The purpose of draft registration is in great part war normalization
U.S. military recruiters are teaching in public school classrooms, making presentations at school career days, coordinating with JROTC units in high schools…
U.S. military spending is extremely high by historical standards
As of last fall, Bernie Sanders had received a total of 8 minutes of coverage from broadcast evening news, less than Mitt Romney or Joe Biden got for deciding not to enter the race
It’s hard not to wonder whether a side benefit of the coming war game isn’t rehearsing for the next time citizens in kayaks interfere with a corporation intent on poisoning the earth’s climate with fossil fuels
The thought of blood just doesn’t go with breakfast cereal
Thanks to Glenn Greenwald for pointing out that the U.S. media is acting as though Donald Trump just invented bigotry this week…
The propaganda logic behind Amazon.com’s “Man in the High Castle” and U.S. celebrations of failure
I suspect Russian and U.S. editorial boards could swap their reading lists and hardly notice
Exploiting one tragedy to fuel hatred toward a large segment of the human population of earth is madness
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