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State Media

The US has long maintained a largely invisible, highly effective propaganda system, described by CIA official, Frank Wisner, as the mighty Wurlitzer,” on which he could play any propaganda tune. Back then the CIA maintained a network of writers, journalists … Continue reading

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 Authoritarian Conflict Management

Out of town. So here’s a important article by Mike Whitney, detailing the ways in which Trump is responsible for Hamas’s bust out of Gaza and Israel’s genocidal response. And a taste–“So, with a wave of his hand, Trump broke … Continue reading

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Traitors

Billionaires are traitors, actively sabotaging the general welfare of America with their insatiable greed, and yet we celebrate them. The only reason we don’t immediately recognize their betrayal is due to the mighty propaganda Wurlitzer that venerates sociopathic CEO’s in … Continue reading

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Blowback

Inquiring minds want to know if there’s a connection between the US’s weaponization of terrorist proxies in Syria to overthrow the Bashar Assad regime and the truck attack in New Orleans?  Has the war of terror come home? A US … Continue reading

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Concrete material benefits

The Trump-Vance administration can engineer a political transformation if they can provide concrete material benefits to working-class Americans, who have seen their standard and quality of living collapse. If so, Trump has an opportunity to consolidate a durable realignment of … Continue reading

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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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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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Down in a hole

When you’re down in a hole it’s a good idea to stop digging. If you’re a fading empire it’s a good idea to not accelerate the descent, but the geniuses that are managing the US empire didn’t get the memo … 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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