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 […]
Few Americans realize that it was only due to the policies of America’s last* president that we even had a Voting Rights Act [VRA]. The VRA and other anti-discrimination laws were going to be the cornerstone of John F. Kennedy’s second term starting in January 1965 [which was virtually assured with a 70% approval rating…] On […]
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 […]
No one analyzing America from a balanced perspective can deny any longer that the country has gone collectively insane. Certainly, there are still some rational, intelligent Americans around, but we must face the fact that a large segment of the population is totally nuts. Worse, the ruling class is sociopathic and inherently evil. This untenable […]
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 […]
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, […]
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