What capitalism has ultimately succeeded in doing is branding economic oppression as “Freedom.” The Left [what’s left of The Left…]really needs to appreciate the degree to which all the progressive ideals and emancipatory lifestyles which emerged in the 60s have been fully integrated into the ruling capitalist ideology. Meaningless slogans like “Make America Great Again” […]
[This is highly relevant today…] The ‘steel crisis’ of 1962 was a very public showdown between President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Steel and seven other major steel manufacturers over their blatant violation of an agreement which he had personally negotiated between U.S. Steel and the United Steel Workers’ Union. JFK was concerned about rising inflation. […]
The Old Testament and New Testament are very different books; extolling and worshiping very different gods… The Christian Bible is the New Testament, based on what Christ’s followers wrote about the life and teachings of Jesus over forty years after he was supposedly crucified. As the Roman empire evolved, different religious sects began to create […]
When we look at how fucked up America is today, we must consider the origins of the United States. The first waves of colonists cultivated the identity of the US as a haven from religious persecution, but it’s important to remember that those “Puritan” colonists weren’t exactly progressives fleeing a harsh and unforgiving church: they […]
[Okay…it was actually Psilocybin…-JD] In January of 1962, Mary Pinchot Meyer – ex-wife of high-level CIA operative Cord Meyer – began an affair with President John F. Kennedy. Charles Bartlett, a journalist from the Chattanooga Times and a close friend of JFK recalled: “They had great fun together and a lot of things in common. […]
There was one glaring omission in Ken Burns’ (mostly excellent) The Vietnam War series last night. Mainstream history never acknowledges that JFK was firm in his commitment to pull out ALL US troops by 1965. They always want to make it seem like it was ‘JFK’s war’ – which is untrue. He did not start […]
1967 was the year of the ‘Summer of Love.’ That was a long time ago. It is truly disheartening to see how far we have regressed as a nation since then. The reaction against the hippies still persists to this day. It’s like some kind of mantra for the alt.right. Nearly everything they find disturbing, […]
The fallback position of fascists and Nazis is always to create an imaginary enemy. In this case let’s call them the “Alt-left” and then let’s blame them for protesting against the Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Let’s blame them for having the shit beaten out of them and for getting in the way of that […]
The propaganda methods perfected by the American Establishment for use on the reluctant American public to get them to back endless wars have been used ever since newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst’s “Remember the Maine!” began his campaign in 1898 to drum up public support for the Spanish-American war, America’s first imperialist land grab outside […]
“The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of […]
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