Politics

Capital, Labor, and Social Movements

• The US Federal Reserve and Class Warfare
• Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality
• Rousseau’s Social Contract
• Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein
• Henry George: Progress and Poverty
• The Iron Law of Oligarchy by Robert Michels
• Rosa Luxemburg vs. The Bolsheviks
• The Christian Communist Manifesto
• The One Constant in Communist, Capitalist, and/or Liberal Democratic Societies
• Heilbroner: Capitalism vs. Communism
• The United States Crusade Against Communism is a Campaign Against Development
• Conservative Laura Ingraham on the Importance of Adam Smith and the Federalist Papers
• A Summary of “The Great Leveler” by Walter Scheidel
• The Economic Theory Based Entirely on Sentimental Hope – Smith vs. Ricardo
• Karl Marx, the American Worker, and the Natural Rise of Socialist Movements
• Adam Smith’s Division of Labor – “stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become”
• Excerpts from the Manifesto of the Communist Party
• Wage Slavery: A Quick History
• Defending the Welfare State: “Expanding The Floor Of The Cage”
• Bakunin’s Prediction: A Quick History on Using the “People’s Stick”
• Will the Real Adam Smith Please Stand Up!

Classical Politics

• Aristotle on Oligarchy vs Democracy
• Plato on the Evils of a “Government Resting on a Valuation of Property”
• Aristotle on the Inequality of Property

Corporate Power

• Exxon Lobbyist Caught On Video Talking Freely On How They Work Washington
• Milton Friedman on the Social Responsibility of Business – To Increase its Profits!
• Examples of the Inherent Corrupt Nature of Corporations
• Under Oath, Apple Lies to the World About Paying Taxes
• HSBC, the US Justice Department, and the War on Drugs
• Citigroup’s Plutonomy Memo: “There are rich consumers, and there are the rest”
• Supra-Governments – “The Most Powerful Force on Earth”
• Confirmed: Tobacco Companies Sell Addiction, Not Tobacco
• Confirmed: Exxon Lies to the World About Climate Change
• Noam Chomsky on How Businesses Sought to Destroy the Democratic Movements of the 1960s
• The Powell Memo: A Call-to-Arms for Corporations
• The Powell Memo – Full Transcript
• List of Bank Fraud and Criminal Activities
• 10 Companies Profiting Most From War

Cuba

• Patria y Vida – Cuban Exile Terrorism
• Castro and Revolutionary Justice
• Cuban Embargo and the Hippocratic Oath
• José Martí vs. the United States
• Cuba and U.S. Interests in Latin America
• Fear and Loathing of Fidel Castro: Sources of US Policy Towards Cuba
• Politicizing Hunger: Roots of the Cuban Embargo
• Cuba’s “Successful Defiance” of US Hemispheric Power
• Robert Kennedy Orders “Terrors of the Earth” for Cuba
• Marco Rubio: Welfare for me and my people, not for you!
• The Week the World Stood Still: The Cuban Missile Crisis and Ownership of the World
• Discussion on the Cuban Five
• The US Embargo Against Cuba – A Detailed Analysis
• Cuba in the Cross-Hairs: A Near Half-Century of Terror
• The Real History of Cuba
• Luis Posada Carriles: Redefining Terrorism

Domestic Affairs

• American Nazis
• Bush Confesses to “Unjustified and Brutal Invasion of Iraq”
• Chief Justice Warren Burger and the “Fraud” of the Second Amendment
• Smedley Butler: “War is a Racket”
• Democracy Will Not Be Tolerated In This Country. Period!
• “We’re Not A Democracy” – US Senator
• Eleanor Roosevelt: “We will all go ahead together, or we will all go down together”
• The FHA and Government Sponsored Racial Discrimination
• Kennedy: “I’m Not That Interested in Space”
• How Scholars Loath Democracy, Freedom, and the Common Man
• Weyrich: If We Stop Them From Voting, We Win!
• Dewey on the “Shadow Cast on Society by Big Business”
• Ithiel de Sola Pool and Society’s Need for “Apathy”, “Passivity”, and “Defeatism”
• COINTELPRO: The FBI vs. the “New Left”
• COINTELPRO: The FBI vs. the Black Liberation Movement
• The Electoral College – A Power Move by the Slave-Owning Elite Class
• America: The “Indispensable Nation”
• U.S. Supreme Court: Republicans – 19, Democrats – 8
• Justice Scalia on the Historical Reasons for an Armed Militia
• John Rawls and the Veil of Ignorance: A Thought Experiment on Fairness
• FDR and the Purge of Progressive Candidates from the Democratic Party
• Medium Income and Poverty in the United States
• The 9.9% – The New American Aristocracy
• The Great Gatsby Curve
• Slave Masters: A Quick Note on the First Aristocracy of the U.S.
• James Baldwin on the White Man’s Necessity for a Nigger
• A Timeline of Violence During the Civil Rights Movement
• How America Disapproved of MLK
• MLK and the Myth of Time
• Confirmed: DNC Had The Right To Rig 2016 Primary
• The Real Anti-Semitism According to the Anti-Defamation League
• Daniel Ellsberg Reveals Actual Nuclear War Plans
• The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
• Moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal
• 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth and Power
• Key Takeaways from Trump and the 2016 Presidential Election
• How the Luxuries of Modern Life Breed Political Tribes
• Confirmed: “States Rights” = “Nigger, Nigger, Nigger” – The Use of Coded Racism in the Modern GOP
• Confirmed: Voting Restrictions Key to Republican Electoral Success
• Confirmed: War on Drugs Targets Black America
• Gun Control: Three Unorthodox Arguments in Support of a Better World
• On Heroism:  Forced Troop Worship & Compulsory Patriotism
• Modern Republicanism and its Liberal Forefathers
• “The Problem is Civil Obedience” – Howard Zinn
• The U.S. Civil War and the 2012 Presidential Election: A Relation?
• Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America
• The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission
• Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) EXPLAINED!
• Polyarchy: A Quick Definition
• Celebrating the Revolution of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Democracy: What it is, isn’t, and what is should be

The Founding Fathers

• Jefferson: Use Debt to Steal Indian Land
• Thomas Jefferson on the Supreme Court
• Jefferson on Refreshing the Tree of Liberty
• The Founding Fathers vs. the “Dangerous Influence of Those Multitudes Without Property”
• Declaration of Independence on the “Merciless Indian Savages”
• Madison: Why the Powerful Should Obey the Law
• John Adams on the “Greatest Political Evil”
• John Adams on Reasons for Restricting Democracy
• The True Purpose of the US Senate
• Jefferson: Create Paradise by Taxing the Rich
• Jefferson on Wage Slavery
• Jefferson on the Inequality of Property
• James Madison’s Ideas on Protecting the Opulent Minority Against the Tyranny of the Majority
• “The People Who Own The Country Ought To Govern It” – The Democracy of our Forefathers

International Affairs

• How the U.S. Supported the 1964 Brazilian Military Coup
• NSC 5412 – Covert Operations
• Our Demagogue in South Korea
• Notes on NATO Expansion
• Amnesty International: Israel is an Apartheid State
• Cloaking the U.S. Invasion of the Dominican Republic with Legitimacy
• Timeline of U.S. Presidential Foreign Policy Doctrines
• How the U.S. Supported the Argentinian “Dirty War”
• The Cruelty Behind the Truman Doctrine
• CFR and State Department Discussions on “World Control”
• Alfred Mahan on National Self-Interests
• Charles Hughes on National Interest and the Monroe Doctrine
• Reagan and those Damn “Monkeys” from Africa
• Pre-Criminals in China: Uighur Concentration Camps
• U.S. Realpolitik in Latin America
• When To and Not To Starve Innocent People: The U.S. versus Communist Soviet Union
• The U.S. Pisses on the OAS Charter
• Pentagon Papers – Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and U.S. War Aims
• Confirmed: The U.S. Wants Venezuela’s Oil
• U.S. Embassy 5 Point Strategy for Venezuela
• Ho Chi Minh Falls for U.S. Propaganda
• Pentagon Papers: Vietnam’s Declaration of Independence
• The Pentagon Papers – A Detailed Summary of the First Three Volumes
• The Gaza Diet and Israel’s Politicization of Hunger
• Patton on the Destiny of British and Americans to Rule the World
• Woodrow Wilson Teaches Democracy to Latin America
• The Atlantic Charter, Propaganda, and the True Aims of the Post-War Period
• Economic Charter of the Americas: “Elimination of Excessive Economic Nationalism in All Its Forms”
• The CFR and the “Grand Area” in American Economic Policy
• Henry Wallace and the “Century of the Common Man”
• State Department Memo: Saudi Oil Constitutes a “Stupendous Source of Strategic Power”
• A Literal Bird’s Eye View of the IMF and the World Bank
• A Quick Overview of The Monroe Doctrine
• Henry Luce and the American Century (Empire)
• “Only For A Very Good Cause” – CIA Director Explains U.S. Meddling in Other Countries
• The US on the “Selective Use of Violence for Propagandistic Effects”
• World Court: U.S. is Guilty of International Terrorism
• Confirmed: State Department Labels Human Rights as “Obstacles”
• Pentagon Papers – The True Reason for the Vietnam War
• U.S. Policy in Latin America: Dictatorships over Democracies
• “The Occupation of the American Mind”: Documentary Looks at Israel’s PR War in the United States
• The Long History of US Meddling in Foreign Elections
• The United States and the ICC: An Alarming Declaration to the World
• Grand Imperial Strategy: How the Council on Foreign Relations carefully planned the policies of modern-day imperialism
• Israel’s Role in Containing “Irresponsible and Radical Elements in Certain Arab States”
• Who Owns the World?
• What We’ve Learned from WikiLeaks
• Middle Eastern Oil: One of the Greatest Material Prize in World History!
• The Greatest Threat to World Peace?
• Pentagon study: ‘Irrational’ Nuclear Policy a Deterrent
• 58 Things We’ve Learned About the NSA
• The Kennan Memo – The Vague and Unreal Objectives of US Foreign Policy
• Who Controls the World? – A Study on the Complexities of the Global Financial System
• Obama vs. Abdulelah Haider Shaye
• Drones: Terrifying Civilians, Empowering Militants – A statement by Fereak al-Muslimi
• Rios Montt and Ronald Reagan
• Palestinian Loss of Land 1946-2010
• On The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961
• Palestine 2012 — Gaza and the UN resolution
• Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Crisis
• Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Other Players
• Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Recent History
• Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Looking Backwards
• Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Future
• In Pictures: Supporting Democracy, American Style! – How the United States Supports Brutal and Oppresive Dictators Around the World
• U.S. Military Bases Around the World
• Who Has The Oil?
• U.S. Foreign Economic and Military Aid by Major Recipient Country: 2001 – 2009
• The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations
• Plan Colombia by Noam Chomsky
• On the U.S. List of State Sponsored Terrorism
• The Charade of Israeli-Palestinian Talks
• No justice No Peace: A Speech by Dahlia Wasfi
• Nicaragua: The First Real American Coup
• War is Not About Truth, Justice and the American Way – Lawrence Wilkerson
• Map of Colonial Powers in Africa
• Chomsky: Contours of Global Order: Domination, Instability, and Xenophobia in a Changing World
• Noam Chomsky on the Egyptian Uprising and the Middle East
• A Smidgen of Terror Followed by a Dash of Hypocrisy…

Propaganda

• Propaganda as a Means of Protecting Corporate Power Against Democracy
• Congress Denounces the “Horrors of Socialism”
• FOX News: State Television and Propaganda
• Ho Chi Minh Falls for U.S. Propaganda
• The Atlantic Charter, Propaganda, and the True Aims of the Post-War Period
• Orwell on Political Speech
• Orwell on the Freedom of the Press
• Democracy and Propaganda: A Timeline of Thoughts from Responsible Men
• Propaganda: Eward Bernays and Harold Lasswell
• Walter Lippmann – Father of Modern Journalism
• Creel Committee and State Propaganda

Religion in Politics

• Our Puritan Forefathers’ War on Christmas
• Religion: The Original “Fake News”
• The Jesus Myth and Christmas Politics
• The “Christian Nation” Myth [The Treaty of Tripoli]

The United Nations

• U.S. Vetoes of UN Resolutions Calling for an End to the Cuban Embargo: 1992 – Present
• U.S. Vetoes of UN Resolutions Critical of Israel: 1972 – Present