An Investigative Report by Gary Null, PhD and Jeremy Stillman Solar Storms: Katrina Times 1,000? A Real Armageddon is Possible but Not Inevitable An Investigative Report by Gary Null, PhD and Jeremy Stillman In the five days leading up to Hurricane Katrina making its landfall, I …
Today’s program- Building a People’s News Media in the 21st Century. We’ll talk about corporate media hegemony, top down managed news propaganda, and grassroots resistance with Prof. Robert Hackett of Simon Fraser University and Tracy Rosenberg of Media Alliance for most of the show today. Near the end of the hour we’ll check in …
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If citizens don’t have the right to know and scientists don’t have the freedom to speak the truth, we are creating societies that are dangerous — for democratic freedom and for biosafety Science is considered science when it is independent, when it has integrity and when it speaks the truth …
According to a report published Sunday on the front page of the New York Times, the Obama administration is pushing ahead with plans to establish a more systematic and regular program of using unmanned drones to kill people selected by the White House for death. The newspaper estimated that US …
Pillar of Cloud settled nothing. Little changed for 1.7 million Gazans. Suffocating siege continues. Israel provoked two border incidents. One Palestinian was shot and killed. Others were wounded. They threatened no one. These type incidents are commonplace. They won’t end. Palestinians are blamed for Israeli crimes. Daily life continues as before. …
In recent years, populist explanations for world events have become common and often taken the form of anti-establishment conspiracy theories. The contradiction between how people believe the world should be, according to the mainstream propaganda pertaining to liberty and democracy, and how it is in this time of crisis leads …
The presidential election exposed the liberal class as a corpse. It fights for nothing. It stands for nothing. It is a useless appendage to the corporate state. It exists not to make possible incremental or piecemeal reform, as it originally did in a functional capitalist democracy; instead it has devolved …
Lest you think this is just partisan propaganda, these are real, recorded votes in the House of Representatives [3]. The Republicans seem to have it in for women and not just against health insurance covering reproductive health care, Planned Parenthood’s other services, or privacy for the medical records of victims of rape …
On October 22, GazaArk.org headlined “Release: Estelle crew beaten during (Israel’s) attack. (Participants) were beaten during the attack and by interrogators.” Former Canadian legislator “Jim Manly still in detention.” More on this below. Israeli policy includes repeated crimes of war and against humanity. Occupied Palestinians suffer most. Humanitarian activists are …
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It’s well known that in recent years, this country has seen its electoral politics polarized to an extent that has only rarely been paralleled in American history. But that polarization in many cases goes far beyond anything resembling mainstream discourse, extending to men and women who are linked to hate …
Every four years, the deck chairs of the political Titanic that is the American empire get rearranged in the choreographed spectacle of another presidential “election”. The 2012 charade is particularly disgusting; the lies more blatant and shrill, as the world continues to burn. It is critical to focus on the …
McMurtry is an internationally recognized moral and political philosopher who is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph, Ontario. His volumes on Philosophy and World Problems for UNESCO are globally published, and his widely translated works include …
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Last month, Duke University’s Patrick Duddy published a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) paper titled “Political Unrest in Venezuela.” From August 2007 – July 2010, he was Washington’s Venezuelan ambassador. He represents imperial, not popular interests. In September 2008, Venezuela declared him persona non grata. At issue were solidarity issues …
Aside from the rise of concerted trolling (which Barry Ritholtz discusses in a post today), it has been hard not to notice what amounts to an increase in collective pissiness among the NC commentariat. One might ascribe it to a multitude of influences: elevated stress produced by a lousy …