Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/study-us-foreign-policy-by-looking-at-oil-reserves ❖ None of the world's worst people are in prison. Most of them are fabulously wealthy and widely esteemed. Our systems are not set up to reward beneficial action and punish wrongdoing; at the scale that really matters, they are
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/billionaires-only-come-to-the-rescue-in-movies-and-comic-books ❖ Twitter has done an about-face and sold the company to the richest person in the world for $44 billion.Rightists are having a merry old time making fun of the melodramatic reactions from high-profile liberals who fear Elon Musk's purchase
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/the-official-story ❖ The official story is that we live in a free democracy where our teachers tell us the truth about our nation, our government and our world when we are children, and then the free press continue telling us the
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