Our Score 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…
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Dumbing Down Of America
Our Score 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 –…
An Attitude, Not A President
Our Score 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…
Combustible Mixture Of Ignorance & Power
Our Score 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…
Barrett Nomination Is Another Step Toward Christian Fascism
Our Score 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…
JUST SUPPOSE
Our Score 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…
U.S. PRESS DESTROYING ITSELF
Our Score 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…
Psychopaths Among Us
Our Score “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…
Government’s Plot To Destabilize The Nation Is Working
Our Score 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…
Biggest Butthead Award
Biggest ButtHead Award
Our Score “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
Our Score Global Validation
Military Control of the Civilian: It’s Opposite Day in America
Our Score 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…