Category: Political

Our Invisible Government

Our Score Our Invisible Government By Chris Hedges September 17, 2019 There are two forms of government in the United States. There is the visible government—the White House, Congress, the courts, state legislatures and governorships—and the invisible government, or deep…

The Capitalists Are Afraid

Our Score THE CAPITALISTS ARE AFRAID By Chris Hedges September 09, 2019 Capitalists seek to maximize profits and reduce the cost of labor. This sums up capitalism at its core. It is defined by these immutable objectives. It is not about democracy.…

Unhappy Thoughts For The 4TH Of July

Our Score Unhappy Thoughts For the Fourth of July By Paul Craig Roberts July 04, 2019 The human race, being a collection of stupids, continues to make decisions that imperil itself. For example, a simple mistake in a warning system…

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…

Crucifying Julian Assange

Our Score Submitted by:  ButtCracker   — Julian Assange’s sanctuary in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London has been transformed into a little shop of horrors. He has been largely cut off from communicating with the outside world for the last seven…

Scum vs. Scum

Our Score Submitted by:  ButtCracker   — There is perhaps no better illustration of the deep decay of the American political system than the Senate race in New Jersey. Sen. Bob Menendez, running for re-election, was censured by the Senate Ethics…

The Rats Revolt

Our Score Submitted by:  ButtCracker   — There is no American who has fought with more tenacity, courage and integrity to expose the crimes of corporate power and to thwart the corporate coup d’état that has destroyed our democracy than Ralph…

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 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…

The Politicization of the FBI

Our Score Submitted by:  ButtCracker   — Joseph E. diGenova, Former US Attorney Over the past year, facts have emerged that suggest there was a plot by high-ranking FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) officials in the Obama administration, acting under…

The Dual Between Big Tech And Big Government

Our Score Submitted by:  ButtCracker   — Just five years ago you had no notion that ‘big data’ would overtake oil as the number one traded commodity in the world, never heard of Bitcoin, that social media would play a significant…