Tag: Politics

Mass Shootings: The Vicious Cycle Fueled By America’s Toxic Cult of Violence

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

“Mass shootings have become routine in the United States and speak to a society that relies on violence to feed the coffers of the merchants of death. Given the profits made by arms manufacturers, the defense industry, gun dealers and the lobbyists who represent them in Congress, it comes as no surprise that the culture of violence cannot be abstracted from either the culture of business or the corruption of politics.”—Professor Henry A. Giroux

Mass Shootings: The Vicious Cycle Fueled By America’s Toxic Cult of Violence

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JFK’s Peace Speech

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Pat Buchanan has just published an article on President Kennedy’s Peace Speech at American University on June 10, 1963, just a few months before he was assassinated on November 22. It’s an article worth reading, as it shows the relevance of Kennedy’s vision for America even today.

JFK’s Peace Speech

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Full Transcript: President Kennedy’s Peace Speech at American University (June 10, 1963)

Capitalism is Un-Christian + Merry Christmas!

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Capitalism is Un-Christian + Merry Christmas!

“Go now you rich and weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you, behold the hired laborers you have reaped in your fields which you work for by a fraud. And there was a multitude that believed and were of one heart and one soul and neither said any of them ought to of things which he possessed for his own. And they had all things in common and neither among them was lacked for as many possessors of lands and houses sold them and brought the prices of things that were sold and distribution was made unto every man according to his need.”

Substack’s success shows readers have had enough of polarised media

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Substack’s success shows readers have had enough of polarised media

Glenn Greenwald, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who in October resigned from The Intercept, the online media platform he co-founded, citing “repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity”, has between 20,000 and 40,000 paid subscribers to his newsletter, each contributing at least $5 a month. Once Substack has taken its standard 10 per cent cut, and after payment processing fees, I calculate that Greenwald is left with between $80,000 and $160,000 a month, or about $1m to $2m a year. Not bad for a mere hack.

“It’s a lot,” Greenwald tells me. “It’s obviously way more money than I’ve ever made in journalism before, or than I ever thought I would make.”

If only I could write, still.