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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
For the past 60-plus years, the USA has attached its currency to petroleum, and more recently, natural gas. Ever since President Nixon took America off the Gold Standard in 1972, the USA has been on the Oil Standard [“Petro dollars”]. The key to the dollar being the reserve currency of the world is OIL, plain […]
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, […]
We’re creating enemies faster than we can kill them. It’s good for business. America currently garrisons the planet with more than 850 military bases around the world in more than 40 countries and U.S. territories. We deploy more than 300,000 troops across the globe. In Japan alone, we still have around 100,000 people connected to […]
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