Occidentalogy

Rosie the Riveter, the iconic young woman with sleeve rolled up and arm flexed in the famous portrait by J. Howard Miller, inspired many American women in the 1940s to leave the traditional domain of their homes. They filled positions that previously had belonged to men who were drafted or …

(An interview with Richard Grossman) Richard Grossman is co-director of the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy. He is co-author of Taking Care of Business: Citizenship and the Charter of Incorporation. He lectures widely on issues of corporate power, law, and democracy. BARSAMIAN: You write in an essay, “Giant corporations govern. …

Israeli forces enablers of settler violence Nigeria reliance on military problematic Iraq has spent more than a decade under US occupation. Afghanistan has been occupied for almost 13 years. More than a million people have been killed, and millions more rendered homeless refugees, by occupation forces.

A story little told is that of Jews in Hollywood’s seedier cousin, the adult film industry. Perhaps we’d prefer to pretend that the ‘triple-exthnics’ didn’t exist, but there’s no getting away from the fact that secular Jews have played (and still continue to play) a disproportionate role throughout the adult …

In 1962, John Glenn relayed this message to mission control when his pioneering flight on the Friendship 7 spacecraft passed across Western Australia at night: “The lights show up very well. Thank everyone for turning them on, will you?” 

The press sometimes will criticize US foreign policy as “ill-defined,” or “overextended,” but never as lacking in virtuous intent. To maintain this image, the news media say little about the US role in financing, equipping, training, advising, and directing the repressive military apparatus that exists in US client states around …

Crescent International, August, 2014Crescent International is a publication of the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought (ICIT), Toronto, Canada.It was premature to write off Bandar when he was relieved of his duties as the Saudi spy chief in May. He has re-emerged as special advisor to the king.

We are told by people in the media industry that news bias is unavoidable. Whatever distortions and inaccuracies that are found in the news are caused by deadline pressures, human misjudgment, limited print space, scarce air time, budgetary restraints, and the difficulty of reducing a complex story into a concise …

Who Rules USA Today? This is the question asked by the awakened humanity who wants to get liberated from the clutches of the domination of Great Satan, the USA. This is the point raised by Iranian researcher, Dr. Hyder Reza Zabeth in an interesting analysis.

Food industry in USA is controlled by Multi-National Corporations (MNC). Farmers in USA are completely controlled by MNCs and the consumers do not know how their food is grown and the source of their food is completely concealed from the consumers. At present four MNCs fully control the meat industry …