One thing we should have learned over the past year or so is you can take any narrative being pushed by the corporate media and Democrats, and assume that the exact opposite is true. The current Trump-Russia hysteria could very well turn out to be the latest and most embarrassing example of this phenomenon. In fact, … Read more
Michael Morell first came to my attention in a meaningful way last summer when he wrote an editorial in The New York Times calling Donald Trump “an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.” The article was widely seen as an audition for CIA director under the seemingly inevitable Clinton administration. I covered the episode in the post, New … Read more
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. – Sun Tzu, The Art of War The ongoing battle between independent, alternative media and legacy corporate-government sponsored propaganda media is in full swing following Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 election. While I’m no … Read more
I know this is a couple of days old, but bear with me. CNN reports: President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Elaine Chao, the former labor secretary and wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to be his choice for transportation secretary, an official briefed on the matter told CNN on Tuesday. Chao served as secretary … Read more
Op-eds/Must Reads Five Reasons You Should Blame The Economics Discipline For Today’s Problems (Excellent read, Forbes) Clinton’s Charity Confirms Qatar’s $1 Million Gift While She Was at State Dept (Very, very disturbing, Reuters) Don’t Be So Sure Russia Hacked the Clinton Emails (Dangerous game being played, Reuters) How PE Firms Are Flipping Drugs in Price-Gouging Scheme that … Read more
On Monday, The Daily Beast published a hugely important story about AT&T’s in house, for profit surveillance operation called Project Hemisphere. The program has nothing to do with information sharing legally required under a warrant, but rather consists of a business line through which the telecom giant stores customer data longer than peers in order to … Read more
Opinon/Must Reads The Cashless Society Is a Creepy Fantasy (Bloomberg) Sorry Not Sorry: Politico’s Thrush Doubles Down on Podesta Emails (U.S. media is a total disgrace, The Hill) Dangerous Idiots: How the Liberal Media Elite Failed Working-Class Americans (The Guardian) The Slide Toward War With Russia (The Nation) Geopolitics/Foreign Affairs Nationalists and Populists Poised to … Read more
The geopolitical situation across the world continues to deteriorate to a very worrisome degree. The New York Times reported the following earlier today: WASHINGTON — An American warship stationed off the coast of Yemen fired cruise missiles on Thursday at radar installations that the Pentagon said had been used by Yemeni insurgents to target another American warship … Read more
The 2016 election season has been revealing in all sorts of meaningful ways. We’ve seen countless mainstream Republicans, particularly neocons, come out and passionately endorse Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. More interesting than the fact they did this, was that they actually thought this would damage Trump. In contrast, it has helped him more than they could have … Read more
Unless something dramatic happens (certainly possible in this election), I believe Donald Trump will win the 2016 election quite easily, and I believe this victory will be driven by the resentment vote. Forget card-carrying Democrats and Republicans, they will vote along party lines. The key to this election is, and always has been, independent voters. … Read more