‘Lies My Government Told Me, and the Better Future Coming’
Malone points out that the most effective way to avoid the kinds of policy fiascos the U.S. government finds itself in on a regular basis is to create completely separate problem-solving groups that do not interact with each other.
Malone vs. the Breggins: Tessa Lena’s Take
What distinguishes the good guys from the bad guys is not the isms, and not the talking points. It’s the feeling of love, an insistence on doing things from love and not from fear (which is one of the hardest things to do in a world that is unfair and broken).
Victory Will Not Solve the Problem
We will never rival the evil controlling powers in their ruthlessness, violence, deceit, and weapons of war. We will not beat them at their own game. We have to play a bigger game, one that includes the game of force but far transcends it.
The Banality of Good
The new agents of persecution are not jackbooted secret police thugs instilling fear, but almond milk latte-swigging university officials imposing unpleasant consensus. George Orwell’s vicious O’Brien has yielded to Ken Kesey’s passive-aggressive Nurse Ratched.
Resisting Techno-Tyranny: A Dialogue
Without the foundations of authentic anarchist thinking, these hollowed-out zombie anarchists were easily led into the absurd positions of supporting fascistic state control and medication on the basis of defending the “common good” as defined by our rulers.
The Chris Hedges Report with economist Richard Wolff
The Fed sells securities chiefly to major financial institutions (inducing them to buy by charging attractively low prices for those securities) as the economist Richard Wolff points out.