General Dempsey and his colleagues on the Joint Chiefs of Staff kept their dissent out of bureaucratic channels, and survived in office. General Michael Flynn did not. ‘Flynn incurred the wrath of the White House by insisting on telling theREAD ON
Exploring Peace Outside the Box
CARE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT DAVID? www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005615508769&view Inside the box are politicians promising what they are going to do for us when they mean “to” us. Inside the box are politicians saying they feel our pain when they don’t. It’s themREAD ON
California Scheming: Democrats Betray Single-Payer Again
Thus unfolds the typical Democratic strategy: Make all kinds of progressive noises and cast all kinds of progressive votes, while carefully managing the process so that the legislation the putatively progressives putatively support never gets enacted. Usually, they blame RepublicanREAD ON
It’s Official: Any Future Gas Attacks In Syria Are Definite False Flags
SPECIAL BONUS Have a laugh on these two sociopathic hypocrites They say they will restore America to being a “leading force for good…” The United States has a well-documented history of using false flags, lies and propaganda to manufacture supportREAD ON
Hersh’s Big Scoop: Bad Intel Behind Trump’s Syria Attack
What was interesting about the Khan Sheikhoun case is that was a test of whom the mainstream media detested more. The MSM has taken the position that pretty much whatever Trump says is untrue or at least deserving of intenseREAD ON
Lies That Capitalists Tell Us
Many capitalists argue that layers of government bureaucracy prevent them from paying their employees a fairer, living wage. This is a huge whopper, as our regulations (like no child labor, a minimum wage, disability and worker’s compensation, basic environmental impactREAD ON
Health care and the fight for socialism
What is involved here is a social counterrevolution. It has been underway for more than four decades, under Democratic as well as Republican administrations. It was accelerated under the Obama administration following the Wall Street crash of 2008. With theREAD ON
Social Security in the Great Jambalaya
“Fraud,” “embezzlement,” “ransacking,” “looting”: These were the appropriate words to describe what was happening to the Social Security Trust Fund when Republicans were Presidents. Of course, Bill Clinton went on to “loot” the fund in exactly the same way, hisREAD ON
Jim Kavanagh on Unlearned Lessons: The Wages of Our Sordid Libyan Crimes
Parting thought: “War on ISIS alway a pretext & sham. Could have [easily] beat ISIS by partnering with its strongest opponents-Syria, Russia, Iran & Hezbollah…” Ignoring or putting aside what the U.S. does in Libya, or Iraq, or Syria, orREAD ON
Resist This: the United States is at War With Syria
Americans, and certainly self-identified “progressives,” have to be crystal clear about this: American armed forces have no right to be in Syria, have no right to restrict the Syrian government from using any of its airspace, or to prevent itREAD ON
Don’t Cry For Me Venezuela
ccording to the great Dr. Johnson, “Men can be estimated by those who know them not, only as they are represented by those who know them.” An unavoidable universal contingency – for, indeed, we don’t know most of the peopleREAD ON
Plutocracy is the opposite of democracy. Don’t let the presstitutes convince you otherwise. (Video)
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Privacy, Control & the Darknet – Alex Winter with Abby Martin
Out of the periphery of most online users, there’s a vast, hidden space used by people who want to remain anonymous, which filmmaker Alex Winter explores in his documentary Deep Web. The film focuses on the Silk Road, a blackREAD ON
Trump Plays Nuclear ‘Chicken’ with Putin over Syria
Both President Emmanuel Macron of France, and Prime Minister Theresa May of UK, have already gone on record as supporting the neoconservative position, that the U.S. and its allies should dictate to the sovereign government of Syria, and that Syria’sREAD ON