The times they are a’changing. The contrast is very stark: Authoritarian powers and dupes of leaders are falling like dominoes around the world. Those hanging onto their power through iron-fisted control tremble in the face of something brewing beyond their control. Even in our own supposedly democratic government, there is exposed the most glaring self-centeredness, [...]
“These are the times that try mens’ souls.” These famous words of Thomas Paine from his pamphlet “The Crisis”, written during the American Revolutionary War, stirred the spirit of all Americans of that difficult time. The words might as well have been uttered today. Paine lived and wrote amid two great revolutions: The American Revolution, [...]
So now people are finally bringing the revolution to the streets. At New York’s Stock Exchange, we suddenly see hundreds of people, young and old, protesting greed, protesting banks and bankers, protesting the stock market, protesting something almost indefinable now in the air in America. It is despair, it is disgust, with our own government. [...]
The uprisings and revolts taking place throughout the Arab world are astonishing harbingers of a new world order emerging, not only in that part of the globe, but all over the planet. We have not yet seen the true face of this revolution. The old ways are no longer holding. Autocracy is on its way [...]
At a recent stop in Orlando, Michelle Bachmann, campaigning for President of the United States, was quoted as saying: “Washington, D.C., you’d think by now they’d get the message. An earthquake. A hurricane. Are you listening? The American people have done everything they can. Now it’s time for an act of God and we’re getting [...]
A week ago, Dennis Kucinich gave a speech in Seattle. It is about a new America, and the Dream of America. It is about the kind of America we all yearn for, and envision for our children. Draw your own conclusions. Here is the speech: Hello Seattle. On this day, in this place of great [...]
Hiroshima. August 6, 1945. The Bomb. The after effects of that first atomic bomb still linger on in the psyche of the world, especially in the United States. At the end of the War, a scenario was scripted and promoted by the U. S. government, which basically argued that the dropping of the atomic bomb [...]
Walt Whitman, the great bard of America, sang of simple men and women, and of a promise of America that went way beyond the economic dream that is now so associated with the American Dream. In “Democratic Vistas”, he wrote: “I hail with joy the oceanic, variegated, intense practical energy, the demand for facts, even [...]
The real America, and the real American Dream – what are they really? A reading, from “The New Superpower”, by James Hilgendorf. James Hilgendorf is the author of four books. He is also the producer of The Tribute Series, a series of highly-acclaimed travel films and documentaries. One of these series of documentaries is America’s [...]