Our long national nightmare isn’t over, it’s just beginning
September 7, 2010 – 4:14 pm | No Comment

For decades the nation’s plutocracy has worked unceasingly to foster fear, mass stupidity, hatred, and ignorance. Now the ugly harvest is at hand.
By David Michael Green
In the 1930s, the only thing we had to …

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AMERICAN BRAINWASH

Discussing the lies and methods that have made Americans the most politically dumb people on earth, prisoners of an elaborate propaganda “Bubble” from which there is no escape except through a patient reexamination of some of their dearest myths.

ANIMAL CRIMES

Factory farms, fur farms, sport hunting, ecodestruction…the list is long. Trillions of animals suffer each year at the hands of man.

CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM

We try to shed light on the truth about these systems, esp. capitalism, which is accepted without question in the USA.

CIA + GOVT CRIMES

The CIA role in the world is not so much to protect the American people, as to protect the US plutocracy and its world associates.

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Our long national nightmare isn’t over, it’s just beginning
September 7, 2010 – 4:14 pm | No Comment
Our long national nightmare isn’t over, it’s just beginning

For decades the nation’s plutocracy has worked unceasingly to foster fear, mass stupidity, hatred, and ignorance. Now the ugly harvest is at hand.
By David Michael Green
In the 1930s, the only thing we had to …

The President’s Debt Commission
September 6, 2010 – 4:32 pm | No Comment
The President’s Debt Commission

By Ernest Stewart
“Social Security is “a milk cow with 310 million
tits. It’s for the ‘lesser people’ of society.” ~~ Alan (Cat Food) Simpson.
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“Yet no one can doubt President Bush’s support for our troops, or his …

ARCHIVES: The Origins of the Overclass
September 5, 2010 – 8:29 pm | No Comment
ARCHIVES: The Origins of the Overclass

A MAN WHO DOES NOT KNOW THE TRUTH IS JUST AN IDIOT BUT A MAN WHO KNOWS THE TRUTH AND CALLS IT A LIE IS A CROOK! –BERTOLT BRECHT
A man is nothing else but what …

BOOKS: Bright-sided by manufactured optimism
September 3, 2010 – 6:55 pm | No Comment
BOOKS: Bright-sided by manufactured optimism

Books that you should be paying attention to—

BARBARA EHRENREICH —Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America

Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
 Starred Review. Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed) delivers a trenchant look into the burgeoning business …

MIASMA OF MYOPIA
September 1, 2010 – 4:39 pm | 2 Comments
MIASMA OF MYOPIA

“Until a compelling message is articulated that we’re senselessly treading on Nature’s symmetry, and in so doing destroying ourselves, the sheer madness will continue unabated…”

IN ITS MOST DISTILLED FORM, Cicero had it right:  philosophy is …

ARCHIVE: The Scaife Divorce Mess
August 31, 2010 – 7:35 pm | 3 Comments
ARCHIVE: The Scaife Divorce Mess

The WAPO, for once, performs a genuine public service by running this story
Low Road to Splitsville—

Right-Wing Publisher’s Breakup Is Super-Rich In Tawdry Details
By David Segal Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 22, 2007
PITTSBURGH  With some …

Why is America suffering so much from a recession that Germany largely bypassed?
August 31, 2010 – 12:56 am | One Comment
Why is America suffering so much from a recession that Germany largely bypassed?

As most everyone knows by now, ever more American jobs, recently even white-collar jobs, have been, and are now being, transferred to low-wage workers in other countries. Since 2000, the U.S. has lost 5.5 million …

We Are Not Special, and There Is No Happy Ending: The Blood-Drenched Darkness of American Exceptionalism
August 29, 2010 – 4:25 pm | No Comment
We Are Not Special, and There Is No Happy Ending: The Blood-Drenched Darkness of American Exceptionalism

The myth of “exceptionalism” has cut a wide swath in the American consciousness, all to the bad, but its roots lie buried in the conceits of England itself.
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YOU MAY NOT REGARD the two propositions in …

We Are Cornered: There’s No Way Out Without A Fight
August 27, 2010 – 9:46 pm | No Comment
We Are Cornered: There’s No Way Out Without A Fight

By Black Agenda Report  executive editor Glen Ford  | Wed, 08/25/2010   |  
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A corporate offensive is rolling down upon us, aimed at wholesale privatization of the public sector. If the Left has learned anything …

America’s Gulf: Updating the Greatest Ever Environmental Crime
August 26, 2010 – 8:01 pm | No Comment
America’s Gulf: Updating the Greatest Ever Environmental Crime

FOR MONTHS, US MEDIA REPORTS distorted and lied about its severity, running cover for BP and the Obama administration, now practically avoiding the crisis altogether as it worsens. An August 20 Inter Press Service report …