“It was emotionally wrenching for me to see places like DemocracyNow!, The Intercept, The Young Turks (where I work) push RussiaGate. It… destroyed me, kind of, internally, right? It was way worse than the Iraq War for me, because at least during the Iraq War most of the people on the left were awake about it, right? But this was… Read More »I listen to Jimmy Dore because I identify with him…
“We come here battling like Bilgesnipe… In my youth, I courted war.” — Thor of Marvel Studios As much as I respect Infinity War/Endgame — great rides, both — Avengers I remains my favorite in the series. The first time watching it, two-thirds of the way through the film, my cynicism crumbled, and I realized that I actually loved the… Read More »Taking a moment to marvel…
Few Americans know that with the signing of the First Step Act, the preeminent racist scumbag of our times, Donald Trump, has done more to roll back the New Jim Crow than either of his abysmal predecessors (Bush-Obama) came close to doing. And there’s no point in bringing up Reagan through Clinton, who only advanced modern slavery, incarcerating (and putting… Read More »THE FIRST STEP ACT, BECAUSE “ONLY NIXON COULD GO TO CHINA!”
Bernie Sanders has gotten too big for the establishment to simply ignore. Indeed, that had happened by the time the 2016 Democratic Primary was even half over — when the corporate media pivoted from ignoring Bernie entirely to slandering his name with calumnies authored and disseminated by Sec. Clinton’s very own “Karl Rove,” the notorious spreader of lies, Mr. David… Read More »Calling out “progressives” peddling establishment B.S. — still trying to sideline Bernie (and Tulsi) with baloney…
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges’ article: “From the CIA’s funneling of over a billion dollars to Islamic militants in the 1970s war in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union to the billion dollars spent on training and equipping the radical jihadists currently fighting in Syria, the United States has repeatedly empowered extremists who have filled the vacuums of failed states… Read More »WHO’S AFRAID OF “ISLAMO-FASCISTS?” NOT THE SECURITY STATE WHICH FUNDS AND ARMS THEM, DIRECTING THEIR INVASIONS OF NATIONS THAT RESIST U.S. HEGEMONY.
Seeing as I’ve had to “unsubscribe” from the mailing list of the Democratic National Committee at least six times in the last week — having to compose, each time, a new “Reason for Unsubscribing” message — I have decided that it might be helpful to have some text on hand for the next time I have to unsubscribe from their… Read More »Helpful, carefully considered verbiage for respectfully unsubscribing from the DNC’s e-mail list…
CNN is the epitome of corporate news and they typically do the bidding of the corporatocracy and our neo-fascist, white-supremacist establishment. They marginalize the most authoritative experts and all independent voices in favor of industry mouthpieces and government flacks. They systematically obscure the most pressing issues of our time and promote the narratives of the MIC, PhRMA, AHIP, the American… Read More »At CNN, journalism is not Job 1 (a nonpartisan analysis)…