August 2019

While Thom Hartmann has had some consistent problems blundering into the quicksand of “lesser evil” partisanship, causing him to be a frequent apologist for one-half of our pernicious duopoly, I still consider him a fairly decent progressive who has occasionally contributed something of value to the national conversation. In the following segment from his show, Hartmann and his guest describe… Read More »R.I.P., DAVID KOCH, MAJOR SHAREHOLDER IN AMERICA’S LEADING POLITICAL PARTIES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS… INCLUDING THE “LIBERAL” MEDIA.

Demonstrating, yet again, that the Democratic Party has learned none of the lessons of 2016, the DNC appears hellbent on preventing Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a staunchly anti-war progressive, from taking her place on the debate stage. Rep. Gabbard has done far too well in her previous debate appearances, and her national support is steadily growing. She’s fought for election integrity,… Read More »FUCKERY

In the early 2000’s, the corporate media, virtually in lockstep, told us that Saddam Hussein had “WMD” — systematically burying all evidence to the contrary. All skeptics and dissenters were purged, including the NYT’s Pulitzer-winning journalist, Chris Hedges. And, as if to illustrate the one true priority of corporate “news” — propagandizing the American people — MSNBC fired Phil Donahue… Read More »FOOL US *TWICE* WITH “WMD” FABRICATIONS? SHAME ON US…

Bush-Obama’s methane legacy — “Freedom Gas” choking the biosphere… From the article: “Between 2005 and 2015, fracking went from producing 31 billion cubic meters of shale gas per year to producing 435 billion cubic meters. “Nearly 90 percent of that fracking took place in the U.S., while about 10 percent was done in Canada.” Like domestic oil production, hydraulic fracturing… Read More »“THE ENVIRONMENTAL PRESIDENT”

Russiagate = supporting the neo-fascists behind the genocide of millions of predominantly Arab-Muslim civilians (under Trump’s three predecessors alone: 1+ million under Clinton, 1+ million under Bush, 500,000+ under Obama) in order to convey to one’s bourgeois peers one’s purely symbolic condemnation of racism. Mathematically expressed: Russiagate = omnicidal fascism + a facade of “liberalism” (protecting the mind-bogglingly amoral, despotic,… Read More »Russiagate defined.