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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 …

The matter in hand is about Imam ‘Ali (as), whose life was closely bound up with the first age of the history of Islam. All the necessary conditions gathered together and consequently made him a prodigy of learning.He, who wishes to know and understand Islam, has to be familiar with …

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 …

Abu-Bakr al-Naqqash has reported Imam Ali as saying:One day, a Jew came to me saying, “In your book, there is a verse the meaning of which is difficult to understand. If you clarify it for me, I will become Muslim.” “Which verse is that?” I asked. The Jew said, “The …

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 …

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 …