitalism is killing Western Civilization.

Chile frees 33 miners and exposes the dark underside of profits before people. Privacy is such a quaint notion, as corporate entities mine data of your buying psychology and help the Feds catch those pesky tewwowists. The latest in a long list is Apple Computer who wants to spy on your iPhone. What Fourth Amendment? The apoplectic military doesn't know who to ask and who tell as the DADT policy is batted around by courts, politicians and war criminals. What Oil Spill? As Obama lifts the oil drilling ban in the Gulf. Forget about accountability, oversight and investigation into what caused the greatest ongoing environmental disaster in the history of the world. It's always profit before people. Banks foreclosing on folks for shits and giggles. Freak show politics as the Tea Party Monster rears its xenophobic, homophobic, racist head.

When did the men and women we hire to represent us suddenly become not only our keepers, but our stalkers?

From rulings by our Highest Courts against our privacy, to the Unitary Executive "internet kill switch", to commando raids on Peace Activists, all the way to letting our Media and Elections be co-opted by the Neo-Liberal Elites... we are being WATCHED, Stalked, Manipulated by our own Government.

When will we say enough is enough???

Religious extremism is epidemic.

Is the anti-masturbation drive of a O'Donnell any less extreme than some of the Islamic whacks opinions about human sexuality?

Are the Muslim bombers any less brutal than the Jewish clerics calling for the eradication of all Palestinians? Are either less deadly than the American Christians who call for bombing Women's Health Clinics or for the murder of Gays?

Under the umbrella of all this ramped up hatred, lies the fact the we are losing the Class War; its pawns doing the dirty work of ensuring Peace Talks will not work, ensuring Populist ideas are disparaged, and most of all keeping the People of the Country and the World too divided to notice what has been done to them.

The Mid-Terms are bearing down our throats like Cholula Sauce and there just isn't enough Mescal to put out the fire. It BUUUUUUUUUUURNS!

So, here we are on the Left of the Left fringes of Liberal/Progressive Land wondering just what we are supposed to be doing. The Obama administration has done more to crush the Left than a thousand Palin Presidencies ever could, and exposed the Bipartisan Kabuki as bad Uniparty Political theater more than a tsunami of heinously acted fake Beck tears.

Less than 50% of the People normally vote in a POTUS year, far less in the midterms. So with the Left thrown fully under the bus by the Democrats, do we bother to vote? Do we sink to the lesser of the two evils again, vote third party and write ins, register Republican to force people to see the horrors of their ways, or start burning our Ballots outside of every Polling Place in the US in protest?

What are the viable alternative outcomes as the Empire collapses? Will unions be the structure, or utter chaos, or a Police State?

Is there any ground level structure that can be formed to make We The People wrest our Power back from its Corporate Sponsors?

The Debate is on, folks: Jump in!