It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.
Richard Whately:
On the Love of Truth
Early in 2003, this site became the depository of my weekly socio-political column, “Behind the Mirror,” for those who did not have access to its limited circulation in print.
It had been my intent to bring new perspectives that would allow us to see ourselves with borrowed eyes… not just our American eyes; thus giving us an opportunity for a more reasonable and impartial evaluation of our foreign policy.
After almost six years of observing and writing on what the Bush regime was doing to the nation and to the world, little else remained to be said, as this most incapable and villainous individual was allowed to exit government without being tried for his crimes against humanity — a legacy of perversity that defies historical comparison in the United States.
Two terms of the Bush presidency left the nation economically bankrupt and depression-bound, after helping to widen the abyss between rich and poor — the latter including in its ranks half of the so-called middle class of past decades. And morally bankrupt as well, as the fervor of empire reached its highest pitch during this neoconservative reign.
Now, a year after Obama has been at the helm of the nation, Americans are beginning to doubt, if not his good intentions, his capacity to bring about much needed change; certainly not with the cadre of advisors he has surrounded himself, some of them the very same architects of this mess.
If change promised in the portals of peace and economic-social justice does not come about at a proper pace, we will challenge politics in America as we have done in years past, bringing our voice of progressivism, once again, center stage.
And we will do it without dogma, only with the Gospel of Truth.
Ben Tanosborn
28 January 2010
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After completing graduate studies at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles), BT set out for a career in international business that would take him to five continents, expose him to several cultures, and make him realize the importance for any and all Americans to become goodwill ambassadors for the United States. With his socio-political columns, BT hopes to bring to the forefront issues that are relevant to the national discussion in international affairs. His column appears, both in digital and printed newspapers, in several countries... and languages.
Ben's writings, however, extend beyond the journalistic and non-fictional confines. His passion is for the treatment, in either short story or novella form, of historical fiction, myths and legends, contemporary romance and narrative poetry. An anthology of historical short stories centered in the Pacific Northwest [Underground Stories from a City Not Somewhere Else] is scheduled for publication this year.
BT resides in Vancouver, Washington (USA) where he operates a business consulting firm.