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Help The United States From Slipping Into A Fascist State

Help The United States From Slipping Into A Fascist State

Help The United States From Slipping Into A Fascist State #1 Become well informed.  Watching FOX “News”, the propaganda arm of the oligarch class and near fascist state, is not the way.  Watching MSNBC and CNN, who have pandered to this alleged flimflam president, from the start, will only be partly successful. For closer to the truth and deeper inspection, consider the following: The real deep truthful view of our national politics is listening to Background Briefing with Ian Masters. …

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Looking Into The Future Of The United States.

Looking Into The Future Of The United States.

  Ian Masters Radio Podcast – Background Briefing  (December 27, 2016) Warning:  The content of this podcast may be depressing. Henry Giroux . He is a writer and the current Global Television Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Canada and the author of “America at War With Itself”. We discuss his article at Counterpunch and why for the most part, the billionaire class about to rule America in the name of populism, wants to increase inequality…

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APOLOGY OF SOCRATES

APOLOGY OF SOCRATES

Voice from the past that might illuminate the present: Plato : APOLOGY OF SOCRATES “O my friend, why do you who are a citizen of the great and mighty and wise city of Athens, care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at all? Are you not ashamed of this? “ Today’s  word…

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Similarities In The Demise Of Empires: Ancient Rome & United States

Similarities In The Demise Of Empires: Ancient Rome & United States

There is no exact time that anyone may point in the history of the Roman Empire for attributing the beginning of that empire’s collapse because the factors added up over time.  The factors were so apparent to some of the Romans that from time to time a politician would try to make changes but the corruption in the Roman Senate was by that time so complete that the only idea for change might come from a benevolent dictator.  Let us…

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Why Does The World Seem To Be Shifting To The Political Right?

Why Does The World Seem To Be Shifting To The Political Right?

Some examples of right shifting: U.S.A = The Republican Party has split into two separate parties, the old Republican Party and the new far right. Israel = The vast majority of citizens populate the political right.  The political left is an insignificant minority. Turkey =  The current ruler, an egoist, is using right wing tactics to hold and expand his power.  He will jail any dissenter but fails to protect his citizens from terrorism.  He seems to use terrorism as…

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