The human brain is capable of great insights and independent thought, but we have conditioned ourselves not to ask too many difficult questions, because we are afraid of the answers
The double standards of the mainstream US and British media in relation to foreign interference in elections has been particularly obvious since 2016
If Britain and the US had genuine democracies, where the views of ordinary people matter, the invasion, slaughter and torture in Iraq would not have happened
A look at the main problems with US and British democracy
Politics in the US is expensive. Many US businesses now make large bribes to both of the major US political parties
War propaganda permeates our society
Most people are simply unaware of the scale of the manipulation, and the extent to which businesses influence governments and their citizens
This is the second of two posts about the media. The first part is entitled āHow the Media Distort Reality ā Filtering…
People in advanced nations assume that their governments do not torture prisoners, but it is practized by the US, and was used by Britain in its colonies and in Northern Ireland
Historical human rights abuses are not explained well in most school textbooks or by the mainstream media
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