ED CURTIN—America will never be great again, for it is corrupted to the core and the mass media present it in images that have no bearing on reality. This is something neurotics cannot face, so they still follow the circle game played by the media and fight political battles that are exercises in frustration. But it keeps them busy. Like a sports fan whose favorite team has just lost a game or had a losing season, there is always tomorrow, next season, or the upcoming election.
CAPITALIST SICKNESS
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Druggies and homeless row in Frankfurt—the West’s social degeneracy everywhere in the open
21 minutes readIRINA L BOYKO—I’m afraid to assume, that this is Frankfurt an der Oder. It was the first German border town, that the Soviet train Moscow-Wünsdorf entered in the GDR. The train arrived there at night. A toy town, with peacefully sleeping houses, neat clean streets, with Trabants standing in parking lots in neat, orderly lines. German customs officers entered the carriages to check passports. They were strict but unfailingly polite. And with a slightly funny German accent, they always pronounced in Russian, apparently difficult words for them to pronounce – Hello and Goodbye. Such a nice East Germany in my memories. And where are you?
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How The “First Island Chain” Members Became U.S. Client States
57 minutes readGARY OLSON—Back in 1968, American political scientist and U.S. foreign policy advisor Samual Huntington argued that, “He who controls the countryside controls the country”, and further, if the countryside is in opposition to the government and the system, both are “in danger of overthrow.” [3] Going further, Huntington asserted that because peasants are primarily concerned with their immediate material and economic needs, certain controlled reforms may be used as a substitute for revolution. He hypothesized that the likelihood of a revolution is negligible if land ownership is seen as equitable. By administering a private property inoculation, the peasant will be immunized against various leftist strains of revolutionary fever. Certain forms of land tenure change will encourage possessiveness and individual betterment through the existing system. In short, the rural sector will become a conservative force in politics.
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Rather than spending the money to address and fix the water supply, the neoliberal U.S. government led by the bourgeoisie would rather give tax breaks to the bourgeoisie and spend money on profitable activities for their companies and bank accounts making it easier to export capital, such as funneling weapons around the world to fuel conflicts & wars, staging coups, meddling in the domestic affairs of other countries, etc. At the same time, organizations such as the CDC have stated that “the U.S. has one of the safest water supplies globally. Over 90 percent of Americans get their tap water from community water systems, which are subject to safe drinking water standards.” The drinking water is safe, the CDC says, yet for many within the 90% cited the water contains unsafe levels of toxins, or chemicals, or parasites, etc.
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BORING WITHIN THE BOURGEOIS PRESS: A POSTSCRIPT
43 minutes readA KENT MACDOUGALL—Right-wing media monitors gleefully seized upon my two-part memoir, “Boring From Within the Bourgeois Press,” to try to breathe new life into the discredited thesis that the Establishment press is contaminated with leftism. Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, for which I reported ten years, denounced me as an ideologue and questioned my fitness to teach journalism at a respected university. But my old editor at the Journal, now the president of NBC News, vouched for my reporting and stood up for ideological diversity in the newsroom. Meanwhile, my students and my dean vouched for my teaching, attesting that I keep ideology out of the classroom.