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How to Sell Invasions to Americans
How to Sell Invasions to Americans Here’s an automated email that I received on January 9th from the neoconservative Foreign Policymagazine’s publicity department, pumping the magazine’s five top stories of that day, all of which suggest that the same U.S. Establishment which had deceived Americans into supporting their country’s invading Iraq, Libya, and other countries […]
How Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post Became the US Military-Industrial Complex’s Chief Propagandist
How Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post Became the US Military-Industrial Complex’s Chief Propagandist It used to be that the New York Times and the Washington Post competed against each other to be the chief propagandist for the hundred or so top firms who sell to the US federal government — the 100 top “federal contractors,” almost all of which are Pentagon […]
Is the Buildup to World War I Being Repeated for WWIII?
Is the Buildup to World War I Being Repeated for WWIII? The great scholar of Turkish history, Taner Akçam, has described today’s geopolitics — the alliances and hostilities toward possibly another World War — as being not ideologically based like WWII, but instead greed-based (empire-grabbing) like WWI: These are wars of power, influence, and control over the […]
Americans Are Only Now Beginning to Learn that We Live in a Dictatorship
Americans Are Only Now Beginning to Learn that We Live in a Dictatorship The first time when it became clear to me that I live in a dictatorship was in 2014 when reading, prior to its publication, the landmark (and still the only) scientific empirical study to address the question as to whether or not the United States federal Government is, authentically, a democracy […]
‘Russiagate’ Is Actually Israelgate — Trump as Agent of Israel, Not of Russia
‘Russiagate’ Is Actually Israelgate — Trump as Agent of Israel, Not of Russia The Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s main evidence thus far in his “Russiagate” probe is not actually about possible Russian collusion with Trump to win the Presidency, but instead about definite Israeli collusion with Trump after Trump had already won the Presidency but […]
How the US Swindled Russia in the Early 1990s
How the US Swindled Russia in the Early 1990s Due to a historic data-dump on December 10th, the biggest swindle that occurred in the 20th Century (or perhaps ever) is now proven as a historical fact; and this swindle was done by the US Government, against the Government and people of Russia, and it continues […]
How the U.S. Dictatorship Works
How the U.S. Dictatorship Works A recent article in the Washington Post described how the current US tax-‘reform’ bill is being shaped; and it describes, basically (at least as far as tax-law changes are concerned), the operation of a US dictatorship by the super-rich. First of all, however: there is no longer any realistic question as regards whether the […]
Google ‘Ministry of Truth’ intensifies suppressing ‘fake news’ (such as this)
Google ‘Ministry of Truth’ intensifies suppressing ‘fake news’ (such as this) On November 18th, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt spoke about how Google will help to defeat Russia. He said that Google helps in this effort not by “censoring” Russian newsmedia, but by “de-ranking” them in Google web-searches, so that web-pages from these sites, which he […]
The Public Are All Alone: Understanding How the Enemy of Your Enemy Is Not Your Friend
The Public Are All Alone: Understanding How the Enemy of Your Enemy Is Not Your Friend In political matters, the public are taught to believe that some political Party is ‘good’, and that the others are “bad”; but the reality in recent times, at least in the United States, has instead been that both Parties […]
How Runaway Inequality Creates Runaway Global Warming
How Runaway Inequality Creates Runaway Global Warming The bottom half of humans own next to nothing, but they own as much as the world’s richest 80 individuals do, because though the bottom half are poor, there are 3.79 billion of them. The average person among the richest 80 owns 45,750,000 times as much as does the average […]
How the US Aristocracy Deceive the US Public
How the US Aristocracy Deceive the US Public The progressive former Democratic US Senator Ted Kaufman wrote at Forbes, on 22 July 2014: Another year has passed with no one from a Wall Street bank going to jail for the criminal behavior everyone knows helped cause the financial crisis. Fines against Wall Street banks are reaching $100 […]
Does Russia Produce ‘Fake News’? Or Does America? Or Both?
Does Russia Produce ‘Fake News’? Or Does America? Or Both? The biggest difference between American and Russian news-reporting has been a simple factual issue between the two sides, on what incident started the ‘New Cold War’ between the U.S. and Russia. (The original Cold War was between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and had […]
Trump’s Hate-Iran Campaign
Trump’s Hate-Iran Campaign On October 19th, the far-right Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) held a “National Security Summit” which featured as speakers both Donald Trump’s CIA chief Mike Pompeo and Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, both of them (as will be shown here by extensive excerpts from their speeches) whipping […]
Why GDP Is Fake
Why GDP Is Fake Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, is the most commonly used measure and ranking of a nation’s economy. According to the OECD and Wikipedia, its definition is: “an aggregate measure of production equal to the sum of the gross values added of all resident and institutional units engaged in production (plus any taxes, and […]
