Published on Friday, February 24, 2012 by Truthdig.com Forgetting the Past, One Military Movie at a Time When the entertainment industry gets in bed with the Pentagon, censorship is inevitable by David Sirota When philosopher George Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” he meant it [...]
KAM Workshops (CC-BY-SA) This article concerns what happens when you have taken in the capitalist delusion, hook, line and sinker. You develop a complete trust in the fact that the only way out is to take orders from above. It is a lot like what you could a Good King Wenceslas syndrome. All we need [...]
Government by Death Panel By David Sirota Remember the good ol’ days when Republicans were running around the country screaming that Democrats’ proposal to fund voluntary end-of-life counseling would somehow create a government-sanctioned death panel? Ooh boy, the heartland was ablaze back then. Wracked by anger at a Democrat occupying the White House, an enraged Middle [...]
25 years later, how ‘Top Gun’ made America love warby David Sirota, Published: August 27 Americans are souring on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The military budget is under siege as Congress looks for spending to cut. And the Army is reporting record suicide rates among soldiers. So who does the Pentagon enlist [...]
LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. How Tofurky and Fake Bacon Actually Glorify Meat-Eating It’s not the meat industry advertising that makes it hard to raise a vegetarian kid–it’s the vegetarian products themselves. August 18, 2011 | As a new [...]
Collateral Damage in the War on Anonymity kodomut (CC-BY) By David Sirota Posted on Aug 12, 2011 From warrantless wiretapping to ever-present surveillance cameras, our world is right now in the midst of a long war on anonymity. In the media and political arenas, we’ve seen paparazzi culture famously fetishize the outing of anonymous iconoclasts, from Watergate’s Deep [...]
The Real Reason Big Macs Are Cheaper Than More Nutritious Alternatives No, we can’t blame this on Whole Foods. Healthy food is not inherently more expensive — it all comes down to government subsidies. LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. [...]
Promoting Militarism While Hiding Bloodshed EMAIL PRINT SHARE SHARE 3 Posted on Jun 17, 2011 By David Sirota In a breathless story somehow presented as a groundbreaking revelation, The New York Times recently reported that the Pentagon is—shocker!—using all sorts of media channels to market itself to the nation’s children. Though the Times presents this as a brand-new [...]
