It used to be said that religion

was the opium of the masses.

Now we need more than God

Along comes the cavalry aka

the entertainment industry

What better way to keep the masses somatized

than to give them the lowest common denominator?

It's not quite bread and circuses

More like shopping and celebrity culture

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Keywords: celebrity, culture, voyeur, decadence, politics

Socialism is possible in the United States. It is possible for the working class and the oppressed to remove the capitalists from power and construct a society of true justice and peace, a society that works in the interest of the vast majority.

The capitalists, the owners of wealth, industry and the banks, make up a tiny minority of the world’s population. We greatly outnumber them. We are the vast majority, and revolution is in our interests.

What we need is socialism, a system based on workers’ control of society, of workers’ ownership of the economy. It is a system based on collective and rational planning for people’s needs. It is a system based on equality for all.

What worker, especially the tens of millions of low-waged workers like janitors, dishwashers and hospital attendants, would not want to have the right to a job, a real living wage, food, proper clothing, health care, housing, education and much more?   more »

The biggest advantage of nuclear weapons is that the repercussions would be so enormous, the upsurge in terrorism so overwhelming, that the world would be totally changed.

A year before 9/11, Paul Wolfowitz and Lewis "Scooter" Libby signed a statement for the Project for the New American Century, a neoconservative thinktank.

They rather hoped for "some catastrophic and catalysing event like a new Pearl Harbor" to kickstart their dream of a world run by US military might.

A nuclear war would do the trick in spades. The Republican party could expect to stay in power for the next 50 or even 100 years.   more »

All of the leading Democratic candidates are committed to the cause and furtherance of U.S. global dominance.

There's no real foreign policy difference between the Republicans and the Democrats when it comes to "doctrinal questions. The leaders of both parties are equally committed to U.S. world supremacy.

Both wings of the narrow-spectrum U.S. party system strongly embrace U.S. interventionism, militarism and (when "necessary") unilaterialism in the name of spreading "democracy" and "free markets."

If anything, the "neoliberal" Democrats' main foreign policy claim is that they can do a better job of conducting this imperialist foreign policy than the "neoconservative" Republicans. "We are the better, more effective and competent Men and Women of Empire" is the basic claim.   more »

“The best evidence that I have

from international sources, scientific sources,

is that our position was becoming untenable

at the Baghdad airport and we used

a neutron warhead, at least one

That is the big secret of Baghdad airport"

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Keywords: thermobaric, neutron, war, iraq, wmd, baghdad