Adieu to the illusion of democracy
For the ruling clique and its corporate media, of course, the shocking element was that people are increasingly refusing to be simply trampled underfoot, or scared off the streets, by an army of “lawful” enforcers of the Rule of Greed.
Disarm the IRS, De-Militarize the Bureaucracy…
What does it say about the state of our freedoms that there are now more pencil-pushing, bureaucratic (non-military) government agents armed with weapons than U.S. Marines?
The Enemy From Within
The war industry, a state within a state, disembowels the nation, stumbles from one military fiasco to the next, strips us of civil liberties and pushes us towards suicidal wars with Russia and China.
Collaboration With Bullies, a Road to Hell?
The depth of corruption at the moment is nauseatingly grim but it’s good remember that every situation takes a long time to shape, and that our choices of today may determine what tomorrow will look like.
Poverty and Crisis: Sucking Humanity Dry
The only thing inevitable about the current crisis was the collapse of a debt-fuelled, unsustainable neoliberalism set up to facilitate outright plunder by the super-rich who have offshored more than $50 trillion in hidden accounts.
America, the Single-Opinion Cult
It was once considered healthy for the press to play to mass audiences and position itself as a skeptical thorn in the side of officialdom. There is no institution like that left in American life. What we have instead is an increasingly pissed-off population that needs to look about eighty results down in every Google search to find its point of view represented.
FDA: Vaccines Do Not Need to Prevent Infections or Transmission
The FDA in an unorthodox manner approved the vaccines—first, Pfizer by approving Comirnaty, yet keeping BNT162b2 (investigational) as the only vaccine in distribution.
You Are Reading This Thanks to Semiconductors
In recent years, the US has been waging an aggressive campaign to arrest China’s technological development, which it views as a serious threat to its dominance.