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The Power of Exaggerated Fear
The Power of Exaggerated Fear As the American middle class shrinks and citizens feel vulnerable and angry, politicians have found that exaggerating the dangers from some bogeyman – “the Muslim terrorists are out to get you!” – works wonders in distracting them from far more serious threats, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar describes. Journalists have noticed how much current […]
Meet “Beware” – The New Police Tool That Data Mines Your Life
Meet “Beware” – The New Police Tool That Data Mines Your Life As officers respond to calls, Beware automatically runs the address. The searches return the names of residents and scans them against a range of publicly available data to generate a color-coded threat level for each person or address: green, yellow or red. Exactly […]
Why NYT Dissed the ‘Drone Papers’
Why NYT Dissed the ‘Drone Papers’ When the “Downing Street Memo” surfaced in the UK in 2006 revealing that the intelligence to justify the Iraq War had been “fixed” around the policy, the mainstream U.S. media largely ignored it. The same has now happened with the leak of documents about President Obama’s drone war, writes John […]
Bishop: Ben Carson Upsets Washington Post for Questioning Fiat Money
Bishop: Ben Carson Upsets Washington Post for Questioning Fiat Money Tho Bishop writes: Neurosurgeon-turned-Presidential candidate Ben Carson has been under attack this week by our PC-enforcers in the media. While most of the media scorn has been directed at Carson’s defense of gun ownership following last week’s shooting in Oregon – Matt O’Brien of the Washington Post slapped at Carson […]
Bob Woodward Compares Clinton Emails To Nixon Tapes, Warns “Answers Won’t Be Pretty”
Bob Woodward Compares Clinton Emails To Nixon Tapes, Warns “Answers Won’t Be Pretty” “Follow the trail here,” veteran Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward told MSNBC, as he compared Hillary Clinton’s private email account to the Nixon tapes. As The Hill reports, Woodward concluded that the fight over Clinton’s emails wouldn’t end soon: “This has to go on a long, […]
Neocons Falsify Iraq War ‘Lessons’
Neocons Falsify Iraq War ‘Lessons’ Having escaped accountability for the Iraq War disaster, U.S. neocons are urging the use of more military force in the Mideast, in line with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s demand to block the Iran nuclear deal. From their important perches of power, these war hawks also twist the history of their […]
Washington Post Reporter Charged with “Trespassing” in Ferguson, Missouri as the “War on Journalism” Continues
Washington Post Reporter Charged with “Trespassing” in Ferguson, Missouri as the “War on Journalism” Continues A year ago, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery, was arrested in a McDonald’s in Ferguson Missouri. The fast-food establishment had been used as a staging area for several reporters, including theHuffington Post’s Ryan Rilley, who was also arrested. Here’s last year’s video clip of Mr. […]
Koch Political Machine Focuses on “Freedom” to Pollute and Pay Less Taxes
Koch Political Machine Focuses on “Freedom” to Pollute and Pay Less Taxes Billionaire conservative activist Charles Koch on Sunday likened his political efforts to the struggles of Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass, saying that “we, too, are seeking to right injustices that are holding our country back.” We know this because Politico and the Washington Post […]
Are We Being Forced Into a “Second American Civil War”… If So, Who Will Win?
Are We Being Forced Into a “Second American Civil War”… If So, Who Will Win? A culture war has been stirred up. Divisions are along predictable lines: racism, police abuse, controversial social issues, and plenty of left vs. right, demographics and regional baggage to clash over as well. And by all accounts, differences and distinctions […]
FBI Uses Surveillance “Air Force” To Monitor US Citizens, AP Finds
FBI Uses Surveillance “Air Force” To Monitor US Citizens, AP Finds In the wake of the violent protests, looting, and riots that shook Baltimore to its core and left parts of the city smoldering in late April, Benjamin Shayne — who had just sat down in his backyard to enjoy a radio broadcast of an […]
The problem isn’t overproduction; it’s malinvestment
The problem isn’t overproduction; it’s malinvestment Mr. Max Ehrendfreund, writing in the Washington Post’s Wonkblog, believes that he has discovered something new: that the world is producing too much and doesn’t know what to do with it. His solution, of course, is to confiscate the overproduced products, such as oil and cotton, from its rightful owners and […]
