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A few Writings and Op/Ed Pieces 
by Mark A. Goldman
Revision Date
Sudoku as a Model for Finding Freedom, Peace and Happiness 5/21/08
Reality 5/6/08
Dr. Bartlett's very, very  important video. 5/3/08
Unqualified 4/30/08
Monsanto's Patents, Food, and its Pigs 4/27/08
Living in a Dream World 4/10/08
What's going on with our money? 3/25/08
No One is Leading 3/23/08
Simple Strategy for Deciding Who to Vote For 3/5/08
What the World Needs Now 3/4/08
Guantanamo Comes to Main Street U.S.A. 2/11/08
Stand Up For Freedom 1/30/08
Remembering Martin Luther King and Others 1/8/08
A Thought for the New Year 2008 12/20/07
Your Prayers Have Been Answered 11/1/01
Open Letter to Citizens of Planet Earth 10/28/07
The Last Man Standing 10/25/07
I Can Show You How To Build An Empire 10/13/07
Nothing to Fear 9/28/07
Debating Iraq 9/11/07
On Sub-Prime Behavior 9/8/07
Here We Are 9/1/07
How the twin towers fell 8/29/07
What Do Sub-Prime Loans Have To Do With Stocks? 8/15/07
Too Much At Stake Not To Try 8/11/07
Our Children's Last Chance 8/4/06
An Open Letter to Scott Ritter 8/1/07
Time's A'wasting 7/26/07
Be Strong, Be Yourself 7/25/07
Now What Are You Going To Do? 7/19/07
Kucinch vs. Cheney 6/25/07
Live the Dream 6/8/2007
Half Hearted Attempts at Defending the Constitution 5/21/07
Message from Tanzania 5/18/07
Gee Whiz, Bill Moyers... 4/26/07
Beware the Jabberwock! 4/5/07
When Liberty Dies In The Heart 4/2/07
Sometimes Doing Nothing Is Better 3/29/07
Losing the Next Election 3/23/07
The Price of Oil 3/21/07
About those signing statements 3/17/07
What does it mean to win an illegal war 3/16/07
How Bush Gets Jews to Give Up Judaism and Destroy Israel 3/13/07
TREASON - are you giving it a pass? 3/11/07
Does Reform Come From the Top or From the Bottom? 3/7/07
Simple Strategy for Citizens 
Who Want to Renew our Democracy
2/28/07
Talking with Jesus... again 2/18/07
Iran's Revenge 2/2/07
State of the Union:  a defeated nation 1/26/07
Truth as a Last Resort 1/14/07
To Surge or Not to Surge 1/10/07
Does Israel Have a Right to Exist? 11/30/06
God and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 6/02/06
Do all human beings have basic human rights? 5/29/06
There's only one issue 5/18/06
Nancy Pelosi forfeits the Constitution 5/16/06
On NSA Data Collection 5/13/06
Failed States  (Comments on Noam Chomsky's new book) 5/11/06
The Lone Protestor 5/5/06
Mary McCarthy and the Bush League Players 4/26/06
Who has time for such naivete? 4/26/06
The Big Lie Persists 4/4/06
The Rice Blackburn Lecture 4/1/06
Simple, Not Easy 3/27/06
New Government 2/22/06
Saving America by Losing Elections 2/20/06
On God, Religion, and Cartoons 2/9/06
The State of the Nation 1/31/06
Our Late Republic 1/29/06
My Fantastic Dream 1/27/06
The Noose Tightens 1/21/06
I will show you what power is. 1/19/06
Treason 1/12/06
Cowards or Pigs 1/9/06
Questions to Ask Your Congressional Representative 1/7/06
Memo to the House Judiciary Committee
Democratic Staff
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12/20/05
Following Orders 12/19/05
Christmas/Chanukah List 12/8/05
Fiduciary Responsibility 12/2/05
Treason Timeline 11/30/05
Resolution Motion Denied a Hearing on Vashon Island 6/20/05
Abortion Revisited 6/10/05
Mission Accomplished 5/2/04
Interview with Jesus 2/23/04
How I See It 2003
On Work  
The Children of Iraq 10/1/02
Like a Bull in a China Shop 9/5/02

On Citizenship

 

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

I've written three books since 2000, (all published as e-books, one also in paperback).  Each book contains commentaries, most of which were originally posted on this web site, and each contains comments or writings that were never posted to this site.    The e-books contain reference links which I consider an integral part of the work.  —Mark

Titles of the three books, and a quote from each, are as follows:

The Answer... 
 
Available in paperback and/or as a PDF file.  It covers the period leading up to the Iraq invasion, and includes some earlier writings. 

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"...and if you haven't the courage to tell the truth, or the consciousness to honor the truth, or the love to love the truth, then one day you will not have the truth to tell, and soon thereafter you will not live in a place that will acknowledge the truth when it is told, and not long after that the truth will not be told, for it will no longer be allowed.  You cannot hope to be a traitor to life, and then expect to live in a free and just society."

The Critical Choice... 
  Available without cost as a PDF file.  Includes commentaries from the fall of Baghdad until June of 2004.

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"When an elected official takes his oath of office, he gives his word that he will preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.  Any individual who makes a personal decision to take office and then not abide by the guiding principles established under the Constitution and the body of law that follows from it, and favors instead his own interpretation of some other law, e.g., religious law... he violates both his oath of office and the law he tells himself he's following."

Broke and Broken... 
 
Available as a PDF file.  Includes commentaries from the disclosures about Abu Ghraib until December 2005 including overviews of what has happened to our country, the Constitution, and the rule of law, particularly since the Bush administration came to power in 2000.

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"The greatest danger the American people face now are not terrorists, but the possibility that you [Cheney] and Bush will not be impeached. For every day, while the American people sleep—ignorant and unaware of your gross infidelity—the rest of the world is looking at the photographs of burned, disfigured, and dismembered children, and they are beginning to believe that it is not just you and your administration who did this to them, but also our elected representatives, and the American people at large... because so far, we have allowed you to keep doing it with impunity. And given the anger and hatred for the injustice that they've been made to suffer, one can easily imagine the retribution exploding onto American soil if you and your conspirators are not repudiated and removed from office very soon."

Serious damage has been done to our democracy and to the rule of law, both national and international.  Our country and our culture have been seriously degraded... with government, industry, media and most citizens no longer working in an enlightened manner, or with a unified vision that promises to leave this planet better off than we found it.  

I invite you to read my books.  Each book is written with commentaries in reverse chronological order, i.e., the most recent in the front of each book, oldest at the back... like standing at a point in time and looking back.  That might seem counter intuitive when you first start reading, because you may not understand how I could be saying such things.  As you continue to read, though, it will remind you of how we got here and it will all make sense.  At least I hope so.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me directly by clicking here.

Mark A. Goldman

 

Other recommended links...

“We are not going to be able to operate
 our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for 
much longer unless we see it as a whole 
spaceship and our fate as common. It 
has to be everybody or nobody.”
                     R. Buckminster Fuller


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