A major Republican party politician recently stated that they had to stop being “the stupid party,” and begin operating more in reality. But party politics is intended to obfuscate reality, to co-opt and largely, to distract and entertain through a theatre of the absurd. What is the effect and function of party politics? How does this divide and distract people, and what are the repercussions of participating in party politics?

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Recently, a major British psychological association has issued a statement challenging the biomedical basis of what we call “mental illness.” What does this mean? What is mental illness and how is it classified? How can or should we understand mental distress? These are important questions that come at an important time, for if we do not ask them now, we may end up in the Brave New World of what Aldous Huxley predicted would be a highly drugged up society, making people complacent to power structures instead of challenging them. This episode seeks to challenge some of the fundamental assumptions of modern psychiatry.

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A corporate world order is emerging, and like any parasite, it is slowly killing off its host. Unfortunately, the “host� happens to be the planet, and all life upon and within it. So, while the extinction of the species will be the end result of passively accepting a corporate-driven world, on the other hand, it’s very profitable for those corporations and their shareholders.

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is the latest corporate-driven agenda in what is commonly called a “free trade agreement,â€� but which really amounts to  ‘cosmopolitical corporate consolidation’: large corporations dictating and directing the policies of states – both nationally and internationally – into constructing structures which facilitate regional and global consolidation of financial, economic, and political power into the hands of relatively few large corporations. Read more È

Since the Boston bombings, society was promised more “security”… do you feel more secure? Since austerity and ‘structural reforms,’ people were promised economic growth and prosperity. Do you feel that you are in an economic ‘recovery’? Political language holds important meaning and purpose, in that it allows elite groups to communicate with each other openly and publicly, while appearing to be little more than abstract, seemingly meaningless terminology and undefined concepts to most people. There are ways to understand – and translate – political language, and there are solutions to its deception. Learn the language of deception, so that we can re-imagine the language of honesty.

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In the past 500 years, the western world has come to rise to prominence over the rest. This process was the result of expansionist imperialism, militarism and warfare; but also of the development and projection of new economic and social models, largely those based around state-capitalism, and the rhetoric of free trade liberal economics. The Great Divergence thus, was the separation which was enforced between the West and the ‘rest.’

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Corporate executives might be insane. At least, that’s what you’d think after listening to an interview with the chairman of Nestlé, the world’s largest foodstuff corporation. By looking at Peter Brabeck of Nestlé, examining his views and thinking, one could not be blamed for assuming him to be a sociopath. But it is the institutional logic and requirements of a corporation that shape the minds of those who rise through them and run them. The ideologies and functions of a corporation are embedded in its legal structure, which in turn shapes the minds of those within, who try to shape the world without. This episode examines the ‘institutional insanity’ of multinational corporations.

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Have you heard of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership? It’s been discussed for a few years by top-level politicians, corporate associations and think tanks, and was formally announced by President Obama in February of this year. Still haven’t heard of it? What many are calling an “economic NATO” is the Atlantic counterpart to the infamously secretive corporate-driven Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a so-called “free trade agreement” between the EU and the US, driven by and for multinational corporations, promoting trans-Atlantic integration to make the ‘Atlantic Community’ the unrivaled economic, military and global superpower; to keep the West above the rest, even as the East rises.

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Cyprus is in the midst of a troublesome bailout deal, buying large amounts of bad bank debts and handing the bill to the population to pay for with reduced standards of living and increased exploitation. This is the nature of the ‘debt crisis’ in Cyprus, across Europe, and indeed, much of the world. A “global supra-government” has emerged in what we call “financial markets,” which dictate the policies of governments to impoverish their populations and plunder the wealth and resources of their nations. Nations and countries are dismantled and futures destroyed all for the benefit of a global cartel of banks and corporations, what Swiss scientists identified as a “super-entity” of global control.

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In 2011, the Obama administration announced a ‘pivot’ to Asia in its geopolitical strategy for imperial domination of the world. This includes an increased US military and naval presence in the region, with troops in Australia, new bases in Southeast Asia, record arms sales to regional “allies”, and economic integration through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the APEC forum and ASEAN. In what has been called an “integrate, but hedge” strategy toward China, the US is actively seeking to provide incentives for China to join in the US-constructed world order, while backing up its incentives with threats and intimidation. The Asian ‘pivot’ is not simply about “containing” China, but about containing the rising giant in order to provide a reason for China to more fully integrate with the Western-dominated global order. This episode provides a glimpse at the Asian ‘pivot’ and a couple of the key strategic thinkers behind it.

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The United States sold a record-breaking $66 billion in arms over 2011, set to break its record again over 2012, controlling roughly 75% of the global trade in arms. Increased arms sales, not only by the U.S., but by all Western states, is part of a strategic focus on building up regional “allies” (i.e., proxy states) to be able to fight our wars for us, and do the dirty work. Thus, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Japan, India, South Korea, and Taiwan are among the major recipients of US and Western arms sales around the world, with military contractors praising increased profits from the two major “growth regions” for arms sales in the world: the Middle East and Pacific East Asia. Welcome to the world of arms dealers and “democracy”-promoters.

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