In our very own Civil war, crowds gathered to watch as one would gather to watch an outdoor concert. Soon the horrors hit them first hand and retreated in shear panic.

I Hear Peace

Will Be Tomorrow

David Scott discusses education and the advantages and strengths of home education with Sarah Plumley on her Education Not Indoctrination podcast. This wide-ranging discussion covers the negative effects of contemporary state education, sources of ideas and inspiration for finding a better solution, the nature of the open-mindedness that results from education free of indoctrination, and a unique way of avoiding state snoopers.

The Plumley Pod

Learning to Think - David Scott appears on Sarah Plumley podcast

Here comes tha man - Sample Challenge 256

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Bender - Hip Hop Til Death (Producers Corner #260)

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I wonder if my own government is being truthful about its actions in that part of the world?

I wonder if my own government is in the wrong on this issue?

I wonder if the news media are telling the truth right now?

I wonder if the news media tell the truth about things generally?

I wonder if the "Evil Dictators versus Virtuous Liberal Democracies" framework I've been taught by teachers, pundits and politicians is the most accurate lens through which to view world events?

Could I have been deceived about the way my government operates, at home and abroad? 

Is it possible that my beliefs about my society, my government and my world are completely wrong?

What if the teachers, preachers and parents who helped form my worldview were relying on inaccurate information?

Who has benefitted from the beliefs that are in my head? Is it possible that those beliefs were placed there, directly or indirectly, from people who have benefitted from my having them?

Are there any power-serving falsehoods that I believe because it is cognitively easier to believe them than to let in information that might hurt my ego or require me to restructure my entire worldview?

Reading by Tim Foley.

Thoughts That Should Probably Occur More Often

Forcefully opposing the warmongering and imperialism of your rulers is the very first step toward political morality. It's not the only step, but it is the first step, because if you haven't taken that step then no other ostensibly moral politics you might espouse are meaningful. 

Your anti-capitalism is meaningless if you're not aggressively opposing your government's mass military murders for power and profit. Your anti-racism is meaningless if you're not aggressively opposing your government's butchery and exploitation of brown-skinned people overseas. If you're not forcefully opposing your government's warmongering and imperialism, then the rest of your politics are irrelevant, because they are false. A sincerely antiwar right-winger with all the wrong positions on all other issues is still a much better person than you are.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Opposing War Is The First Step Toward Moral Politics

You don't live in a free country. And no, it's not because they make you pay taxes or that time they made you wear a mask or whatever. The real reason you don't live in a free country is much, much bigger than that: you don't live in a free country because the minds of your countrymen are imprisoned.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Empire Is Built On Our Closed Eyes

The US military has been showering CNN's retiring Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr with effusive thanks and praise for her lifetime of service, giving some insight into the cozy working relationship between the media and the war machine inside the US empire.

Reading by Tim Foley.

US Military Thanks And Praises Retiring CNN "Journalist" For Her Service

The war in Ukraine is so aggressively marketed and PR-intensive and so interwoven with US corporations we should just call it the McProxy War.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The McProxy War Continues

Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.

Opposing War Is The First Step Toward Moral Politics

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