Aug. 12, 2011 (World News Trust) -- As the poor of Britain rise in a fury of inchoate rage and stock exchanges worldwide experience manic upswings and panicked swoons, the financial elite (and their political operatives) are arrayed in a defensive posture, even as they continue their global-wide, full-spectrum offensive vis-à-vie The Shock Doctrine. Concurrently, corporate mass media types fret o ...
“We Would Rather Die In Our Dread” Aug. 3, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- At present, most of us negotiate our days so distracted, disillusioned, dazed, buffeted, bought or marginalized by the ...
Phil Rockstroh -- World News Trust July 20, 2011 -- As of late, Pat Robertson has been waxing apocalyptic regarding mankind’s imminent reckoning with wrathful divinity, while liberals have been shari ...
June 13, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Late last month, poet, musician, and self-termed "bluesologist," Gil Scott-Heron exited the hologram and returned to the source… to begin chanting, "Eter ...
Apr. 26, 2011 -- Like postmodernist architecture, in which the aesthetic criteria of a structure's exterior often possesses little correlation to its interior function, media age journalistic and pol ...
Apr. 14, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- I’m in Atlanta, Georgia, at present, among the scent of pine trees and the reek of southern denial. The moribund economy has thwarted the city’s manic drive to sil ...
Apr. 11, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- The technologies that inflicted upon the world the ongoing tragedies in both the Gulf of Mexico and Japan serve a dangerous addiction, an addiction to bl ...
Dedicated to my brave friend and gifted colleague, Joe Bageant, 1946-2011 Mar. 28, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- In Berlin, Germany, in early 1939, at Friedrichstrasse railway station, shortly ...
Dec. 2, 2010 (CommonDreams.org) -- As many wags have noted, the disclosures of Wikileaks have subjected the U.S. Empire and its operatives to a full-body scan. Turnaround is fair play, because, until ...
Nov. 11, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Once again, partisan Democrats are reeling in shock and humiliation, boggled by a familiar scenario -- the sheer velocity of their reversal of fortune an ...
Phil Rockstroh -- World News Trust Oct. 7, 2010 -- I was born, at slightly past the midpoint of the Twentieth Century, in the Deep South city of Birmingham, Alabama -- “The Heart of Dixie.” My earlie ...
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