If you appreciate our work, and want to contribute to genuine, independent media, consider visiting our Support Page. Watergate Redux or ‘Deep State’ Coup? (Excellent read on the Comey affair, Consortium News) Dem Senator Uses Info From Conspiracy Blogs To Draw Trump-Russia Connections (The Daily Caller) WikiLeaks Busts NPR Spreading Fake News, Destroys Them on Twitter (The Free Thought Project) Ex … Read more
If you appreciate our work, and want to contribute to genuine, independent media, consider visiting our Support Page. Must Reads Trump’s Support and Praise of Despots Is Central to the U.S. Tradition, Not a Deviation From It (Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept) Alarm Grows in Washington as Saudi Coalition Attack on Yemen Port Appears Imminent (The Washington Post) Exploitation and Abuse at the … Read more
If you appreciate our work, and want to contribute to genuine, independent media, consider visiting our Support Page. Must Reads Formerly Imprisoned Journalist Barrett Brown Taken Back Into Custody Before PBS Interview (A total disgrace, The Intercept) The Media Bubble Is Worse Than You Think (Politico) Man ‘Sentenced to Death for Atheism’ in Saudi Arabia (If the U.S. wants to bomb countries for human rights abuses…The Independent) … Read more
My current working hypothesis is that the U.S. is a late-stage empire about to enter a more serious and dangerous period of collapse. In case you missed it, I outlined my broad brush view in the very popular recent post, Prepare for Impact – This is the Beginning of the End for U.S. Empire. Here’s a brief … Read more
If you appreciate our work, and want to contribute to genuine, independent media, consider visiting our Support Page. A couple of weeks ago, I was the victim of a well planned, very aggressive hack. I shared my story to warn others: Hackers Stole My Phone Number – A Personal Story Must Reads A Fork in the Road (Important article by Vinny … Read more
If you appreciate our work, and want to contribute to genuine, independent media, consider visiting our Support Page. Must Reads Democratic Party Favorable Rating (Incredible collapse despite Trump and for good reason, Huffington Post) Obama and the Perez Election — Are the Democrats Trying to Fail? (Excellent and explains much of the above, Naked Capitalism) After the Fumble (Good article on … Read more
The best way to control the opposition is to lead it. I am of the strong belief that any administration which comes into power in the current environment of nearly unrestrained executive authority, a lawless and sprawling intelligence agency complex, and a debt-driven, rent-seeking rewarding fraud economy should be assumed to represent a serious threat to the civil liberties and remaining freedoms of … Read more
If you appreciate our work, and want to contribute to genuine, independent media, consider visiting our Support Page. Must Reads Goldman Sachs Ties to Scandal-Plagued 1MDB Run Deep (Pure criminality, The Wall Street Journal) Yahoo Email Scan Shows U.S. Spy Push to Recast Constitutional Privacy (Very disturbing, Reuters) Egyptian Police Arrest Five People for Using Children to Stage Fake ‘Aleppo’ … Read more
As such, the media still can’t let the election go. In its obsession with “fake news” and Russia, the U.S. press is once again betraying the public trust. It is once again demonstrating that the primary purpose of American mass media is a perpetuation of the status quo narrative. The media can’t let the election go, because any … Read more
The U.S. election never ended. By that I mean the relentless public battle for power and status, as opposed to confronting what actually ails the nation, has continued, unabated since November 8th. Despite a clear cut and decisive win for Donald Trump, Americans have been incessantly bombarded by reckless calls for an electoral coup from figures like the certifiably disturbed former … Read more