Ideology

A former covert CIA intelligence officer, explains that people are motivated by ideology, ego, reward and coercion. He reveals how you can avoid media manipulation by learning about advertising that uses emotion to craft messages followed by a logical narrative.

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) China, the world’s leading nation in human resources, and Russia, the world’s leading nation in natural resources, border one-another, have no border-disputes, have the same ideology (win-win, which contrasts starkly against The West’s, which is win-lose or even — in America’s particular case — possibly lose-lose, which latter is the […]

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Back in the 1970s, the only big difference between liberals and progressives was that, whereas liberals, such as Hubert Humphrey, supported the military-industrial complex, progressives, such as George McGovern, opposed it. But, now, that difference has become expanded into a vast chasm, in which, whereas liberals support intensification of the […]

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On August 7th, Gallup in the United States published the results of their many polls of Americans on a wide range of publicly debated issues, and they found 20 issues that produced more than a 5% difference between the adherents to America’s liberal Democratic Party versus the adherents to America’s […]

RT did a rather interesting bit of reporting on Saturday 12 August, when its website ran an interview with a Russian conscripted soldier who was called to serve in the mobilization that took place in the fall of 2022. I am presenting the entire text of the interview for the reader to think about. There are […]

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The model for Western countries is the United States, where billionaires have even more freedom than they do in the UK, which has been copying the U.S. ever since in 1979 in UK (Margaret Thatcher) and 1981 in U.S. (Ronald Reagan). Both countries at that time elected fascists (supporters of […]

There has in recent months many discussions centering around the proper characterization of China from an ideological point of view. The Chinese leadership has its own reasons for doing this, seeking to present what it deems a glorious self-image. In contrast, the West, especially the United States has wanted to offer an ideological explanation of […]

The sooner the nations of the world awake to the threat posed by fascists abusing electoral systems to gain dictatorial power, the possibility of a repeat of the fascist rise to power during the 1920s and 1930s can be snuffed out.

The so-called “longer telegram” is a recipe for costly failure, and it should be dismissed as such. There is a better U.S. strategy for East Asia available, and it looks nothing like this.

Governments that rely on support from a minority of their nation’s population are doomed to fail.