Tag: People

• March 6, 2023

  Propaganda as a Means of Protecting Corporate Power Against Democracy

  I publish a lot of articles related to propaganda. And here’s another one 🙂 The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy. There have been two…
• May 23, 2022

  The French Revolution and the Threat to all the Monarchies of Europe

  I’m a fan of the French Revolution and should you should be too! A million things have been written about that revolution, but I’d like to highlight one of the most important events in my opinion. Two years after the Storming of the Bastille, Europe started to get really nervous regarding the treatment of the…
• June 13, 2019

  When To and Not To Starve Innocent People: The U.S. versus Communist Soviet Union

  Hi, On 25 June 1948, the Soviet Union stopped supplying food to the civilian population in the non-Soviet sectors of Berlin with the hopes of starving the resident population so that the Allied powers would surrender their plans of strengthening the German state through a new German currency backed by the Marshall Plan. This event…
• May 8, 2019

  How Scholars Loath Democracy, Freedom, and the Common Man

  Hi, I wanted to give you some historical snap-shots of the disdain that our institutions of higher learning have for democracy, freedom, and the common man. Please note that these scholars are renowned leaders in their fields and taught for decades at some of the most prestigious universities in our nation: Harvard, Stanford, and MIT.…
• August 29, 2018

  Henry Wallace and the “Century of the Common Man”

  Hi, I recently wrote an article titled Henry Luce and the American Century (Empire) where I quote the prevailing thoughts of what was to become American foreign policy strategy for years to come: As America enters dynamically upon the world scene, we need most of all to seek and to bring forth a vision of America…
• February 28, 2018

  Aristotle on Oligarchy vs Democracy

  Aristotle’s Politics, ~350 BCE, Book 3: Oligarchy is when men of property have the government in their hands; democracy, the opposite, when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers The argument seems to show that, whether in oligarchies or in democracies, the number of the governing body, whether the greater number,…
• February 21, 2018

  Politicizing Hunger: Roots of the Cuban Embargo

  By March 1960, just barely over a year after the Cuban Revolution, the U.S. decided that it was time to punish the Cuban people for allowing Castro to take power in Cuba. As explained in the Memorandum of Discussion at the 436th Meeting of the National Security Council, Washington, March 10, 1960: Mr. Dillon [Under…
• December 1, 2017

  Bakunin’s Prediction: A Quick History on Using the “People’s Stick”

  According to Chomsky, there exists a prediction from the world of the social sciences that ever came so dramatically true. The prediction is from Mikhail Bakunin, everyone’s favorite Anarchist 🙂 Very perceptively, Bakunin predicted that the rising class of intellectuals in both liberal democracies and authoritarian states will come to identify themselves as a specialized…
• August 30, 2012

  Will the Real Adam Smith Please Stand Up!

  Excerpted from Class Warfare, 1995, pp. 31-36 DAVID BARSAMIAN: One of the heroes of the current right-wing revival… is Adam Smith. You’ve done some pretty impressive research on Smith that has excavated… a lot of information that’s not coming out. You’ve often quoted him describing the “vile maxim of the masters of mankind: all for…