Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/our-rulers-are-not-rational-creatures ❖ We survived the nuclear horror of the cold war only to see our rulers turn around and start another one for no legitimate reason, this time against two nations simultaneously. And almost no one objected.The first cold war was
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/the-drivers-of-empire-want-to-rule-as-greek-gods ❖ Power is the ability to control what happens. The more control you have, the more powerful you are.That's why power is like crack for the ego. Egos are all about control; obtaining safety and security so as to ensure
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/our-gods-have-no-heads ❖ We're on a planet-sized haunted hayride to Armageddon, and no one is driving.Sure at first glance it looks like someone's driving. It appears that there are governments which are run by elected officials, and that those officials get together
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/manufacturing-dystopia ❖ We live in a world of manufactured lack, manufactured enemies, manufactured crises and manufactured consent. We've had sufficient resources to care for everyone for generations. All our wars are based on lies. All our problems are cooked up by
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/the-oligarchic-empire-is-actually-simple-and-easy-to-understand ❖ If you're like me and spend entirely too much time on Political Twitter you may have recently observed a bunch of people saying you shouldn't post your opinion about the Afghanistan situation unless you're an expert who has studied
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/our-rulers-have-all-the-power-and-none-of-the-responsibility ❖ As the world burns, as ecosystems die off, as the insects vanish, as the forests disappear, as soil becomes rapidly less fertile, as extinction takes over, as the oceans gasp for air and become lifeless deserts while continents of plastic form in
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/freedom-is-not-free-thats-why-you-dont-have-any ❖ "Freedom is not free," goes the old bumper sticker slogan, commonly accompanied by an image of a flag or soldiers or some other bullshit.Freedom is not free, the saying goes, because military personnel are out there laying their lives
❖ Hey kids! Got some fun and relatable comic strips for you to share on social media:Garfield knows what's up:Marmaduke dropping truth bombs, as usual:This is pretty insightful. Whoever does the Dilbert comic should consider getting into political commentary:I'd honestly never noticed Family Circus has such
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/the-empire-depends-on-psychological-compartmentalization ❖ Britain's High Court has granted the US government limited permission to appeal its extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, meaning that the acclaimed journalist will continue to languish in prison for exposing US war crimes while the appeals process
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/the-emperor-has-no-authority❖If you think the Biden administration caging kids at the border is bad, wait til you hear what it's doing in Yemen.❖Would you be willing to murder a child every ten minutes to advance US geostrategic interests in the