Looking back on it now, the 1990s were an age of innocence for America. The Cold War was over and our leaders promised us a “peace dividend.” There was no TSA to make us take off our shoes at airports (how many bombs have they found in those billions of shoes?). The government could not […]
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I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life. — Osama bin Laden (October 2001), as reported by CNN What a strange and harrowing road we’ve walked since September […]
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Mythology of humans’ natural impulse for empathy Warfare has been a plague haunting the human species ever since our evolution to become Homo Sapiens, finally, around 300,000 years ago in Africa. Etymologically, homo means human and sapiens means wise or knowledgeable. One can see that in this 18th century anthropocentric characterization of our species, the […]
Protest in Westwood, California 2002. Photo: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images America’s corporate media are ringing with recriminations over the humiliating U.S. military defeat in Afghanistan. But very little of the criticism goes to the root of the problem, which was the original decision to militarily invade and occupy Afghanistan in the first […]
Richard Gage AE911 Plus The Donald Jeffries Show 7-14-2021 Richard Gage AIA The Donald Jeffries Show Presented by OCHELLI.COM Richard Gage AE911 Plus Richard Gage founded Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth in 2006. They have grown to include over 3,500 architects and engineers, who have signed a petition calling for a new investigation [...]
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We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false. – William Casey, CIA Director, February. 1981 It is well known that the endless U.S. war on terror was overtly launched following the mass murders of September 11, 2001 and the linked anthrax attacks. The invasion of Afghanistan and the […]
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You’ve heard of them, no doubt, the U.S. rulers who can’t rule too well and are always getting surprised by events or fed bad advice by their underlings. Their “mistakes” are always well intentioned. They stumble into wars through faulty intelligence. They drop the ball because of bureaucratic mix-ups. They miscalculate the perfidy of the […]
The emergence in 2020 of the Coronavirus (or Covid-19) and the putative dire implications for us all of its unchecked spread and virulence caught most people on the planet off guard. This development signalled an epochal turning point for the global political economy, for our society and humanity. Greg Maybury gets ‘up close and personal’ […]
Q Appropriating Conspiracy Culture The Ochelli Effect 2-15-2021 Jon Gold and Robbie Martin Q Appropriating Conspiracy Culture February 15 2014 was the first night The Ochelli Effect went LIVE. Chuck went LIVE again with two great guests. Jon Gold and Robbie Martin discussed the problematic media soup that has become a one-stop meal for [...]
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In his first words as President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of State, Antony Blinken said, “we have to proceed with equal measures of humility and confidence.” Many around the world will welcome this promise of humility from the new administration, and Americans should too. Biden’s foreign policy team will also need a special kind of confidence to confront the most serious […]
