Cults of Personality: Power, Narcissism and Delusions

We are living through a chronically tense and, in wealthy parts of the world, a desperately self-indulgent era. Advertising teaches that fulfillment comes with compulsive consumption.     News media trivialize history and turn current…

Life in the Electronic Concentration Camp

    The Many Ways That You’re Being Tracked, Catalogued and Controlled “[A security camera] doesn’t respond to complaint, threats, or insults. Instead, it just watches you in a forbidding manner. Today, the surveillance state…

Vicious Beyond Imagination: US Endless Wars, Debt, Lies

vi·cious [vish-uhs] adjective. 1. addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate. 2. given or readily disposed to evil. 3. reprehensible; blameworthy; wrong: a vicious deception. 4. spiteful; malicious: a vicious attack. 1% “leaders” in government, economics, and…