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The Capitalist Mindwash and Oprah For President

01/02/2018 Phil Rockstroh

Enough of the rags to riches celebrity graft narrative – Oprah for President? Please, no. (read more)

Let Loose the Orange Beast and Good Riddance to Capitalism

04/01/2018 Phil Rockstroh

The age of Reagan reaches its apogee in Donald Trump. Now, bring on the fall. (read more)

Self-Medication or Self-Anesthesia: It’s No Wonder We Tune Out

15/12/2017 Phil Rockstroh

Beneficiaries of the system promote their lies; the sane seek solace where they can get it (read more)

Winter? Embrace Your Depression, It’s The Soul’s Defiance

20/10/2017 Phil Rockstroh

Depression, seasonally affected or otherwise, may be the soul shunning the collective madness (read more)

Smart Suits: Follow the Brains for Better Business

26/09/2017 Trebuchet News

Smart staffers: Why educated areas are good for business (read more)

Opportunity Can’t Be Looted

14/09/2017 Phil Rockstroh

Nobody loves a looter, but industrial-scale corruption is just fine (read more)

Culling Yet More ‘Savages’: North Korea in Context

08/09/2017 Phil Rockstroh

If you wish to inflict genocide on a people, it’s OK as long as you term them ‘savages’ (read more)

Shake Those Chains – It’s Your Inalienable Right

18/08/2017 Phil Rockstroh

In a society dominated by money and its protection, your only rights are to shout impotently (read more)

Fire and Fury: Perpetual War = Perpetual High Dollar

11/08/2017 Phil Rockstroh

The marriage of the high dollar to perpetual war becomes more blatant by the day (read more)

Tune in, Turn On, Don’t die with your novel still in you.

08/08/2017 Steve P. Avlina

One man’s wisdom is another man’s trite platitude, but who wants to spend their life guarding dust? (read more)

Deep State, Media Vampirism and the MOAB Bomb

18/04/2017 Phil Rockstroh

With the MOAB, High Dollar Despotism And Perpetual War show off their latest toy (read more)

Affordable Care – For BigPharma. Time to Escape the Duopoly

23/03/2017 Phil Rockstroh

The rubble of Trump’s presidency will form fertile ground for resistance – if we act now. (read more)

A Nuremberg Rally of One

27/02/2017 Phil Rockstroh

No book burning is required when the masses of the consumer state do not read books. (read more)

Anti-Trump Protests? Yes Please. Pro-Democrats Protests? No Thanks.

26/01/2017 Trebuchet News

Anti-Trump protests will lead nowhere if allowed to be channeled into the service of the Democratic Party. (read more)

Two Faces, One Evil: The Bi-Party Sham of US Democracy

14/12/2016 Phil Rockstroh

Clinton, Trump, Putin – Put any one of them in the White House, the rich still get richer (read more)

Queasy Democrats – Make Your Wound a Womb

11/11/2016 Phil Rockstroh

Only an honest appraisal of the situation will prove of benefit for Democrats yet to come (read more)

Deplorable Lives Matter : Why Sneering at Proles Doesn’t Work Either

05/11/2016 Phil Rockstroh

Angry alienated American whites are not a Trump invention, and patronising them won’t make them go away (read more)

Lessons in Leadership: What Sanders Could Learn From Corbyn

29/09/2016 Phil Rockstroh

Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership triumph shows what Sanders might have been (read more)

Is the US A New Weimar? If So, The Democrats Made It

21/09/2016 Phil Rockstroh

If Donald Trump is the symptom of US sickness, it is the Democrats who are the disease (read more)

Fear and Fascism: Tools of the Trade

05/12/2015 Phil Rockstroh

To persist, the capitalist order demands submission to ruthless authority and must peddle fear of an alien other. (read more)

Attack, Retaliate, Attack. When Will it End?

23/11/2015 Phil Rockstroh

If their designs work out as planned, the elite will, as they always have, enrich their already engorged fortunes on the suffering and death of the powerless. (read more)

The Carnival of Consumerism and its Tawdry Trinkets

03/10/2015 Phil Rockstroh

How sensation replaces experience in the Late Capitalist Empire (read more)

Small of Stature, Great of Nature

02/07/2015 Phil Rockstroh

The diminutive are spurned, scorned, defamed and relegated to the margins. (read more)

Entrenched imperial orders do not die pretty deaths

04/06/2015 Phil Rockstroh

The angst, humiliations, and sundry degradations of working people that are inherent to capitalism are unbearable for the multitudes (read more)

Name-brand or generic?

16/02/2013 Trebuchet Magazine

Name-Brand or generic: Conservatives and liberals don’t just differ when it comes to politics, they may also make different purchases at the grocery store. (read more)