The Post-Partisan Emporium

  RFK's Soma Revolution Is Coming Matthew Ehret In Aldous Huxley’s 1933 dystopic novel  Brave New World , human society is portrayed several centuries into the future, schismed into two parallel worlds. On the one hand, Huxley portrays a ‘civilised’ society which he described in stark utopian terms of a hierarchical caste system of Alphas, Betas, Gammas, and Epsilons. Within this world, each category of human is genetically engineered to be perfectly happy and complacent with the tasks expected of them. Alphas, the top tier of the managerial caste, are themselves subdivided between Alphas and Alpha Pluses, with the latter permitted to interface with ‘The World Controllers’, of which, we are told, are ten in number. While test tube (see: CRISPR) babies have long been the only legal way of making humans, free love is rampant and is even taught to young children in primary school. In fact, in Huxley’s fantasy, if one is not practicing promiscuous sex and frequent orgies, it is a ...

  Patriotic Purge: The Real Cost of War Fighting for corruption and profits   Donald Jeffries The great Gen. Smedley Butler wrote his classic  War is a Racket  in response to the pointless carnage of WWI. Some 15-22 million largely adolescent boys died for absolutely nothing. That fact that they can’t provide a more accurate estimate than that tells you clearly about the incomprehensible numbers involved. In 1846, President Polk decided to wage war on Mexico. Was the land grab that followed, including what became California, worth the lives of the nearly 14,000 Americans who were killed? Or the 25,000 Mexicans, including an unknown number of civilians? Mexico in fact lost 55% of its territory to the U.S. from 1836-1848. No wonder the La Raza folks hate gringos. In April 1847, the Massachusetts legislature passed a resolution denouncing the war as “a gigantic crime” waged against a “weak neighbor” for the purposes of conquest, territorial aggrandizement, and the ...