During my 34 years of working as a reporter, I’ve had many informal conversations with mainstream journalists. They were illuminating. Here, from my notes (1982-2011), taken after the conversations, are what these guardians on the watchtower revealed: ONE: “Investigative reporting has been dying. There’s no money for it. If I work ... … Read entire article »

“All thought is not the same. There is random static. There is repetitious and circular rumination. There is thought devoted to solving a problem or analyzing a situation. Then there is thought that occurs when one is creating something that never existed before. To blithely ... … Read entire article »

If you want to track a civilization as it collapses, watch what happens to the concept of the rebel. From the 1960s onward — starting with Lee Oswald and the assassination of JFK — the whole idea of “the rebel” with power has been sequentially updated and repackaged. This is intentional. ... … Read entire article »

“When a public is stressed and confused, a big lie told repeatedly and unchallenged can become accepted truth.” — George Orwell. The idea of slavery is one of those concepts that has the tendency to be uttered in black and white terms. But slavery is anything but black and white. There ... … Read entire article »

In November. 2012, Serbian-American author Srdja Trifkovic wrote an article in Chronicles magazine dealing with the Middle Eastern situation and the current regime’s handling, or rather mishandling of it. In his article Trifkovic noted: “Writing seven decades ago, Arthur Jeffery dismissed as ‘the sheerest sophistry’ the same tendency among some Western ... … Read entire article »

“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” — Eleanor Roosevelt. Under the Law of Responsibility life does not hand you anything that you cannot handle. Every challenge that comes ... … Read entire article »