I don’t like the intellectual label.
The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It’s unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what’s happening in the world. In fact, it’s undesirable – if they see too much of reality they may set themselves to change it.
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
Capitalism denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market.
Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny have created an important political radio show that balances humor and unreported news. At a time when media conglomerates dominate the airwaves, independent media like Citizen Radio is vital to national discourse.
The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.
The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!
Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.
My proposal happens to be very mainstream.
In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
Concentration of executive power, unless it’s very temporary and for specific circumstances, let’s say fighting world war two, it’s an assault on democracy.
For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.
The ‘anti-globalisation movement’ is the most significant proponent of globalisation – but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.
Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow.
We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid.
It’s as if we’re higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.
Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.
All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That’s economics in a nutshell.
Borders are semiporous. Capital flows more freely than people across them. on C Span.