”Nearly a million people have already died as a result of Chernobyl, despite what W.H.O. says, and the I.A.E.A. This is one of the most monstrous cover-ups in the history of medicine. Then we extrapolate through to Japan. Japan is, by orders of magnitude, many times worse than Chernobyl.” ~ Dr. Helen Caldicott As I [...]
Chris Hedges Speech – April 15, 2011 – BOA Protest
“Liberal or Conservative, it makes no difference now. Barack Obama serves corporate interests as assiduously as George W. Bush. And to place our faith in any party or established institution as a mechanism of reform is to be entranced by the celluloid shadows on the wall of Plato’s cave.” ~ Chris Hedges As I mentioned here, [...]
Greenwald: Obama’s “bad negotiating” is actually shrewd negotiating
I’m too busy to write at the moment, so I’m just going to highlite Glenn Greenwald’s latest piece in which he does a great job of shattering the “incompetence theorist” myth that continues to propose that poor Obama keeps on “failing” to enact progressive policies, while being “forced” to enact corporatist friendly ones. It’s a [...]
Governments Lie: Japan’s Nuclear Crisis
With the carnival of confusion and mis/disinformation emerging from our latest reality show, Japan’s Nuclear Meltdown: Countdown to Catastrophe™, I figured that this would be a great time to remind everyone of a longstanding truism; governments lie, and the compliant corporate media generally serve to amplify those lies. It’s always much worse than you’re being [...]
MLK: The state-sponsored assassination
I guess I should have posted this a couple of days ago on April 4, but I was wrapped up in my Obama is a corporatist tool post. Priorities! Anyway, if you’re here on my site, you probably already have a pretty good idea that the official story about Martin Luther King’s murder is yet [...]
NYC Bank of America Protest – Fri, 4/15/2011
This past December, Chris Hedges protested in front of the White House and gave this inspiring speech that gives me shivers every time I listen to it. This Friday, 4/15/2011, I’ll be joining the fantastically awesome Hedges and the political action group Prosperity Agenda in a protest of Bank of America. The event takes place [...]
I’m sorry, but Obama is a corporatist tool
“Sorry, I’m feeling a little superior tonight. Seven schools in seven states, and the only thing different is my locker combination.” ~ J.D. – Heathers Heathers is a movie about tribalism, group think, conformity, and the ways in which people’s thoughts and actions are constricted by the groups they belong to, or aspire to belong to. [...]
