Author: ButtCracker

How To Save The Planet & Ourselves

Our Score How To Save The Planet & Ourselves By Chris Hedges November 18, 2019 If you read only one book this year, it should be Roger Hallam’s “Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop…

Trump Just Might Be The Catalyst

Our Score Why Aren’t Americans Rising Up Like We Are Seeing Across the Planet? By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies November 16, 2019 The waves of protests breaking out in country after country around the world beg the…

Death By Oligarchy

Our Score Death by Oligarchy By Chris Hedges November 11, 2019 Oligarchs are blinded by hubris, wealth and power. Their cloying sense of entitlement sees them outraged by even the most tepid reforms or mildest of criticisms. They lack empathy…

Endless War

Our Score America’s Endless Wars: From A West Pointer Fri, 11/08/2019 – 21:45 Authored by US Army Major Danny Sjursen (ret.)  Patches, pins, medals, and badges are the visible signs of an exclusive military culture, a silent language by which…

U.S. Underwrites Israel While Americans Suffer

Our Score US underwrites Israel’s economy, while Americans suffer While sending tens of billions in aid to Israel, the US watches its own citizens struggle to access healthcare and education By Morgan Strong November 04, 2019 Israel is around the…

Dying Empires And The Enemy Within

Our Score Dying Empires And The Enemy Within By Chris Hedges November 04, 2019 Our democracy is not in peril—we do not live in a democracy. The image of our democracy is in peril. The deep state—the generals, bankers, corporatists, lobbyists, intelligence chiefs,…

The Age Of Radical Evil

Our Score The Age of Radical Evil By Chris Hedges October 16, 2019 Immanuel Kant coined the term “radical evil.” It was the privileging of one’s own interest over that of others, effectively reducing those around you to objects to be…

Child Agent Of Climate Awareness

Our Score Greta Thunberg & the Consolation of Doubt By Jonathan Cook October 02, 2019 The more Greta Thunberg articulates the terrifying emotions of awakening to our imminent extinction as a species – as she did, filled with trembling rage,…

Our Invisible Government

Our Score Our Invisible Government By Chris Hedges September 17, 2019 There are two forms of government in the United States. There is the visible government—the White House, Congress, the courts, state legislatures and governorships—and the invisible government, or deep…

The Capitalists Are Afraid

Our Score THE CAPITALISTS ARE AFRAID By Chris Hedges September 09, 2019 Capitalists seek to maximize profits and reduce the cost of labor. This sums up capitalism at its core. It is defined by these immutable objectives. It is not about democracy.…

US Foreign Policy Is A War On Disobedience

Our Score By Caitlin Johnstone In an excellent new essay titled “We’re Not the Good Guys — Why Is American Aggression Missing in Action?“, Tom Engelhardt criticizes the way western media outlets consistently describe the behavior of disobedient nations like…

Unhappy Thoughts For The 4TH Of July

Our Score Unhappy Thoughts For the Fourth of July By Paul Craig Roberts July 04, 2019 The human race, being a collection of stupids, continues to make decisions that imperil itself. For example, a simple mistake in a warning system…