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Biden Continues Trump’s War On The Press

February 10, 2021

Biden Continues Trump’s War On The Press Just one day after a coalition of prominent civil rights groups made headlines with a letter urging the Biden administration to drop efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States on espionage charges, the Biden administration has announced its intention to continue those efforts. “Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi […]

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Obama Is An Asshole, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

December 4, 2020

Obama Is An Asshole, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix US empire: Assassinates scientists, invades countries, topples governments, circles the planet with military bases, deliberately starves civilians to death with sanctions, threatens the world with nuclear weapons. Also the US empire: “Iran must begin acting like a normal country.” ❖ Obama’s […]

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How To Inoculate Yourself From Establishment Bullshit

How To Inoculate Yourself From Establishment Bullshit In a recent interview with CBS This Morning host Gayle King, former First Lady Michelle Obama contrasted her husband’s presidency with that of his successor by claiming that unlike Trump, the Obama family had had “no scandal”. “I had to sit in [Trump’s inauguration] audience, one of a handful of people of […]

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Why “Incremental Change” Is Worse Than No Change At All

Why “Incremental Change” Is Worse Than No Change At All Another reason why the so-called “centrists” pose such a grave threat to our world is because their platform of slow, moderate, incremental change is actually worse than no change at all. President Obama was elected on the platform of hope and change. He promised big, sweeping changes, and, […]

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Custodial Risk in the Post MF Global Era

Custodial Risk in the Post MF Global Era QUESTION: Martin: You have occasionally made short-quick comments that have made me loose sleep ! One of your past comments quipped that we equity/bond investors should entertain the idea of having the actual certificates to our stock/bond investments (which are typically digital entries held at brokerage houses) mailed […]

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Trump Continues Obama’s War On Whistleblowers, Arrests Another Alleged Intercept Source

Trump Continues Obama’s War On Whistleblowers, Arrests Another Alleged Intercept Source “New drone whistleblower at The Intercept,” tweeted the outspoken CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou in October 2015. “For God’s sake don’t let @MatthewACole learn his identity.” Intercept investigative reporter Matthew Cole has been tied both to Kiriakou’s discovery and prosecution and to that of Reality Winner, who leaked classified documents […]

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The U.S. Government’s Indictment of Julian Assange Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom

3Julian Assange gestures to the media from a police vehicle on his arrival at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on April 11, 2019 in London. Photo: Jack Taylor/Getty Images THE U.S. GOVERNMENT’S INDICTMENT OF JULIAN ASSANGE POSES GRAVE THREATS TO PRESS FREEDOM THE INDICTMENT OF Julian Assange unsealed today by the Trump Justice Department poses grave threats to press freedoms, not […]

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How Big Brother Grips Americans’ Minds to Support Invasions

December 8, 2018

How Big Brother Grips Americans’ Minds to Support Invasions On November 29th, Gallup headlined “Democrats Lead Surge in Belief U.S. Should Be World Leader” and reported that “Three-fourths (75%) of Americans today think the United States has ‘a special responsibility to be the leading nation in world affairs,’ up from 66% in 2010. The surge is driven […]

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Climate Crisis Made Worse

December 5, 2018

Climate Crisis Made Worse Barack Obama, speaking to the Baker Institute, made sure the audience of wealthy Texans, many in the oil business, gave him credit for making the United States a world leader for oil and gas production. He said, “American energy production . . .went up every year I was president. And . . . suddenly America’s […]

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The Counterinsurgency Paradigm: How U.S. Politics Have Become Paramilitarized

November 26, 2018

THE COUNTERINSURGENCY PARADIGM: HOW U.S. POLITICS HAVE BECOME PARAMILITARIZED DONALD TRUMP RAN a campaign promising to refill the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison, to “bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding,” to “take out” the families of suspected terrorists, to ban Muslims from entering this country, and to build a wall along the […]

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Barack von Obamenburg, Herr Donald, and Big Capitalist Hypocrisy: On How Fascism Happens

November 17, 2018

Barack von Obamenburg, Herr Donald, and Big Capitalist Hypocrisy: On How Fascism Happens Caravan of Lies Never underestimate the disingenuousness of top U.S.-American politicos. They truly have no shame. Notice how little the fascistic president Donald Trump has to say any more about the big bad Central American Caravan that was supposedly menacing the United […]

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CIA secretly intercepted Congressional communications about whistleblowers

November 3, 2018

CIA secretly intercepted Congressional communications about whistleblowers CIA intercepted Congressional emails about whistleblowers in 2014 The Inspector General expressed concern about “potential compromise to whistleblower confidentiality” and “chilling effect” Newly-declassified documents show the CIA intercepted sensitive Congressional communications about intelligence community whistleblowers. The intercepts occurred under CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence […]

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Rescuing the Banks Instead of the Economy

November 2, 2018

Rescuing the Banks Instead of the Economy Photo Source Mark Dixon | CC BY 2.0 You can’t bail out the banks, leave the debts in place, and rescue the economy. It’s a zero-sum game. Somebody has to lose. That’s what happened in 2009 when President Obama came in. He invited the bankers to the White […]

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Cybersecurity Expert John McAfee Issues Warning About Those Cell Phone “Presidential Alerts”

October 5, 2018

Cybersecurity Expert John McAfee Issues Warning About Those Cell Phone “Presidential Alerts” With the push of a button and at the direction of President Donald Trump, a “Presidential Alert” was sent to all cellphones across America at 2:18 p.m. ET yesterday. The message was the first test of what many are calling the “Presidential Alert” […]

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Not ‘in Tatters’: Why the West Has Failed to Destroy Russia’s Economy

September 23, 2018

Not ‘in Tatters’: Why the West Has Failed to Destroy Russia’s Economy Despite Barack Obama’s economic sanctions against Russia, and the plunge in oil prices that King Saud agreed to with Obama’s Secretary of State John Kerry on 11 September 2014, the economic damages that the US and Sauds have aimed against a particular oil-and-gas giant, Russia, […]

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