Investigators discovered this month that at least four U.N. peacekeepers in the Central African Republic allegedly paid girls as little as 50 cents in exchange for sex. The most recent allegations involve at least four peacekeepers who are accused of paying girls as young as 13 for sex at a camp for the internally displaced … Read more
24 links today. Enjoy. Donald Trump’s Finance Chair Is the Anti-Populist From Hell (Must read of the day, Steve Mnuchin is bad news, The New Republic) Fueled by Small Donations, Donald Trump Makes Up Major Financial Ground (New York Times) Thomas Friedman Goes to the Wall (Great takedown by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone) Did Bill Maher Lie … Read more
Shortly after the release of the infamous 28-pages earlier today, the White House issued a statement dismissing allegations of Saudi involvement in the attacks of 9/11. I believe such assurances are intended to prevent people from reading it in the first place, because if you actually read them, your mouth will be wide open the entire time … Read more
Donald Trump has been running around like a total clown over the past month or so. Meeting with war criminal Henry Kissinger, vowing to debate Bernie Sanders in California and then running away like a scared child…his damaging month ultimately culminated in a mindless attack against a federal judge based on his ethnicity. The past … Read more
We’re going to war — either hybrid in nature to break the Russian state back to its 1990s subordination, or a hot war (which will destroy our country). Our citizens should know this, but they don’t because our media is dumbed down in its “Pravda”-like support for our “respectable,” highly aggressive government. We are being … Read more
Dear President Obama, I write to you from a Bahraini jail cell, and this message was never meant to go beyond its walls. Even though I have never advocated for violence nor harmed another living soul, I have spent 28 of the last 36 months in a Bahraini prison for actions that can only be … Read more
18 links today, enjoy. Deleted Official Report Says Saudi Key Funder of Hillary Clinton Campaign (Must read, Middle East Eye) The Fourth Amendment Is Supposed to Work for the People, Not the Government (Reason) Oklahoma Cops Find A New Way To Take People’s Money, Even If They Don’t Have Cash (Huffington Post) NATO Chief: 4 … Read more
Hillary’s record includes supporting the barbaric “contras” against the Nicaraguan people in the 1980s, supporting the NATO bombing of the former Yugoslavia, supporting the ongoing Bush-Iraq War, the ongoing Afghan mess, and as Secretary of State the destruction of the secular state of Libya, the military coup in Honduras, and the present attempt at “regime … Read more
The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails. – Bernie Sanders, during the October 13, 2015 Democratic debate Boy was Bernie Sanders wrong about that. It turns out the Hillary Clinton email scandal is way more damaging and dishonest than even her harshest critics could have imagined. I’m sure that by now … Read more
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty or justice. But though … Read more