How the U.S. National Security State Manipulates the News Media By Ted Galen Carpenter March 10, 2021 An especially dangerous threat to liberty occurs when members of the press collude with government agencies instead of monitoring and exposing the abuses…
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IT’S NOT A POLITICAL PROBLEM
It’s A Propaganda Problem — February 18, 2021 While we all fixate on electoral political solutions, the powerful focus on narrative control, because that’s where real power is at. The people who pose an actual threat to the machine are…
PAPERING OVER THE ROT
Papering Over The Rot The staggering concentration of wealth at the top has deformed our governing institutions — new window dressing will not end oligarchy. By Chris Hedges February 02, 2021 The death spiral of the American Empire will not…
Dumbing Down Of America
The Dumbing Down Of America By Carl Sagan Extract from, “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark” – 1995 – By Carl Sagan. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the…
An Attitude, Not A President
By Fred Reed October 31, 2020 Everybody and his goat has weighed in on the election, so I will too. This will make no difference to Trump’s core followers, for whom he is a cult figure, or to those who…
Combustible Mixture Of Ignorance & Power
Extract from, “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark” – 1995 – By Carl Sagan So true today — October 19, 2020 I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United…
Barrett Nomination Is Another Step Toward Christian Fascism
Barrett Nomination Is Another Step Toward Christian Fascism All fascist and totalitarian movements paper over their squalid belief systems with the veneer of morality. By Chris Hedges Hedges received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Colgate University in…
JUST SUPPOSE
The Extradition Of Julian Assange By Peter Oborne September 04, 2020 Let’s imagine a foreign dissident was being held in London’s Belmarsh Prison charged with supposed espionage offences by the Chinese authorities. And that his real offence was revealing crimes…
U.S. PRESS DESTROYING ITSELF
June 14, 2020 The U.S. Press Is Destroying Itself A flurry of newsroom revolts has transformed the American press By Matt Taibbi Sometimes it seems life can’t get any worse in this country. Already in terror of a pandemic, Americans…
Psychopaths Among Us
“Only a psychopath would ever think of doing these things, only a psychopath would dream of abusing other people in such a way, only a psychopath would treat people as less than human just for money. The shocking truth is,…
Government’s Plot To Destabilize The Nation Is Working
American Apocalypse: The Government’s Plot to Destabilize the Nation Is Working By John W. Whitehead “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out … without regard to the prevailing superstitions and…
Biggest Butthead Award
Biggest ButtHead Award
“All our lauded technological progress – our very civilization – is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.” – Albert Einstein Submitted by: ButtCracker
Global Validation
Global Validation
Military Control of the Civilian: It’s Opposite Day in America
Submitted by: ButtCracker — It’s becoming increasingly difficult for Americans to recall that civilian leaders are supposed to command and control the military, not vice-versa. Consider an article posted yesterday at Newsweek with the title, TRUMP’S GENERALS CAN SAVE THE WORLD…