My recent piece on the establishment’s floating of Oprah Winfrey as a possible challenger to Donald Trump in 2020 is already in January of 2018 getting some pushback from Democratic party loyalists who want to make sure that I will lend my voice to supporting whoever Trump’s
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As anyone could have predicted, my recent article about Trump being another Obama has been getting some backlash from both sides of America’s imaginary partisan divide, which is fine. What I found interesting though is which factions within those groups have found the idea most offensive. The Trump
The CIA recently escalated its involvement in Iran, and they ain’t there for the baba ghanoush. Back in June the Wall Street Journal published a report saying that America’s Central Intelligence Agency had set up a new organization whose sole task would be to focus on Iran under the
Not a lot of people remember this, but George W Bush actually campaigned in 2000 against the interventionist foreign policy that the United States had been increasingly espousing. Far from advocating the full-scale regime change ground invasions that his administration is now infamous for, Bush frequently used
Sharing the world with neocons is like living with an Alzheimer’s patient. “I want to go home!” “You are home, Mum. Remember? You live here now with me and Dave? And your grandkids? You’ve been living here for two years. This is your home.” “Oh, okay.” [Two minutes pass.] “I
I wrote the word “man” in the title for a reason. It is only ever men who demonstrate the behavior I’ll be discussing here, without a single solitary exception. I have never had a woman tell me that I’m a smart girl, but I need to
The legendary award-winning investigative journalist Robert Parry has had a stroke. According to his latest article in the always excellent Consortiumnews, the stroke left most of his faculties intact but has robbed him of his vision, which will greatly hinder his ability to publish his insightful analyses with
Be less patient with people who deliberately waste my time. Try to keep up with the washing. Find out what Chapo Trap House is. Seize control of the narrative. Be mean to jerks. Forgive myself for not keeping up with the washing. Be unsympathetic to people’s desires which harm other people. Learn
Two weeks ago a memo was leaked from inside the Trump administration showing how Secretary of State and DC neophyte Rex Tillerson was coached on how the US empire uses human rights as a pretense on which to attack and undermine noncompliant governments. Politico reports:The May 17 memo reads