The release last week of an intensively researched report on the Bush administration’s campaign of deception leading up the Iraq War made a good-sized stir in the blogosphere, if not in corporate media circles. Although the study generally refers to the 935 documented de facto lies as “misleading statements” or “false statements,” the subtitle of […]

Over-saturation. Awash and armpit-deep in the slag that runs downstream from American consumer culture like toxins from a copper mine, floating on the surreal slime of propaganda that drools from the corporate news everyday, I find solace in headphones. Listening to the simple American truth and substance of Aaron Copland, I quell the dizziness.

CNN is selling the DUI trial of some hotel heiress as more important than what concerns the land and its people, the same day that Glenn Beck (CNN doesn’t define his show as ‘editorial’ on the promo) goes on the air defending political conservatism—and Mormonism. God bless America, indeed.