And you thought we lived

in a free, democratic, classless society?

In fact, we live in a bourgeois democracy

Run for and by the bourgeoisie

Its ideology is Capitalism

The method by which wealth is accumulated

for the benefit of the bourgeoisie

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Keywords: democracy, bourgeoisie, wealth, capitalism, exploitation, class

The only thing that Bush's "war on terror" has spread faster than disaster and misery has been opposition to its means and ends.

Six years into this self-righteously promoted crusade, Washington is more isolated internationally than ever.

Within the U.S., the Commander Guy's approval rating has fallen below 30%.

Initiative has passed from those who promote naked militarism and its deadly corollaries to political actors who (in various ways and to various degrees) demand a change of direction.

But the outcome is still in doubt. The core "war on terror" policies of military force, torture, unaccountable executive power, and might-makes-right empire-building remain in place.   more »

For 30 years, we've been told by a series of right-wing snake-oil salesmen that they could deliver more and better public services while constantly cutting the taxes that pay for them, but it was always a fraud.

The result is that the United States enjoys the third-lowest tax burden among the 30 most advanced economies as its public spaces gradually come apart at the seams.

I would argue that skimping out on infrastructure investments in the name of a low tax burden is a triumph of ideology over commonsense, but it goes beyond that.

Conservative philosophy stresses limited government, not bad government, and nothing can change the fact that the public sector remains the only way to organize collectively when there's no profit involved.

So nobody seriously believes that the the hidden hand of capitalism is going to step in and inspect and repair bridges that are open to the public.   more »

Coming Soon

Yet another 9/11 anniversary, when Americans are fed the fiery rhetoric of imminent danger, a cocktail of fear, terror and warmongering to satisfy enemy-addicted knee-jerks.

The State media are hard at work concocting the trigger-happy bogeyman Americans are always too eager to declare war upon.

They are working overtime, using their control of the print, radio and television media, to condition us into accepting their version of reality.

Staying on message, the big lie is repeated over and over by this army of manipulators, attacking the airwaves, and thus our brains, in a constant stream of appearances.   more »

Does capitalism equal human nature?

A clever propaganda equation, a ruse,

an effective ideological weapon to defend

capitalism in the 'Free World'

While it may not have been invented in the U.S,

it's here where it has received its warmest embrace

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Keywords: ideology, capitalism, freedom, propaganda