Occidentalogy

An excerpt from antiwar activist Swanson’s new book, War Is a Lie.Since the Vietnam War, the United States has dropped all pretense of a military draft equally applied to all. Instead we spend billions of dollars on recruitment, increase military pay, and offer signing bonuses until enough people “voluntarily” join …

Smart and amazing young women have somehow gotten the idea that in order to be treated with respect and love, they have to be damn near perfect.It’s not news that girls are feeling more pressure than ever to be perfect. As I’ve written before in my posts on the Martha …

A few days ago Facebook asked me to change my user name. The name I had chosen wasn’t obscene, it did not incite to racial hatred, it was not an attempt to usurp the name of the all-powerful Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook’s CEO, founder and majority shareholder), nor was it even …

The peoples of the world once looked up to America and Americans. They held them in high respect and esteem. They respected their ideals. They respected their know-how and products.Now, by its foreign policies of empire and their domestic counterparts, the U.S. government is destroying the dignity of America and …

The grave challenge of our time is not to reform the current system but to replace it. As our nation’s founders prescribed in the Declaration of Independence, when “any Form of Government becomes destructive” of the ends of “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” it is not only our …

The dismantling of motherhood as we once knew it is no longer a paranoid futuristic fantasy, but rather a mostly dystopic reality.If you’ve read much science-fiction, you’re probably familiar with the idea that, at some scary point in the future, the various aspects of mothering will be separated, enabling wealthy …

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.” – Philip K. Dick“Men must have spoken freely long before they formulated the idea of free speech. Perhaps the …

In a globalized world, we must fight toxic body culture by “becoming what we have never seen”–rewriting the paradigm of health and self-acceptance.When most people hear the words “body image,” the demographic that comes to mind is young, white, wealthy, American women with self-esteem issues. When “body image” is covered …

In the last five decades, around 10 million Muslims have been murdered because their countries did not serve the Zionist EmpireZionism wants the absolute destruction of Muslim countries and the Muslim cultureJanuary 10, 2015 – “Counterpunch”- A hundred years ago, it would have been unimaginable to have a pair of …

Even today a majority of the US population believes Washington’s propaganda that Russia invaded Ukraine and annexed some provinces. Neither judgment nor intelligence are strongpoints of the American public and juries. By DR PAUL CRAIG ROBERTSThere are two ways to look at the alleged terrorist attack on the French satirical …