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Amazon, Jeff Bezos, And The Influential Washington Post

July 31, 2020

Amazon, Jeff Bezos, And The Influential Washington Post Influence And Power Wrongly Placed! After Jeff Bezos and several other CEOs testified before the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee over anti-competitive conduct the following article has taken a huge leap in importance. The Washington Post is an influencer with great power. What is the definition of an […]

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Russian Oligarchs are a Problem, But Let’s Not Forget American Ones

October 5, 2018

Russian Oligarchs are a Problem, But Let’s Not Forget American Ones Photo Source Matt Brown | CC BY 2.0 Oligarchs the world over have long been destabilizing economies and shaping governing bodies for their own benefit. For instance, if we turn to the supposed ‘birth of democracy’ in Ancient Athens, elites (called ‘citizens’) of the […]

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Plutocracy Now!

September 6, 2018

Plutocracy Now! The United States today qualifies as a plutocracy – on a number of grounds, and it is having a profound impact on the media, education and think tanks–indeed on the whole of society, says Michael Brenner. Plutocracy literally means rule by the rich. “Rule” can have various shades of meaning: those who exercise […]

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Colonizing the Western Mind 

March 2, 2018

Colonizing the Western Mind  Photo by Marco | CC BY 2.0 In Christopher Nolan’s captivating and visually dazzling film Inception, a practitioner of psychic corporate espionage must plant and idea inside a CEO’s head. The process is called inception, and it represents the frontier of corporate influence, in which mind spies no longer just “extract” […]

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How We’re Fighting to Save Democracy From Bribery and Gerrymandering, One State at a Time

February 26, 2018

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 […]

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Is the Buildup to World War I Being Repeated for WWIII?

December 28, 2017

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 […]

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2016 Theme #2: the Hollow Shell of Democracy

January 5, 2016

2016 Theme #2: the Hollow Shell of Democracy This week I am addressing themes I see playing out in 2016. A number of systemic, structural forces are intersecting in 2016. One is the hollowing out of democracy globally. Democracy has three distinct states of being: formal, in actual practice and informal. Nations that claim the mantle […]

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