Japan’s leaders had many reasons to resist the Potsdam Declaration initially. As discussed in J. Samuel Walker’s Prompt & Utter Destruction, The Declaration – also known as the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender – was a document outlining the conditions for Japan’s surrender in World War II issued by the US, Great Britain and […]
The United States maintained massive, highly secretive chemical and biological weapons manufacturing programs for most of the 20th century. Originally created as a deterrent against foreign adversaries during World War I and World War II, these offensive programs stockpiled thousands of tons of lethal agents before they were permanently dismantled under international treaties. Initiated by […]
An empire based on unrestrained capitalism, rampant militarism and violence, inequality and conspicuous greed — with no concern for preservation of the common good — is doomed to fail. Long valued as an agent of upward mobility and progress, The American Dream has now turned pathological. It’s become sociopathic. In a sociopathic society, anti-social behavior […]
The main reason so many EU countries have strong economies and a better quality of life than the USA is due to the compatibility between labor unions and corporate management. In America we have an adversarial relationship between the corporate State and blue-collar workers – and what’s left of the unions. CEOs can make three […]
The USA: a nation run by corporations, by and for their profits. This is what unshackled capitalism looks like. Money doesn’t talk anymore in America, it screams. Human kindness and empathy probably still exist in the hearts of most normal people who are just struggling to get by in America. But avarice, greed, and grotesque […]
Historically, the will to embrace free expression has gone hand in hand with progressive politics. When I was growing up, public figures who tested the boundaries of indecency and free speech were invariably counter-culture heroes. Throughout recorded time, humor, art, music and literature were understood to be inherently uplifting and liberating, because they were True […]
Fundamentalism is a system of beliefs and memes which reinforce each other and dismiss all contradictory thoughts and doubts. It traps and enslaves people of all religions, in different ways. It causes a person to become intolerant of facts that challenge one’s personal belief system, and it makes them distrustful of all other points of […]
In his famous treatise Meditation six, Rene Descartes struggles to come to grips with the material world and how we perceive it. He explores the causal relationship between mind and body. Descartes manages to convince himself that he does indeed exist, simply because he is capable of THOUGHT. He is able to synthesize his hypothesis […]
It’s no secret that the Internet was created by the US Department of Defense on behalf of America’s Military-Industrial Complex [MIC]. It was originally conceived under the Eisenhower Administration in the early 1960s as a secure communications network linking several important universities, think tanks and research labs together, which would be able to survive a […]
From The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Those prophetic words are spoken by Ariel to describe the chaos caused by the shipwrecked passengers in the play. In allegorical terms it signifies that evil, corruption, and cruelty are the result of human actions, rather than some distant, supernatural netherworld. And so it goes. The National Security State […]
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