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Is Profit-Maximizing Data-Mining Undermining Democracy?
Is Profit-Maximizing Data-Mining Undermining Democracy? If targeting political extremes generates the most profit, then that’s what these corporations will pursue. As many of you know, oftwominds.com was falsely labeled propaganda by the propaganda operation known as ProporNot back in 2016. The Washington Postsaw fit to promote ProporNot’s propaganda operation because it aligned with the newspaper’s view […]
America’s Troll Farm Media
America’s Troll Farm Media Photo by Porsche Brosseau | CC BY 2.0 Despite all the smoke and mirrors, most Americans seem to see where the stenographers of corporate capitalism are taking us. A recent Gallup poll found that while 84% of Americans see media as “critical” or “very important” to democracy, only 28% see the […]
Getting Past Trump: This Is How Democracies Die (Part 1)
Getting Past Trump: This Is How Democracies Die (Part 1) Ed note: This piece is part of a 3-part series. Part 1 is also cross-posted on Truthout. Donald Trump’s 13-month tenure (so far) as president of the United States has been an exhausting sprint for onlookers concerned about the state of the global ecosystem and […]
Social Media Censorship Is Vastly More Dangerous Than The Censored Material
Social Media Censorship Is Vastly More Dangerous Than The Censored Material US oligarchs: Russia hacked our election. Public: Uh oh! What should we do about it? US oligarchs: Greatly inflate the military budget, sanction US rivals, and censor dissenting opinions. Public: Umm… aren’t those things you’ve always wanted to do anyway? US oligarchs: Hush. I know […]
Prepare for War: Globalism, Socialism, and Communism vs. Freedom
Prepare for War: Globalism, Socialism, and Communism vs. Freedom “Peace Sells, But Who’s Buying?” – Megadeath “SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLVM.” (If you wish peace, prepare for war) PVBLIVS FLAVIVS VEGETIVS RENATVS (aka: “Vegetius”) “Peace through superior firepower.” – former President Ronald Reagan *** History: It repeats itself and is consistently ignored before it does so. Ignored are […]
Should Facebook, Google and Twitter Be Public Utilities?
Should Facebook, Google and Twitter Be Public Utilities? This opaque corporate censorship amounts to a private-sector Stasi, pursuing an Orwellian world of profits reaped from the censorship and suppression of dissent My longtime friend GFB recently suggested I revisit my position on RussiaGate, the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election. I have […]
How We’re Fighting to Save Democracy From Bribery and Gerrymandering, One State at a Time
How We’re Fighting to Save Democracy From Bribery and Gerrymandering, One State at a Time In Pennsylvania, the democratic system isn’t broken. It’s dead. Adam Eichen, Rabbi Michael Pollack, Emmie DiCicco speaking at a March on Harrisburg barnstorming event at the UU Fellowship of Erie, PA. February 19, 2018 Photo Credit: Rhys Baker Political alienation […]
America’s Elite Thinks it Has a Divine Right to Rule the World
America’s Elite Thinks it Has a Divine Right to Rule the World America’s ruling class has a curious attitude to democracy. It seems to be interpreted as something that’s good for the US and its allies but bad for critters who won’t accept their role in the “America-led international order.”First off, let me be clear. […]
Is That Russia Troll Farm an Act of War?
Is That Russia Troll Farm an Act of War? According to the indictment by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Russian trolls, operating out of St. Petersburg, took American identities on social media and became players in our 2016 election. On divisive racial and religious issues, the trolls took both sides. In the presidential election, the trolls […]
Kofi Annan Echoes Soros Scaremongery: “Social Media Threatens Democracy”
Kofi Annan Echoes Soros Scaremongery: “Social Media Threatens Democracy” Just a few short weeks after billionaire George Soros spoke in Davos, demanding that the European Union regulate social media because voters’ minds are being controlled and “manipulated,” none other than former secretary-general of the United Nations and Nobel Peace laureate, Kofi Annan, has issued an […]
Russian Meddling: Gagging on the Irony
Russian Meddling: Gagging on the Irony The irony that is most gagging is that America’s power elite is destroying the nation’s social order by its concentration of wealth and abuse of power. The irony of the Deep State’s obsessive focus on “Russian meddling” in the precious bodily fluids of our hallowed democracy is so overwhelming […]
Our Approaching Winter of Discontent
Our Approaching Winter of Discontent The tragedy is so few act when the collapse is predictably inevitable, but not yet manifesting in daily life. That chill you feel in the financial weather presages an unprecedented–and for most people, unexpectedly severe–winter of discontent. Rather than sugarcoat what’s coming, let’s speak plainly for a change: none of […]
Death of Democracy? – Part I
Death of Democracy? – Part I “The result of 25 years of multiculturalism has not been multicultural communities. It has been mono-cultural communities… Islamic communities are segregated.” – Ed Husain, former Muslim extremist. This approach, giving social-services, is based on the belief — oft-refuted — that Muslim extremists (both Muslims-by-birth and converts) have suffered from […]
The Dunning-Kruger Effect Explains the Growth of Government
The Dunning-Kruger Effect Explains the Growth of Government Why do democracies lead to ever-growing states? We’ve all found ourselves at least a few times in our lives listening to friends or relatives complain about voter apathy. If only voters properly researched policies and politicians, everything would be better, we hear. Unfortunately, the incentives just aren’t […]
Cold War Mentality Belies Fear of Democratic World Order
Cold War Mentality Belies Fear of Democratic World Order This past week saw a spate of international security alarms which underlines the danger of the world stumbling into catastrophic war. Those alarms, which were either false or hyped up, stem from a Cold War mentality. Such a mentality is not only dangerous, it is also […]
