Author: buttmeister

The Battle for Our Minds

Our Score Submitted by:  ButtCracker   — There are battlefields in Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, and elsewhere, but given the state of corporate media, perhaps the most consequential battle now being fought is for our minds, says Patrick Lawrence. After reading The New…

America the Failed State

Our Score Submitted by:  ButtCracker   — TORONTO—Our “corporate coup d’état in slow motion,” as the writer John Ralston Saul calls it, has opened a Pandora’s box of evils that is transforming America into a failed state. The “unholy trinity of…

The Murder of Julian Assange

Our Score Submitted by:  ButtCracker   — It was a fool’s errand. On the day Donald Trump was elected his supporters asked him to pardon the founder and frontman of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. They flooded social media demanding Assange be allowed…

The Chomsky Challenge for Americans

Our Score Submitted by:  ButtCracker   — It’s no wonder that most Americans are clueless about why “their” country is feared and hated the world over. It remains unthinkable to this day, for example, that any respectable “mainstream” U.S. media outlet…

The Coming Collapse

Our Score Submitted by:  ButtCracker   — The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is the result of a long process of political, cultural and social decay. He is…