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The Destruction of Reality

I have written a number of articles for which I have received little response about the horrible mistake humanity has made by entering into the digital revolution and the AI it spawned.  These disastrous developments are now being institutionalized in all societies.  They bring the end of human autonomy, independence, control, objective truth, freedom, and awareness of reality. 

The digital revolution destines humans to live in a reality created for them by those who control the data bases and t...

Kiev’s Corruption Cesspit Is Dragging the Complicit EU Down With It

The criminal proxy war is destroying its Western architects and sponsors.

The latest scandal involves $100 million in graft by senior Ukrainian government ministers and Zelensky’s friend, known as “his wallet”. The racketeering and Western complicity account for why this war drags on, with thousands of Ukrainian casualties every week.

The thieves in Kiev are only the scum that float to the surface. The real criminals are the Western so-called leaders who have enabled the entire war racket, a rac...

An Inopportune Doctrinal Note

An old priest once used a metaphor to describe how the higher-ups in the Church sometimes were out of touch with the faithful: “They have no idea of how that works when you’re in the trenches. Their desks are too far away from the line of fire.”

I recalled the priest’s words when I heard about the recent doctrinal note regarding some Marian titles. Specifically, the note deals with the title of Mary as Co-Redemptrix. The issue came up in the class for our adults seeking the sacraments of initiat...

Justice Department Office Which Justified Torture Now Argues for Killing

In 2003 the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Legal Council (OLC) issued a memo which declared the use of torture in ‘authorized military interrogations’ as legal when done under the ‘president’s constitutional authority to direct a war’.

The memo was widely condemned. The Obama administration withdrew it but refrained from prosecuting the torturers which had used it as cover.

The Trump administration now issued a comparable OLC memo to justify its wanton killing of alleged drug smugglers at s...

Is Donald Trump the ‘Fidei Defensor’ for Christians?

I actually thought there might be some good news coming out of the Donald Trump White House but it turns out that I was likely mistaken. Trump treated the American public and a worldwide audience to an extended harangue targeting Nigeria for its alleged mistreatment and even killing of Christians. He threatened something like a military intervention similar to his aggressive posturing in Latin America and the Middle East complete with US soldiers “boots on the ground” to address the situation.

L...

The Matrix Is Talking to the Matrix: How AI Is Replacing Human Thought

There was a time when people spoke in their own words — clumsy, passionate, and alive. We debated. We contradicted one another. We reached for meaning through the fog of misunderstanding, and the friction sometimes produced light.

Now, millions speak to machines that speak back in their language — smoother, quicker, cleaner. And those machines learn how humans think by listening to the noise. Humanity is training its own simulacrum —  inside the echo chamber of AI. The Matrix is talking to the M...

Roger Williams, Exemplar of America’s Soul

A group of Separatists, whom we call the Pilgrims, originally abandoned England for Holland but they found life there too routine, too easy.  Life should be a challenge, and they weren’t being tested enough.  According to William Bradford, their leader, a few preferred the prisons of England to the liberties of Holland, which they considered an affliction.

They left Holland, passed through England, and sailed on the Mayflower for America.  When they arrived on the Massachusetts coast they found ...

Military Moral Injury, Violence, and the Parable of the Guinea Worm

It’s been a while since I’ve written for TomDispatch and there’s a reason for that. About 16 months ago, I experienced a catastrophic car crash. An SUV veered across the double yellow line of the highway I was traveling on and hit my little Chevy Spark head-on — on the driver’s side. I’ve been told that I’m lucky to be alive. I was left with multiple injuries and have been on the slow road to recovery.

I’ve always seen myself as a person who pushes forward to overcome obstacles. Since the collis...

Why I Won’t Be Mourning Dick Cheney

When someone we think is bad dies, we usually don’t seem happy about it.  As the old adage says, de mortuis non nisi bounum. But as an eminent classical scholar reminds us, the Latin adage is a mistranslation of a Greek adage which means “do not malign the dead.” It would be difficult indeed to malign Cheney, because the truth is bad enough: he was a monster of evil. He was a power-mad warmonger.

As Paul Dragu reminds us, Cheney was the architect of both Iraq wars, not only the war to oust Sadam...

JFK Assassination and Watergate: A Rothbardian Power Elite Analysis

The Elite Who Governs Us

Who Rules America: Power Elite Analysis, the Deep State, and American History

The Warren Commission: A Rothbardian Analysis

A pioneer historical examination of the composition of the Warren Commission by James Dunlap, (an old colleague of mine) using the power elite analysis framework created by the late world acclaimed economist/historian Murray N. Rothbard.

Yankees vs. Cowboys: Rothbardian Elite Theory on Watergate

The Yankee and Cowboy War, by Carl Oglesby

The late M...