Category Archives: propaganda

Anything can happen to anyone

The assassination of the CEO of United Health has galvanized social media with the majority of sentiment being approval, but this points to a larger issue. Is not that the system is broken or isn’t working. It’s working just as … Continue reading

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Six out of Seven

Wesley Clark, a former US Army general, recounted a visit to the Pentagon a few weeks after 9/11, where he was shown a classified document that set out how the US was going to “take out seven countries in five years, starting … Continue reading

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Hard men with guns

I knew that the deep state would not surrender the American empire without a fight and would go to extraordinary lengths to preserve it, but I underestimated their ruthlessness and depravity. With their proxy war in Ukraine facing defeat and … Continue reading

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The end of the end of history

Trump’s reelection has shattered the end of history narrative promulgated by Francis Fukuyama and the assorted coterie of neocons who plotted a perpetual American empire. Former MI-6 military and foreign policy analyst, Alastair Crooke writes–“the U.S. election also, has been … Continue reading

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Landslide

There was a clear winner in Tuesday’s presidential election. Billionaires won in a landslide. No matter what the public wants and no matter the outcome of elections, the oligarchs almost always win. They get a neoliberal government that does little … Continue reading

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The F-Bomb

I don’t know about you but I’m pretty fucking sick of the F-Bomb, you know–Fascism–the ultimate liberal pejorative. This warning only applies to Trump and his MAGA supporters, but Team Blue, led by Biden and Harris spent the last year … Continue reading

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Market Mechanisms

I’m fascinated by ideas and ideologies and none have animated me quite like the ideology of neoliberalism with its mantra that there’s “no alternative.” This bold pronouncement, along with its twin, that “there is no society,” always seemed like a … Continue reading

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The Phoenix Program

I’ve come to believe that Israel has taken a page from US actions in Vietnam and instituted a Phoenix Program to eliminate the civilian cadre of Hamas and Hezbollah. During the Vietnam War, the CIA secretly initiated a sweeping program … Continue reading

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October Surprise?

Wow! Leave town for a while and all hell breaks out, although I suppose that’s to be expected when we’re living through the the Raging Twenties. Historically an October Surprise occurs when when one of our political parties utilizes a … Continue reading

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The corporate media today

It used to be that the press understood their job as a check on the powerful but those days are well behind us. The corporatization of the media is a big reason for the change. Moreover, the press used to … Continue reading

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