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, groupthink mainstream…
Category: Political
OLD NORMAL VS. NEW NORMAL
The Bigger Picture is Hiding Behind a Virus By Jonathan Cook April 04, 2020 Things often look the way they do because someone claiming authority tells us they look that way. If that sounds too cynical, pause for a moment…
U.S. Is Global Kleptocracy Central
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 Donald Trump frequently use…
Endless War
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 Africa.” This…
Evangelicals Who Pray For War
Evangelicals Who Pray for War With Iran Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo, who urged Trump to kill Qassem Soleimani, are ardent proponents of Christian Zionism. By Sarah Posner January 16, 2020 Last Friday, a day after Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem…
How Long Will It Take For The US To Collapse?
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” looks like. Modern…
Truth & Justice Just Might Have A Chance Next Year
Assange Gives Evidence In Spanish Case Against Security Contractor By Thomas Scripps December 23, 2019 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was brought from Belmarsh Prison yesterday to appear in person at Westminster Magistrates Court and provide video-link witness testimony in the…
Orwell’s 1984 Revisited
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…
Giuliani Banging The Trump Drum, But For Whom?
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 buffoon. Rudy…
Impeach The Government—-Not Just Trump
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 demeanour —…
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:…
How To Save The Planet & Ourselves
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 Climate Breakdown…
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…
Death By Oligarchy
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 and compassion,…
Endless War
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 soldiers and officers…
U.S. Underwrites Israel While Americans Suffer
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 same size…
Dying Empires And The Enemy Within
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, government bureaucrats…
Killing Me Softly With Militarism: The Decay Of Democracy In America
Killing Me Softly With Militarism: The Decay Of Democracy In America By William J. Astore October 31, 2019 When Americans think of militarism, they may imagine jackbooted soldiers goose-stepping through the streets as flag-waving crowds exult; or, like our president, they may…
The Age Of Radical Evil
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 manipulated and…
Child Agent Of Climate Awareness
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, at last…