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,…
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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…
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”…
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.…
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…
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,…
Inside the Submissive Void: Propaganda, Censorship, Power and Control
Our Score Inside the Submissive Void: Propaganda, Censorship, Power and Control By Greg Maybury August 07, 2019 Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed…
An Empire of Bullshit
Our Score Submitted by: Buttmeister — After two years of gaslighting the public while it blew smoke up America’s ass, the Jacobin news media enjoyed its final feeding frenzy with the release of the 400-page Mueller report. They expected 1000…
How You Can Be Certain That The US Charge Against Assange Is Fraudulent
Our Score Submitted by: Buttmeister — Julian Assange sits in a jail cell today after being betrayed by the Ecuadorian government and his home country of Australia. A British judge named Michael Snow has found the WikiLeaks founder guilty of…
Worshipping the Electronic Image
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — Trump is a creature—maybe the poster child—of the modern, post-literate culture Donald Trump, like much of the American public, is entranced by electronic images. He interprets reality through the distortions of digital media. His…
Banishing Truth
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — The investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, in his memoir “Reporter,” describes a moment when as a young reporter he overheard a Chicago cop admit to murdering an African-American man. The murdered man had been falsely…
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…
It’s All Fake: Reality TV That Masquerades as American Politics
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — “Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours…. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious…
Propaganda! Pardon Me, Is Mine Really Bigger Than Yours
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — They say Propaganda! In the West, both the mainstream media and even some of the so-called progressive outlets are shouting: “Those Russians and Chinese and the others like them, they are at it again!…
Yes, Net Neutrality Is Being Stolen From Us in a Fucked Up, Undemocratic Heist
Our Score These are the facts: Millions of Americans have asked the Federal Communications Commission to keep its current net neutrality regulations, which protect the free and open internet. These regulations were enacted as a result of decades of hearings,…