99% of the American population holds zero political power... meanwhile, our past five presidents, who claimed to represent the working class, are obscenely wealthy.
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In the 1980s people carried protest signs saying “US out of Nicaragua!” and El Salvador, and Grenada, and then many others. I also saw signs saying “US out of my uterus!” While the problems may seem to be quite different — the first ones are international and the last is very personal — they really […]
Eric Zuesse One of the facts that are effectively banned from being made public in any mainstream (and in almost all non-mainstream) ‘news’-media in U.S.-and-allied countries, is that their governments are far more corrupt than any of them report. An outstanding recent example of this governmental depravity was published on April 28th by the great […]
Joachim Hagopian | We’re in the middle of a major biological catastrophe, and no one is talking about it.
The staggering concentration of wealth at the top has deformed our governing institutions — new window dressing will not end oligarchy.
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Tryfon Farmakakis Alan Hamilton’s “From Blue Shirts to Brown” is a great article which gets a lot of things right but has one major weakness and ironically it is similar to what the author is accusing the group of doctors which authored the letter to the Premier: misconception of reality. This weakness, unfortunately, is a …
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at Strategic Culture
The great investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald gave an hour-long lecture on how America’s billionaires control the U.S. Government, and here is an edited summary of its opening twenty minutes (the best part of it), with key quotations and assertions from its opening — and then its broader context will be discussed briefly:
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