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The YouTube Ban Is Un-American, Wrong, and Will Backfire
The YouTube Ban Is Un-American, Wrong, and Will Backfire Silicon Valley couldn’t have designed a better way to further radicalize Trump voters Start with the headline: Supporting the 2020 U.S. Election. YouTube in its company blog can’t even say, “Banning Election Conspiracy Theories.” They have to employ the Orwellian language of politicians — Healthy Forests, Clear Skies, […]
The American Press Is Destroying Itself
The American Press Is Destroying Itself A flurry of newsroom revolts has transformed the American press Sometimes it seems life can’t get any worse in this country. Already in terror of a pandemic, Americans have lately been bombarded with images of grotesque state-sponsored violence, from the murder of George Floyd to countless scenes of police clubbing […]
How the COVID-19 Bailout Gave Wall Street a No-Lose Casino
How the COVID-19 Bailout Gave Wall Street a No-Lose Casino While ordinary Americans face record unemployment and loss, the COVID-19 bailout has saved the very rich This story appears in the June 2020 print edition of Rolling Stone. In late April Marko Kolanovic, a financial analyst for JPMorgan Chase, wrote to clients with good news. Pandemic […]
The UNFAIRNESS Economy
The UNFAIRNESS Economy Bailouts for the rich. Barely anything for you. Award-winning investigative journalist Matt Taibbi penned perhaps the most iconic condemnation of the bankers who created (and subsequently got bailed out during) the Great Financial Crisis: The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful […]
The ‘Whistleblower’ Probably Isn’t
The ‘Whistleblower’ Probably Isn’t It’s an insult to real whistleblowers to use the term with the Ukrainegate protagonist Start with the initial headline, in the story the Washington Post “broke” on September 18th: TRUMP’S COMMUNICATIONS WITH FOREIGN LEADER ARE PART OF WHISTLEBLOWER COMPLAINT THAT SPURRED STANDOFF BETWEEN SPY CHIEF AND CONGRESS, FORMER OFFICIALS SAY The unnamed person at the […]
The Liberal Embrace of War
The Liberal Embrace of War American interventionists learned a lesson from Iraq: pre-empt the debate. Now everyone is for regime change The United States has just suspended flights to Venezuela. Per the New York Times: CARACAS — The United States banned all air transport with Venezuela on Wednesday over security concerns, further isolating the troubled South […]
It’s official: Russiagate is this generation’s WMD
It’s official: Russiagate is this generation’s WMD The Iraq war faceplant damaged the reputation of the press. Russiagate just destroyed it Note to readers: in light of news that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s investigation is complete, I’m releasing this chapter of Hate Inc. early, with a few new details added up top. Nobody wants to […]
Has the Government Legalized Secret Defense Spending?
Has the Government Legalized Secret Defense Spending? While a noisy Supreme Court fight captivated America last fall, an obscure federal accounting body quietly approved a system of classified money-moving Aerial view of the Pentagon building. Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images October 4th, 2018, was a busy news day. The fight over Brett Kavanuagh’s Supreme […]
We Know How Trump’s War Game Ends
We Know How Trump’s War Game Ends Nothing unites our political class like the threat of ending our never-ending war President Donald Trump reacts to the crowd as he arrives to speak to navy and shipyard personnel aboard nuclear aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Va. AP/Shutterstock So we’re […]
Taibbi: Censorship Does Not End Well
Censorship Does Not End Well How America learned to stop worrying and put Mark Zuckerberg in charge of everything Infowars’ Alex Jones and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Brooks Kraft/Getty Images, Alex Brandon/AP/REX Shutterstock Silicon Valley is changing its mind about censorship. Two weeks ago, we learned about a new campaign against “inauthentic” content, conducted by […]
Matt Taibbi Exposes The Sheer Absurdity Of The Ongoing Russian Witch Hunt
Matt Taibbi Exposes The Sheer Absurdity Of The Ongoing Russian Witch Hunt Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone has written perhaps the best summary of how absurd political discourse in the U.S. has become – as nonconforming opinions are now “blacklisted” over the manufactured specter of “red dawn” Putin puppets behind just about controversial topic. “One of the first rules […]
Putin Derangement Syndrome Arrives
Putin Derangement Syndrome Arrives Whatever the truth about Trump and Russia, the speculation surrounding it has become a dangerous case of mass hysteria Michael Flynn and Donald Trump John Locher/AP So Michael Flynn, who was Donald Trump’s national security adviser before he got busted talking out of school to Russia’s ambassador, has reportedly offered to testify […]
