MEDIA ROOTS — Pretext for ulterior motive is the standard operating procedure for US/NATO imperialism. Like the so-called War on Terror, the so-called War on Drugs is equally preposterous in its lack of credibility, serving only the function of justification for increasing police state control of our everyday lives, the enrichment of the ruling-class 1%, and totalitarianism. Media Roots contributor Christian … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Disregarding the 1970 National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, which recommended de-criminalizing marijuana usage, President Nixon opted to declare a War on Drugs. Every U.S. President since Nixon has repeated this approach. In order to understand our present condition, we must analyze this war’s key traits, including its history, the means by which it achieves its … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — October 3rd, 1970, Elvis Presley wrote the following letter to Richard Nixon:“First, I would like to introduce myself. I am Elvis Presley and admire you and have great respect for your office. I talked to Vice President Agnew in Palm Springs three weeks ago and expressed my concern for our country. The drug culture, the hippie elements, the … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — The function of the U.S. presidency, essentially, is to give a human face to the empire, to offer a humanizing appeal to barbarism abroad and domestically—at least under our rigged de facto two-party dictatorship. A point Obama doesn’t deny: “People have a sense the game is rigged…” Enter Obama, to assure them otherwise. So, when uncritical corporate … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — The written word still exists for those still interested in exploring our self-imposed boundaries of consciousness and reality and understanding of the universal collective oneness of humanity. How much humanity do we allow ourselves? Messina *** [PROSE/MIXTAPE] On the subject of false consciousness in his paper entitled “The State, Class and False Consciousness Within the American … Read More
