Mystic Politics

Food as a Weapon: Colonial Impact on AgroEconomy

In Why Can’t People Feed Themselves?, Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins reveal that the majority of cultures have been disrupted and regressed by imperialistic colonialism, resulting in retarded agroeconomy and a scarcity of foodstuffs.

Handfuls of cultures have created abundance and material wealth through exploitation of agriculture, but it was often at the expense of colonies whose resources were vampirized by giant, imperial, blue-blooded squids. It isn’t the attitude or the culture’s mentality that is preventing them from agrarian stability- it was the purposeful exploitation of the indigenous peoples under the yoke of colonial overlords.

How else have the Market and Industrial Revolutions impacted the now-third world?

Noam Chomsky: America and Israel Greatest Threats to Peace http://mys.tc/2g4

Mormon vs Moonie: Religious Cults and American Politics

Sun Myung Moon’s death and Romney’s nomination as the first non-Christian US presidential candidate have focused attention on religious cults in American Politics.

Was there ever a time when Cults didn’t sway American Politics?

Noam Chomsky: America and Israel Greatest Threats to Peace

Imagine if Iran — or any other country — did a fraction of what American and Israel do at will.

If America and Israel are the greatest risks- what is the greatest prospective for peace?

Sex, lies and Wikileaks: The Media vs Julian Assange

As once friendly news outlets report the Julian Assange story more critically, we ask if the media has lost the plot.

What instigated the change in how once friendly media outlets portray WikiLeaks and Julian Assange’s extradition drama?

Atheism and Americans: Religiosity on Decline in the United States http://mys.tc/2er

Atheism and Americans: Religiosity on Decline in the United States

Religiosity is on the decline in the U.S. and atheism is on the rise, according to a new worldwide poll.

Is it that there are more Atheists now- or more people who admit to Atheism?

American Economy and the Pentagon Pathology

The enduring problem is that the U.S. has retained its overweening ambitions and learned nothing from its failures over the past decades.

So we are bankrupt because of war but if we don’t have wars we will go bankrupt?

New Bill Could Finally Legalize Hemp in the US

The legislation would get around the DEA’s refusal to differentiate hemp from marijuana and allow American farmers to grow it.

How many ways would legalized hemp improve the american situation?

Liberal Neocons Align With Extremists on the Israeli Right

The rightward lurch can be explained by the Democrats’ reliance on pro-Israel money and the lack of political gain garnered from a fair position.

What do you think the ‘final solution’ for Palestine will be?