Showing posts with label violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label violence. Show all posts
Saturday, November 24, 2018
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Saturday, October 14, 2017
"vast wasteland"
On May 9th, 1961,
the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission,
Newton Minow, shocked Americans
by declaring commercial television programming to be a
"vast wasteland."
Labels:
consumerism,
media,
propaganda,
television,
trash,
truth,
violence,
waste
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Saturday, June 4, 2016
Sunday, May 22, 2016
Thursday, April 7, 2016
You do not talk about Fight Club !
Labels:
art,
cult film,
deviant,
film,
movies,
perspective,
revolution,
sex,
violence
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Monday, November 30, 2015
victims of patriotism
Labels:
antiwar,
arms trade,
death,
profit,
propaganda,
victims,
violence,
war
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Sunday, June 7, 2015
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Sunday, May 24, 2015
just look at us
"Just look at us.
Everything is backwards,
everything is upside down.
Doctors destroy health,
lawyers destroy justice,
psychiatrists destroy minds,
scientists destroy truth,
major media destroys information,
religions destroy spirituality
and governments destroy freedom."
Michael Ellner
Labels:
corporations,
corruption,
deception,
earth,
greed,
human condition,
ignorance,
insanity,
stupidity,
violence,
war,
waste
Monday, May 4, 2015
45 Years ago today: Kent State massacre
The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre) occurred at Kent State University in the US city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.
Some of the students who were shot had been protesting the Cambodian Campaign, which President Richard Nixon announced during a television address on April 30. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.
There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of four million students, and the event further affected public opinion—at an already socially contentious time—over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War. (read more)
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