I hate to break it to you, but Donald Trump isn’t going to make America great again. He doesn’t have the insight or courage to stand up to the financial elite, and he’s insufferably authoritarian. This is not a recipe for greatness. Democrats are even worse. At the most ideal moment possible, the party was gifted an energetic … Read more
Tulsi Gabbard has continued to impress ever since she came on the national scene last year with her courageous and very public support for Bernie Sanders in the rigged Democratic primary. Most recently, she continued to demonstrate her knowledge of geopolitics and willingness to stand up to America’s unelected government, aka the Deep State, in a recent interview … Read more
If you appreciate our work, and want to contribute to genuine, independent media, consider visiting our Support Page. Must Reads Michael Hudson: Why Failing to Solve Personal Debt and Polarization Will Usher in a New Dark Age (Lengthy, but fascinating article, Naked Capitalism) The Increasingly Unhinged Russia Rhetoric Comes From a Long-Standing U.S. Playbook (The Intercept) What JPMorgan and Citigroup Have in … Read more
If you appreciate our work, and want to contribute to genuine, independent media, consider visiting our Support Page. Must Reads Mary Jo White Seriously Misled the U.S. Senate to Become SEC Chair (So much of what is wrong with America can be found in this article, Wall Street on Parade) Welcome to Trumpland: Obama’s Legacy (CounterPunch) CBS’s John Dickerson: Donald Trump Didn’t Ruin … Read more
If you didn’t read yesterday’s post, today’s will read like a bunch of indecipherable nonsense (perhaps it will anyway!). What follows is a continued analysis of the recent thoughts Ken Wilber outlined in his e-book, Trump and a Post-Truth World: An Evolutionary Self-Correction, which attempts to understand contemporary American politics through the lens of human consciousness development. To … Read more
I have, in numerous previous publications (especially Integral Psychology) given the details of many of those researchers. Here I will simply use one of them as an example. The model is called Spiral Dynamics, based on the pioneering work of Clare Graves. Graves proposed a profound and elegant system of human development, which subsequent research has … Read more
Yes, of course, Trump winning the GOP nomination marks the end of the party as we know it. After all, some neocons are already publicly and actively throwing their support behind Hillary. While this undoubtably represents a major turning point in U.S. political history, many pundits have yet to appreciate that the exact same thing is happening … Read more
The best way to control the opposition is to lead it. I am of the strong belief that any administration which comes into power in the current environment of nearly unrestrained executive authority, a lawless and sprawling intelligence agency complex, and a debt-driven, rent-seeking rewarding fraud economy should be assumed to represent a serious threat to the civil liberties and remaining freedoms of … Read more
If you appreciate our work, and want to contribute to genuine, independent media, consider visiting our Support Page. Must Reads Why Ridiculous Official Propaganda Still Works (Outstanding, Counterpunch) The Smuggest Show on Earth: Robert Hardman Visits Davos (The best article I read on the topic this year, UK Daily Mail) Requiem for a Lightweight (Not many people write this well. A must read … Read more
I have serious concerns about a Trump Presidency. I’ve laid these out repeatedly in the past, but to summarize, they center around his authoritarian nature, a disregard for civil liberties, and lastly the fact that many of the people he has surrounded himself with posses an ideology which runs completely counter to the populist message he … Read more