Hollywood – America’s beacon to the world at home and abroad. Who controls it, and what they say – has been integral to the United States’ sociopolitical culture since the movies became a major American pastime in the Great Depression. During the Second World War and shortly thereafter during the Cold War, the writers, producers,…
Month: August 2017
Silicon Valley – the Shadow of Technocratic Control
Recent events in America have demonstrated the government’s selective willingness to uphold the 1st Amendment rights of its citizens, and an almost universal suppression of dissent rightest voices over the privately owned aspects of the internet. Despite the universalist principles fought over and passed into law by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, “giving all…
Right or Left – a False Dialectic?
Are you right or left wing? Does that even have meaning when by identifying as, or even electing someone into office one of the two political extremes? Or are we all simply given the illusion of choice by those truly in power? This is a special preview of our first “After Dark” episode where we…
American Cauldron – Immigration and Its Discontents
Is the United States a nation of immigrants? On a long enough time scale, isn’t every country? Human migrations have been a consistent part of history – but equally consistent has been a clear set of rules and controls for allowing certain individuals in, and keeping others out. Much like a home has a lock…
AIDS – Cause and Effect
HIV/AIDS, which by the late 1980s had come to dominate media stories in the United States concerning a growing epidemic, has ever since remained a consistent topic of American and increasingly world health officials as the disease has spread globally – particularly throughout sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia. What is less talked about, however, is…
Communist Subversion of America – Eastern Promises, Western Capital
The origins of communism, depending on how broadly one defines it, stretch back as far as some of the religious and anti-monarchical political movements of the Middle Ages and post-Enlightenment Europe. But the modern ideologies of socialism and communism took form in the upper-middle intellectual classes of industrialized 19th century Europe – most notably with…
Myth of the 20th Century 