Category: Political

When YOUR Bank Fails, Don’t Walk … Run!

Our Score So. The US economy is just fine. The post-recession 2010 Dodd-Frank legislation has cured all. Banks have lots of cash. Congress is your friend and that certain-to-pass Tax Cut and Jobs bill will finally allow you, your family…

FCC plans total repeal of net neutrality rules

Our Score Submitted by:  ButtCracker   — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will reveal plans to his fellow commissioners on Tuesday to fully dismantle the agency’s Obama-era net neutrality regulations, people familiar with the plans said, in a major victory…

Israel’s Money Machine

Our Score Submitted by:  ButtCracker   — The stars came out in Hollywood on November 2nd, or at least some of them did. The gala event celebrated the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and raised funds to support its mission in Israel…

Clinton, Assange and the War on Truth

Our Score 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…

A Silenced Israeli Critic

Our Score Submitted by ButtCracker   — Although the U.S. news media’s fancies itself the world’s “gold standard,” it operates with stunning hypocrisy and huge blind spots, none bigger than its fawning coverage of Israel that ignores critics like Miko Peled,…

Oppose Fascism of the Right and the Left

Our Score Submitted by:  ButtCracker   — Following the recent clashes between the alt-right and the group antifa, some libertarians have debated which group they should support. The answer is simple: neither. The alt-right and its leftist opponents are two sides…

The Israel Lobby vs the First Amendment

Our Score Submitted by:  ButtCracker  — The Congress’ attempt to ban the BDS movement is an attack on core democratic values of the US. The adage goes, “Be careful what you wish for, because you might just get it.” Indeed,…

America’s Death Throes

Our Score Submitted by:  ButtCracker   — China and Russia have already ditched the US dollar in their vast energy trade. Now China is leveraging Saudi Arabia to also abandon the greenback for oil sales. No wonder, it seems, that US…