Person A: Wow, things are looking really bad in Venezuela right now.Person B: Yeah.Person A: All that poverty and unrest!Person B: I know, it's terrible.Person A: You know what we should do?Person B: Please don't say send in Godzilla.Person A: What? Why not??Person B: Because
Bernie Sanders has announced his 2020 Democratic primary run for president of the United States, to predictable sighs of relief from his supporters and equally predictable vitriolic shrieking from Democratic Party centrists. I've been asked by my readers to give some thoughts on the matter,
Every day in my article comments and social media I get people warning me that this or that journalist, activist or politician is "controlled opposition", meaning someone who pretends to oppose the establishment while covertly serving it. These warnings usually come after I've shared or
A politician can run a flawless campaign, say all the right things from a place of authenticity, hold wildly popular positions and an impeccable public record, but if they say things which upset the powerful, the narrative can be reshaped to paint them as crazy,
After WikiLeaks documents provided irrefutable evidence that the Democratic National Committee had violated its charter by rigging its primary for Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders, what should have happened is this:The DNC apologizing profusely to the public for violating the promises it had made
On the 18th of November, 1964, the FBI's appallingly corrupt boss J. Edgar Hoover denounced Martin Luther King Jr. as "the most notorious liar in the country." A few days later, a Hoover deputy named William Sullivan wrote King a letter posing as a disillusioned
President Trump has ordered the withdrawal of US troops from Syria, which is reportedly expected to take 60-100 days or 30 days depending on who you ask. According to Kurdish forces in eastern Syria the withdrawal of American as well as French troops is already
The problem isn't just that we are ruled by tyrants, it's that our minds are full of propaganda and cultural mind viruses which cause us to consent to it. Russophobia and an uncritical emphasis on Trump has been used to scaremonger an annoyingly large percentage of
Every so often I like to write an article describing exactly what I'm about in the interests of transparency, and for the benefit of any new followers who aren't quite sure what they're looking at here. It's a good exercise for me because it allows
I haven't been writing about the US midterms much, because I don't care about that nonsense anymore. The whole thing's a fake pro wrestling performance staged every couple of years to give a heavily armed populace the illusory sense that they have some degree of