Five months after Zoran's disappearance, his wife gave birth to a girl. The mother was unable to nurse the child. The city was being shelled continuously. There were severe food shortages. Infants, li...
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, wrote the cultural critic Neil Postman, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes...
U.S. military spending, which consumes half of all discretionary spending, has had a profound social and political cost. Bridges and levees collapse. Schools decay. Domestic manufacturing declines. Tr...
Those who manipulate the shadows that dominate our lives are the agents, publicists, marketing departments, promoters, script writers, tel- evision and movie producers, advertisers, video technicians,...
The mantra of the least worse does not work—look at the steady deterioration in American politics. The least worst paves the way for the worst.
The establishment of what would become the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1908—led from 1924 until 1972 by J. Edgar Hoover—was a direct response to the revolutionary wave that gripped the American...
Lies are considered true. Truth is considered seditious.
Johnston wrote how by 1990, Trump’s inability to pay his debts had put him at risk of losing his casinos.64 The rules of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission required casino owners to have enough...
How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.42
For years we were called niggers to indicate we had no value or worth and that anything could be done to us,' Ray said. 'Then the word nigger became politically incorrect. Sio they began to calling us...
The triviality of American popular culture, its emptiness and gossip, accelerates this destruction of critical thought.It expands the void, the mindlessness that makes the magic, mythology and irratio...
The superior force of despotic regimes is disarmed not through violence but through conversion.
The corporate state seeks to discredit and shut down the anticapitalist left. Its natural allies are the neo-Nazis and the Christian fascists. The alt-right is bankrolled by the most retrograde forces...
The amount of coercion needed to make society adhere to the model is a rough measure of the model’s validity. That the Soviet Union had to use so much coercion undermined the credibility of communism...
Premda zvuči kao ironija, ali činjenica je da su sveučilišta stotine tisuća ljudi obučila za poslove koji će uskoro jednostavno nestati.Obučila su ljude da održavaju ustroj koji se ne može održati. El...
Pozitivistička psihologija, poput celebrity kulture, nezadrživ nagon da se kupuje i privlačnosti masovne zabave kao sredstva odvraćanja pozornosti, pothranjuje se osjećajem nesretnosti što ga izaziva...
Power is a poison. It does not matter who wields it. The rebel, for this reason, is an eternal heretic. He or she will never fit into any system. The rebel stands with the powerless. There will always...
Identities and morality shift with the wind. Established truths, mores, rules, and authenticity mean nothing. Good and evil mean nothing. The idea of permanent personalities and permanent values, as i...
Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. But if what is human in human beings ha...
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit,