NRA revisionist myth NUMBER ONE: THEY’RE COMING TO TAKE YOUR GUNS!!! Along with the ridiculous “good guy with a gun” concept, this is the dumbest argument put forth by the gun-humpers. Your collection of puny little pea-shooters doesn’t guarantee you will be protected from the state. They don’t need your guns. Their guns are bigger […]
I sat down to dinner recently with the family of one of my oldest and dearest friends. His sister came with her husband and their two young sons. Somehow the state of healthcare in America came up. The eldest son, speaking on behalf of his moron father – ex-Navy – stated emphatically that healthcare is […]
No one can be truly powerful unless he has access to the command of major institutions, for it is over these institutional means of power that the truly powerful are, in the first instance, truly powerful. -C. Wright Mills Author David Talbot makes a convincing case for the existence of an extremely powerful, utterly sociopathic […]
Donald Trump not only gets more network TV time than the other Republicans: he gets more time than all the other Republicans and all of the Democrats combined. I have never seen the MSM show such rank political promotion before. Poor, poor Bernie Sanders. The “liberal media” is a myth found only in the land of […]
I read Friendly Fascism back in the early eighties, at the very start of the Reagan era. I decided to pick it up again recently to see how far we’ve come since then, and it’s amazing just how spot on author Bertram Gross was in his cogent analysis of elite power structures in America. Reading […]
Why is network news so awful? Because the main stream media [MSM] is no longer concerned with truth or unbiased journalistic integrity, that’s why. Those qualities have disappeared from contemporary broadcast media since Reagan abolished the Fairness Doctrine in 1987. According to the MSM, the only news worth covering is the campaign of Donald Trump. […]
Are we heading for Judgment Day? Whether you believe it or not, some very powerful people are doing everything they can to bring about the end of the world. It might come sooner than we think if recent events in the Ukraine and the Middle East are any indication. Do we need to prepare for […]
You gotta hand it to Bibi Netanyoohoo: his genocidal policies toward the Palestinians sure have made his country more secure, haven’t they? You betcha! He should be real proud of himself for making everyday life so safe and secure for the people he pretends to care so much about. Yep, Israeli citizens can sleep safely […]
King Henry VIII was the first Monarch to take legal action to control the press in pre-Enlightenment England. His methods were simple enough: he required all printers to pay licensing fees in order to be allowed to print anything. This concept became known as ‘prior restraint’: preventing the distribution of controversial materials before they are even […]
In this blog I will demonstrate how the term ‘conspiracy theory’ has been misused by the media. In particular, I will focus on the so-called ‘alternative media’ and the many ways they marginalize and isolate reasonable suspicions about the political economy which have the potential to de-legitimize the prevailing social order. The archetypical example of […]
