Originally published Sep 1, 2017
Recently, The Nation was daring enough to publish an excellent article by Patrick Lawrence which focused on a recent memo by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) calling into question the establishment line that Russian hackers were the source of the Wikileaks DNC emails.
Originally published, Jan 21, 2019
Martin Luther King was not just a triumphant fighter against the moral obscenity of Jim Crow. He also was willing to spend much of his political capital decrying the mindless, futile carnage of Viet Nam — a position for which a formerly supportive mainstream media excoriated him. In honor of MLK Day, I would like to offer this modest proposal:
Originally published Jul 25, 2017
Here's an illuminating excerpt from an article posted today by "Sundance":
Former FBI Director James Comey gave a radio interview to Los Angeles radio station KNX 1070-AM after the New York Times outlined FBI spies used in the 2016 election. When questioned about the FBI using intelligence assets to engage with Trump campaign official George Papadopoulos, Comey replied:
Got nothing meself.
Freddie surveys his world:
And some frozen drips:
I am bereft of ideas. Not that I have many, normally...
Off for a pint.
As is usual, the headline economic number is always the rosiest number.
Today, May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. It is sadly ironic that on this day, the United States is exercising all of its political might to get its lapdog, the United Kingdom to extradite Julian Assange to the United States for the crime of journalism.
Selling Extinction is a short introduction to the capitalist notion of a “Green New Deal”, the NGOs that support it and the recent Extinction Rebellion protests in London.’
