Are Silicon Valley Elites’ ‘Big Ideas’ Really for the Masses, or Just for Them?
IMAGE: Valley of the Demigods: Ray Kurzwel, the Zuckerbergs, and Peter Thiel.
21st Century Wire says…
IMAGE: Valley of the Demigods: Ray Kurzwel, the Zuckerbergs, and Peter Thiel.
21st Century Wire says…
By Adam H. JOHNSON | TruthDig | January 29, 2019 On Friday, The New York Times continued its long, predictable tradition of backing U.S. coups in Latin America by publishing an editorial praising Donald Trump’s attempt to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. This will be the 10th such coup the paper has backed since the creation of […]
RT CrossTalk host Peter Lavelle and The Duran’s Alex Christoforou take a quick look at the financial and media war being waged in Venezuela, as John Bolton employs the usual U.S. weapons of regime change to tighten the screws on Maduro and his embattled government.
Will Maduro survive the US onslaught to emerge in tact, or will Venezuela slide quickly into chaos and civil war or slowly drift into a frozen quagmire of a nation state?
(ANTIWAR.COM) — In a surprising vote Thursday, the Senate voted 68-23 to pass a resolution from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) expressing opposition to President Trump’s plan to withdraw US troops from Syria, and expressing opposition to any theoretical pullout from Afghanistan that might result from a negotiated deal to end that war. The non-binding resolution was passed […]
Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) published several works on Marx that would abandon the Marxist focus on labor and class struggle and develop the controversial philosophy of critical theory.
His writings could very well be the blighted root of our chaotic political landscape.
South Front | January 31, 2019 Over the past few days, the intensity of anti-government protests in Venezuela has declined despite attempts of the US-led bloc to warm them up through both public and clandestine measures. However, the conflict continues to develop amid the acute standoff in the media sphere between the Maduro government and […]
RT | February 1, 2019 A new mechanism to allow “legitimate trade” with Iran, which was set up by France, Germany, and the UK this week, doesn’t change anything for European companies, according to independent journalist Luc Rivet. He told RT that European companies and others cannot feel confident that they could do business with […]
The British government’s agenda towards Venezuela is blatantly interventionist, with the Foreign Office now flagrantly breaking international law in support of US geopolitics in Latin America, and it is backed by politicians from across the spectrum. Regardless of party allegiance, politicians serving the British establishment are intoxicated by the prospect of reining in a people who have said ‘no’ to […]
The recent polar vortex left temperatures in the sub-zeros and even lower when taking wind chill into account. In some parts of the upper Midwest and northern Plains, it was expected to be colder than the surface of Mars. With the polar vortex claiming at least 8 lives, it’s obvious that we need to be prepared for such harsh weathers in the future. [1] [4]
Let that sink in. Colder. Than. Mars.
I don’t usually do these kinds of subjects, for various reasons: even though they’re usually so interesting. But a couple of current stories have prompted it. I’ll get to Michael Jackson: but the first thing is that I was baffled when I noticed a headline pop up on one of my newsfeeds that said: ‘New […]
Supporters of a public option don’t want open competition. They don’t want to give you just one more choice. They want to destroy private insurance.
Press TV – February 1, 2019 Facebook and Twitter say they have taken down hundreds of accounts they claim have been part of “coordinated influence operations” from Iran, Russia and Venezuela. Facebook said it had removed 783 pages, groups, and accounts for “engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior tied to Iran.” The accounts, some of which had been active […]
The problem with public education has always been and always will be that those who ostensibly own the schools—i.e. “the community"—actually own little to none of them.
US Customs and Border Patrol stopped a tractor-trailer truck containing 254 pounds of Fentanyl, enough to kill 57 million people, crossing the US-Mexico border at the port of entry into the US. A dose of only two milligrams is enough to kill a person. In addition, the truck also contained 395 pounds of methamphetamine.
Washington, DC, Antifa leader, Joseph “Jose” Alcoff was arrested on 17 charges including aggravated assault, ethnic intimidation, and terroristic threats, in connection to the Antifa attack on two Hispanic Marines in November. He also was an organizer of Smash Racism that mobbed Tucker Carlson's home.
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The nickname is hardly used anymore, however it was ubiquitous during World War II, when from every wall, it seemed, a stern-looking white haired man pointed to passing young men with the words: ‘Uncle Sam Wants You!’. Wondering where the name had come from, I was informed by Wikipedia that it belonged to an actual person, Samuel Wilson, who supplied meat to the US Army during the War of 1812 against the British (who were fighting the French over influence in the new world).
Pompeo has truly opened up “Pandora’s Box” with his leading the parade of international recognition of Guaido as Venezuela’s president in an undemocratic usurpation of power.
The other day Hawaii congresswoman and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard came out with what remains the strongest rejection of the Trump administration’s regime change interventionism in Venezuela out of anyone likely to run for the presidency in 2020.
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivering his keynote speech, at the plenary session of the World Economic Forum, in Davos on January 23, 2018 [PMO, India]
India’s National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) has not yet been able to publish figures showing that the country’s unemployment had risen to its highest rate in more than 45 years.
Resolutions concern plants from Bayer and Syngenta intended for food and feed
February 1, 2019 (Joseph Thomas - NEO) - Recent headlines across American and European news agencies have focused on the rise of a so-called Chinese "police state," specifically in regards to security infrastructure put in place in China's western region of Xinjiang.Articles like Bloomberg's "
The Western media’s function is to keep the mass of people drugged from asking searching questions about their condition and the imposition of irrational war-like mentality.
Imperialists’ move to steal Venezuela’s assets and their secret preparations over a long period are now becoming known. The US, the self-appointed guardian of “democracy”, has already seized $7 billion in assets of Venezuela by imposing sanctions against PDVSA, the state oil company of Venezuela. The imperialist power, declares that it likes “to help prevent the further diversion” of assets[Read More...]
Covert involvement of the United States, by the CIA or other intelligence services, isn’t mentioned in any of the Times’ editorials on any of the coups. There’s a familiar script: The CIA and its U.S. corporate partners come in, wage economic warfare, fund and arm the opposition, then the target of this operation is blamed.
GM rice has not been shown safe to eat or to perform well in the field
Caracas has committed the ultimate cardinal sin in the eyes of Exceptionalistan; oil trading bypassing the US dollar or US-controlled exchanges. Remember Iraq. Remember Libya.
[audio mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode352-lq.mp3"][/audio]In 1961, a psychologist conducted an experiment demonstrating how ordinary men and women could be induced to inflict torture on complete strangers merely because an authority figure had ordered them to do so. In 2001, the United States government formed the Transportation Security Administration to subject hundreds of millions of air travelers to increasingly humiliating and invasive searches and pat downs.
Rice University biophysicist Michael Deem was named as senior author on a paper about the work that was submitted to Nature
Mr. V.T. spotted another intriguing story this week, and it concerns an intriguing finding in the latest computer data-crunching of the human genome: AI […]
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The threat of being completely removed from the European Union would force Orban to back down or at least make some concessions, however if they were to do this it could cause major blowback.
by NoahIt didn't take any effort at all to find a dog for tonight's meme that was smarter than Donald Trump or any of the fleas currently working in the White House. What dog doesn't have a higher IQ (and more energy) than Donnie Sleazeball? Also unlike Donnie and his cohorts, dogs have a natural sense of loyalty to their home and those who live in it. The dog may have one thing in common with Trump, though.
By 29-January a photo from a press conference of US National Security Advisor John Bolton went viral, Mr Bolton had some yellow note sheets in his hand on which ‘5000 soldiers in Columbia’ was written. Speculation was high that US gathered or arranged 5000 soldiers in Columbia to invade Venezuela giving a final touch to the awaited coup d’état. Russian[Read More...]