Manchurian Candidate Amerikans | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust

Aug. 5, 2017

Two great films entitled The Manchurian Candidate (1962 & 2004 remake) told a chilling story of mind control.

In the original, the protagonist was a U.S. soldier captured and brainwashed by the Communists. His "controller," his mother,  a communist agent and wife of a U.S. right-wing Senator, manipulated her son by suggesting he play solitaire.This then triggered him into a deep

This then triggered him into a deep zombie-like state, doing whatever terrible deeds she ordered. In the 2004 remake, more to the liking of this writer, the mother was actually a "deep state" operative working with some Neo Con "One World" group. The son was the brainwashed soldier who was manipulated by mind control in the same manner, more or less, as in the original film.

It is 2017 and what we see here in our Amerika is the "deep state" AKA the super-rich-run Military Industrial Empire. They have a much more subtle control mechanism: The media and this phony "One Party" political system.

The totally controlled media spits out endless propaganda and narcotizing low brow crap to keep the natives pacified and at the same time impassioned with what many call "military madness." As with Orwell's 1984 novel, the constant barrage of outside threats to our security bundled with endless salutes to our invading and occupying forces overseas keeps many ready to almost "Sig Heil."

Under the phony Bush/Cheney cabal, they had those inane colored terror threats, asking us to actually use duct tape on our windows! Remember that nonsense? Now the media has North Korea and Iran, and, of course, the group that our own "deep state" helped create, Isis or whatever they now call them. Meanwhile, the empire continues to get what they want from this ' One Party ' phony political system in way of more and more of our tax money going for military spending ( over 50% as I write).

Meanwhile, the empire continues to get what they want from this "One Party" phony political system in way of more and more of our tax money going for military spending (more than 50 percent as I write).

The "One Party" phony system will always agree on one thing: A strong offense, oh sorry, a strong defense. The so-called two parties will also argue in front of the cameras and the embedded press over viable health care.

Yet, the choices they throw out to all the Manchurian Amerikans is either a total sellout to the private insurance part of the empire, or, going back to the partial sellout under Obama Care. And you can watch all the zombie neighbors of yours going against their own interests while arguing for one or the other. So, proud Manchurian Amerikans will tell you " I'm a Republican " or " I'm a Democrat" and then wonder why we have NO money for better infrastructure, better schools, better first providers, better health care, better rapid transit (duh, like the rest of the industrial world enjoys), and on and on.

When more than half of our hard earned working stiff tax revenue goes to the Pentagon and other "black budgets"  to fuel this beast of military empire... I guess it's time to play some more solitaire.

PA Farruggio

August 2017

Philip A Farruggio is a son and grandson of Brooklyn, NYC, longshoremen. He has been a freelance columnist since 2001, with over 300 of his work posted on sites like Information Clearing House, Nation of Change, World News Trust, Op Ed News, Dissident Voice, Counterpunch, Activist Post, Sleuth Journal, Truthout and many others. His blog can be read in full on World News Trust., whereupon he writes a great deal on the need to cut military spending drastically and send the savings back to save our cities. Philip has an internet interview show, ' It's the Empire... Stupid' with producer Chuck Gregory, and can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.