Today global wealth is more highly concentrated in the hands of the elite than it ever has been at any other point in modern history. Once upon a time, the vast majority of the people in the world knew how to grow their own food, raise their own animals and […]
Corporate Corruption
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
….In a recent article titled “What Do Banks Do?,” which appeared in a collection of essays devoted to the future of finance, Turner pointed out that although certain financial activities were genuinely valuable, others generated revenues and profits without delivering anything of real worth —payments that economists refer to as […]
Recently, Director Oliver Stone Travelled ’round South America with a film crew and Had Video Camera Chats with all the major heads of state of all the States Of South America [ & as documentaries go this one cuts right through the bullshit that’s been crammed down your throat for […]
[youtube]3Ii1JhHCRNY[/youtube] [ The phrase ‘receiving end’ – leaps readily to mind here ] In other news from Afghanistan, a new public opinion poll of young Afghan men in Kandahar and Helmand provinces has been released by the International Council on Security and Development. The poll founded that 92 percent of […]
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[ When you consider the level of suffering in Latin America – it’s interesting to note that the ‘School of the Americas’ has had a heck of a lot to do with it. ] [youtube]0Sccm1ts4oA[/youtube]
Hunter S. Thompson was one of the 20th century’s greatest literary social critics, and one of the most anti-authoritarian. In the tradition of Mark Twain and H.L. Mencken, Thompson never flinched at exposing the hypocrisies and contradictions of American life and ideology, and his contempt for authority permeated not just […]