24 the whole nine yards

June 15, 2010

Seasons one through seven of the Fox fantasy “24″ are available in their entirety for commercial free streaming from Netflix. The last season, number eight, will presumably be available someday. For eight years I avoided exposure to this pestilential propaganda, but now that it’s been wrapped up, I’ve made a commitment to my atavistic inner [...]

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The Ideology of Victimhood

June 14, 2010

Hamas and the Likudniks share a cloudy view of reality, a view obscured by the belief that they alone are victims in the struggle for dominance of Palestine and Israel. Bernard Weiner writes about the incendiary danger of unchecked power in today’s OpEd News. Weiner’s conclusion is pessimistic in the extreme, but the path he follows on the way [...]

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US Caves on Flotilla Massacre Investigation

June 13, 2010

Led by Spain, Italy, France, and the UK, the European Union seeks an end to the blockade of Gaza. The US stands against it, and against an international investigation of the flotilla massacre. Rather we stand with our ally and largest campaign contributor, Israel.

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Totalitarianism is not a good thing

June 2, 2010

There are no constraints left to halt America’s slide into a totalitarian capitalism. — Chris Hedges
With the whole world watching, the USA compromised itself further by tacit support of its ally Israel, a country lately committed to brutality as a substitute for diplomacy. Americans can only sigh in shame at our government’s inability to say [...]

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Extradite and arrest the leaders and put them on trial

May 29, 2010

Are you puzzled about the attempt to drag the President of the United States into the resolution of problems caused by a huge global corporation, problems that are ultimately the responsibility of its executive management and shareholders alike? The best place to begin sorting this out is to freeze all BP assets worldwide, throw the [...]

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Have you seen the little piggies

May 28, 2010

If you’re a hog in East Moline you’d be well advised to make a run for it! Pork processing there is big business. Actually, if you find your porcine self in East Moline, it’s too late. The trail from holding pen to shrink-wrapped bacon is a narrow one, well bounded by fences, a trail from [...]

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The big lie

May 26, 2010

Garlic and sapphires in the mud
Clot the bedded axle-tree.
The “big lie” is simple to frame but difficult to untangle. The “big lie” is about us and them. It’s about creating the illusion that there are two sides to an issue and then creating the distinction that “our side” is right, and “their side” is wrong. [...]

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The middle sized lie

April 1, 2010

For the last two weeks I’ve kept a browser tab open, a link to The Lies of Karl Rove by Melvin Goodman. Here’s how it begins:
Joseph Goebbels, the leading propagandist of the Third Reich, believed in the power of the lie; the greater the lie, the greater the power. Goebbels would have loved Karl Rove’s [...]

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