179 results for author: Dave Svetlik

RETURN OF THE ROBBER BARONS

“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” - Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis Born in 1856, Brandeis lived through the “Gilded Age” and the “Roaring 20’s.” He saw the unethical practices, the exploitation of working people, and the corruption of politicians brought on by the fabulously wealthy, the “Robber Barons” of that age. Brandeis saw how democracy was destroyed by gross inequality, he saw how the rich were able to buy and sell “elected” officials, how they could ensure policies and legislation that favored them. Brandeis ...

COOPERATION 105

cooperation [ koh-op-uh-rey-shuhn ] an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit. mutually beneficial interaction among organisms [nations] living in a limited area [planet Earth]   Please, take a minute to watch Paul McCartney performing “Hey Jude” in Red Square, Moscow, Russia, in May of 2003. It could as easily be New York, Paris, or Rio de Janeiro - - - people of the world, with the same hopes and aspirations shared by humans everywhere.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-TnBx-Kng https://youtu.be/CD-TnBx-Kng?si=4dBQfVuuLZcwnWXw   Spend a moment watching young people ...

COOPERATION 104

COOPERATION 104   cooperation [ koh-op-uh-rey-shuhn ] an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit mutually beneficial interaction among organisms [nations] living in a limited area [planet Earth]   History is critical to our understanding of the present. At this moment in the evolution of human societies around the globe, visualizing the Ancient Silk Road(s) running from China and Mongolia in the East, to the Roman Empire in the West, could not be of greater significance. Please, take a few minutes to watch the following TED video on the Silk Road. It points in so many cooperative ...

COOPERATION 103

cooperation [ koh-op-uh-rey-shuhn ] an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit mutually beneficial interaction among organisms [nations] living in a limited area [planet Earth]   https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/08/26/brics-poised-to-become-the-voice-of-the-global-majority/   Few Americans have heard of BRICS. Even though this international organization of nations will soon represent the Global Majority, western media ignores, or is oblivious to, what is becoming a monumental shift of human perspectives toward universal world cooperation. BRICS is the acronym for the ...

COOPERATION 102

  cooperation [ koh-op-uh-rey-shuhn ] an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit. mutually beneficial interaction among organisms [nations] living in a limited area [planet Earth]   The members of the military organization NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, held their Summit in Washington D.C. in July of this year, 2024.   The Members of NATO and percentage of global population: Albania – 2.8 million, Belgium – 11.7 million, Bulgaria – 6.6 million, Canada – 39.1 million, Croatia – 3.9 million, Czech Republic – 10.5 million, Denmark – 5.9 million, ...

COOPERATION 101

cooperation [ koh-op-uh-rey-shuhn ] an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit mutually beneficial interaction among organisms [nations] living in a limited area [planet Earth]   Boarding Spaceship Earth in 1895, Buckminster Fuller arrived with very poor vision. This wasn’t realized and corrected until he was in boyhood. As an adult Fuller saw this as a blessing because it had trained him to naturally envision the larger picture – the synergetic whole. This led to the publishing of Fuller’s book, Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth, in 1969. Thinking of our planet as the large but actual ...

VICTIMS OF PSYOPS

“PSYOP: Psychological operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. The purpose of United States psychological operations is to induce or reinforce behavior perceived to be favorable to U.S. objectives.” Thus, the American people are continuously subject to a number of psychological operations otherwise known as “the news.” - - Consortium News   Michael Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union in 1985 during the U.S. Presidency of Ronald Reagan. Both men ...

THE CRITICAL NEED TO UNDERSTAND

It is rarely mentioned in US history or media that Russia – the Soviet Union – lost an estimated 27 million people to the Nazis in World War II. This is over 50 times more deaths than America suffered with the loss of 420,000. Few were the Russian families that did not grieve. It is also rarely mentioned in US history or media that Russia was far more instrumental in defeating the Nazis than America. Quoting Irish journalist Finnian Cunningham: “Still, let’s not forget that the Soviet Union had been battling the Third Reich for three years before the British and American landings in Western Europe. Stalin had pleaded with Roosevelt and ...

IGNORE YOUR LYING EYES

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” “The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.” - - George Orwell   In 1961 the United States installed nuclear armed Jupiter missiles in Turkey near the Soviet Union’s border that were minutes from incinerating Moscow, St Petersburg, and other major Russian cities. The people of America were never told about this, but Russia certainly knew. Returning the favor, in 1962 Russia installed nuclear armed missiles in Cuba that were minutes from leveling Washington DC, New York, and other American cities. ...

No Choice?

I’ll be 77 in a few months. Supported Democratic candidates my entire voting life. Over half a century. An oft repeated phrase now stands out to me as I think about how politics have evolved in America over so many years: “The lesser of two evils.” Since the 1996 presidential election, after Bill Clinton had begun abandoning working Americans in favor of Wall Street during his first term in the White House, I feel have been voting for the lesser of two evils for the Oval Office. It has become painfully clear after almost 30 years of doing so, that voting for the lesser of evils is still voting for evil. It is likely this coming ...