Articles by Edward J. Curtin, Jr.
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The Ardent Pipe Dreams of U.S. Voters
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
4 Aug 2024 – No matter how obvious it is that the U.S. is an oligarchy, not a democracy, the ardent pipe dreams of a new face in the White House go to their heads every four years. It can only be explained by a combination of intellectual ignorance, the acceptance of propaganda, and the embrace of illusions.
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Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
19 Apr 2024 – A contronym is a word having two definitions that contradict each other. Two examples are the word bolt, which can mean to lock with a bolt and to flee, and clip, which means to attach and to detach.
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If The Wars Go On
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
30 May 2024 – It’s a long hard road, this anti-war business. During the first Cold War and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in the early sixties when Kennedy and Khrushchev narrowly avoided blowing the world to smithereens, Bob Dylan put it right.
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The JFK Assassination Chokeholds That Inescapably Prove There Was a Conspiracy
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
Here is an excellent book that, if they would read it with open minds, would, as its subtitle says – inescapably prove that there was a conspiracy – and if Jack Ruby had not killed Oswald and he had been given a fair trial, Oswald would have been acquitted.
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The Hidden Messages of the Power Elite’s Cultural Apparatus
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
2 May 2024 – To be crucified is to suffer and die slowly and agonizingly. It is generally associated with Rome’s killing of Jesus and carries profound symbolic spiritual meaning for Christians. It also refers to many types of suffering and death inflicted on the weak by the strong, such as the ongoing genocidal slaughter of Palestinians by the Israel government.
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