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Imagine: Dreaming of Living Our Dreams Out Loud Once More*

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Anonymoulsy from A.D.

Wake up you teeming masses, you mindless minions, you consummate consumers, you corporate cogs, you unwoken fools! You dreamed you were cast adrift helpless in a malevolent realm ruled by the corporatized competition of your own selfish desires.

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Deja-Vu All Over Again

 By Angela Borozna (reprinted from Russia Insider)

I grew up in Siberia during the Cold War and remember my fears of the United States. Images of Hiroshima were quite frequently aired on TV, and war evacuation plans were practiced at schools and at work places.

Filed under: American Dream, American Exceptionalism, capitalism, censorship, CIA, civilization, cultural crisis, democracy Tagged: capitalism, civilization, collapse, Communalism, Corporate State, Despair, Empire, Family

KFC Calling!! All Hands On Board!!

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You know something?  No sooner does KFC (that’s right the Colonel’s own) open it’s doors in three prime Barnaul  (Siberian Rusia) locations, then the goons and goof balls of

Filed under: 9/11, Africa, Agriculture, American Dream, American Exceptionalism, Anarchy, Aristotle, Austerity, Body-politic, body-subject, business, capitalism, censorship, Christianity, CIA, civilization, collapse, Colonialism, commodification, cultural crisis, democracy, Dostoyevsky, earthly-sensuous Tagged: Afghanistan, Africa, Arab Spring, Aristotle, Ayn Rand, business, cancer, capitalism, Cartagena, Christianity, CIA, civilization, collapse, Colonialism, Communalism, conspiracy, Corporate State, Despair, Dugin, Earth, Egypt, Empire, Engels, England, Executive Orders, Existentialism, Family, Financial Crisis, free will, freedom, Freud, fundamentalism, geopolitics, GMO, Gore Vidal, Health, Hitchens, human nature, hunter-gatherers, Hurricane Sandy, Idols, IMF, inverted totalitarianism, Ireland, Islam, Kierkegaard, kulturCritic, Law, Libya, madness, Matt Simmons, MBA, Meima, Memorial Day, MENA, Missouri, monotheism, Monsanto, Moscow, natural disasters, Nature, Obama

TRUMPED!!

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We are living in a new world, folks!  Same as the old, only better, stronger, more bravado, more daring — less giving or forgiving.  It is a world now ‘hoist on its own petard’ in the waning days of triumphant capitalism,

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Recollection, Releasement, and Reconstitution

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We live now in a world of unnatural wonders: virtual communities, corporate personhood, iPads, ‘bluetooth’ ears, selfies, 24/7 i-spy eavesdropping, instant global communication; all the accoutrements to give bureaucrats, emperors, and dime-a-dance dictators a complete set of controls over their subjects…

Filed under: American Dream, capitalism, civilization, collapse, cultural crisis, freedom, geopolitics, global collapse Tagged: capitalism, civilization, collapse, conspiracy, Corporate State, Earth, Empire, freedom, geopolitics, human nature, natural disasters, Nature, primitive, Russia, Siberia, Soul

Foundations of an Anarchic Philosophical-Anthropology

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Here I will propose a foundation in support of an anarchistic approach to reconstituting human community. But any effort to understand the possibility of such an enterprise begs a prior philosophical issue: “what does it mean to be human?”

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America Pivots to Brzezinski’s Delusion of Eurasian Conquest

By Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould

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“We are, and I don’t want to sound alarmist but I am alarmed, closer to the actual possibility of war with Russia than we have ever been since the Cuban missile crisis. That’s how bad it’s been.” (Stephen Cohen)

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The American Spirit and the Russian Soul

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The American Spirit was founded upon a false and troubling premise: that competition and winning, a.k.a., conquest, is the royal road to happiness. In fact just the reverse seems to be the case for the great majority of peoples, and apparently for the planet at large. Yet we Americans have been conditioned over many centuries to believe in this fantasy — that the “democratic” ideals of equality, fraternity, and liberty somehow thrive in a competitive, capitalist environment — that competition leads down the road to universal prosperity, as if this were a “good in itself.”

Filed under: 9/11, Africa, American Dream, American Exceptionalism, capitalism, civilization, Colonialism, Curriculum of the West, earth Tagged: civilization, Communalism, Corporate State, Earth, Empire, Family

Myths, Fairytales, and Power: An Introduction

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There is much talk today about power — political, economic, military — not to mention the waning pop-psychological notion of ‘personal’ power that had infused much of the West’s preoccupation since the ‘80’s through the present day. We see this perverse concept now as a defining characteristic of global affairs.

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The Fairytale Nightmare Continues

Hurling wildly through space ��� a virtual hologram according to some new physicists ��� our vanishing earth continues to remind us about the limits to growth.

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