Our Score The Dumbing Down Of America By Carl Sagan Extract from, “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark” – 1995 – By Carl Sagan. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time –…
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An Attitude, Not A President
Our Score By Fred Reed October 31, 2020 Everybody and his goat has weighed in on the election, so I will too. This will make no difference to Trump’s core followers, for whom he is a cult figure, or to…
Combustible Mixture Of Ignorance & Power
Our Score Extract from, “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark” – 1995 – By Carl Sagan So true today — October 19, 2020 I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when…
Barrett Nomination Is Another Step Toward Christian Fascism
Our Score Barrett Nomination Is Another Step Toward Christian Fascism All fascist and totalitarian movements paper over their squalid belief systems with the veneer of morality. By Chris Hedges Hedges received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Colgate…
JUST SUPPOSE
Our Score The Extradition Of Julian Assange By Peter Oborne September 04, 2020 Let’s imagine a foreign dissident was being held in London’s Belmarsh Prison charged with supposed espionage offences by the Chinese authorities. And that his real offence was…
I’M NOT A DOCTOR
Economic Extinction Event
Our Score An Economic Extinction Event & Don’t Count On Biden Changing It July 24, 2020 The lower reaches of the financial food chain are already dying, and every entity that depended on that layer is doomed. Though under pressure…
SOFT TYRANNY
Our Score Caitlin Johnstone—–27 Jun, 2020 12:37 / Updated 4 hours ago America is as authoritarian and intolerant of dissent as any tinpot dictatorship. It generally just goes about quashing it in a subtler, more sophisticated way, aided by a conformist,…
U.S. PRESS DESTROYING ITSELF
Our Score June 14, 2020 The U.S. Press Is Destroying Itself A flurry of newsroom revolts has transformed the American press By Matt Taibbi Sometimes it seems life can’t get any worse in this country. Already in terror of a…
OLD NORMAL VS. NEW NORMAL
Our Score The Bigger Picture is Hiding Behind a Virus By Jonathan Cook April 04, 2020 Things often look the way they do because someone claiming authority tells us they look that way. If that sounds too cynical, pause for…
Psychopaths Among Us
Our Score “Only a psychopath would ever think of doing these things, only a psychopath would dream of abusing other people in such a way, only a psychopath would treat people as less than human just for money. The shocking…
U.S. Is Global Kleptocracy Central
Our Score How the US became the center of global kleptocracy The US has become the key cog in the machine of modern kleptocracy worldwide. But it didn’t start with Trump. By Casey Michel February 03, 2020 Critics of President…
Endless War
Our Score Endless War is a Disastrous (But Profitable) Enterprise By Lawrence Wilkerson Col, USA (Ret) January 30, 2020 “The collapse of the Libyan state has had region-wide repercussions, with flows of people and weapons destabilizing other countries throughout North…
Evangelicals Who Pray For War
Our Score Evangelicals Who Pray for War With Iran Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo, who urged Trump to kill Qassem Soleimani, are ardent proponents of Christian Zionism. By Sarah Posner January 16, 2020 Last Friday, a day after Iranian Maj.…
How Long Will It Take For The US To Collapse?
Our Score How Long Will It Take For The US To Collapse? Fri, 01/03/2020 – 23:45 Authored by Brandon Smith There are a multitude of false assumptions out there on what the collapse of a nation or “empire”…
Truth & Justice Just Might Have A Chance Next Year
Our Score Assange Gives Evidence In Spanish Case Against Security Contractor By Thomas Scripps December 23, 2019 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was brought from Belmarsh Prison yesterday to appear in person at Westminster Magistrates Court and provide video-link witness testimony…
Orwell’s 1984 Revisited
Our Score George Orwell’s ‘1984’ revisited: What Oceania and Israel have in common For George Orwell, the appalling picture of the future starkly depicted in ‘1984’ was not some imaginative exercise. ‘Don’t let it happen. It depends on you,’ he…
Giuliani Banging The Trump Drum, But For Whom?
Our Score Franklin Foer Staff writer for The Atlantic Rudy Giuliani Is Living the Dream Don’t let his butt-dials distract from his cunning. It can sometimes seem as if Donald Trump has outsourced the defense of his presidency to an erratic…
Impeach The Government—-Not Just Trump
Our Score Impeach the Government: Rogue Agencies Have Been Abusing Their Powers for Decades By John W. Whitehead “When a man unprincipled in private life[,] desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper . . . despotic in his ordinary…
U.S. An Oligarchy More Than A Democracy
Our Score Princeton Study: The U.S. Is Not ‘Losing’ Its Democracy, It’s Already Long Gone By Richard Enos The Facts: – A Princeton University study found that the United States operates much more as an Oligarchy than as a Democracy.…