In the first half of the movie It's a Wonderful Life, a pair of talking galaxies share snippets from a man's life with a developmentally disabled angel from the nineteenth century. Early on, an ornate carriage is seen carrying a plutocrat who will later go
Cenk Uygur's gigantic head has been attacking people on the left who express skepticism of the establishment Russia narrative again, this time using blatantly false claims and appallingly sleazy McCarthyite insinuations. Such attacks are nothing new for Uygur; his attack on The Real News' Aaron Maté at
I saw a Twitter thread between two journalists the other day which completely summarized my experience of debating the establishment Russia narrative on online forums lately. Aaron Maté, who is in my opinion one of the clearest voices out there on American Russia hysteria, was approached
Today British foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt repeated the tired old canard that WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange "is free to walk out of the doors of the Ecuadorean embassy any time he wishes," despite the fact that the US government has been increasingly open about its
Russiagate is so weird. I went weeks without writing anything about it so I'd forgotten how breathtakingly bizarre it is. A new "BOMBSHELL" Russia story comes out every few hours (all coincidentally right before or right after the Helsinki summit, which is perfectly normal and
When I was a little girl I used to end all my nightly prayers with the words, "And please no nuclear war, and peace on earth. Amen." This was in the early eighties. The knowledge that weapons existed armed and ready which could annihilate all
You muddle through as best you can.Every morning you slide into a society you had no hand in constructing and don't really understand, like an awkward introvert arriving late to a party full of strangers who all know each other.You interact with the whole thing
I have said it before, and I will say it again, and I will keep saying it and saying it until it becomes mainstream conventional wisdom: it is the US intelligence community's job to lie to you.In an article for The Nation dated July 11,
In America they build flying war robots, but you can't drink the water. America is where the empire keeps its billionaires and bombs.Giant wars left Europe a mess many years ago, so America rose to the top. Now it's where many rich and powerful influencers
What do you know for certain? For absolute certain?It's funny how rarely this question comes up. In a world full of feuding ideologies, belief systems versus belief systems, wars of information, narratives and counter-narratives, you'd think the question of what can be known with absolute