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We Are Being Played
We Are Being Played If any evidence existed to be found that Donald Trump had illegally colluded with the Russian government to rig the 2016 presidential election, that evidence would have been picked up by the sprawling surveillance networks of the US and its allies and leaked to the Washington Post before Obama left office. Russiagate […]
No Fracking Way: Debt-Laden Shale Producers May Unleash The Next Financial Crisis
No Fracking Way: Debt-Laden Shale Producers May Unleash The Next Financial Crisis After nearly two decades of horizontal drilling, fracking – as it is commonly known, has “turned the energy world upside down,” according to Journalist Bethany McLean, a former Goldman Sachs analyst-turned-journalist. And according to a new op-ed in the New York Times, McLean has a warning for […]
Neoliberalism drives climate breakdown, not human nature
Neoliberalism drives climate breakdown, not human nature Attempts by the New York Times to blame humanity as a whole for climate change let the real culprits off the hook. Image: Quarrie Photography, some rights reserved. Many zoos have an exhibit like this: a wall with a hatch, and under the hatch words like “Do you […]
US Paranoia Ramps Up Infowar on Russia
US Paranoia Ramps Up Infowar on Russia This week saw renewed effort by US politicians and media to ramp up the information war against Russia. The impetus came from the US-based social media network, Facebook, declaring that it had identified “coordinated political influence campaigns”. Never mind that the internet giant admitted that it did not […]
In Refusing To Defend Assange, Mainstream Media Exposes Its True Nature
In Refusing To Defend Assange, Mainstream Media Exposes Its True Nature Last Tuesday a top lawyer for the New York Times named David McCraw warned a room full of judges that the prosecution of Julian Assange for WikiLeaks publications would set a very dangerous precedent which would end up hurting mainstream news media outlets like NYT, […]
Erasing Flint’s Water Crisis: Or How to Lie With Statistics
Erasing Flint’s Water Crisis: Or How to Lie With Statistics Photo by Pete Souza | CC BY 2.0 Mark Twain famously wrote that “there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” This insight is relevant to examining the apologetics of modern-day academics in the rising neoliberal assault on the public. This subservience […]
The Two Superpowers: Who Really Controls the Two Countries?
The Two Superpowers: Who Really Controls the Two Countries? Among the ruling interests in the US, one interest even more powerful than the Israel Lobby—the Deep State of the military/security complex— there is enormous fear that an uncontrollable President Trump at the upcoming Putin/Trump summit will make an agreement that will bring to an end […]
Why It Matters If Fracking Companies Are Overestimating Their ‘Proved’ Oil and Gas Reserves
Why It Matters If Fracking Companies Are Overestimating Their ‘Proved’ Oil and Gas Reserves Back in 2011, The New York Times first raised concerns about the reliability of America’s proved shale gas reserves. Proved reserves are the estimates of supplies of oil and gas that drillers tell investors they will be able to tap. The […]
Do We Really Borrow From Only Ourselves? Does the Debt/GDP Ratio Means Anything?
Do We Really Borrow From Only Ourselves? Does the Debt/GDP Ratio Means Anything? QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, the famous economist Paul Krugman says that debt is ok when we owe it to ourselves. He calls it “deficit scolding” as he wrote in the New York Times. Would you like to comment on this statement? GH ANSWER: Paul […]
In Latest Privacy Scandal, Facebook Gave Apple, Amazon And Others Unprecedented Access To User Data
In Latest Privacy Scandal, Facebook Gave Apple, Amazon And Others Unprecedented Access To User Data Facebook has been giving user data to at least 60 major device manufacturers over the last decade – including Apple, Amazon, BlackBerry, Microsoft and Samsung – as part of a data-sharing partnership program which allowed the companies to integrate various features such as […]
The Media Never, Ever Gives Peace a Chance
The Media Never, Ever Gives Peace a Chance At this writing, President Trump is considering “the possibility of retaliation in Syria in response to a suspected chemical attack on young children and families in the Syrian city of Douma,” reported CBS News. “If it’s the Russians, if it’s Syria, if it’s Iran, if it’s all […]
The Unspooling
The Unspooling With spring, things come unstuck; an unspooling has begun. The turnaround at the FBI and Department of Justice has been so swift that even The New York Times has shut up about collusion with Russia — at the same time omitting to report what appears to have been a wholly politicized FBI upper […]
