Friday, January 30, 2015
Christian Soldiers
Bruce Wilson's update on the theocratic New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) looks at Dominionist ties with the Republican National Committee.
Monday, January 19, 2015
Crowing Jesus
The Crow Nation -- the tribe that adopted President Obama -- has identity problems. Ever since the Crow served as scouts for the U.S. Cavalry against the Sioux and Cheyenne, their identity has suffered. Now, the Crow tribal government has sponsored a large billboard proclaiming "Jesus Christ is Lord on the Crow Nation".
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Class War in the US
Mike Whitney illustrates class war in the US over the last forty years with colorful graphs.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
The New Economy
Presaging the new economy of progressive fascists like 350's Naomi Klein, CERES' Mindy Lubber and Avaaz' Ricken Patel, was the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), that emerged in 2004, and the affiliated Campaign for America's Future (CAF). It was a horrifying development, leading to the appointment of Reaganite U.S. Senator Barack Obama, as keynote speaker at the 2006 Democratic National Convention.
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Blogging as a platform had just peaked, and the Democrats were funding fascist bloggers at CAF. Merging progressive institutional interests with fascist ideology led to efforts by CAF to marginalize the views of democratic socialists and indigenous cultures. This capitulation by progressives, due largely to their failure to mount successful electoral or judicial challenges to the conservative fascist regime of G.W. Bush, signaled their endorsement of a totalitarian national security state.
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As America’s nervous breakdown intensified, the progressive fascists produced such horrors as the 2006 bill, introduced by U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein (D) San Francisco, to make activism against corporations illegal. With the 2010 U.S. Department of Homeland Security arrests of anti-war and environmental activists, for the crime of showing documentary films criticizing the arms and energy industries, Feinstein was in seventh heaven.
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In 2012, as federal prosecutors and law enforcement escalated harassment of #Occupy activists attempting to influence U.S. policy, the defense of civil and human rights moved from the courts to the streets. Neoliberals like Hillary Clinton, Diane Feinstein, and Barack Obama — committed to state-sponsored violence for the benefit of Wall Street — exercised progressive fascism through aggression, surveillance, and repression of dissent.
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While emotional weakness and psychological dysfunction initially led progressives to this point of complete compliance, mounting insecurity since the 2008 economic meltdown has sealed the deal.
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Limousine Liberal
As Beverly Bandler reports, Hillary is part of the problem -- not the solution -- to America's woes.
Thursday, January 08, 2015
Google Empire
In his essay The Neuroplastic Dilemma: Consciousness and Evolution, Franco Berardi Bifo discusses how precariousness and globalization have jeopardized social solidarity using “the replacement of cognition with a chain of automated connections, aiming at the systematic fabrication of automated subjectivity.” As a project concerned with deactivating compassion, says Bifo, “The abstract totalitarianism of finance and the aggressive identitarianism of disempowered populations are now the masters of the future.”
Monday, January 05, 2015
Privatizing Pensions
Michael Hudson explains the bipartisan attack on pensions as prelude to privatizing Social Security.
Sunday, January 04, 2015
Symbiosis
Friday, January 02, 2015
Paying the Price of Betrayal
Jeffrey St. Clair delivers the mid-term elections post mortem on Obama and the DNC: "a mass expression of contempt" for "a party that refuses to defend its most vulnerable adherents."
