On this Independence Day and for many a year, we’ve lost any clue about what it means to be independent: to be self-governing, and free from repressive rule.read more

When I explained why I was anti-patriotic, people told me to leave the country and threatened me with bodily harm.read more

Nationalism is the egg that hatches fascism. And patriotism is but the father of nationalism.read more

The American Revolution was not a simple affair of all of us against all of them. And who actually gained from it? Not the Indians.read more

It’s the Fourth of July in America, and a U.S. citizen sits in solitary confinement in New York — and he hasn’t even been convicted of a crime.read more

(In memory of George Carlin.)

It’s July 4th again, a day of near-compulsory flag-waving and nation-worshipping. Count me out.

Spare me the puerile parades.

Don’t play that martial music, white boy.

And don’t befoul nature’s sky with your F-16s.

You see, I don’t believe in patriotism.

It’s not that I’m anti-American, but I am anti-patriotic.read more