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 warned By…
Category: Civil
U.S. An Oligarchy More Than A Democracy
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. Reflect On:…
Trump Just Might Be The Catalyst
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 question: Why…
How to Survive the Journey Ahead: A Graduation Message for a Terrifying Age
Submitted by: ButtCracker — “No matter who you are, no matter how strong you are, sooner or later, you’ll face circumstances beyond your control.” — Cersei Lannister, Game of Thrones Those coming of age today will face some of the…
“Show Me Your Papers!” Roundups, Checkpoints and National ID Card
Submitted by: ButtCracker — The roundups are getting worse. The checkpoints are getting worse. The harassment is getting worse. The things we were worried would happen are happening. —Angus Johnston, professor at the City University of New York No one…
Battlefield America Is the New Normal: We’re Not in Mayberry Anymore
Submitted by: ButtCracker — “If we’re training cops as soldiers, giving them equipment like soldiers, dressing them up as soldiers, when are they going to pick up the mentality of soldiers?”— Arthur Rizer, former police officer America, you’ve been fooled…
Beware The “The Cultural Civil War” Narrative: You’re Being Played
There is always common ground for those who dare to seek it. Remember the “Russians hacked our election!” hysteria – or have you already forgotten? That entire narrative collapsed under a deluge of factual evidence that the Democratic National Committee…
Palestine’s West Bank: Fifty Years of Immoral Occupation
Today, the Israeli occupation of the West Bank has reached the milestone of 50 years that will be recalled in shame. Fifty years that have dehumanized both the occupier and the occupied; years of failing to muster the courage to…
Americans’ Right to Protest is in Grave Danger Under Trump, United Nations Warns
The right to protest is fundamental to American democracy. The country was born, after all, out of decades of civil disobedience by people angry about taxation without representation. (In Washington, FWIW, we are still angry.) But according to United Nations…
America Has Lost Its Guiding Light, Its Citizens’ Bill of Rights
Two events conspired this past week to force us to reassess if America can ever find its way home; (home being a nation that honors its citizens’ Bill of Rights — the amendments to the U.S. constitution that preserve the…
Standing Rock Protesters React to Life Under Trump
“America deserves Trump,” says one protester fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline. “America is Trump.” Back in September, many of the protesters at the Standing Rock camp cared little who won the presidential election. “Whoever wins, we’re still going to have…
So this is how the US ‘revolution’ will unfold
Submitted by: ButtCracker – In late 2012, Peter Turchin, a professor at the University of Connecticut made a startling claim, based on an analysis of revolutionary upheavals across history. He found there are three social conditions in place shortly before…
The Modern History of ‘Rigged’ US Elections
Special Report: Donald Trump claims the U.S. presidential election is “rigged,” drawing condemnation from the political/media establishment which accuses him of undermining faith in American democracy. But neither side understands the real problem, says Robert Parry. The United States is so…
“A Shameful Moment for This Country”: Report Back on Militarized Police Raid of DAPL Resistance Camp
We go to Standing Rock, North Dakota, for an update on how hundreds of police with military equipment raided a resistance camp Thursday that was established by Native American water protectors in the path of the proposed $3.8 billion Dakota…
Standing Rock: Police Arrest 120+ Water Protectors as Dakota Access Speeds Up Pipeline Construction
We go to North Dakota for an update on the ongoing Standoff at Standing Rock, where thousands of Native Americans representing more than 200 tribes from across the Americas are resisting the construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline,…
Britain Accused Of Attacking Press Freedom – Again
By Graham vanbergen – The U.K. prides itself on its past commitment to free expression and press freedom, but as we found out last year the targeted surveillance of journalists and calls by Britain’s prime minister, then David Cameron, heavily…
Hydraulic Fracking, Pipelines and Land Rights: Ohio Judge Rules against Pipeline Consortium
Wood County Judge Nixes Pipeline Builder’s Eminent Domain Plans BOWLING GREEN, OHIO — A Wood County Common Pleas judge ruled today that the company behind the Utopia East pipeline project does not have eminent domain rights, throwing a potentially expensive roadblock…
CIA claims ability to predict ‘societal instability’ just days away
Submitted by: ButtCracker Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan © Gary Cameron / Reuters “Three to five days” is all the time the CIA needs to predict the “development of social unrest” in many cases, the agency’s newest office…
Google’s Jigsaw to Be Used to Undermine Alternative Media?
In this premier episode of The Geopolitical Report with Kurt Nimmo, we examine Google’s Jigsaw, an emerging technology that will be used on the internet to counter speech and ideas considered “extremist” by the global elite. Initially beta tested on…
Water Protectors Gain Support From Congress, 100 Scientists In Fight Against DAPL
Water protectors with the Standing Rock Sioux gained new support as nineteen members of Congress called on the Obama Administration to withdraw permits for the Dakota Access Pipeline. The opponents of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline have recently gained a…