Our Score 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…
IT’S NOT A POLITICAL PROBLEM
Our Score 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…
PAPERING OVER THE ROT
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…
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…
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Economic Extinction Event
Our Score An Economic Extinction Event & Don’t Count On Biden Changing It July 24, 2020 The lower reaches of the financial food chain are already dying, and every entity that depended on that layer is doomed. Though under pressure…