In a tweet posted 2/27/18 John "eat the pain" Podesta essentially threatened the life of President Trump's son-in-law. Just how arrogant and stupid can one man be?
President Hopey-Changey Transformational Transparency doesn’t like ‘alternative’ opinions.
Barack Obama isn’t happy with Facebook and Google, either
He wants them to “have to have a conversation about their business model.”
By Peter Kafka on February 27, 2018 6:50 amGoogle and Facebook aren’t just incredibly profitable tech companies — they are “public goods” with a responsibility to serve the public, says Barack Obama.
As many here are aware, there is considerable interest in the Parkland Florida school shooting. Two essays were submitted by me on the subject:
Parkland, Florida school shooting—coincidences and cowardice
The lovely tree-studded Bolshoy Devyatinsky Lane in Moscow is getting a new name. In a ceremony in early March it will be renamed Seth Rich Boulevard in Honor of Seth Conrad Rich, the slain activist who leaked the derogatory emails of the Democratic National Committee that proved election rigging against Hillary Clinton's presidential opponent, Bernie Sanders.
Rich was killed near the White House a year and a half ago. He was not robbed. He was conscious and speaking when the police arrived, but it is unknown what he said. The Democratic Committee worker was shot by an unknown assailant(s) just days before he was to testify in a lawsuit brought against the DNC for election rigging during the Democratic Primaries — and twenty days after it was learned that the downloaded emails were in the hands of Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange. The DNC has denied any involvement in his murder, which has never been solved by the police or the FBI, who are still in possession of Rich's personal computer..
It's still a ways off in the distance, but a moral movement is gathering steam:
A moral movement is growing against the violence perpetrated by all of them, and the necessity for both government and business to take action.
It is being led by people whose moral authority cannot be denied: students whose friends have been murdered, women who have been abused, the parents and partners of black men who have been slain.
I give up on the Nation Magazine and the "Legacy Left". [NOTE] The interminable stream of "final notice" letters from the magazine has ceased; I think they finally got the message. However, the last issue I received completely supports my abysmally low opinion of them.
The High Priests of Economics tell us that "globalization cannot be stopped," much like the wrath of the Inca's Volcano God. We've been told that there is no alternative to neoliberal globalization other than utter ruin.
Richard D. Wolff argues that anti-communism was part of a strategy by big business, Republicans and conservatives to single out and destroy the members of the coalition that forced through the New Deal, namely organized labor, socialist and communist parties.
It’s only been 100 years
The Wall Street bombing occurred at 12:01 pm on September 16, 1920, in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. The blast killed 30 people immediately, and another eight died later of wounds sustained in the blast. There were 143 seriously injured, and the total number of injured was in the hundreds.
Jeff Sessions is no A. Mitchell Palmer and Christopher Wray is no J. Edgar Hoover but 1920 could be like 2020, and Warren G. Harding might resemble Dotard J Trump, if for no other reason than salaciousness and willful ignorance of corruption.
Deportation of terrorist immigrants was a result of the 1920 Wall Street bombing, amidst other actions.
Because America First...
The demonizing of immigrants and the role of the State in surveillance and repression should need no reminder in 2018 even as ICE and the Border Patrol are used as a gefälschte Gestapo.
Many lionize Robert Mueller even as domestic political intelligence has no different aims than in the very long heyday of the FBI as the enforcer against anti-capitalist threats as it still is. The MSM treatment of racial difference in domestic terrorist acts is no different than the treatment of postwar anti-communism.
More bizarre has been the exploitation of anti-Communism by gay RW men, but that’s for another diary on RW misogyny and gay KKK members.
More fascinating is the examination of a 1920s cold case that describes the emergent anti-communism, the FBI as fighting crime and communists while also fighting immigrants, and the increased class struggle as bombs and bonds intersect.
