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To Believe in Science, You Have to Know How It’s Done
To Believe in Science, You Have to Know How It’s Done I met a climate crisis denier today. It came out of nowhere. I was getting my camera repaired, and I was chatting with the repairman afterward. Just before I left, he dropped into our conversation that he didn’t believe in manmade climate change. After […]
Then They Came for the Globalists
Then They Came for the Globalists Photo by Francisco Osorio | CC BY 2.0 Thank God for the corporate media. If it wasn’t for them, and the ADL, I’d have probably never discovered that I’m a Nazi. Apparently, I’ve been one for quite some time … which is weird, as I had no idea. Here […]
Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and Surveillance Capitalism
Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and Surveillance Capitalism Whether it creeps into politics, marketing, or simple profiling, the nature of surveillance as totality has been affirmed by certain events this decade. The Edward Snowden disclosures of 2013 demonstrated the complicity and collusion between Silicon Valley and the technological stewards of the national security state. It took the […]
Modern-Day Debtors’ Prisons and Debt in Antiquity
Modern-Day Debtors’ Prisons and Debt in Antiquity Photo by Zak Greant | CC BY 2.0 Paul Sliker: So Michael, in conjunction with Harvard University’s Peabody Museum you headed up an archaeological research team on the origins of private property, debt, and real estate and the origins of economic civilization in the ancient Near East. You actually […]
Time is Running Out: Who Will Protect Our Wrecked Democracy from the American Oligarchy?
Time is Running Out: Who Will Protect Our Wrecked Democracy from the American Oligarchy? Photo by Joe Schueller | CC BY 2.0 There’s been an interesting debate over the years about the relation between capitalism and democracy, for example, are they even compatible? I won’t be pursuing this because I’d like to discuss a different […]
Preparing For Nuclear War is Useless
Preparing For Nuclear War is Useless A recent news article outlined how Hawaii’s health care system is not able to handle the casualties from a nuclear attack. The scenario discussed was one in which a 150 kiloton (equivalent to 150,000 tons of TNT) blast over Waikiki causes 142,000 fatalities and 167,700 injuries. The scenario considered […]
Cancer, George Monbiot and Nuclear Weapons Test Fallout
Cancer, George Monbiot and Nuclear Weapons Test Fallout Photo by JK the Unwise | CC BY 2.0 George Monbiot, who has now been diagnosed with prostate cancer at the young age of 55, was therefore born in 1963, at the peak of the atmospheric test fallout. He is thus a peak exposed (at risk) member […]
How They Sold the Iraq War
How They Sold the Iraq War Photo by Taymaz Valley | CC BY 2.0 The war on Iraq won’t be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold. It was a propaganda war, a war of perception management, where loaded phrases, such as “weapons of mass destruction” and “rogue […]
Trump and the Federal Reserve
Trump and the Federal Reserve Many of us would rather not think about the possibility of President Trump getting reelected, but there is little doubt that he is thinking about it. If Trump is serious about winning reelection, he may want to reconsider the sort of people he is appointing to the Federal Reserve. Virtually all political […]
The Strategy of Tension Towards Russia and the Push to Nuclear War
The Strategy of Tension Towards Russia and the Push to Nuclear War The United States has devised on ongoing strategy of tension towards Russia. It has initiated economic sanctions against Moscow, concocted a narrative about ‘Russian aggression’ for public consumption and has by various means attempted to undermine and weaken the energy-dependent Russian eeconomy. It has moreover instigated a coup on […]
US Empire on Decline
US Empire on Decline US empire is in decline. Reports of the end of the US being the unitary power in world affairs are common, as are predictions of the end of US empire. China surpassed the United States as the world economic leader, according to Purchasing Power Parity Gross National Product, and Russia announced new weapons that […]
Good Enemies Are Hard To Find: Therefore Worry
Good Enemies Are Hard To Find: Therefore Worry Why is the American political class so intent on reviving the Cold War? Why does Israel have it in for Iran? These are complicated questions; many factors are involved. But there is “a fact of life,” as it were, that bears on the answers to both questions: […]
Caveat Emptor: MSNBC and CNN Use CIA Apologists for False Commentary
Caveat Emptor: MSNBC and CNN Use CIA Apologists for False Commentary Photo by edkohler | CC BY 2.0 MSNBC prides itself for progressive reporting on national security issues but continues to use apologists for the Central Intelligence Agency in reporting on key intelligence issues. The network’s reliance on former deputy director of the CIA John […]
What to Do at the End of the World? Interview with Climate Crisis Activist, Kevin Hester
What to Do at the End of the World? Interview with Climate Crisis Activist, Kevin Hester Kevin Hester is an environmental and anti-imperialist activist living in New Zealand who is raising the alarm about the dramatic, planetary-scale changes that are underway. He is expecting “the imminent collapse of the biosphere from the perfect storm of […]
Betrayal of the Upper Green River
Betrayal on the Upper Green River Recently I attended a meeting with the Bridger Teton National Forest (BTNF) officials to discuss future grazing plans for the Upper Green River grazing allotment. The allotment, one of the most outstanding wildlife areas in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, contains the headwaters of the Green River and lies north […]
