Blood, Oil, and “The American Dream” Egyptian newspaper cartoon about US war on Iraq A weapon of mass destruction was found in Iraq Iraq’s healthcare system is desperately short of skilled staff….
Category: Culture
Earlier this year, there was an article in the New York Times that positively salivated over the ‘Americanisation’ of India. And the author was not referring to Bolivia, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina or any other…
A Parasites’ Paradise: British Governments Attract the Biggest and Wealthiest Parasites of the World
A Parasites’ Paradise (Or the Best Criminal Sanctuary Money Can Buy) Whenever financial swindlers prosper at the expense of investors or a bank jiggers interest rates to bugger their competitors or tax evaders flee fiscal crises…
A Culture of Delusion A writer’s greatest disappointments are readers who have knee-jerk responses. Not all readers, of course. Some readers are thoughtful and supportive. Others express thanks for opening their eyes. But the…
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has a $2 billion yearly budget for research into creating a super solider as well as developing a synthetic police force. Working with the human genome, DARPA…
It’s so simple. And everybody knows it. Mass mind control focuses on two elements: image and feeling. By linking the two primary elements, it is possible to short-circuit thought and “cut to the chase,” when…
In France where people are sent to jail for “Holocaust denial,” considered by law a religious hate crime, it seems strange then that well timed, raunchy cartoons designed solely to insult and inflame hate against…
Hollywood stirs Middle East plot The low budget movie that by ridiculing Islam triggered violent protests throughout the Middle East and the storming of US embassies raises the question of whether the explosive reactions to…
The English Rock Group “Queen” had a song that really would work well as a national anthem for America and Capitalism itself: “I want it all and I want it now.” It celebrates the narcissism,…
Does anyone remember when National Public Radio was an independent voice? During the 1980s NPR was continually on the case of the Reagan administration. NPR certainly had a Democratic slant, and a lot of…