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Chomsky Wants You to Wake Up from the American Dream
Chomsky Wants You to Wake Up from the American Dream If you’ve just seen Michael Moore’s movie and are wondering how in the world the United States got diverted into the slow lane to hell, go watch Noam Chomsky’s movie. If you’ve just seen Noam Chomsky’s movie and are wondering whether the human species is really worth saving, […]
Turkey’s Revival of a Dirty ‘Deep State’
Turkey’s Revival of a Dirty ‘Deep State’ Exclusive: NATO keeps backing Turkey, one of its members, despite its aid to the Islamic State and other jihadists fighting Syria’s secular government — and even though Turkey’s erratic President Erdogan may be leading NATO into a risky showdown with Syria’s Russian allies, writes Jonathan Marshall. Turkey’s embattled President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is […]
USA: Where Politicians Are Free to Rig the Game
USA: Where Politicians Are Free to Rig the Game As to be expected, the Republicans are up to dirty tricks to try to prevent Trump from being the candidate. After the Iowa Caucus, reports are surfacing from volunteers who say that their precincts were being combined into one large mob to push the vote to […]
Democracy Is No Better Than a Monarchy… or a Dictatorship
Democracy Is No Better Than a Monarchy… or a Dictatorship “Flaming Lunatic” MUMBAI, India – The Dow managed a small bounce late last week. The bounce came as crude oil gushed higher, back above $30 a barrel. What next? We wait to find out… We had dinner in London last night, before boarding a plane […]
Yanis Varoufakis Reveals – Berlin Blocked Greece From Chinese Funding During Crisis
Yanis Varoufakis Reveals – Berlin Blocked Greece From Chinese Funding During Crisis Hundreds of millions of people throughout the Western world are being forced to admit an obvious, yet uncomfortable reality. Democracy is dead. Your vote and your voice doesn’t matter. Not at all. No group of people understand this as intimately as the Greeks. They voted […]
An Oligarchy Has Broken Our Democracy. It Must Be Dislodged
An Oligarchy Has Broken Our Democracy. It Must Be Dislodged January 18, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “The Guardian” – Each new election year promises change. We will choose a new president and new representatives in Congress; fresh faces will make their appearances in Washington DC, while old ones disappear. But what about the people who […]
Dictators, Democracy, and Almighty Oil in the MENA Region
Dictators, Democracy, and Almighty Oil in the MENA Region 95% of transport fuels in the world are derived from oil. This makes it hard to argue that renewable or other non-petroleum sources of fuel could cut into oil’s market share, at least in the near term. Transportation, and thus petroleum, is essential to growing […]
Gold – No Time Left for Conspiracy Theories
Gold – No Time Left for Conspiracy Theories To some, this is a religious battle. To others, it is just a time to rip off a lot of people by selling fantasies and sophistry. I have stated this many times, so here it goes again: Gold rises when people lose confidence in government. It has nothing to do […]
US Enabled Saudi Arabia’s Crackdown on Pro-Democracy Protesters
US Enabled Saudi Arabia’s Crackdown on Pro-Democracy Protesters Just days before Saudi Arabia performed a mass execution of 47 people, including four pro-democracy protesters; the US approved tens of millions in military contracts to the Saudi government. The contracts include $24 million to Raytheon Company for equipment relating to Patriot missiles, $12 million to Advanced Electronics Co. for electronics […]
2016 Theme #2: the Hollow Shell of Democracy
2016 Theme #2: the Hollow Shell of Democracy This week I am addressing themes I see playing out in 2016. A number of systemic, structural forces are intersecting in 2016. One is the hollowing out of democracy globally. Democracy has three distinct states of being: formal, in actual practice and informal. Nations that claim the mantle […]
Playing the Government’s Game: When It Comes to Violence, We All Lose
Playing the Government’s Game: When It Comes to Violence, We All Lose By John Whitehead, constitutional and civil rights attorney, the Rutherford Institute. “When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because […]
Re-branding Dissent
Re-branding Dissent I am one of those who thinks that democracy is being destroyed. I know its fashionable to play cynical one-upmanship and say – ‘we’ve never had democracy’, or, ‘it was destroyed long ago’, but that game aside, I think its worth actually thinking about how, many forms of democratic expression, effective dissent and peaceful self-determination are […]
2016 – the BIG SHIFT
2016 – the BIG SHIFT As we close 2015 and begin a new year, the markets generally closed flat to neutral with a warning that as we approach the political year from hell being 2017, this is by no means going to be a walk through the park. We are more likely than not going […]
America’s Dying Democracy
America’s Dying Democracy Democracy, as a noble principle of self-governance, is fading away in big ways and small, with special interests seizing control of both media and politicians and with the people increasingly manipulated and misinformed. In this impassioned appeal, Bill Moyers calls it “the fight of our lives.” In the fall of 2001, in […]
Democracy Sold Out to Greed
Democracy Sold Out to Greed While the “free Western media” cheers, the Western “democratic” governments sell out the peoples of the Western world to corporate tyranny John Massaria has turned my interview with Julian Charles into a video. The video helps me to bring home that “Western democracy” is a sham, a total lie. Every […]
