Mass Media Q & A – Questions For Corbett

The Corbett Report Watch video on Archive / BitChute / Odysee or Download the video As promised, today James does a question and answer with some students of his Mass Media: A History online course. From the history of media to our relationship with to an intriguing question about Gulf War embedded reporting that goes […]

87,000 Racists

Analyzing the structural behavior of the IRS and comparing to modern emergent redefinitions of the term ‘racism.’ Handwaving Freakoutery The Inflation Reduction Act took it on the chin a week ago with lots of people sharing a not totally true yet not entirely false either statistic that the […]

The Left and Right in Historical Context

Murray Rothbard’s enormously important essay from 1965 pointed out the fallacies of the left/right model of the political spectrum. Read it here. Rothbard’s anarcho-capitalism was essentially a restatement of the panarchist philosophy of Gustave Molinari and Paul Emile de Puydt, a position also embraced by the classical anarchist […]

Sweeps Week on FBI TV!

National news media and federal law enforcement are now as indistinguishable in America as in any autocratic country anywhere By Matt Taibbi And they told two friends, and so on, and so on…   CNN Newsroom anchor Jim Acosta, famed for being the WWE version of a media […]

The Lighthouse Weekly Newsletter: August 16, 2022 Pelosi’s Seriously Misguided Taiwan Trip | Big Government Vaccine Failures | The FBI, Stasi Style?

Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip Heightens the US-China Perceptual Dilemma Christopher J. Coyne (The Hill) Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) recently visited Taiwan amid strong rebukes from the Chinese government. Presumably she intended to signal American strength and deter China from taking Taiwan. But her intentions may achieve the opposite effect—heightening […]

Scamming the boss

Scamming the boss: Some employees are outsourcing their jobs to other people. Here’s how companies are spotting the fraudsters. By Rebecca Knight As remote work provides opportunities for fraud, some employees are outsourcing their jobs. Staffing executives say the practice is more common in IT, coding, and developer […]

Daily News: August 16, 2022 The Week-Rushdie, Bolton, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, explained, more

Brigid  Kennedy Cheney, Murkowski, Palin: A look at Tuesday’s big primaries Grayson  Quay The debate over the Catholicism ‘trend’ Joel  Mathis Rushdie, Bolton, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, explained Advertisement from Wisebread Insanely High Paying Cash Back Cards With No Annual Fee Catherine  Garcia Justice Department opposes unsealing Mar-a-Lago […]

Breaking Points: 8/16/22 FULL UNCUT SHOW The FBI’s Trump investigation, Trump’s associates, midterm fundraising, more

Krystal and Saagar cover the news about the FBI’s Trump investigation, Trump’s associates, midterm fundraising, housing market, NYT endorsements, Biden censorship, Liz Cheney election, & Biden climate provisions! YouTube: https://youtu.be/MbFRE6CaC1s Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/740019462/99d033d8e8 Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0E005CD6DBFF6D47 Jeff Stein: https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo Timestamps: Trump: 0:00 – 21:45 Guiliani: 21:46 – 35:17 […]

Owl Eyes

Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of “Owl Eyes”.   Crawling on our hands and knees vomiting up life hearts which go bouncing across the floor like pennies, disgusted by the latest headline, the latest heartbreak, the latest bill, the latest bullshit. There is an owl sitting upon […]

The Democrats’ new climate and tax bill will invest billions in clean energy. Here are 21 high-paying green careers for people who want to save the planet.

Business Insider The Democrats’ new climate and tax bill will invest billions in clean energy. Here are 21 high-paying green careers for people who want to save the planet. Plenty of roles in the renewable-energy industry and other “green” jobs are expected to be in demand in the […]

It’s time for Tory socialism

By Tim Stanley, The Spectator The Conservative leadership contest has descended into a low-tax auction, which is not a good thing. The implication is that the Conservatives think government should be minuscule at the very moment when private enterprise is letting us down – the energy companies are […]

Chomsky on the Nod

By Bob Black The essay (ostensibly a book review) is a critique. It relates Noam Chomsky’s Cartesian philosophy of language to his affirmation of an objective, universally binding morality and to his derivative affirmation of the objective moral reality of human rights. It is also a critique of […]