If you appreciate my work and want to contribute to independent media, consider becoming a monthly Patron, or visit the Support Page. Top Links Is Silicon Valley Building the Infrastructure for a Police State? (YouTube) People for Sale in Libya: Where Lives Are Auctioned for $400 (This is devastating, CNN) FCC Relaxes Media Ownership Rules in Contentious Vote (Just … Read more
It wasn’t until earlier this year that I became really concerned about Amazon. Sure, I had warned people previously of the dangers of an oligarch like Jeff Bezos owning a major national newspaper like The Washington Post, and I’d also highlighted Amazon’s creepy $600 million contract with the CIA, but I didn’t truly grasp the bigger … Read more
If you appreciate my work and want to contribute to independent media, consider becoming a monthly Patron, or visit our Support Page. Top Links UK Prosecutors Admit Destroying Key Emails in Julian Assange Case (The Guardian) Harvey Weinstein’s Army of Spies (Extremely disturbing, The New Yorker) ISIS Was State-Sponsored by U.S. Allies, Says Former Government Intelligence Analyst (Insurge Intelligence) Meet … Read more
I didn’t spend all week writing about the gigantic tremors occurring in the Middle East because I thought it was fun. If I’m even remotely correct in my analysis, the entire world will be affected and shaped for decades to come by what’s about to go down in the region. Rather than rehash what I … Read more
In theory, Americans should be proud of their national capital and all the important work that gets done there. In theory. In reality, our nation’s capital is an utter cesspool of self-serving, unethical and unaccountable parasites. We all know it and, even worse, it’s probably a hundred times more grotesque than we can imagine. A … Read more
If you appreciate my work and want to contribute to independent media, consider becoming a monthly Patron, or visit our Support Page. How Top NBC Executives Quashed The Bombshell Harvey Weinstein Story (Elites protect each other, Huffington Post) Russiagate Is More Fiction Than Fact (The Nation) In America, the Right to Boycott Israel Is Under Threat. (Very, very disturbing, … Read more
If you appreciate my work and want to contribute to independent media, consider becoming a monthly Patron, or visit our Support Page. How America’s Biggest Bank Paid Its Fine for the 2008 Mortgage Crisis—With Phony Mortgages! (Read and share, The Nation) Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Cases for Years (Blockbuster piece from The New York Times) Hollywood’s Loud Silence … Read more
If you appreciate my work and want to contribute to independent media, consider becoming a monthly Patron, or visit our Support Page. Top Links Bernie Sanders to Democrats: This is What a Radical Foreign Policy Looks Like (Appropriately harsh words for the Saudis, The Intercept) Electronic Frontier Foundation and ACLU Sue Over Warrantless Phone, Laptop Searches at US Border (This is crazy, … Read more
If you appreciate my work and want to contribute to independent media, consider becoming a monthly Patron, or visit our Support Page. Top Links The Power of Making Friends with Ideological Enemies (We could all learn a lot from Daryl Davis, FEE) Israel Security Forces Are Training American Cops Despite History of Rights Abuses (What could go wrong, The Intercept) … Read more
It wasn’t just me of course. It was an entire nation that was callously manipulated in the aftermath of that tragedy. The courage and generosity exhibited by so many New Yorkers and others throughout the country and indeed the world was rapidly transformed into terrifying fear. Fear that was intentionally injected repeatedly into our daily … Read more