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The Psywar Glossary
Excerpt from the book PsyWar: Enforcing the New World Order. By means of ever more effective methods of mind manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms… elections, parliaments, supreme courts and all the rest… will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of Totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all […]
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The Public Life of Noam Chomsky
A man of stupendous brilliance.” — Norman Finkelstein “A gargantuan influence.” — Chris Hedges “ … brilliant … unswerving … relentless … heroic.” — Arundhati Roy “Preposterously thorough.” — Edward Said “[A] fierce talent.” — Eduardo Galeano “An intellectual cannon.” — Israel Shamir “A lighthouse over a sea of hogwash.” — Kathleen Cleaver He had […]
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Cross-Cultural Comparative Politics
Orientation What is politics? Nine Questions for Determining What is Politics In Part I of my article Seven Theories of Politics I posed ten questions for narrowing down what the range for defining what is politics. Temporal reach How far back into human history does politics go? Does politics go back to pre-state societies? Or […]
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Soul Suicide in the Ballot Box as Palestinians Are Butchered
It’s been a long time but worth remembering, if you can, that when the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, 2001, the whole world watched in horror. The events of that day were repeated on television over and over and over again, to the point where they […]
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Your Mind is a Battlefield: Decolonize Your Mind to Prevent Global Catastrophe!
Talk delivered for the event “Changes Not Seen in a Century: 75th Anniversary of the Founding of PRC.” Friends, Colleagues, Comrades, It’s a great honor for me to join you in this extraordinary, historical moment of celebration and reflection on the 75th anniversary of the founding of the PRC. As has been said, we are seeing […]
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Another September 11th
Rolling out of my crib before dawn today (I was in it long before the charlatans Harris and Trump began their theatrical “debate”), it being another September 11th, I wondered where Dick Cheney was. And I was still wondering where Elmer Gantry was, having received the previous day a form message from RFK, Jr.’s faith-based […]
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Mirages
I am sitting on the beach at the National Seashore, a forty-mile long stretch of the Atlantic Ocean seashore on Outer Cape Cod, established in 1961 by President Kennedy. The wind is whipping hard and the waves are running wildly high against the shore, and, to paraphrase Thoreau – the sand is rapidly drinking up […]
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War Diary: An Appreciation of Legacies
Actually, I limit my exposure to daily media considerably. My experience as a journalist, when there was still some conventional meaning assignable to that term, began in school. I had become the news editor of the school paper. Whereas previously the monthly student production was devoted to athletic events and other entertainments, I introduced reporting […]
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How the Mohawk Valley Popularized a Brutal Method of Strikebreaking
Labor unrest has been a part of history for generations. Some sources even point to the first ever recorded strike taking place in 1170 BCE Egyptover delays in receiving building materials. With the emergence of organized labor, it was a dialectical inevitability that the bourgeois class would take on their own efforts to undermine the […]
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Recapturing White Rhetoric for Socialist Agitating
Orientation Leninist and anarchist shortcomings in relation to rhetoric A little over three years ago I wrote an article about how bad Mordor Leninists and anarchists are about knowing about, let alone using rhetorical rhetoric. The article is titled Socialist Rhetorical and Dialectical Communication: Overcoming Brainwashing, Propaganda and Entertainment These areas of bumbling included: Initiation […]
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