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, [...]
______________________________________________ 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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]