Balancing Safety and Reason

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Historian Mike Swanson and Author C.A.A. Savastano discuss the ongoing conflicts between public safety and civil rights as fifty state governments take a varying approach to reopening. As pandemic statistics decline or stabilize in many areas reasonable questions emerge about the future. Among the topics are the corporate wealth extraction authored by all members of the US Congress, capitalism vs corporatism, policies that appear designed to surveil the public in the name of safety, and why America presently needs Trustbusters and economic New Dealers.

Human Time Bomb: The Violence Within Our Nature

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Human Time Bomb: The Violence Within Our Nature

“Human Time Bomb: The Violence Within Our Nature” reviews the past and modern effects of violence within humanity's nature and environment. It dissects our common aggression, propensity for nepotism, and inherent self-interest that guide our decision-making and inspects a combination of factors will overcome some people in a natural desire to judge others and enrich themselves. A marked loss of useful competition in favor of more destructive social conflict that some technology assists has further created a growing detachment among several people. The book seeks to identify some of the connections between all these growing problems and offer some ideas how to counteract them.

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Killing the Wrong Revolutionary

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Killing the Wrong Revolutionary

During the Cold War the United States government spent tens perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars seeking the death of their greatest perceived communist nemesis in the Western hemisphere, Fidel Castro. He was everything business interests and corporations feared, a formerly rich person who embraced violent populism, nationalization of industry, and overturning the established order of Cuban society for communal doctrine. Years passed and the foretold implosion of the Castro regime failed to materialize due in part to widespread internal popularity and the brutal repression of dissident voices. This left a stark enemy camped just less than one hundred miles from the United States and Cuba began to dominate the imagination of several anti-Communist leaders. Yet what if Fidel Castro was not the true communist influence but instead just the dominant ego of the regime, what if all those failed plots were not just a costly series of failures but failed targeting the right Castro…

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