Articles by Mark Frankenberg

We are the Conscience of America Sure, there is strength in unity. Yes, it makes a people strong to have grounding in moral principles. Indeed, a leader who has proven himself in the world of commerce does have abilities that could be useful in government. Certainly, it is vital to demonstrate iron resolve and conviction. Just make Sure that you adhere to a code of righteousness as you conduct your business. Never let defects of character such as temptation, greed, fear or hatred interfere with the just dispensation of your duties. Never forget that we are all human beings, no matter what we look like, what we wear, where we live, how we re-create ourselves. And Just make Sure that you Never succumb to lying, cheating, stealing, killing, destroying or torturing, and that you act in accordance with all that is True, Good and Wise, as prophets and philosophers the world over, down through the ages, have mandated. We will be watching. The millions of us. We will continue to seek truth and justice, and we will readily speak out and demand accountability when we see those values undermined, denied or repressed. We are the Conscience of America. --Mark Frankenberg

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New Word for the day: Corp-ora-to-crat  Infecting our government and Press today is an ideology we fought a revolution against 200 years ago. When the East India Corporation, based in England, began to undersell (through unfair tax policy) and thus monopolize the American colonial tea market, threatening to dominate that industry and then others, as it was in India, entrepreneurs in these colonies recognized that danger and took action. The resulting new republic (read: representative democracy) created a nation of laws including those designed specifically to prevent the development and spread of the same cancer it had fought to rid itself of in revolution: the super-wealthy, corporate aristocracy. Later in our history, Presidents Jefferson, Lincoln and both Roosevelts wrote extensively on the dangers of neglecting to maintain control over (and limits on), the size and power of the corporate aristocracy. The new republic defined in the Constitution Began with the words "We, the People" to emphasize that this was a government to be run by representatives of the population at large, and not by or for an aristocracy, a theocracy, or a corporatocracy. What we have occupying much of our government as well as much of our press today are not Democrats or Republicans, not Conservatives, not Liberals: they are, and represent only, the Corporate Aristocrats. They are Corporatocrats.   Corp - ora - to - crats. Corporatocrats are also known as Fascists, according to the definition given by Mussolini, the man who invented the word Fascism. With that in mind, Gitmo, AbuGraib, ANWR, a cabinet of deregulatory industry-lobbyists, perpetual war and the continual dismemberment of programs designed to promote the general welfare , should be no surprise at all. But, see, not everyone knows this. Yet.