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Fourth Turning–Our Rendezvous With Destiny
FOURTH TURNING – OUR RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY We are now in the seventh year of this Fourth Turning. A famous quote from the seventh year of the last Fourth Turning portended the desperate, bloody and ultimately heroic trials and tribulations which awaited generations of our ancestors. What will be our rendezvous with destiny? “There is a […]
Sheldon Wolin and Inverted Totalitarianism
Sheldon Wolin and Inverted Totalitarianism Sheldon Wolin discusses his ideas with Chris Hedges in this still from Hedges’ interview with Wolin for The Real News Network. (TRNN via YouTube) Sheldon Wolin, our most important contemporary political theorist, died Oct. 21 at the age of 93. In his books “Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted […]
Culture of Cruelty: the Age of Neoliberal Authoritarianism
Culture of Cruelty: the Age of Neoliberal Authoritarianism George Orwell’s nightmarish vision of a totalitarian society casts a dark shadow over the United States. As American society has moved from a welfare to a warfare state, the institutions that were once meant to limit human suffering and misfortune and protect the public from the excesses […]
The Curse of Totalitarianism and the Challenge of an Insurrectional Pedagogy
The Curse of Totalitarianism and the Challenge of an Insurrectional Pedagogy Introduction The forces of free-market fundamentalism are on the march ushering in a terrifying horizon of what Hannah Arendt once called “dark times.” Across the globe, the tension between democratic values and market fundamentalism has reached a breaking point. [1] The social contract is under assault, […]
The Real Enemy Is Within
The Real Enemy Is Within Steve Mann / Shutterstock If you are not dedicated to the destruction of empire and the dismantling of American militarism, then you cannot count yourself as a member of the left. It is not a side issue. It is the issue. It is why I refuse to give a pass in this presidential […]
Harper’s Newspeak
Harper’s Newspeak He loves naming laws with false slogans. (So do fascists.) Newspeak: ‘An impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.’ Photo source: Stephen Harper Flickr. In 1995 the Italian writer Umberto Eco, who grew up in Mussolini’s Italy, wrote an essay on the eternal threat of […]
The Plague of American Authoritarianism
The Plague of American Authoritarianism Authoritarianism in the American collective psyche and in what might be called traditional narratives of historical memory is always viewed as existing elsewhere. Viewed as an alien and demagogic political system, it is primarily understood as a mode of governance associated with the dictatorships in Latin America in the 1970s […]
Canadian ‘Totalitarianism’? Hope Can Win, Says Author Thomas King
Canadian ‘Totalitarianism’? Hope Can Win, Says Author Thomas King Governor General award winner talks election politics and the power of words Cherished author and former New Democrat candidate Thomas King insists he’ll stay out of politics this pivotal election season. But on the heels of his Governor General award-winning novelThe Back of the Turtle — set […]
The Tragedy of Harper’s Canada
The Tragedy of Harper’s Canada Tilting Toward Totalitarianism “This abuse of executive power is tilting toward totalitarian government and away from the foundations of democracy and the rule of law on which this country was founded.” -Errol Mendes, Professor of constitutional and international law (University of Ottawa) The current Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen […]
The Emergence of Orwellian Newspeak and the Death of Free Speech
The Emergence of Orwellian Newspeak and the Death of Free Speech “If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and […]
The Day the Earth Died
The Day the Earth Died And Why Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Etc., Were Virtually Silent About It As the civilizations that we all know, and love, and lived, slide increasingly into totalitarian misery; and the environment, which had been our lives, becomes less and less livable, there will be, in retrospect, one key day, which historians […]
Government Is Using Secrecy As a Weapon
Government Is Using Secrecy As a Weapon “Everything Secret Degenerates” Everyone knows Lord Acton’s famous quote: Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But few have heard this equally profound quote from Lord Acton: Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and […]
Martin Armstrong Reports on a Secret Meeting in London to Ban Cash
Martin Armstrong Reports on a Secret Meeting in London to Ban Cash At this point, anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention to the central planning economic totalitarians running the fraudulent global financial system is aware of the blatant push in the media to acclimate the masses to accepting a “cashless society.” In the mind […]
Abolishing Cash – New Age of Economic Totalitarianism
Abolishing Cash – New Age of Economic Totalitarianism Europe is moving full speed ahead to eliminate all cash. Instead of reforming and tackling the economic problems, government always seeks to maintain the same course of thinking that now leads us to the totalitarian approach coming from Brussels. To maintain the euro, they must maintain the […]
A TOTALITARIAN SOCIETY HAS TOTALITARIAN SCIENCE
A TOTALITARIAN SOCIETY HAS TOTALITARIAN SCIENCE The government, the press, the mega-corporations, the prestigious foundations, the academic institutions, the “humanitarian” organizations say: “This is the disease. This is its name. This is what causes it. This is the drug that treats it. This is the vaccine that prevents it. “This is how accurate diagnosis is […]
