“In questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” Thomas Jefferson Public trust in the government to “do what is right” understandably remains at an all-time low. After all, how do you trust a government that […]
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9 Sep 2024
Children of Big Brother: What It Means to Go Back-to-School in the American Police State
“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning.” Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes It’s not easy being a child in the […]
2 Sep 2024
Technofascism: The Government Pressured Tech Companies to Censor Users
“Internet platforms have a powerful incentive to please important federal officials, and the record in this case shows that high-ranking officials skillfully exploited Facebook’s vulnerability… Not surprisingly these efforts bore fruit. Facebook adopted new rules that better conformed to the […]
26 Aug 2024
The Political Matrix Sustains the Illusion of Freedom
“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself […]
29 Jul 2024
Engineering a Crisis: How Political Theater Helps the Deep State Stay in Power
A failed assassination attempt on a presidential candidate. An incumbent president withdrawing his re-election bid at the 11th hour. A politicized judiciary that fails to hold the powers-that-be accountable to the rule of law. A world at war. A nation in turmoil. This is what controlled chaos looks […]
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22 Jul 2024
A Time of Shame and Sorrow: When It Comes to Political Violence, We All Lose
“Whenever any American’s life is taken by another American unnecessarily—whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence—whenever we tear at the fabric of life which …Original […]
15 Jul 2024
Project Total Control: Everything Is a Weapon When Totalitarianism Is Normalized
“The biggest mistake I see is people waiting for A Big Sign that’ll tell them that things have gone too far. One Big Thing that police or lawmakers or the president/leaders will do that will cross the line. It’ll never come because they won’t cross it. They’ll move the line. That line you think you […]
