The Delusional Is No Longer Marginal.

I Can Tell You That The Job Of Trying To Tell The Truth About People Whose Job It Is To Hide The Truth Is About As Complicated And Difficult As Trying To Hide It In The First Place.

Big Money And Big Business, Corporations And Commerce, Are Again The Undisputed Overlords Of Politics And Government. The White House, The Congress And, Increasingly, The Judiciary, Reflect Their Interests. We Appear To Have A Government Run By Remote Control From The U.s. Chamber Of Commerce, The National Association Of Manufacturers And The American Petroleum Institute. To Hell With Everyone Else.

Here Is The Crisis Of The Times As I See It: We Talk About Problems, Issues, Policies, But We Don't Talk About What Democracy Means - What It Bestows On Us - The Revolutionary Idea That It Isn't Just About The Means Of Governance But The Means Of Dignifying People So They Become Fully Free To Claim Their Moral And Political Agency.

In Tracking Down And Eliminating Terrorists, We Need To Change Our Metaphor From A "war On Terror" - Exactly What, Pray Tell, Is That? - To The Mind-set Of Interpol Tracking Down Master Criminals Through Intense Global Cooperation Among Nations, Or The Fbi Stalking The Mafia, Or Local Police Determined To Quell Street Gangs Without Leveling The Entire Neighborhood In The Process.

The Quality Of Democracy And The Quality Of Journalism Are Deeply Entwined.