July 24th, 2018 By Mona Younis Guest writer for Wake Up World We’re the wealthiest country on earth, but over 40 percent of us live in or near poverty. Are we Americans unworthy...
Category - Government
From Anarchism to Neoconservatism: Unraveling Political Theory
June 9th, 2018 By Tim Bryant Guest writer for Wake Up World To understand the world of politics and change it for the better, it’s paramount that people begin to study political...
Five Years After Snowden, Michigan Set to Be First State to Impede NSA’s Warrantless Surveillance
May 28th, 2018 By Whitney Webb Guest writer for Wake Up World In less than a month, a Michigan state law will take effect and ban any state or local government from aiding the government...
Defenders of Open Internet Deliver ‘Historic Win’ as Senate Votes to Restore Net Neutrality
May 18th, 2018 By Jake Johnson Via Common Dreams “Politicians see the light when they feel the heat! This victory was the result of the energy activists across the country brought...
Engineering Consent: Understanding the Mechanisms of Warfare Propaganda
May 13th, 2018 By Anthony Tyler Guest writer for Wake Up World Sardonic political commentator George Orwell — through disturbed, poetic metaphor — forever changed the...
Rand Paul Warns AUMF Gives the President Unlimited War Powers
May 10th, 2018 By Jay Syrmopoulos via Truth in Media Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) publicly rebuked the recently-proposed Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), warning about the bill’s...
2018: When Orwell’s 1984 Stopped Being Fiction
May 10th, 2018 By Jonathan Cook Guest writer for Wake Up World This is the moment when a newspaper claiming to uphold that most essential function in a liberal democracy – acting as a watchdog...
U.S. Senators New Plan to Expand Indefinite Detention Laws and Make Global War Endless
May 8th, 2018 By Christopher Anders Guest writer for Wake Up World Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse with the U.S. Congress, a bipartisan pair of senators have teamed up to...
Re-Learning History: The Big vs. Small Government Debate
May 7th, 2018 By Tim Bryant Guest writer for Wake Up World History is an extremely important subject. Without understanding the past, one cannot fully understand the present or identify...
The Unconstitutional Attack on Syria
May 1st, 2018 By Judge Andrew Napolitano Via Truth In Media War and the Separation of Powers A popular way to begin the first day of class in constitutional law in many American law schools is...
The Wars No One Notices: Talking to a Demobilized Country
By Stephanie Savell The Hidden Costs of America’s Wars I’m in my mid-thirties, which means that, after the 9/11 attacks, when this country went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq in...
US-Led Western Strategy to Divide and Destroy Syria Revealed in Leaked British Cable
April 18th, 2018 By Makia Freeman Contributing writer for Wake Up World A US-led Western scheme to divide and destroy Syria has been exposed via a leaked British diplomatic cable, which...