The Century of the Self: Happiness Machines Part 2

DESCRIPTION: The Century of the Self is a British television documentary film that focuses its attention on Sigmund Freud’s family, especially his daughter and nephew, who exerted a surprising amount of influence on the way corporations and governments throughout the 20th century have thought about, and dealt with, people. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, [...]

The Century of the Self: Happiness Machines Part 1

______________________________________________ This excellent series was recommended by senior contributing editor PHIL ROCKSTROH, to whom we express our gratitude. DESCRIPTION: The Century of the Self is a British television documentary film that focuses its attention on Sigmund Freud’s family, especially his daughter and nephew, who exerted a surprising amount of influence on the way corporations and [...]

Health Care and the Wages of Sin

In the spirit of the season, let us tell the tale of the Political Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. David Michael Green [print_link]  The Political Ghost of Christmas Present showed up in Washington this week to pass an 800 billion dollar tax cut package, a very large chunk of which goes to a very [...]

ARCHIVES: WikiLeaks—The Smear and the Denial Trail of Shame

Media Criminals Keep these names in mind, as these people specialize in whitewashing the crimes of the global empire PART ONE: The Smear  [print_link] “JOURNALISTS DON’T LIKE WIKILEAKS”, Hugo Rifkind notes in The Times, but “the people who comment online under articles do… Maybe you’ve noticed, and been wondering why. I certainly have.” (Hugo Rifkind Notebook, ‘Remind me. [...]

The New York Times and WikiLeaks

As might be expected, the principal voice of the bourgeois political establishment discharges its duties.   By Joseph Kishore 16 December 2010  [print_link] In the ongoing campaign of persecution against WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, the New York Times, the principal voice of American liberalism, has played a particularly filthy role. RIGHT: Assange supporter awaiting his [...]

Julian Quixote

Wikileaks vs. the Empire By ERIC WALBERG | December 8, 2010  [print_link] It was United States president Woodrow Wilson who called for “open diplomacy” — number one of his fourteen points in 1918 — so that “diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.” He would surely approve of Wikileaks’ efforts at open [...]

Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize? 2 Views

CounterPunch “Bush Was Right to Go to War” Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize? By TARIQ ALI  [print_link]  December 13, 2010 Last year’s recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize [Obama] escalated the war in Afghanistan a few weeks after receiving the prize. The award surprised even Obama. This year the Chinese government were [...]

How the Pentagon Turns Working-Class Men into the Deadliest Killers on the Planet

By David Swanson, http://www.davidswanson.org Posted on December 10, 2010, Printed on December 14, 2010 Crossposted at http://www.alternet.org/story/149165/ The following is an excerpt from David Swanson’s self-published new book War is a Lie (David Swanson, 2010). Since the Vietnam War, the United States has dropped all pretense of a military draft equally applied to all. Instead [...]

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