Author: buttmeister

The Battle for Our Minds

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 York Times piece “The…

America the Failed State

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 corruption, impunity…

The Murder of Julian Assange

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 to leave…

The Chomsky Challenge for Americans

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 would tell…

The Coming Collapse

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 a product…