On May 19, 2022, Consortium News published an important article dealing with the dwindling light of truth available to us as another dark age seemingly approaches (see Consortium News, Volume 27, Number 138 — Thursday, May 19, 2022 “West’s Free Speech Threatened by Ukraine War”). …

Prestidigitation, sleight of hand, manipulation! As usual, the order of the day as electoral cycles climax. “Wow!!! Look what I found! Just what my political party needed to obfuscate all the bad news”, author currently unknown but appears to work at the Supreme Court. There are many issues that polarize…

Manipulable mass hysteria is the incoherent albeit pervasive characteristic of mankind’s collective consciousness. It explains the power religions of any kind hold over their adherents, regardless of how illogical and incoherent their premises and how inconsistent with such premises their practices, both collective and individual tend to be. A bitter…

This morning, April 13, 2002, Scott Ritter published another important article. “Twitter Wars — My Personal Experience in Twitter’s Ongoing Assault on Free Speech” (Consortium News, Volume 27, Number 101 — Tuesday, April 12, 2022). “Scott Ritter is a former U.S. …

Demythifying the Ukrainian Crisis This is a bit long, and I hate long. I usually give up and read something else, unless, of course, I’m reading a book. But given the circumstances in which we find ourselves, I believe we needed a comprehensive and timely analysis and hope that you…

This morning I read an article[1] in Consortium News, one of the few reliable sources of objective and critical information on national and international events in a world dominated by manipulative propaganda. I recommend that it be read and shared widely. I’ve provided details in the footnote below. It warms…

“Do as I say, not as I do”, an old parental refrain we kids hated. I assume kids still do although they seem so much different than we were. Of course, Plato made the same refrain two and a half millennia ago. It’s a pretty day high in the central…

An Abominable Abrahamic Allegory Not many knew where the Garden had been relocated, or when, or what for. But a few did, a very few. Of course, most people know why. One “being” had been trapped there ever since, well, you know, ever since its gates had been locked and…

As we watch endless reruns on cable, I wonder how they’re selected. The choices get worse every year. For some time, television for me has been pretty much limited to news and sports, well, what passes for “news” and after the recent NFL Pro Bowl, something all too similar is…