Judicial review is a key concept in policy making and in changing the meaning or intent of the Constitution. Although not specifically mentioned in the Constitution, it is implied throughout. Federalist Paper #78 discusses the need for Judicial Review and in it Publius stresses that the Judiciary is by far the weakest of the three […]
All modern wars since WWII have been fought for resources and power – certainly not to bring democracy or peace to anyone. America keeps the world in a constant state of chaos thanks to the murderous psychopaths in the CIA, and this policy creates massive profits for the true rulers of the planet: Lockheed Martin, […]
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, […]
In May 2015 Judicial Watch obtained a huge cache of declassified documents from the US government through a FOIA lawsuit. The watchdog organization published more than 100 pages of confidential reports from the Department of Defense and the State Department earlier this year. The documents confirm that America and its coalition allies facilitated the growth […]
Q: Why did the ‘Paul Is Dead’ controversy continue to hold credence with Beatles fans for as long as it did despite the Beatles’ insistence that there weren’t hidden messages about it in any of their album covers/songs etc? Did the Paul is Dead belief/conspiracy theory reflect changes in the mood of the Beatles fan […]
In this post I will compare and contrast the three modes of rhetorical thinking: narrative, dialectic and rhetoric. All three disciplines require us to reason in different ways. I will also briefly discuss symbols. Narratives are stories, traditions, legends which transmit the accepted, agreed upon norms in any given society. A social narrative transfers, maintains […]
On December 6, 1982, more than twenty Guatemalan soldiers stormed the tiny village of Dos Erres, looking for rifles which they claimed had recently been stolen by local guerillas. They searched homes for the “missing weapons” and systematically killed all the men, women and children they could find. According to the few surviving eyewitnesses of […]
Despite all that we’ve learned about the pre-WW II environment in Britain, it is still hard to make a reasonable case for appeasement without the benefit of hindsight. Some historians feel that appeasement was a direct cause of World War II because it allowed Hitler to grow in power and confidence. This is simply not […]
How did the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement affect mainstream media (MSM) and vice-versa? In this post I will examine how MSM affected the ability of the Occupy movement to reach – and appeal to – a broader public. By analyzing negative media frames regarding OWS scholars argue that media framing influenced the representation of […]
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 […]
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