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The Russians are Coming!
The Russians are Coming! Photo by Tom Hilton | CC BY 2.0 These days we see a seemingly odd project taking place in the realms of American liberalism: ferocious insistence that the truly outrageous Donald J. Trump is at his worst when….making peace with our enemies! Has he been brainwashed by Russian and/or North Korean […]
State of the Climate – It’s Alarming!
State of the Climate – It’s Alarming! Photo by Akuppa John Wigham | CC BY 2.0 Stuart Scott of Climate Matters.TV recently interviewed Dr. Peter Wadhams, emeritus professor, Polar Ocean Physics, Cambridge University and author of the acclaimed highly recommended: A Farewell To Ice (Oxford University Press, 2017). In response to the question “what’s your […]
How the Corporate Media Enslave Us to a World of Illusions
How the Corporate Media Enslave Us to a World of Illusions Photo by Mohamed Nanabhay | CC BY 2.0 Nazareth. For several years now, I have been writing regular posts on my blog with one end in mind: to help open a door for readers and encourage them to step through. I select issues, usually those that […]
The Day the US Became an Empire
The Day the US Became an Empire For half a century, the United Kingdom celebrated May 24, the birthday of the late Queen Victoria, as “Empire Day.” The US ought to have its own Empire Day and it should be on June 15. It was on June 15, 1898 that the US became an empire. […]
Foundation of Anti-Imperialism
Foundation of Anti-Imperialism The United States has had a policy of imperialism beginning after the Civil War. The US way of war, developed against Indigenous peoples, spread worldwide as the US sought to extend its power through military force, economic dominance and diplomatic hegemony. Imperialism is driven by what Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. identified at the end […]
The American Exceptionalism Myth and the Selling of U.S. Domination
The American Exceptionalism Myth and the Selling of U.S. Domination I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being. – Barack Obama, 2015. From birth, Americans are expected to believe in the notion of U.S. superiority over other peoples in other nations. The daily school ritual of pledging allegiance to the flag and playing […]
Hiding the Real Number of Unemployed
Hiding the Real Number of Unemployed Photo by James Lee | CC BY 2.0 Your government believes that exhausting your unemployment benefits is a cause for celebration — because you are no longer unemployed! Huh? Well, there is a slight of hand here. Only working people who are receiving unemployment benefits are counted as “unemployed” […]
Rotten to the Heart: Authoritarian Chickens Roosting at Home
Rotten to the Heart: Authoritarian Chickens Roosting at Home Photo by T toes | CC BY 2.0 Yes, He’s Awful Much of what liberals say about Donald Trump and the chilling political moment the Trump presidency represents is true enough. Trump really is the arch-authoritarian malignant narcissist that liberals say he is. Trump thinks he […]
GMO Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits Says FDA
GMO Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits Says FDA Golden Rice grain compared to white rice grain in screenhouse of Golden Rice plants. Photo: International Rice Institute. The biotech industry and its supporters have promoted GMO Golden Rice for decades as an urgently needed solution to vitamin A deficiency. But, in a surprising twist, the […]
The Mining Industry Shows Its True Colors
The Mining Industry Shows Its True Colors “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice…I won’t be fooled again.” -President George W. Bush, 2006 Montana has been raped — in every sense of the word — by the mining industry for a century and a half. Anyone who doubts that need only look across our beautiful […]
The Empire Strikes Out
The Empire Strikes Out Watching the debacle unfold that is the contemporary U.S. is like watching a tsunami approach an ocean shore and knowing that it’s pretty much time to kiss, well, readers can catch the drift of this line of thought without too much reliance on imagination. Now we stand on the precipice and […]
Staying the Course: the Long March of Middle East Destruction
Staying the Course: the Long March of Middle East Destruction When falsely convicted Andy Dufresne bored a hole through the Shawshank prison wall over the course of two decades, narrator “Red” says that Andy always liked geology, and that geology, like digging through a prison wall with a rock hammer, is just a matter of “pressure […]
The American Way of War: Evolution Stops Here
The American Way of War: Evolution Stops Here America does what it wants. This is obvious, except it’s also monstrously unnerving. Let’s at least add some quote marks: “America” does what it wants — this secretly defined, self-obsessed, unelected entity that purports to be the United States of America, all 325 million of us, but […]
Venezuela Defies the US Empire Reelecting Maduro
Venezuela Defies the US Empire Reelecting Maduro Photo by Joka Madruga | CC BY 2.0 The Venezuelan people reelected Nicolás Maduro for a second presidential term on May 20. A US-backed political tide of reaction had been bucked, which had swept away previously left-leaning Latin American governments – often by extra-parliamentary means – in Brazil, […]
From Bernays to Trump, Hooked on Misery
From Bernays to Trump, Hooked on Misery The father of modern public relations and spin, Edward Bernays was a cold, cynical manipulator of mass perception. He knew that by shaping people’s desires in a certain way, governments and corporations could sell just about any notion to the masses and manipulate them at will. Whether it […]
