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JAZZMAN CHRONICLES: DISSEMINATE FREELY. THE LONG JOURNEY THREE ROADS TO THE WHITE HOUSE By Jack Random In the late sixties to mid seventie...

TAPPING THE LOWER DEPTHS By Jack Random It was not the rage or the sorrow that ripped his life apart. It was humiliation. John Christianso...

THE ARTIST IN A TIME OF WAR By Jack Random "Fiction and nonfiction are only different techniques of storytelling. For reasons I do not...

The Rings of Power By Jack Random The voice of an ancient sorrow came to me in a feverish dream. His face was marked with worry, his eyes b...

A REASONED ALTERNATIVE By Jack Random The extreme right wing of the Republican Party has been able to capture power, implementing policies o...

DEMOCRACY BETRAYED By Jack Random In the wake of the 2004 presidential election, the bold defenders of the Electoral College cannot suddenly...

AND HOW TO GET OVER IT By Michael D. Caine George Bush has squeaked out the most narrow of victories by using the same tactics that the...

By Jack Random As the grim reality of the 2004 election settles in, we are torn between seeking blame and finding new direction, all in a de...

A CALL TO ACTION By Jack Random The election is over. The ballots have been cast and the people have rendered a decision. Coming on the he...

By Jack Random If the Christian version of the word is truth, then Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and George W. Bush will have some explaining...

AN ELECTION EVE REVISION By Jack Random It is the season when all promises and all actions must be taken with a great deal of cynicism. Hav...

ALIVE & WELL By Jack Random The October surprise has finally arrived and the real surprise is that it was delivered by Al Jazeera. Four...

THE REMARKABLE CONSISTENCY OF MR. BUSH By Jack Random “A president has to wait for all the facts before jumping to a conclusion.” -- GW Bus...

A DAY WITHOUT POLITICS For one glorious day, there is no politics. The Boston Red Sox have lifted the curse of the great Bambino. For the ...

DISENFRANCHISEMENT, FRAUD & THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE By Jack Random Ann Coulter, the blonde bombshell of rightwing ideologues, famously acc...

JAZZMAN CHRONICLES: DISSEMINATE FREELY. A RESPONSE TO A LETTER FROM MINNESOTA By Jack Random As a voice for independence from political pa...

THE OCTOBER SURPISE? By Jack Random We have heard the name Abu Musab Zarqawi all too often in recent weeks. We have heard it in connection...

By Jack Random On October 21, 1969, the summer of love was over. Woodstock was history. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were dead. W...

THE MENDACITY OF KARL ROVE By Jack Random As the president decries the politics of fear and Orwell turns over in his grave once more, the vi...

REFLECTIONS ON BABLYON By Jack Random When a platoon of soldiers out of Jackson, Mississippi, the 343rd Quartermaster Company, refused to ca...