Media
What We Missed in The Hunger Games
By Ellen Finnigan December 11, 2013 One of the first critics to miss the point was Laura Miller. Writing in The New Yorker in 2010, she claimed that “dystopian fiction exists to warn us about […]
Articles by TFD
Freedom
Police Overkill Has Become The Default American Policy
The term “police state” used to be brushed off as paranoid hyperbole. Not anymore By Chase Madar If all you’ve got is a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail. And if police […]
Freedom
The FBI’s Next Generation Identification Program: Big Brother’s ID System?
By Epic.org The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is developing a biometric identification database program called “Next Generation Identification” (NGI). When completed, the NGI system will be the largest biometric database in the world. The […]
Financial
The Mother Of All Bubbles?
By Michael Lombardi As I often harp on about in these pages; economic growth occurs when the general standard of living in a country gets better. You can’t say an economy is improving when a […]
Commentary
The Rise Of Private Armies As The SHTF
By Zine Larbaoui (TLB Exec. Dir. Of Media) “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” – The Buddha. The privatization of armies and forces of repression and coercion is […]
Commentary
Bread, Circuses & Reality TV
By: The Burning Platform “What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to […]
Freedom
Mandela and Israel
by Thierry Meyssan Westerners are mourning the death of Nelson Mandela with more sadness than that manifested by Africans. This mourning is a way to settle colonial ideology and crimes that were committed in its […]
Financial
Corporatism Run Amok: Is America Terminal?
By: Roger Landry (TLB) Lets start this all off with the understanding the Corporatism is NOT Capitalism, but in fact the antithesis of! Anyone who cannot see we live in a world dominated by a […]
Health
Canada Approves Genetically-Modified Salmon
By Michelle Schoffro Cook While Canadians were preoccupied with Senate scandals and Rob Ford’s latest debacle, Environment Canada quietly approved genetically-modified (GM) salmon eggs and salmon for farming off the country’s coast. Critics worry […]
Commentary
The Abdication of Iran
While the media applaud the agreement reached between the P5+1 and Iran, Thierry Meyssan, a personal friend of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sees in it an abdication by the new Iranian government. As far as he is […]