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The adage, from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations, refers to a pattern in the rise and fall of fortunes.

“The first law of politics is that a body politic is divided into a ruling class and a ruled class. Human beings are born babies…They survive only in nurseries…” R.G. Collingwood–The New Leviathan–published 1942 Let’s talk real privilege: A billion dollars is an obscene quantity of money. According to Forbes...

ADMIN NOTE: We are sad to see the great man and a great journalist pass. You are missed. There can’t be democracy and colonial war; one aspires to decency, the other to fascism. Spartacus was a 1960 Hollywood film based on a book written secretly by the blacklisted novelist Howard...

What they've told us: The Palestinian group, Hamas, broke out of Gaza, on the 7th of October. It proceeded indiscriminately butchering innocent Israelis, beheading children and abducting hostages. Global media reflexively ratcheted-up outrage and retaliation. Pro-Israeli heads appeared on every screen. An enraged Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu called for the...

Gaslighting : CJ Hopkins - Consent Factory For students of official propaganda, mind control, emotional coercion, and other insidious manipulation techniques, the rollout of the New Normal has been a bonanza. Never before have we been able to observe the application and effects of these powerful technologies in real-time on...

Where Climate Change and Black Lives Don't Matter There was yet another coup in Africa last month. This time in Niger, where French companies extract sufficient Uranium to meet 40% of France’s power needs. But where most of Niger’s population – as in much of Africa - must resort to...

Holidays in Babel  "Come, let's build ourselves a city with a tower reaching the heavens, so that we can make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we'll be scattered over the face of the whole earth." Genesis I'm nestled under the shade of a beachfront veranda on Semanijak Beach, Bali. I'm...

  By Michael Hudson - excerpts. Many people think that debt and the payment of interest and the fact that all debtors have to pay their debts, it’s assumed that the rules of finance are universal, they’ve always been this way, and that there is no alternative. You could say...

By Caitlin Johnsone – from caitlinjohnsone.com.au Speech is violence and cluster bombs are peace. Homelessness and war are normal and opposing nuclear armageddon is treason. You’re a serious person if you believe our brains are being scrambled by Russian ray guns and a kooky conspiracy theorist if you’re skeptical about...

Where is your gratitude? Dante assigns the ungrateful to the ninth circle of hell, a fate fittingly severe. Throughout most of human history, infectious diseases have claimed millions of lives and led to the collapse of entire civilizations. Life expectancy barely exceeded 30 years for much of our past. However,...