April 23, 2008
Negotiable or not, the American Way of Life must be extinguished...
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner (As inspired by a conversation with Derrick Jensen) "There's got to be just more to it than this; Or tell me why do we exist?" -Iron Maiden We in the Western "developed" nations,...
April 5, 2008
Jesus knows a camel when he sees one: We are NOT passing through the eye of that needle, America....
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner Dedicated to Bobbie L. In the sermon just minutes before his death, Archbishop Oscar Romero (a man who truly practiced the teachings of Christ) reminded his congregation of the parable of the wheat....
March 21, 2008
Hope, Change, and Pissing in the Wind
By: Patrice Greanville and Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner "Of Obama, Democrats, and the Power Elite" CHARISMATIC, ARTICULATE, SMOOTH, AND INTELLIGENT, Barrack Obama is the living embodiment of his vague, ethereal, and tantalizing messages of "hope" and "change." To...
December 31, 2007
Ron Paul in 2008? Just Say No to Dr. No
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner "Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class." --Al Capone It has taken Nuremberg-class war crimes, craven ineptitude by Congressional Democrats, foreclosures on every other home in the neighborhood, and a metaphorical...
December 24, 2007
Lies, Injustice and the Capitalist Way: We're on the Highway to Hell--Don't Stop Us!
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner "We are riding alongside Angus and Malcolm Young on the 'Highway to Hell.'" We "Free World" capitalistic Westerners are a loathsome lot--or to put it more crudely, we suck. When one considers how...
November 28, 2007
Moral Primitivism Anyone? A Satirical Examination of an Apologia for Industrialized Torture
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner "Again, if PETA is putting something out, I will always have my doubts - they see things one way and one way only. Theirs. In many ways the activists in this country are...
November 23, 2007
Institutionalized Glorification of our Greed and Gluttony: Thanksgiving Reflections of an Anti-Capitalist
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner Gluttony and greed kill more than the sword. --Italian proverb Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. ~Charles Lamb, 1821 Another propaganda-driven greed-fest has nearly passed in the land of the...
November 14, 2007
Mentes Peligrosas: Confession of an American Thought Criminal
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner "Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death." -Winston Smith from George Orwell's 1984 If you needed more evidence that most of our "esteemed" members of Congress are members of a criminal class...
October 30, 2007
Shouting at the Devil: "Fuck You, Capitalism!"
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner "America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you...
October 9, 2007
Cluster B Personality Disorders: 1776.0 Americanistic Personality Disorder
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner The essential features of Americanistic Personality Disorder include pervasive patterns of extreme self-absorption, profound and long-term lapses in empathy, a deep disregard for the well-being of others, a powerful aversion to intellectual honesty...
August 27, 2007
Profit of Doom: Of Vampires, Parasites, and the Demise of Capitalism
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner "It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some blood to suck. Capitalism used to be like an eagle, but now it's more like a vulture. It...
August 16, 2007
Two Legs Good, Four Legs Equal
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner "The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and benificence of God manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and...
July 27, 2007
Of Marx, Christ, and the Persecution of Radicals: How Will Humanity Survive the Capitalist Threat?
By Jason Miller A few days ago, one of my closest friends hit me with a heavily loaded question. "Are you a Communist?" she queried. To which I replied: I do not belong nor militate in any formal communist party...
July 16, 2007
Slaves to Christ and Compassion Unite: Free Markets Must Prevail
By Jason Miller [Warning: Satire Ahead] "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." -John Maynard Keynes If you're nodding your head in agreement...
June 26, 2007
Overgrown Kids, Unshackled Ids, and the Death of the Superego
By Jason Miller "Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them." --Sigmund Freud Frightening as it may be, the Earth's fate rests in the hands of children. With incredibly formidable military firepower at...
June 4, 2007
Annals of Mendacious Punditry: When the Shill Enables the Kill
By Jason Miller Jonah Goldberg is the living, breathing embodiment of virtually all that is pernicious in the malignant socioeconomic and political structures collectively known as the American Empire. Yet tragically, this scheming sycophant to the cynical, privileged criminals of...
May 22, 2007
Annals of Mendacious Punditry: Pin-Striped Perfidy
By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner Larry Kudlow is CEO of Kudlow & Co., LLC, an economic and investment research firm. Kudlow is host of CNBC's "Kudlow & Company" which airs weeknights at 5 p.m. He is the host...
May 20, 2007
Have a Koch and a Smile: Free Markets and Property Rights Trump Humanity and the Environment!
By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner So long as the markets are free and the rich stay that way, human suffering and environmental devastation are irrelevant. Beneath the "feel good" facade of baseball, apple-pie, mom, and Chevrolet lurks this...
May 14, 2007
War-Pimping with a Smile: Of American Exceptionalism, Apple Pie, and Moral Rot
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner Biography of Kathleen Parker excerpted from The Washington Post Writers Group page: Now one of America's most popular opinion columnists, appearing in more than 350 newspapers, Parker is at home both inside and...
May 3, 2007
Soul to the Highest Bidder
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner Peggy Noonan (born Margaret Ellen Noonan on September 7, 1950 in Brooklyn, New York) is an author of seven books on politics, religion and culture and a weekly columnist for the Wall Street...
April 21, 2007
USA: Cornering the Market on Morality
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner William Blum interviewed by Jason Miller (including satirical commentary by Miller) "We have morality on our side...." ---William Blum Ironic words flowing from the pen of a man who has devoted forty years...
April 17, 2007
Please God, deliver us from the banality of evil
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler. ---Paul Robeson...
April 4, 2007
Why are we waging war on the poor and oppressed?
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner "I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice,...
March 29, 2007
Rover is not on the menu, Wilbur is, and Mahmoud just starved to death
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner "If my competitor were drowning, I'd stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water." --Ray Kroc "....a funny, jowly, canny, barbarous guy who lives in a multimillion-dollar condo on Park...
March 14, 2007
From Lawn-Boys to B-2's: America's penchant for mowing 'em down
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner Mike Palecek interviewed by Jason Miller "I just look around and see people mowing their lawns on the same day we start to bomb Iraq and it drives me wild." --Mike Palecek Having...
March 7, 2007
Mother Bush would be proud to call this one her own: of shameless devotion to wealth, privilege, and empire
By Jason Miller Consider this my mea culpa for publishing If You Hate America So Much, Why Don't You Get the Hell Out! on my notoriously unorthodox sociopolitical blog, Thomas Paine's Corner. When Jay Gould III, the former CEO of...
February 20, 2007
Compassionate Oppression: Subjugating Your Inferiors with a Human Touch
By Jason Miller An Open Letter to Ehud Olmert By T.D. "Daddy" Rice Ehud Olmert Office of the Prime Minister 3 Kaplan St. Hakiyra, Jerusalem 91919 Dear Ehud, My hearty congratulations to you and your fellow Zionists! You sure know...
February 10, 2007
A Pox upon Mr. Armstrong's Wonderful World
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner I see trees of green, red roses too, I see them bloom for me and you, And I think to myself, what a wonderful world....---Louis Armstrong In an increasingly frightening and unstable world,...
January 20, 2007
Truth is Speaking....Is Power Listening?
By: Jason Miller Carolyn Baker interviewed by Jason Miller Deep crimson stains mottle the pages of humanity's history. Untold numbers of souls who were skewered, decapitated, eviscerated, or obliterated in anonymity scream out for recognition as one peruses humankind's memoirs....
January 14, 2007
Man fuel: Is it in you?
By: Jason Miller Man fuel: Is it in you? Of Savage Imperialism, Pigskin Monopolists, and Intellectual Emasculation "Two things only the people anxiously desire -- bread and circuses." --Juvenal Searching for masculine bliss incarnate? Look no further than NFL football...
December 31, 2006
And the Empire Mourned....Dissecting the Big Lie
By: Jason Miller "If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership'." ---Will Rogers "It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and...
December 24, 2006
Shouting Truth to Depraved Power (and Its Unwitting Accomplices)
By: Jason Miller Shouting Truth to Depraved Power (and Its Unwitting Accomplices): Stephen Lendman Sounds Off An Interview with Jason Miller I recently had the privilege of conducting a "cyber interview" with one of the preeminent domestic critics of the...
December 18, 2006
Call me Ebenezer, but Christmas as we know it needs to go
By: Jason Miller Bursting forth with renewed intensity, the "War on Christmas" is back in 2006. So just what does this alleged war against an impalpable enemy entail? Have "Islamofascists" captured and decapitated Santa Claus? Did a US-made IDF "smart...
December 11, 2006
Bread, Bread, Everywhere, Yet not a Morsel to Eat
By: Jason Miller Pelted by a perpetual hail of electrons fired through a cathode ray tube, the pixels on my PC monitor feed me a generous intellectual bounty of words and images emanating from virtually infinite points dotting the globe....
December 4, 2006
O Come Let Us Adore Them
By Ragnar Redbeard III O Come Let Us Adore Them: Treasuring our American Values of Greed, Self-Interest, and Enlightened Oppression "What kind of a society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an...
November 26, 2006
Blind Obedience to the Canons of Capitalism
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner Blind Obedience to the Canons of Capitalism:Of Sick Societies, American Dalits, and a Nation of Lady Macbeths [Author's Note to Establish Context: I composed this on 11/24/06, the day after Thanksgiving] "Tell me...
November 20, 2006
Milton Lost: Can We Regain Paradise?
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner [I dedicate this essay to the untold millions who suffered as a result of Milton Friedman's creation of an intellectual bulwark for economic brutality. On 11/16/06, Friedman died of heart failure, an ironic...
November 14, 2006
To the Victors Belongs Impunity
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner To the Victors Belongs Impunity: Of Incorrigible Transgressors, Tacit Complicity, and Lady Justice's Conspicuous Absence "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." ---Henry Kissinger, New York Times, October 28,...
November 7, 2006
Unleashing the Christ Within
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner Unleashing the Christ Within: Last Hope for the Moribund Soul of a Nation? "What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?" ---Jesus Christ Humanity's "beacon...
October 30, 2006
Hell Awaits, America
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner Hell Awaits, America: Mass Manipulation, Blissful Psychosis, and 7 Easy Ways to Achieve Damnation "'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat....
October 23, 2006
Corrode Your Conformity
By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner Corrode Your Conformity: Big Brother Doesn't Practice Fraternal Love "Non-violence is a weapon of the strong." ---Mahatma Gandhi It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather...
October 16, 2006
Spiritual Felo De Se
By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner Spiritual Felo De Se: Fealty to a Moral Abomination "Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect...
October 9, 2006
Piercing the Simulacrum
By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner Piercing the Simulacrum: Of Faux Democracy, Petty Tyrants, and Painful Realities "The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and...
October 5, 2006
America's Collective Delusion Must Endure
By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner America's Collective Delusion Must Endure: Domestic Genocide of an Economic Nature "The beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart." --Mary Shelley's Victor Frankenstein Accomplishing a logic-defying feat,...
September 28, 2006
I Pledge Allegiance to the Corporations
By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner I Pledge Allegiance to the Corporations... Fascism the American Way Relentless indoctrination by a vast corporate media complex has convinced many that the United States of America is an exceptional nation. Charged with...
September 22, 2006
Herbert Spencer's Evolved Capitalists
By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner Herbert Spencer's Evolved Capitalists: "Proclaiming Death to the Weakling, Wealth to the Strong" Assaulting humanity and the Earth with shocking impunity, the White House's Machiavellian acolytes of Strauss shamelessly lead the charge for...
September 11, 2006
Let Them Eat Candy
By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner Let Them Eat Candy: Of War Criminals, Enablers, and the Decreasing Significance of We the People Remember the archaic notion that freedom of speech and peaceable assembly are guaranteed by a document the...
September 5, 2006
Inalienable Human Rights are not Privileges
By: Jason Miller of Thoms Paine's Corner ACLU Sets the Standard in Struggle for "Liberty and Justice for All" Ecclesiastes tells us there is "no new thing under the sun." Marsha West's article entitled American Christian Loathers Union provides us...
September 1, 2006
It's the American Way or the Highway
By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner Your Extinction Will Quell Your Moral and Intellectual Confusion Persistently ticking off the precious seconds in humanity's "Countdown to Extinction", the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin for Atomic Scientists has advanced to seven...
August 24, 2006
A Little Poverty Never Hurt Anybody - Ruthless Exploiters, Inc.
By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner "It is like paradise and hell. They throw our petitions in the dustbin. They have everything. We have nothing... If we protest, they send soldiers. They sign agreements with us and then ignore...
August 19, 2006
Why Do We Hate Them?
By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner Fear and Loathing in the Occident Islamophobia is a mental and spiritual affliction. And our Western ruling elites bear the responsibility for inflicting it upon the psyches of the masses. Now that the...
August 14, 2006
Terror Nation: Lies, Injustice, and the American Empire's Way
By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner Remember, good patriots, we are at war with Islam, Socialism, Communism, drugs, crime, illegal immigration, Gays, labor unions, liberal university professors, peace activists, environmentalists, Anti-Semites, secular humanists, and all those who pose a...
August 10, 2006
Pornification is a Disease and We Have an Advanced Case
By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner Obscenity Yields Obscene Profits and Capitalists Can't Resist Programmed to obediently work, consume, and act on our hedonistic impulses, we immigrant inhabitants of Turtle Island are probably amongst the most gullible people in...
August 7, 2006
Can You Say Hidden Agenda?
By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner The Discovery Institute's True Raison d'etre and Why We Need to Be Deeply Concerned "In 1998, members of a Seattle nonprofit think tank drafted a secret five-year plan with an ambitious goal: to...
August 5, 2006
An Evolution that Would Blow Darwin's Mind
By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner Of Moral Regression, Heartland Extremism, and Solidarity against the Wicked Witch Forget the exploits of John Brown and Carrie Nation. Their violent efforts for virtuous causes are but distant memories in the Land...
July 29, 2006
Imperial Rulers and the Deadly Games They Play
By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner As Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz recently boasted of "changing the reality on the northern border," the citizens of Israel became the subjects of a serious reality change. Appearing in a video-taped monologue...
July 21, 2006
Betrayal of the Empire or Fealty to Humanity?
By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner Confessions and Reflections of a Recovering White Middle Class Hegemon “See the irony is what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it’s over.”...
July 9, 2006
The Rendition of Christ: Winning the Battle for their Souls
By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner America as the beacon of human rights and dignity is but a dream yet to be realized. While the dream has lain dormant, amoral opportunists have busily unleashed their nightmare on billions of...
July 4, 2006
Give-Get Nation: Born on the Fourth of July
By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner "We the people..." who have the power, the genius and the vision to "ordain" a better world for all humanity and achieve what was once thought to be beyond humanity's grasp: "a world...
June 25, 2006
We're Bending the Arc of the Universe Toward Injustice
BY: JASON MILLER Shut Up, Go Shopping, Support the War...and Nobody Gets Hurt! Remember Martin Luther King and his dreams? Recall how that hopeless idealist dared to conjure notions of the United States treating all people with equality and letting...
June 18, 2006
Exceptional Americans Manifest Their Destiny: And to Hell with the Consequences
By: Jason Miller Contrary to the "catapulted propaganda", Enron, Haditha, and Abu Ghraib were not isolated incidents or the work of a "few bad apples". American savagery and oppressive behavior pervades our society and predates our nation's birth. Building its...
June 11, 2006
Bon Appetit, America
By: Jason Miller Satiating a Gnawing Hunger for Vengeance Throughout Bush's tenure in the White House, our Commander in Chef and his staff of gourmets have prepared a veritable smorgasbord of propagandistic delights for the psyches of those who still...
June 7, 2006
Of Water, Human Beings and Other "Worthless" Commodities
BY: Jason Miller How Capitalism Unleashes the Beast of Soulless Avarice Jinshan Mining Ltd, a leading mineral extraction corporation based in China, has officially announced its ground-breaking technology for extracting gold from the water supply in the United States, including...
May 31, 2006
American Capitalism and The Moral Poverty of Nations
By: Jason Miller Of Faustian Bargains and Disposable Human Beings (This essay is dedicated to the memory of the millions of victims of the Capitalist Imperial wars of conquest waged by the United States under the patently false pretexts of...
May 24, 2006
Slaves to the "Free Market" Unite
By JASON MILLER Can Humanity Make a Stand Against the Ruthless Onslaught of Capitalist Imperialism? Relentlessly delivering the triphammer blows of a youthful Mike Tyson, America's imperialist ruling class of wealthy and corporate elites has been pummeling the poor, minorities,...
May 16, 2006
White and Might Make Right
Comments are temporarily disabled on this article due to spam. BY: JASON MILLER White and Might Make Right: Morality is in the Eye of the Oppressor We of the privileged *Caucasian race have been dancing without paying for centuries. And...
May 3, 2006
Success Is Not An Option: To the Rogue Tyrants Belong the Spoils
BY: Jason Miller Were America's ruling elites forced to become conscienceless criminals so they could fend off the scimitar-bearing Islamic hordes itching to rape, behead, and eviscerate the entire freedom-loving American population?...
April 27, 2006
Have a Koch and a Smile
BY: Jason Miller Have a Koch and a Smile: Free Markets and Property Rights Trump Humanity and the Environment! So long as the markets are free and the rich stay that way, human suffering and environmental devastation are irrelevant. Beneath...
April 20, 2006
Forget the Middle East: North America Harbors the World's Most Dangerous Terrorists
BY: Jason Miller "After the explosion itself, anyone on the edge of the explosion (who were lucky enough to survive) would have melted flesh and severe burns, the skin would literally fall off the bone. Anyone who had seen the...
April 10, 2006
Preserving its Right to Murder, Exploit, Torture, and Impoverish with Impunity
BY: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. ---Oscar Wilde "Why are we over there in Iraq?" "To protect our freedoms." "How are the Iraqis threatening...
April 1, 2006
Your Huddled Masses are now my Wretched Refuse
BY: Jason Miller Primary author at Thomas Paine's Corner Reprinted with author's permission If she drew breath, the Statue of Liberty would drop her torch in disgust and hang her head in shame. Inculcated with the belief that they are...
