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The current demand that US nationals, and visitors, quarantine for two weeks when entering the country, and the decision of the government to cooperate with international quarantine regimes around the world is an immoral and illegal effort to impede our freedom as citizens. Equally illegal and dangerous is the restriction on the use of the … Read more

New Technology Must Be Constitutional ________________________________________ Policy on new technology, automation, digitalization, the Internet and the use of the private information, photographs and videos obtained from internet transmissions, CCTV cameras, and other monitoring devices. The United States has been swept by a mania for technology which is not natural but rather promoted by the commercial … Read more

“Movementism,” “Complainism,” and “Magicianism” Emanuel Pastreich The rate of the economic, institutional and cultural collapse in the United States increases, so that today almost everyone can sense something is fundamentally wrong in our country and that the newspapers and TV stations are incapable of doing anything besides presenting us fairy tales. We seem powerless to … Read more

“A Democratic Economy” Emanuel Pastreich The COVID-19 crisis is not the result of a single virus. No single virus could create such deep uncertainty and fear in our country; no disease could unleash such horrific ambivalence and unspeakable loathing. No, we face the collapse of an economic system that has been so puffed up with air, … Read more

“When Technology buried Science in a Shallow Grave” Emanuel Pastreich Even young children can sense that we live in an age in which literally none of the information available is reliable or believable. Information on a global scale is subject to Gresham’s Law: low-quality information spreads everywhere and the truth is hoarded by the few. … Read more

The Big Lie Strategy in America of the Super-Rich Emanuel Pastreich May 5, 2021 The massive concentration of wealth over the last few years has made it possible for a tiny handful of individuals to control the means of extraction, production, and distribution, the sales of food and products, and the value of money. They are … Read more

Universal Basic Income: Economic liberation or the first step towards slavery?” Emanuel Pastreich During the Democratic primaries, Andrew Yang brought up universal basic income (UBI) and made it central in his vision for the economy of the United States. The theme was echoed by Bernie Sanders who cited the income guarantee that is offered by … Read more

Who owns Facebook? Emanuel Pastreich There has been much chatter in the media about the unbridled power of social media tech giants and how they unfairly decide to censor certain voices, or, on the other hand, they fail to delete or block those spreading information that is judged to be false or misleading. Such debates … Read more

The War of Corporate Wealth against Humanity Emanuel Pastreich April 20, 2021 We find ourselves in the midst of a global war on a scale even greater than that of the Second World War. But the nature of war has changed, and as a result many cannot conceive of what is happening. They think that … Read more

“The Impeachment Trial: In Defense of Donald Trump” Emanuel Pastreich Independent Candidate for President January 7, 2021 (Global Research) The lawyers employed by Donald Trump have amassed an impressive pile of arguments to defend him against charges that he incited a mob of his supporters to stage an armed insurrection in an effort to stop … Read more

Emanuel Pastreich made the following comment on the occasion of the launch of the improved website for his campaign for President of the United States, emanuelprez.com. “The presidential election last year illegally blocked me, and other candidates, from participation not only through the control of the media and of the corrupt political organizations known as … Read more

I shall fear no evil Declaration of Candidacy for President” February 23, 2020 “Seventeen Planks of 2020 Campaign Platform” February 23, 2020 “Why run as an independent candidate for President?” May 20, 2020 “A Democratic Economy” April 27, 2020 “’Movementism,’ ‘Complainism,’ and ‘Magicianism’” May 16, 2020 “What is Security?” May 26, 2020 “The Aikido of … Read more

August 12, 2023 Emanuel Pastreich We have to struggle with the old enemies of peace: business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, race antagonism whipped by hidden operatives, the exploitation of tensions between cities and rural communities, and of course, the old favorite, war profiteering. Now we have IT monsters inside of Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft … Read more

The war of corporations on our children The older generation takes a strange pleasure in reiterating comments about the absence of responsibility, the lack of focus and the indulgence of young people, using these arguments as a means of excusing the bleak future that their children and grandchildren face. Those arguments are rarely original, but … Read more

 Responding to the COVID19 attack on the integrity of knowledge  The Case for a “Constitution of Information” Emanuel Pastreich The promotion by the most famous newpapers, universities and public intellectuals of false and misleading information concerning a COVID19 “pandemic” which does not make sense when subject to even the simplest investigations is not the result … Read more