A major argument against any form of truly democratic government – i.e., one person = one vote – is that The Masses simply aren’t qualified or knowledgeable enough to decide on the best way to govern. Initially, the Founding Fathers in the USA decided it was reasonable to allow only men who owned land a […]
[REUTERS] El Paso, Texas: An incredibly handsome, bearded man dressed in flowing white robes surrounded by twelve “followers” was denied entry into the United States, Homeland Security officials said today. Onlookers said the man was exceptionally charismatic, and he seemed to exude kindness and empathy. “I can’t explain it…I just wanted to be close to […]
What exactly is the ‘Political Economy’ [PE]? The PE is a fairly ambiguous concept which encompasses several disciplines related to the social sciences, cultural studies and economics – among other things. Vincent Mosco’s book The Political Economy of Communication: Rethinking and Renewal defines PE as “the study of the social relations, especially the power relations […]
The mainstream media [MSM] has many subtle, effective techniques at its disposal to promote specific agendas through stories they choose to report on. The methods they use are nothing short of tactical rhetorical weapons unleashed upon an unsuspecting public. There are several tactics employed in this rhetorical war. According to authors Dietram Scheufele and David […]
Back in the olden days, when the Soviet Union was still around, the US government used to at least throw a few crumbs to working Americans to remind people of how ‘great’ capitalism is. But not anymore. That went out the window with disintegration of the USSR and the ‘Peace divided.’ The warmongers and their […]
Americans need to get over the myth that we ever had a truly “free press” in the USA. The free press has been gone for a very long time. All US media – even most so-called ‘independent’ media sources – are owned by the same six corporations. Don’t forget that the wealthy corporate elite of […]
For the past 60-plus years, the USA has attached its currency to petroleum, and more recently, natural gas. Ever since President Nixon took America off the Gold Standard in 1972, the USA has been on the Oil Standard [“Petro dollars”]. The key to the dollar being the reserve currency of the world is OIL, plain […]
It’s time we come to terms with the fact that ‘America’ as we know it is dead and buried, and it has been for decades. We live in UMERKA now. The country has reverted to what it has always been throughout its history: a white supremacist, oligarchic, theocratic, authoritarian imperial power. Trump and his ilk […]
The Devil’s Chessboard by David Talbot connects a few more dots in the JFK assassination story. It’s ostensibly a biography of Allen Dulles, former head of the CIA under Eisenhower and Kennedy, but Talbot’s book examines how Dulles’ criminal acts helped to create the Orwellian national security state we currently inhabit. “Mind control experimentation, torture, […]
Entartete Kunst was a term adopted by the Nazi Party to describe modern art. ‘Degenerate Art’ was systematically removed from state-owned museums and banned in Nazi Germany on the grounds that it was an “insult to German feeling.” Created by Joseph Goebbels’ Ministry of Propaganda, more than 16,000 works of art were deemed ‘degenerate.’ The […]
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