The Caging of America

Why do we lock up so many people? by Adam Gopnik The New Yorker (January 30 2012) http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/120130_r21816_g2048-1200.jpg Six million people are under correctional supervision in the US - more than were in Stalin's gulags. Photograph by Steve Liss / American Poverty A prison is a trap for catching time. Good reporting appears often about …

Did the White House Just Declare War on Russia?

by Darius Shahtamasebi via TheAntiMedia.org Anti Media (October 21 2016) Zero Hedge (October 23 2016) This past week, America's oldest continuously published weekly magazine, The Nation, asked the question {1}: has the White House declared war on Russia? As the two nuclear powers sabre-rattle over conflicts within Syria, and to some extent, over the Ukrainian …

“America has lost” …

... in the Philippines by Pepe Escobar Strategic Culture Foundation (October 26 2016) CounterPunch (October 26 2016) "Your honors, in this venue I announce my separation from the United States ... both in military and economics also". Thus Philippines President Rodrigo "The Punisher" Duterte unleashed a geopolitical earthquake encompassing Eurasia and reverberating all across the …

The Future Hiding in Plain Sight

by John Michael Greer The Archdruid Report (October 19 2016) Druid perspectives on nature, culture, and the future of industrial society Carl Jung used to argue that meaningful coincidences - in his jargon, synchronicity - were as important as cause and effect in shaping the details of human life. Whether that's true in the broadest …

Jailing Americans for Profit

The Rise of the Prison Industrial Complex by John W Whitehead - Attorney, President of The Rutherford Institute, and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People (2015) The Huffington Post (April 10 2012)     Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country …

The Path to Total Dictatorship

America's Shadow Government and Its Silent Coup by John Whitehead The Rutherford Institute (October 24 2016) Zero Hedge (October 24 2016)     Today the path to total dictatorship in the US can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by Congress, the President, or the people {1}. Outwardly we have a Constitutional …

The True Costs of Empire

Picking Up a $170 Billion Tab How US Taxpayers Are Paying the Pentagon to Occupy the Planet by David Vine TomDispatch (December 11 2012) "Are you monitoring the construction?" asked the middle-aged man on a bike accompanied by his dog. "Ah, sì", I replied in my barely passable Italian. "Bene", he answered. Good. In front …