Our Score 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…
The Prisoner Says No to Big Brother
Worshipping the Electronic Image
Our Score 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…
I Pledge Allegiance to the United States of Sociopathy
Our Score 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…
Collapse Is Already Here
Our Score 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…
Banishing Truth
Our Score 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…
Crucifying Julian Assange
Our Score 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…
A Badge of Shame: The Government’s War on America’s Military Veterans
Our Score 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.…
Scum vs. Scum
Our Score 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…
Pulitzer winner Chris Hedges: Donald Trump “is the product of a failed democracy”
Our Score 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…
The Rats Revolt
Our Score 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…