The Lessons of “Inception”: How the Right-Wing and Corporate Media Brainwash Americans

August 10 2010 by ishmael27 in AMERICAN BRAINWASH, CULTURAL POLITICAL ISSUES |No Comments

Living in a state of manufactured confusion The illusions spread by both the right-wing and corporate media are deftly presented as fact; can we ever wake up? DAVID SIROTA August 1, 2010  [print_link] For all of its “Matrix”-like convolutions and “Alice in Wonderland” allusions, the new film “Inception” adds something significant to the ancient ruminations [...]

Hanging A Hammock Between Death And The Abyss: A Götterdämmerung Of Kitsch

August 10 2010 by ishmael27 in ANIMAL CRIMES, Phil Rockstroh |1 Comment

By Phil Rockstroh [print_link] GIVEN THE LEVEL OF CULTURAL ABSURDITY AT LARGE,  both the commercially tormented landscape and the mass media dominated mindscape of the United States seem a Gogol goof-take. If a person had traveled forward in time, arriving from even the recent past, of say, twenty-five to thirty-years ago, and looked upon the [...]

What Is To Be Done?

August 10 2010 by ishmael27 in AMERICAN BRAINWASH |No Comments

I often receive email from readers which goes something along these lines: “Thank you for your article identifying the problems with American politics and government. But what are the solutions?” David Michael Green [print_link] I am flattered that anyone would expect me to be able to solve that mystery, while being simultaneously chagrined that I [...]

Something’s Wrong Somewhere: Pimps, Whores and the Glitterati Who Game The Global Empire

August 10 2010 by ishmael27 in AMERICAN BRAINWASH, CULTURAL POLITICAL ISSUES |1 Comment

“Something’s wrong somewhere”–Clifford Odets (“Golden Boy,” 1937) “Something’s wrong somewhere”–William Saroyan (“My Heart’s in the Highlands,” 1939) By Gary Corseri [print_link] IT’S UNLIKELY that Michelle or Barack Obama have read or given much thought to American playwrights Clifford Odets and William Saroyan.  Both men found their soaring voices during the Great Depression—great grand-daddy of the [...]

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