Author: buttmeister
This Outlaw Power
Submitted by: ButtCracker — On June 4th the Chinese government issued a travel alert for Chinese tourists thinking of visiting the United States, a day after it issued a similar advisory to Chinese students thinking of studying in the US…
The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell’s 1984 Is No Longer Fiction
You Just Might Be A…Thought Criminal Submitted by: ButtCracker The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell’s 1984 Is No Longer Fiction By John W. Whitehead “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made…
How to Survive the Journey Ahead: A Graduation Message for a Terrifying Age
Submitted by: ButtCracker — “No matter who you are, no matter how strong you are, sooner or later, you’ll face circumstances beyond your control.” — Cersei Lannister, Game of Thrones Those coming of age today will face some of the…
Venezuela in “Misery” – Lies and Deceit by the Media
Submitted by: ButtCracker — NYT – 18 May 2019 – Venezuela’s Collapse Is the Worst Outside of War in Decades, Economists Subtitle: Butchers have stopped selling meat cuts in favor of offal, fat shavings and cow hooves, the only animal…
Farage & Gabbard – Lions Of The Great Realignment
Submitted by: ButtCracker — There is a realignment coming in electoral politics. It began with Ron Paul in 2008 and has been building for more than a decade. We know this story well. That realignment will be about restoring not…
An Empire of Bullshit
Submitted by: Buttmeister — After two years of gaslighting the public while it blew smoke up America’s ass, the Jacobin news media enjoyed its final feeding frenzy with the release of the 400-page Mueller report. They expected 1000 pounds of…
How You Can Be Certain That The US Charge Against Assange Is Fraudulent
Submitted by: Buttmeister — Julian Assange sits in a jail cell today after being betrayed by the Ecuadorian government and his home country of Australia. A British judge named Michael Snow has found the WikiLeaks founder guilty of violating bail…
War Against Venezuela Is War Against Us All
Submitted by: ButtCracker — The American war on Venezuela continues to escalate with the sabotage of its electricity grid, the most serious action of all so far, which was not only an act of terrorism against the entire civilian population…
The Prisoner Says No to Big Brother
Submitted by ButtCracker — Whenever I visit Julian Assange, we meet in a room he knows too well. There is a bare table and pictures of Ecuador on the walls. There is a bookcase where the books never change. The…
Worshipping the Electronic Image
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Trump is a creature—maybe the poster child—of the modern, post-literate culture Donald Trump, like much of the American public, is entranced by electronic images. He interprets reality through the distortions of digital media. His decisions, opinions,…
I Pledge Allegiance to the United States of Sociopathy
Submitted by: ButtCracker — In Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller, Shadow of a Doubt, spunky, recent high school grad Teresa Wright discovers her beloved uncle is a serial killer. Wright’s subsequent efforts to protect herself and others from psychopathic Joseph Cotten…
Collapse Is Already Here
Submitted by: ButtCracker – Many people are expecting some degree of approaching collapse — be it economic, environmental and/or societal — thinking that they’ll recognize the danger signs in time. As if it will be completely obvious, like a Hollywood…
Banishing Truth
Submitted by: ButtCracker — The investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, in his memoir “Reporter,” describes a moment when as a young reporter he overheard a Chicago cop admit to murdering an African-American man. The murdered man had been falsely described by…
Crucifying Julian Assange
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Julian Assange’s sanctuary in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London has been transformed into a little shop of horrors. He has been largely cut off from communicating with the outside world for the last seven months. His…
A Badge of Shame: The Government’s War on America’s Military Veterans
Submitted by: ButtCracker — “For soldiers serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, coming home is more lethal than being in combat.” ― Brené Brown, research professor at the University of Houston Not all heroes wear the uniform of war. In the…
Scum vs. Scum
Submitted by: ButtCracker — There is perhaps no better illustration of the deep decay of the American political system than the Senate race in New Jersey. Sen. Bob Menendez, running for re-election, was censured by the Senate Ethics Committee for…
Pulitzer winner Chris Hedges: Donald Trump “is the product of a failed democracy”
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Acclaimed progressive journalist on Trump’s mastery of political theater, and the downfall of American democracy The United States, by many measures, appears to be a sick society. It has one of the highest rates of wealth…
The Rats Revolt
Submitted by: ButtCracker — There is no American who has fought with more tenacity, courage and integrity to expose the crimes of corporate power and to thwart the corporate coup d’état that has destroyed our democracy than Ralph Nader. Not…
The US military’s vision for state censorship
Submitted by: ButtCracker — In March, the United States Special Operations Command, the section of the Defense Department supervising the US Special Forces, held a conference on the theme of “Sovereignty in the Information Age.” The conference brought together Special…