Tag Archives: propaganda
A Clockwork Orange
I live in a liberal neighborhood replete with Ukrainian flags, and wonder if the display is a sort of unconscious projection? Liberals have been taught their whole lives that the Holocaust was the greatest crime ever and were instructed to … Continue reading
Now They Tell Us
As the Trump Administration embarks on a campaign of domestic rendition to silence critics of Israel’s genocide it’s important to acknowledge that the Biden Administration and corporate media lied to us about the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. Now … Continue reading
Techno-Feudalism
The outlines of America’s future are coming into focus and it’s not pretty. Welcome to techno-feudalism, a term coined by Yanis Varoufakis to describe the new economic reality where the tech-lords that control platforms like X, Amazon, Meta, and Google, stand … Continue reading
Give War a Chance
The US political and media elite are having a meltdown now that Trump is poised to bring the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine to a close. Everyone from Rachel Maddow to Bernie Sanders is freaking out over the Trump administration’s moves toward ending the war … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
