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The U.S.’s Hypocrisy On ‘Political Intervention’ In Elections
The U.S.’s Hypocrisy On ‘Political Intervention’ In Elections The United States government has interfered with more elections than any other government on the face of the earth. But suddenly, the US is grandstanding and pretending it matters that other nations use the exact same tactics. “Ah, the peddler propaganda!” says Joe Joseph with The Daily […]
Fossil Fuel Dollars Flow into Local Elections Threatening Development in the West
Fossil Fuel Dollars Flow into Local Elections Threatening Development in the West This election season, cities in Colorado and Washington are proving to be battlegrounds for community groups pushing to locally restrict oil, gas, and coal development. And in both places, the fossil fuel industry has been pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into making […]
‘Ticking a box is no longer an option’: David van Reybrouck on elections, imagination and Brexit.
‘Ticking a box is no longer an option’: David van Reybrouck on elections, imagination and Brexit. David van Reybrouck lives in Brussels, is a pre-historic archaeologist, but works mostly as a literary writer, and as a non-fiction writer. He’s probably best known for his book ‘Congo: the epic history of a people’, for appearing in […]
Are You Ready to Die?
Are You Ready to Die? Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept exposes the fake news put out by the US Department of Homeland Security (an euphemistic name for a Big Brother operation that spies on US citizens) that Russia hacked 21 US state elections, news that was instantly spread around the world by the presstitute media. […]
‘Voice of America, Radio Liberty, CNN are tools for US to press Russia’ – State Duma MP
‘Voice of America, Radio Liberty, CNN are tools for US to press Russia’ – State Duma MP Russian State Duma plenary meeting. © Vladimir Fedorenko / Sputnik Washington used CNN and Russian-language US outlets Voice of America and Radio Liberty in attempts to meddle into the 2016 Russian elections and the situation in the country in […]
Ron Paul: Vote All You Want, the Secret Government Won’t Change
Ron Paul: Vote All You Want, the Secret Government Won’t Change (ANTIMEDIA) Former congressman Ron Paul is outspoken. When he retired from Congress, he called lawmakers psychopathic authoritarians to their faces. He’s also called Donald Trump an authoritarian and asserted Hillary Clinton could have run as a Republican. And just last week, Paul took aim at the foundational structure of […]
Brad Friedman: Why To Be Suspicious Of Every Election
Brad Friedman: Why To Be Suspicious Of Every Election Electronic voting machines have opened up Pandora’s box Long an ‘exporter of democracy’ to the rest of the world, there is ample evidence that the United States lacks even the most rudimentary, basic protections necessary to preserve voting integrity within its own borders. Some of the […]
With Impeccable Timing, ‘Economic Miracle’ in Spain Unravels
With Impeccable Timing, ‘Economic Miracle’ in Spain Unravels The European Union on the verge. Since the granddaddy of all housing bubbles popped in Spain between 2008 and 2009, unleashing one of the deepest recessions in living memory, the nation’s public debt has more than doubled, from just over 40% of GDP to almost exactly 100% […]
Who’s Anti-American?
Who’s Anti-American? Maryland! The Old Line bugle, fife, and drum, Maryland! She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb. Huzza! She spurns the Northern scum! She breathes! She burns! She’ll come! She’ll come! Maryland! My Maryland! – Maryland’s State Song J’accuse… Illustration by James Montgomery Flagg Guilty as Charged BALTIMORE – Yesterday, one dear reader […]
Pictorial Essay: Message to the Voting Cattle
Pictorial Essay: Message to the Voting Cattle Our own awesome ‘wip’ posted this video in another thread, and asked me to listen to it. I did, and it’s freaking fabulous. I agree with about 95% of it. It explains as well as I’ve ever heard, why I say we should all vote for Candidate Nobody. […]
In Latest Sign Of EM Chaos, Turkey’s FX Reserves Fall Below Key Threshold Ahead Of Pivotal Elections
In Latest Sign Of EM Chaos, Turkey’s FX Reserves Fall Below Key Threshold Ahead Of Pivotal Elections One of the key things to understand about the veritable meltdown that’s unfolded across emerging markets is that there’s more to the story than the headline risk factors. That is, while the list of proximate causes that includes […]
Liberation Is Unprofitable
Liberation Is Unprofitable 12 examples of how liberation is not profitable and therefore it must be marginalized, outlawed, proscribed or ridiculed. If we had to summarize the sickness of our economy and society, we could start by noting that liberation is unprofitable, and whatever is not profitable to vested interests is marginalized, outlawed, proscribed or ridiculed. Examples […]
Democracy Or Oligarchy – You Decide
Democracy Or Oligarchy – You Decide In the interests of clarifying what it is that America has become, we offer this… So which one sounds more accurate?
Elections: What Are They Good For?
Elections: What Are They Good For? Sanders or Webb, Does It Make any Difference? Before the 1960 Presidential Election, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the historian who would become John Kennedy’s court intellectual, published a short book called Kennedy or Nixon: Does It Make Any Difference? His answer was that it made a big difference because Nixon was […]
Canada’s truthiest election campaign begins: Don Pittis
Canada’s truthiest election campaign begins: Don Pittis True or not, politicians defend their promises with passion and confidence The Harper Conservatives are the balanced-budget party. You might as well get that into your head now, because you are going to be hearing it repeated till election day. This is also the economic stewardship party, the spending-on-transit […]
