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…

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…

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…

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…

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…