Caitlin today: The Top Ten Dumbest Things Empire Propagandists Ask Us To Believe When you live under an empire that’s held together by lies, you’ll be asked to believe a lot of intensely stupid bullshit. Here are the top ten … Read More »
Never has the world seemed a more dangerous place, nor more in the thrall of power-servingly mendacious accounts of why. The first fills me with alarm but also an imperative. The second can throw those like me – seeking, with … Read More »
Of late I’ve done a slew of reading and want to share some of it, though I’m spoiled for choice. Fine pieces from Naked Capitalism, Caitlin Johnstone, Andrew Korybko, Simplicius the Thinker, Moon of Alabama and Michael Roberts to name … Read More »
We need to remind people they work for the employer, not the other way around. we need to see unemployment rise, unemployment has to jump 40–50 percent … Tim Gurner, property developer Once the penny dropped that modern monetary theory … Read More »
… continued from Part 1 …. * In a piece replicated in full on this site – Who pays for the US war machine? – my old friend Bryan Gocke noted that despite running a colossal national debt, the USA … Read More »
Left, a Bing in Internet Explorer return on my search for RT (formerly Russia Today). Right, a DuckDuckGo in Tor return on the same. Why not make up your own mind whose voices you hear? Download the Tor Browser today! … Read More »
In a post yesterday – beneath the quietly understated header, Make Peace, You Fools! – former US Army Colonel Douglas McGregor offered these (here edited and abridged) words: Putin committed fewer than 100,000 troops to a shallow penetration on a … Read More »
Insulate Britain protests, 2022 My previous post, Ruling class devilry and the Holy Bible, alluded to the fact that: … some at least of the billionaires in whose interests the planet is being trashed, even as nuclear Armageddon looms on … Read More »
A week ago I posted on Latin America’s (and more generally the global south’s) defiance of “the international community” over Ukraine. The international community as endlessly invoked by ‘our’ media It generated a response from – it’s possible this isn’t … Read More »
A good friend emailed apropos my most recent post, two reads on media propaganda. The reads in question were by Caitlin Johnstone and Media Lens, and my friend wrote that: [Caitlin’s] explanation of how we become indoctrinated makes me feel … Read More »