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Tom Ferguson
Tom is a painter, a cartoonist, a musician, a thinker and more. View some of his web sites:
- www.thinkspeak.net (Painting)
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- thinkspeak.bandcamp.com (Music)
- tfthinkspeak.blogspot.com (blog)
Number of posts: 108
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Posts by Tom Ferguson:
Southern Sounds
The Swimming Pool Qs
Anything characterized by high energy, originality, humor and intelligence is bound to get my attention. I was at an annual fund-raising party for an alternative art center called Nexus in about 1986. Touring the studios I kept being distracted from the visual art by some very interesting Rock ‘n Roll. I wasn’t the only one. A large segment of the crowd was gathered around the Swimming Pool Qs in the courtyard. Once in their vicinity I was there for as long as they would play.
Business As Usual
Drifting Toward the Waterfall
Does it drive me careening ca-razy when I see O’reilly, Beck, Hannity etc; with books on the bestseller list? That would be a yes! These (mostly) white (mostly) guys capitalize on their positions in the media to sell books. Their TV and radio shows propagate a point of view that just happens to support an economic system that the billionaire owners of the media, their ultimate bosses, approve of. Their books send the same message, keeping their followers dumbed down…
Too Much Magic
Wishful thinking
It is all too tempting to dismiss James Howard Kunstler as a doom-and-gloom pessimist but the nagging questions he leaves us in his books and blog, are pretty insistent in their demand that we prove him wrong. This exercise, to have any meaning, would have to be done by what Kunstler calls, “reality-based adults.” Good luck finding such individuals and pray to the god (small cap) of your choice that they are successful. You might be such a person. Kunstler’s conclusions are too dark for my sunny disposition so I beg, someone, please demonstrate the flaws in his argument.
Part 2
The Untold History of the U.S.
The Cuban Missile Crisis: background. After outlining how the U.S. was taken over by a cabal of unbalanced individuals at Roosevelt’s death, The Untold History goes on to document some later consequences, starting with the shameful 1954 coup that overthrew Guatemala’s democracy. This criminal action installed a murderous regime for which the U.S. had no criticism so long as it operated in ways that profited U.S. corporations, most particularly United Fruit, many of whose directors did the revolving door thing where they would work for the State Department then return to United Fruit…
Madness
Hair Trigger
I responded to a Sierra Club call once, back during Zell Miller’s governorship, to gather at the capital to raise awareness about some environmental issue, I forget what. I’ve often gone to demonstrations to put my body there, to be counted and this was one of those, a general support without specific knowledge of the issue. I was getting briefed by one of the Sierra Club folks when someone announced, “We’re being invited in to meet with the governor.” This was the pre-bonkers Zell Miller. In fact he had a bit of a progressive reputation. Still, no one expected…
Social Justice
The Umpire of Empire
Michael Parenti can always be counted on to provide an original twist, in this case to the old story of Empire. He refers to Imperial Forces as “batterers.” Given that the mainstream media is where most citizens get their information, Parenti’s view of the U.S. as a colonial empire will clash wildly with how those citizens likely understand world affairs. But the author, in his book, Against Empire, offers a persuasive argument for those willing to suspend belief for a moment in the “exceptional morality” of our government.
Part 1
The Untold History of the U.S
The 1944 Coup
Skipping straight to the most explosive item in the early part of this important history: Franklin Roosevelt was elected because the ruling elite, in their unbridled greed, had transgressed all bounds, forgetting their vulnerability to democracy. Toward the end of World War II and Roosevelt’s approaching unprecedented fourth term, the millionaire-backed powers that vehemently opposed his progressive programs banded together to dump his vice-president. Knowing Roosevelt would likely die in office…
