CHAPTER TWENTY ONE. THE BATTLE PLAN TO TAKE BACK AMERICA: STRATEGY AND TACTICS.
Written by: Rick Staggenborg, MD on Aug 18, 2009 6:11 PM PDTThis essay is also dedicated to General Eric Shinseki, who spoke truth to power in the run up to the Iraq debacle and was removed from...
View ArticleCHAPTER TWENTY. BROKEN CHINA: THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF THE HIVE MIND
Written by: Rick Staggenborg, MD on Aug 15, 2009 8:28 AM PDT This chapter is dedicated to Thom Hartmann, who wrote in Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight about the need to change human consciousness in...
View ArticleCHAPTER NINETEEN. ALL POLITICS IS INTERNATIONAL
Written by: Rick Staggenborg, MD on Aug 1, 2009 9:41 AM PDTWe are all familiar with the concept “think globally and act locally,” but how often do we stop and think of how are actions actually affect...
View ArticleCHAPTER EIGHTEEN. THE DANCE OF THE MEAT PUPPETS
Written by: Rick Staggenborg, MD on Jul 24, 2009 5:21 AM PDTWith love, to Anne Feeney and her friends.Have you ever tried to dance to one of those complicated rock tunes where the rhythm and the beat...
View ArticleCHAPTER SEVENTEEN: OUR BIPOLAR DISORDER
Written by: Rick Staggenborg, MD on Jul 23, 2009 6:48 AM PDT This essay is dedicated to Robert Putnam, distinguished sociologist and author of Bowling AloneGrowing up in Portland in the early 60s, I...
View ArticleCHAPTER SIXTEEN. AMERICA’S BORDERLINE SPLIT
Written by: Rick Staggenborg, MD on Jul 10, 2009 7:18 AM PDTThis essay is dedicated to Glenn O. Gabbard, from whom I learned the rudiments of object relations theory, upon which this essay is based. To...
View ArticleCHAPTER FIFTEEN. THANK GOD FOR GEORGE BUSH!
This essay is dedicated to Judas Iscariot, beloved follower of Jesus of Nazareth. His role in the passion play was the most difficult, and one that he ultimately could not bear. Without him, the...
View ArticleCHAPTER FOURTEEN. WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER: THE CURIOUS STATE OF ALASKA
Written by: Rick Staggenborg, MD on Jun 30, 2009 3:40 PM PDT This essay is dedicated to Ayn Rand, who popularized the notion of radical individualism that is the basis of Libertarian philosophy. It...
View ArticleCHAPTER THIRTEEN. THE AMERICAN STORY, PART II: FROM CONFEDERATION TO UNION
Written by: Rick Staggenborg, MD on Jun 30, 2009 3:37 PM PDTConsensus is necessary not only to form a democratic government, but to ensure its continuity. Forged in the fire of a war for independence,...
View ArticleCHAPTER TWELVE. THE EVIL THAT MEN DO
Written by: Rick Staggenborg, MD on Jun 28, 2009 7:52 AM PDTThis essay is dedicated to Dick Cheney, whose sick heart and soul revealed the depth of America's social disease, now in the tertiary stages...
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CHAPTER ELEVEN. A CALL TO ARMS! ENLIST NOW IN THE ARMY OF THE SOLDIERS FOR PEACE
Written by: Rick Staggenborg, MD on Jun 27, 2009 9:02 AM PDT This chapter is devoted to Thomas Jefferson, the intellectual father of this country. While he did not always walk the walk, his talk became...
View ArticleCHAPTER TEN. THEOLOGY 101: WHY DESPAIR IS A SIN
Written by: Rick Staggenborg, MD on Jun 26, 2009 7:07 AM PDT This essay is dedicated to Eric Shinseki, a soldier's soldier who stood up to Rumseld in telling Congress that the projected fighting...
View ArticleCHAPTER NINE. THE HEART, MIND AND SOUL OF FASCISM: WE MUST ALL BE AMERICANS NOW
Written by: Rick Staggenborg, MD on Jun 10, 2009 6:43 AM PDT This chapter is dedicated to George Washington, the father of our country. He idealistically hoped that we would dignify the sacrifice of...
View ArticleCHAPTER EIGHT. SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
Written by: Rick Staggenborg, MD on May 30, 2009 10:23 PM PDTPolitics in America has become a vast cesspool, with corporate interests taking precedence over those of the people. In a government of the...
View ArticleCHAPTER SEVEN. THE WAR TO END ALL WAR: SOLDIERS FOR PEACE
Written by: Rick Staggenborg, MD on May 28, 2009 7:00 AM PDTIt is fair to describe the battle for single payer as the opening clash in the War to Take Back America from the junta of transnational...
View ArticleCHAPTER SIX. THE MEDICAL APPROACH TO TREATING THE WORLD HAS THE SIDE EFFECT...
Written by: Rick Staggenborg, MD on Jun 25, 2009 2:10 PM PDTOne of the more stubborn symptoms of the viral illness of greed is war. It results from parts of the body attempting to fight off perceived...
View ArticleCHAPTER FIVE. HOW WE WILL BECOME THE DOCTORS WHO HEAL OURSELVES
Written by: Rick Staggenborg, MD on May 25, 2009 9:07 AM PDTWhat motivates people to work for change is the awareness that we have the power to make the world a better place if we put our minds to it...
View ArticleCHAPTER FOUR. THE INTERNET IS THE NEXT STAGE IN HUMAN EVOLUTION
Written by: Rick Staggenborg, MD on May 23, 2009 6:13 AM PDT This essay is dedicated to William Gibson, one of the finest of today's science fiction writers and a visionary of the near future.When I...
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CHAPTER THREE. WHY THE PUBLIC OPTION WON’T WORK: HOW SINGLE PAYER WILL SAVE...
Written by: Rick Staggenborg, MD on May 21, 2009 7:40 AM PDTThis essay is dedicated to James Madison, chief architect of the American Constitution.Americans need to know that Congress is refusing to...
View ArticleCHAPTER TWO: THE REVOLUTION CONTINUES
Written by: Rick Staggenborg, MD on May 17, 2009 7:55 PM PDTThis essay is dedicated to George Washington, whose personal integrity and faith in his cause and his countrymen led us miraculously to...
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CHAPTER ONE. WHY DEMOCRACY FOR AMERICA SHOULD NOT SUPPORT OBAMA’S PUBLIC...
Written by: Rick Staggenborg, MD on May 10, 2009 6:10 AM PDT Congress is reportedly considering a variety of universal health plan options that involve using multiple payer sources including a...
View ArticleSOLDIERS FOR PEACE-WHO WE ARE
To answer the question "What is Soldiers For Peace?" you must understand who a Soldier For Peace is. A Soldier For Peace is any one of the millions of people around the world who struggle nonviolently...
View ArticleINTRODUCTION
This book is the record of the thoughts that have led me to devote my life to the restoration of genuine democracy in America. I believe that if Americans reclaim their government that the United...
View ArticlePREFACE
This book is a series of essays laying out the case that there is a way to end war by ending the domination of the American government by corporations through a process of passing a constitutional...
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STOP THE MADNESS: THE DIARY OF A SOLDIER FOR PEACE IN THE WAR TO TAKE BACK AMERICA
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