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July 2019

Lies, damn lies, and… deliberately screwing with polling data to deceive your audience.

Katie Halper continues her great reporting on U.S. politics, noting how the corporate media systematically misreports polling data in order to cheat progressives and elevate establishmentarians like Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg. (Echoes of 2016, with the 1% pulling out all of the stops to morph journalism into sheer political shilling, blatantly campaigning for the oligarchs’ preferred politicians… Read More »Lies, damn lies, and… deliberately screwing with polling data to deceive your audience.

Trump Pranked! The #McResistance Lives! Green New Deal… *not* imminent.

More proof that the “Russian puppet” meme will never die, no matter how many times Russiagate is debunked… Recently, the 45th President of the United States gave a speech before a group of teenage (high school) “deplorables” gathered for a conference in Washington, DC — with Trump standing before a massive image that was subtly designed to portray him as… Read More »Trump Pranked! The #McResistance Lives! Green New Deal… *not* imminent.

If Donald Trump is the closest thing we have to a non-interventionist (after Tulsi and Bernie), then we’re in a great deal of trouble…

From the excellent CounterPunch article by Rob Urie: “Two years plus of taunting Donald Trump from the right has left the left holding the baggy for untethering his steely anti-interventionist resolve from the hitchin’ post. And while it’s proper to question the metallurgical integrity of said resolve, he did ask questions in his run for President that landed like an… Read More »If Donald Trump is the closest thing we have to a non-interventionist (after Tulsi and Bernie), then we’re in a great deal of trouble…