Most people have heard of mindfulness. Like meditation, it has become a fairly common term in general use. It has also become more accepted in western psychology as having therapeutic benefit. Many books have been written on the topic, and yet there remains much confusion in terms of just what ... … Read entire article »

All over the United States, school children are being taken out of their classrooms, put on buses and sent to “alternate locations” during terror drills. These exercises are often called “evacuation drills” or “relocation drills” and they are more than a little disturbing. Sometimes parents are notified in advance where ... … Read entire article »

Several things characterize countries of the Third Word, whatever precisely “Third World” means. The first is corruption. America is rotten with it, but American corruption is distinct from corruption in, say, Guatemala or Thailand, being less visible and better organized. Several major differences exist between the usual corruption in the Third World ... … Read entire article »

“From 1950 to 1962, the CIA ran a massive research project, a veritable Manhattan Project of the mind, spending over $1 billion a year to crack the code of human consciousness, from both mass persuasion and the use of coercion in individual interrogation.” — Professor Alfred McCoy, author of A ... … Read entire article »

Sarkrazy is so predictable. First, the totalitarian fascist State kills kids and innocents, and then it uses their deaths to kill free speech and democracy. Below are two reports from Russia Today and Infowars.com about Sarkrazy’s attack on free speech and free thought. Remember: the bodies of the victims of the latest ... … Read entire article »

As NATO and the GCC persevere with their project of remodeling the Greater Middle East and North Africa, a constant flow of fighters have been crossing from Libya into Syria and vice versa. Far from pursuing peace as stipulated in its Charter, the United Nations has become an instrument of ... … Read entire article »

Another day, another false-flag terror event in another advanced Western democracy. This time, the people of France are the target of Western state-sponsored terrorism and the strategy of tension. The patsy’s name is Mohammed Merah. The names of the people who were murdered by the French state are Jonathan (Yonatan) ... … Read entire article »

Internet service providers (ISPs) across the United States are set to voluntarily begin a digital surveillance operation so large that nothing can even come close in the history of espionage. Starting on July 12, 2012, if you download software, videos or music which are potentially protected by copyright, you very well ... … Read entire article »

This picture appeared in Alex Constantine’s article, “The CIA Connections to the Mind Control Cults,” March 17, 2012.  “The right to think is a battle being fought today.” — Richard Stallman, “The Right to Think: Existential Education in the era of Personal Cybernetics.” Communications of the ACM, 1997, Volume 40, Number ... … Read entire article »

A while back, I was trying to think of a word to describe the fact that a democracy is essentially a concept that relies upon the lowest common denominator in a population’s thinking… to determine decision-making for all. A change in the existing spelling worked all right for me personally ... … Read entire article »

Getting a medical check-up from an MD or going to the hospital when facing a health emergency is probably the most dangerous thing one can do. Indeed, the field of medicine can only be called a medical Mafia, with its godfather, Don Industrio — the pharmaceutical industry — and its ... … Read entire article »

According to Russian diplomats, America is giving Iran one last chance before the bombs start to fall. On March 14, 2012, Russia Today reported that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered the threat of an American attack on Iran to Russian diplomat Sergey Lavrov in New York on Monday, March 12. ... … Read entire article »

In today’s ever-more “connected” and online world, people have flocked to “free” services such as Facebook, Twitter and the like. But at what cost? Kyle Gonzales explores the issue and reveals some startling facts about what really happens to your online data… On March 1st, Google announced a major change to ... … Read entire article »

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has today been accused of accepting a €50 million donation from Libya’s former leader, Colonel Gaddafi. The allegations, made by French investigative website Mediapart, date back to Sarkozy’s election campaign in 2007. Mediapart claims to have seen leaked documents from a legal dossier currently under investigation by ... … Read entire article »

Before being an economic doctrine, neoliberalism is a political project. Wherever it has extended its influence, even the armies have been put through the privatization grinder. As Manlio Dinucci explains, today’s wars are increasingly conducted by private companies and less and less by States. Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya are ... … Read entire article »