Listen to a reading of "Manufacturing Culture":https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/manufacturing-culture?si=aabf780842104214ad8de4898e4658bd ❖ In Hollywood the Pentagon rewrites scripts about the military to manufacture consent for a globe-spanning empire to make US soldiers look like good guys to make US wars look like good wars to ensure continued recruitments to ensure a steady supply of young bodies to
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/pompeo-effectively-admits-to-assange-allegations?si=0bc943cd8daf45999c91a4270407ffd6 ❖ In the process of issuing another not-really-a-denial about a Yahoo News report that the CIA plotted to kidnap, extradite and assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2017, former CIA director Mike Pompeo said that the 30 former government officials
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/there-is-no-good-form-of-capitalism ❖ Don't side with the powerful against the less powerful. Just don't. Don't side with police against protesters. Don't side with the US against the targets of western imperialism. Don't side with Israel against Palestinians. Siding with the powerful means
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/how-is-the-cia-still-a-thing ❖ Citing "conversations with more than 30 former U.S. officials," a new report by Yahoo News has confirmed earlier allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency not only spied on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his associates, but also drew up plans
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/people-dont-understand-how-unfree-we-already-are ❖ The biggest and most widespread blind spot among those who oppose totalitarian control by the powerful is the assumption that it has not already been achieved.We've been so busy watching out for the next overtly totalitarian dictatorship that wants
Steve and Joe were at the bar one night when things became heated between them, as they often do."Oh no, not again with you two," yelled the bartender when a stool got knocked over. "Take it outside!"The two men took their exit accompanied by other
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/electoral-politics-does-not-work ❖ It says a lot that AOC wasn't even able to vote against an Israeli apartheid measure that everyone already knew would pass regardless of her vote.I mean, how far gone is your progressive revolution if you're not even allowed
A lot has changed for Victorians since the lockdowns started. Our lifestyles. Our waist sizes. The kinds of things we see as normal.And a lot has changed in Victoria itself since we've been in lockdown as well. For example, have you seen our police lately?If
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/true-humility-true-forgiveness ❖ Some people think humility means thinking of yourself as lowly and inferior, but that's not right.Evangelical Christian author Rick Warren attempts to correct this misperception with the famous saying, “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/we-wont-be-free-until-our-minds-are-free ❖ There's a quote from an ancient Buddhist text called the Dhammapada that's often translated as, “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.”In other words our mental habits