united states
being American can be fun!
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the two sides of Barack Obama
Much goes unsaid about momentum. So much so that two supposedly polar opposite politicians can take the helm of the Global Empire and still get stuck supporting the same decision infrastructure. There’s only one way this ship is headed, and it isn’t towards anything positive. John Pilger sums up my feelings about the current United [...]
evidence for America as a psychological ses pool?
Morris Berman’s latest post on his Dark Ages America blog summarizes all the prime information on why the United States is such a lonely place to live. My own experience is that the US is a psychological ses pool, perhaps this is a phrase that Berman himself used at one point or that I adopted [...]
much more than we know happening on the Gulf Coast
Documentary filmmaker James Fox recently tried to get some footage of the oil slick as it impacts the Gulf Coast beaches and found some interesting stories from the locals. James reports that people there are scared, being arrested and that there are evacuation vehicles on-site preparing for mass forced migrations. Of course, those migrations will [...]
a GOOD global oil consumption infographic
The infographic below does a good job at showing the scale of our predicament by comparing oil consumption in the US with the rest of the world. The United States consumes 19.5 million barrels per day. No amount of solar, wind or algae can replace that amount of energy. The only path to the future [...]
living through a superpower’s collapse
If there’s one thing about the inevitable decline of the United States that gives me some bit of deeper comfort, its that people like Dmitry Orlov have been writing about it for a long time. His article, Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century was first released in 2005 and clearly Orlov had been thinking about [...]
how the world works(ed) in 10 minutes or less
The movie Network is full of amazing scenes. This is just one of them. “There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, ITT and AT&T, Dupont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of today.
corporate media control has been happening for a long time
If you thought media monopolies were a recent thing, think again. Congressman Oscar Callaway’s report to the US Congress in 1917 on JP Morgan’s plan for the media:
worst campaign video ever?
Dan Fanelli advertises his stance on racial profiling as a solution to terrorism and in doing so represents everything that’s wrong with politics in the US,
we aren’t number one
Not sure why I’ve been so down on the US lately. Maybe because I feel like all the explicit and unspoken narratives that define the American mythos are completely out of touch with reality. One of those myths is that of the United States being #1 and “the best country in the world”. I think [...]
