Book Preface and Blog Introduction: Culture War Is Class War Disguised.
Class War is disguised as Culture War. The 1%—especially the wealthiest of them, who have been termed the Filthy Rich—foment Culture War among the 99% to distract and cover their real economic motives.
Culture War, Class War —this book and accompanying blog, available for free on this site—explores the resulting cultural divide and how it was instigated and kept alive for fifty years in America by certain elite powers and how and why they choose to benefit while tearing families in two and keeping America paralyzed.
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Since this blog was in print, the book, Culture War,Class War was brought into print and e-book format and is available on Amazon…..
Culture War, Class War: Occupy Generations and the Rise and Fall of “Obvious Truths”
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Of course, class war has been going on since the beginning of civilization; it is inevitable with hierarchical societies.
But some eras are more harmonious than others. One might think that enlightened principles of democracy, freedom, and human rights—normally associated with Western societies in recent centuries—had made modern times one of them. One would be wrong.
While the rise of unions in the early decades of the Twentieth Century and the post-Depression initiation and expanse of programs to benefit the common good might have made the America of the Forties, Fifties, and to some extent, Sixties, one of them, that trend in America and that era of relative class peace has been totally reversed. Hostilities have resumed since the Sixties—especially beginning in 1970—until currently there is all-out class war that is becoming increasingly bloody and one way or another is taking a toll in lives of the American people.
This book, Culture War, Class War is about how that reversal happened and what has transpired in the last Fifty years to bring us to this crisis. In particular it focuses on the story not told about that; the story the 1% has made sure you would not hear.
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Since this blog was in print, the book, Culture War,Class War was brought into print and e-book format and is available on Amazon…..
Culture War, Class War: Occupy Generations and the Rise and Fall of “Obvious Truths”
For any books by Michael Adzema …. 7 in print at the moment and soon-to-be 8 …go to http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Adzema/e/B00J7F0URC/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
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This book, with its accompanying blog, looks into why America’s “privileged class”—its “royalty,” “blue bloods”—started a “culture war” against the middle class, working class, the poor…and the educated, artists, and humanists in the early 1970s. We discover how their fear of Sixties activism panicked them into an all-out assault against elements that threatened their wealth and privilege in all institutions of American society—media, education, medicine, government, politics, publication, religion, especially higher education, and so on—and restructured them for their ends.
We see how this culture war class war continues today: blatantly so in the Tea Party movement, the Republican Party, the Wall Street giveaways at the expense of jobs, tax cuts for the “filthy rich” and corporations, budget battles and cuts in government services and entitlement programs, rampant anti-environmentalism, and anti-minority, anti-immigrant laws and attacks.
For example, we see rabid culture war/class war in the abortion debate; attacks on unions in Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, and many other states; ever shrinking civil and human rights, including the suspension of habeas corpus signed by George W. Bush; runaway imprisonment of minorities and free-thinkers through egregious anti-drug and anti-sex/anti-gender laws; indefinite imprisonment without trial and torture of political prisoners; and much, much more.
We saw it in 2010 with politicians like Congressman Barton who kowtow to corporations shamelessly defending British Petroleum from having to pay for its atrocious oil spill. Culture war, class war was visible to all in the candidacy — Republican of course—for the Arizona Senator’s race running on a platform of doing away with Social Security and Medicare.
We have seen it since 2010 in the all-out attack on the poor and middle class by the wealthy 1%, who succeeded in getting an additional half trillion in tax cuts at the end of 2010 from Obama and have been using that money to take away free speech and democracy by clubbing their critics mute in the public arena of discourse
and orchestrating the legislative and electoral processes. And we see the fight back from the grass roots in the form of the Wisconsin union uprising and the worldwide Occupy movement. There has been an Arab Spring and an American Autumn to get or restore those basic human rights and move toward economic justice in societies around the globe.
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Since this blog was in print, the book, Culture War,Class War was brought into print and e-book format and is available on Amazon…..
Culture War, Class War: Occupy Generations and the Rise and Fall of “Obvious Truths”
For any books by Michael Adzema …. 7 in print at the moment and soon-to-be 8 …go to http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Adzema/e/B00J7F0URC/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
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At this very moment, one of the biggest battles to date in that class war is waging in the U.S. presidential election. The 1%, having gained an unfair advantage to use their vast wealth unrestrainedly to further their ends electorally, have managed to pollute the electoral process so much that one of its most visible members—Mitt Romney—has managed to be one election away from being the most powerful person in the world.
Amazingly, almost one half the American people do not see how that would be a Waterloo for the forces of the 99% and is ok with that happening. To make things worse, this comes on the heels of the one percent’s ongoing effort to dial back the ninety-nine percent’s ability to have a say in their governing with fantastical redistricting outlines and by limiting and harassing voter participation throughout the U.S. with draconian registration requirements and purging of voter rolls.
This one-time “cold war” between the 1% and the 99% has heated up fast. Let us start by looking at its beginnings.
Continue with Culture War, Class War, Chapter One:
Smoke, Lies, and Revelations – 1950s Through 1970s
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Since this blog was in print, the book, Culture War,Class War was brought into print and e-book format and is available on Amazon…..
Culture War, Class War: Occupy Generations and the Rise and Fall of “Obvious Truths”
For any books by Michael Adzema …. 7 in print at the moment and soon-to-be 8 …go to http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Adzema/e/B00J7F0URC/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
#1 by anonymous on November 4, 2013 - 3:54 pm
A new book on 9/11 is out.
Dimitri Khalezov has spent 10 years researching and writing this book which is now available. Download links:
Or read at:
In a 2010 interview, Khalezov explained that you can’t build a skyscraper in NYC without an approved demolition plan. On 9/11, the World Trade Center’s demolition plan was put into action to demolish the complex.
Khalezov learned of this demolition plan from his job in the Soviet Union. He had worked in the nuclear intelligence unit and under an agreement between the Soviet Union and the USA, each country was obliged to inform the other of peaceful uses of nuclear explosions. The WTC was built with 3 thermo-nuclear charges in its foundations.
Note: underground nuclear explosions do not produce mushroom clouds. This is only ever seen when the explosion takes place above ground. On 9/11, the explosions were deep underground.
More info:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_911_154.htm
You can watch the 2010 interview at:
http://www.disclose.tv/forum/dimitri-khalezov-wtc-nuclear-demolition-full-playlist-t21675.html
Video # 4 – WTC’s demolition plan
Video # 14 – WTC 7 (which fell ½ hour AFTER the BBC announced its collapse).
Videos # 24/25 – chronic radiation sickness of WTC responders (their cancers are not due to asbestos poisoning)
Khalezov was interviewed on 4 Sept 2013:
http://www.renseradioarchives.com/harris/
I know it is utterly preposterous to say that the WTC was brought down by nukes but go check the definition of ‘Ground Zero’ in the old dictionaries you have at home. You’ll find that there would only be one definition and that would be something like:
‘the point directly above, below, or at which a nuclear explosion occurs’.
After 9/11, the US government sent people round to every bookshop and public library on the planet to replace ALL the dictionaries with amended versions which have an expanded meaning of ‘Ground Zero’. The new versions (even of old editions) have 2 extra meanings which are:
2: the center or origin of rapid, intense, or violent activity or change
3: the very beginning : SQUARE ONE
Have a look at this video:
At 6:05 mins, he shows the old and new definitions of ‘Ground Zero’.
#2 by thetruthaboutmentalhealth on January 21, 2020 - 11:12 pm
Hey this book sounds really interesting.. noticed you were a follower of my blog but don’t think I’d checked out your blog before. Looking forward to reading more.