The Apocalypse will be televised and googled,

blogged, utubed, podcast, facebooked

and 24-7 entertainment. It will be a CNN special

It will star fleeing celebrities

and a cast of millions. It will be sponsored

by a multitude of oil companies

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Keywords: capitalism, media, disaster

Extremist Muslim networks have a specific history, almost entirely rooted in reaction to many decades of European colonial domination or in the Reagan jihad against the Soviet Union.

During which the United States gave extremists $5 billion, pressured Saudi Arabia to do the same and trained the extremists at CIA facilities in Afghanistan.

Much of their subsequent violence can properly be seen as a form of blowback - black operations that go bad and boomerang on the initiating country.

American politicians should cease implying that Muslim nations and individuals are different from, or somehow more dangerous than, any other group of human beings, a racist idea promoted by the Christian and Zionist right.   more »

The WGA believes its members have never been properly compensated for new media platforms, starting with home video in the 1980s through to the current era of DVDs, online streaming, mobile phone downloads and more.

After two decades of disgruntled acquiescence, the writers have decided enough is enough.

They currently make about five cents on every DVD sale, which they regard as an outrage given the ever-increasing revenues of the media conglomerates who own the studios and rake in the bulk of the money.

They are pushing for royalties – or residuals as they are known in the business – at double the current rate.   more »

Left-wing websites are full of articles predicting the war against Iran. This is playing into the Bush Regime's hands. Hyping the threat of war was supposed to be the task of the right-wing. Yes, they've done their bit. Particulary, the Zionists in Israel and Washington.

Then along came the Left, only too ready to escalate the threat. Why have we been dupes? Bush has been using 'games theory' with Iran. Playing 'bluff & bluster'. We have backed him by writing jeremiads about the impending catastrophe.

Leftist writers should have ridiculed Bush's bellicose rhetoric, rather than believing it. Unfortunately, we pounce on a 'good' story. Especially, one that portrays Bush as a madman, out of control.

It's only a game of “chicken". By now most of the mainstream media are proclaiming that the US and Iran are locked into an unavoidable collision course, each saying that it will not back down under any circumstances. We are as responsible for that as the zionists and neocons.   more »

So called free market capitalism requires corrupt leadership on the receiving end that is willing to accept bribes while becoming a puppet to the US.

This is how some of the must brutal regimes in the world came into power.

Corporate America is always beating the drums of war in search of profits and ever increasing shares of the world’s markets. Enough is never enough—they want it all.

Aside from overthrowing popularly elected governments, the unspoken objective of mature capitalism, guided by the doctrine of economic shock therapy, is to turn once sovereign nations into totally deregulated corporate states, answerable to no one.   more »