Occidentalogy

Chapter 1 of Against Empire by Michael Parenti Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations. Yet, it is seldom accorded any serious attention by our academics, media commentators, and …

Research Scholar in Islamic HistoryDepartment of Islamic HistoryIslamic Research FoundationThe Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (A.S.)Mashhad, IRANFor US Military Empire and national security state, this is the age of impunity and every thing that US government does — torture, kidnapping, assassination, illegal surveillance, you name it– will ever be brought …

Rupert Murdoch is one of America’s number one publishers of evangelical and other religious books.Here’s what you might not know about Rupert Murdoch: he’s one of the leading religion publishers in the world.Maybe one day soon Murdoch will go to jail as might his son, as will several of their …

We must tell the truth about the domination that is at the heart of the American Dream so that we may face the brokenness of our world.Whether celebrated or condemned, the American Dream endures, though always ambiguously. We are forever describing and defining, analyzing and assessing the concept, and with …

Noam Chomsky is America’s greatest intellectual. His massive body of work, which includes nearly 100 books, has for decades deflated and exposed the lies of the power elite and the myths they perpetrate. Chomsky has done this despite being blacklisted by the commercial media, turned into a pariah by the …

TRANSCRIPT: Welcome. This is James Corbett of corbettreport.com with the last word on CCTV.It wasn’t long after the introduction of the television camera that those in positions of power began using it to track and surveil the public.The first closed-circuit television camera was deployed by Siemens AG – a company …

“Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe …

My face is my fortune, sir, she saidCosmetic surgery and allied procedures were less hard hit by the great global crash than many other businesses. Women saw their faces and bodies as assets needing investment to help them in a tough marketLaurie Essig said in spring 2007 that the United …

“The fantasy of the faraway place, the fantasy of the skin, the fantasy of being somebody else” — John Berger, ‘Ways of Seeing’Sometimes, and not often enough, insights, understandings and new ideas just pop into your mind, unbidden. How? I have no idea but as the brain apparently operates somewhere …

Defining the Imperial StratagemIn the late 1990s Brzezinski wrote up the design for America’s imperial project in the 21st century in his book, “The Grand Chessboard.” He stated bluntly that, “it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus of also challenging America,” and then …