How the US became the center of global kleptocracy The US has become the key cog in the machine of modern kleptocracy worldwide. But it didn’t start with Trump. By Casey Michel February 03, 2020 Critics of President Donald Trump frequently use…
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How Long Will It Take For The US To Collapse?
How Long Will It Take For The US To Collapse? Fri, 01/03/2020 – 23:45 Authored by Brandon Smith There are a multitude of false assumptions out there on what the collapse of a nation or “empire” looks like. Modern…
Giuliani Banging The Trump Drum, But For Whom?
Franklin Foer Staff writer for The Atlantic Rudy Giuliani Is Living the Dream Don’t let his butt-dials distract from his cunning. It can sometimes seem as if Donald Trump has outsourced the defense of his presidency to an erratic buffoon. Rudy…
U.S. An Oligarchy More Than A Democracy
Princeton Study: The U.S. Is Not ‘Losing’ Its Democracy, It’s Already Long Gone By Richard Enos The Facts: – A Princeton University study found that the United States operates much more as an Oligarchy than as a Democracy. Reflect On:…
Trump Just Might Be The Catalyst
Why Aren’t Americans Rising Up Like We Are Seeing Across the Planet? By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies November 16, 2019 The waves of protests breaking out in country after country around the world beg the question: Why…
Death By Oligarchy
Death by Oligarchy By Chris Hedges November 11, 2019 Oligarchs are blinded by hubris, wealth and power. Their cloying sense of entitlement sees them outraged by even the most tepid reforms or mildest of criticisms. They lack empathy and compassion,…
Dying Empires And The Enemy Within
Dying Empires And The Enemy Within By Chris Hedges November 04, 2019 Our democracy is not in peril—we do not live in a democracy. The image of our democracy is in peril. The deep state—the generals, bankers, corporatists, lobbyists, intelligence chiefs, government bureaucrats…
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…
Russiagate Becomes Israelgate
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Who was corrupting the American political system? Reading the mainstream media headlines relating to the flipping of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to provide evidence relating to the allegations about Russian interference in America’s last…
Hillary Clinton Keeps Pointing Fingers
Submitted by ButtCracker — Hillary Clinton blames others for last year’s electoral defeat, never recognizing that many Americans — both Democrats and Republicans — found her public record appalling, as Dennis J Bernstein discusses with John Pilger. By Dennis J…
Clinton, Assange and the War on Truth
Submitted by ButtCracker — Australia’s public broadcasting network gave Hillary Clinton an open mike to defame WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange as “a tool of Russian intelligence” without giving him a chance to respond, as John Pilger describes. By John Pilger On…
How Serious Was Russia’s “Probing” of U.S. Election Systems?
NSA contractor Reality Winner allegedly leaked documents showing that Russia probed U.S. election systems days before the 2016 presidential election. How big a crisis is this? Washington’s Blog asked Bill Binney, the NSA executive who created the agency’s mass surveillance…
2016: The year Washington lost its mind
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Protesters wearing masks of presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump © Dominick Reuter / Reuters Seismic is the only word to describe 2016, especially when describing the US-Russia relationship. Paraphrasing Gramsci, it was a year in which…
US Intel Vets Dispute Russia Hacking Claims
As the hysteria about Russia’s alleged interference in the U.S. election grows, a key mystery is why U.S. intelligence would rely on “circumstantial evidence” when it has the capability for hard evidence, say U.S. intelligence veterans. Veteran Intelligence Professionals for…
Jill Stein just called… Green Party filing for recount in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania
Jill Stein just called to say that I am the first one to be informed that the Green Party is formally petitioning for a recount in 3 states, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Trump’s margin is less than 11,600 in Michigan, 27,200…
Noam Chomsky discusses Trump victory he predicted 6 years ago
Submitted by ButtCracker — Donald Trump’s victory came as a shock to many, but not to renowned scholar and activist Noam Chomsky, who foresaw a similar outcome in 2010. Now Chomsky sees “one hopeful prospect” of a Trump presidency. Speaking…
Election 2016: The World Was Watching – With Disgust
As election day arrived in the U.S. yesterday, European newspapers signaled their grave concerns over a presidential election that has left them stunned and anxious. The French newspaper, Aujourd’hui En France, used its front page to question whether the American…
Assange: WikiLeaks did not receive Clinton emails from Russian govt (JOHN PILGER EXCLUSIVE)
Submitted by: ButtCracker — In a John Pilger Special, to be exclusively broadcast by RT on Saturday courtesy of Dartmouth Films, whistleblower Julian Assange categorically denied that the troves of US Democratic Party and Clinton work and staff emails released…
The Modern History of ‘Rigged’ US Elections
Special Report: Donald Trump claims the U.S. presidential election is “rigged,” drawing condemnation from the political/media establishment which accuses him of undermining faith in American democracy. But neither side understands the real problem, says Robert Parry. The United States is so…