People try to tell me that there is no hope. That the status quo is too fully locked in. That the sociopathic manipulators who are driving our species toward war, ecocide and Orwellian dystopia are just too powerful and too good at what they do.
One of the weirdest things about the post-Iraq invasion world is how the mass media has actually gotten less accountable instead of more accountable for its reporting since that time.Right now in the UK there's an amazingly viral smear campaign against Jeremy Corbyn running across all
Have you ever stopped and considered how the ideas in your head got there? Especially the ideas you hold as true and important?I mean really considered it. All the way through. Maybe you know that some of your beliefs and values were put there by
"Green Party" is trending on Twitter right now, which always means that Democrats are having a meltdown over something that is entirely their own fault. Apparently a few people voted Green in a close congressional election in Ohio with low turnout due to uninteresting and
If you've been wondering why you're seeing John Bolton's carrion-soaked mustache on screen more than usual lately, it's because things are escalating further with Iran.President Trump's National Security Advisor has been on a whirlwind media tour helping the imperial propaganda machine manufacture support for the
Last year, representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were instructed on the US Senate floor that it is their responsibility to "quell information rebellions" and adopt a “mission statement” expressing their commitment to "prevent the fomenting of discord.”“Civil wars don’t start with gunshots, they start
I just watched two mainstream political videos back-to-back from what is conventionally referred to as America's political "center", and just by coincidence they happened to completely contradict each other. The first was a Bill Maher segment in which he barely even attempted to tell any
You can't throw a rock in establishment media circles these days without hitting a hand-wringing empire loyalist who is in the middle of an existential crisis about the US president hurting Jim Acosta's feelings. They act like Trump saying mean words about mainstream media outlets
Plutocrat-owned news media outlets lie constantly. When I say this I don't mean that everything they say is false; many of the events reported by mass media are for the most part factual. Whenever it's convenient for the loose alliance of western plutocrats, the political
As attempts to evict Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy in London get more and more aggressive, we are seeing a proportionate increase in the establishment smear campaign against him and against WikiLeaks. This is not a coincidence.The planned campaign to remove Assange from political asylum