Chris Hedges and Noam Chomsky

Chris Hedges on the rise of the corporate class Conversation with Chris Hedges Noam Chomsky: The Conscience of America Noam Chomsky on Newsnight BBC Fake Democracy – Noam Chomsky

Product Assange and the “Rightness of You” Campaign

by Scott Creighton It never ceases to amaze me how powerful a tool identity politics has become since they started marketing celebrity personalities like triple “A” rated financial products. The newest “must have” thing on the market isn’t a widget or an app, it’s affirmation. As things get worse in this country, as people become [...]

No. It’s NOT “Worse than Chernobyl”… Just Stop it

by Scott Creighton I am tired of people running around acting like it’s the end of the world if they don’t get their iodine pills and duct tape. Look, yes it’s radiation and yes, you don’t want to stick your head in the microwave.  But folks, let’s put this into perspective… it’s NOT worse than [...]

Rigged Stock Market

by Scott Creighton Just to show you how rigged our beloved “free market” is, take a look at this. This morning the stock market plunged on news of Japan. It was down about 300 points early this morning and looking like it might be in a free-fall. Suddenly, the oil prices started plunging as well, [...]

Why Do Republicans Hate Reagan So Much? Was Reagan an Evil Sooocialist?

(no… this is not about Japan either…) “Ronald Reagan kicks off his presidential campaign with a Labor Day speech at Liberty State Park, Jersey City, New Jersey. Delivered 1 September 1980″.  Guess this might be why Big Business backed G. H. W. Bush and the people supported Reagan. Also might give you a clue as [...]

Al Qaeda Populating U.S. With Peaceful ‘Decoy Muslims’

What an insidious plan… those clever Muslims… where’s Charlton Heston when you need him?

Look Over There! Look Over There! Nothing to See Here… Look OVER THERE!!!

by Scott Creighton While most of the MSM focuses entirely on Japan or the drifting fallout, winds of CHANGE are blowing through the Obama administration who are definitely taking advantage of the distraction. The president has chosen this particular moment in time to take up the question of gun control in the wake of the [...]

Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand

by Chris Hedges, Truthdig The liberal class is discovering what happens when you tolerate the intolerant. Let hate speech pollute the airways. Let corporations buy up your courts and state and federal legislative bodies. Let the Christian religion be manipulated by charlatans to demonize Muslims, gays and intellectuals, discredit science and become a source of [...]

Japan Updates

by Scott Creighton In the wake of the earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan, misery reaches to nearly every corner of the world.  25-year-old Dustin Weber was dragged out to sea from the mouth of a river in California yesterday.  He was rebooting his life after drug addition claimed his teen years. The tsunami surge [...]

Anonymous Publishes Bank of America Employee Emails – ITS A SET UP

by Scott Creighton UPDATE: Someone at Anonymous says that this was a “solo operation” that was not coordinated with the rest of Anonymous. So who knows what the real story is.  The “leaker” set up a website just prior to this release calling himself “Brian Penny”.  Also happened to have a picture of himself on [...]

Lifting the Veil – New Film From Scott Noble

Can’t put it up here, no Youtube that I can find. Go watch this new documentary film from Scott Noble, the same guy who did Psywar.  Lifting the Veil. [edit: it is on Youtube] Noble also did a film called Human Resources. 1/9

100,000 Show Up for Madison Protest on Saturday

from the Associated Press Clogging the Wisconsin Capitol grounds and screaming angry chants, tens of thousands of undaunted pro-labor protesters descended on Madison again Saturday and vowed to focus on future elections now that contentious cuts to public worker union rights have become law. Protests have rocked the Capitol almost every day since Gov. Scott [...]

Anonymous Set to Release Bank of America Files Tomorrow

by Scott Creighton UPDATE: Anonymous Publishes Bank of America Employee Emails Though Julian Assange never followed through with his promise to release documents related to Bank of America, the group of hactivists knows as Anonymous claims they will be making a release of some tomorrow. They also claim to be starting a non-violent campaign of civil disobedience [...]

Mineta’s Testimony to the 9/11 Commission Confirmed by Secret Service Log

by Scott Creighton It would appear that Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta’s testimony before the 9/11 Commission has been verified by documents released back in 2009.  For those of you who don’t remember, Norman testified to the commission that while he was in the bunker at the White House on Sept. 11th, 2001, he heard an [...]

Economic Hit-men and the Neoliberalization of America

by Scott Creighton In a continuation of the interview which I posted late last night, Rachel Maddow has on Naomi Klein to talk about the process of disaster capitalism being implemented in Wisconsin and Michigan and all through-out the United States. This is primarily what this website has been about since it’s creation nearly 4 years [...]