The great financial catastrophe of our times is still badly misunderstood, and led to grotesque consequences, including the election of Donald Trump… Read More Taibbi: Ten Years After the Crash, We’ve Learned Nothing
What kind of world will we live in when when Facebook, Twitter, and Google, working with the government and its intelligence services, control everything we see and hear?… Read More Matt Taibbi: How Facebook and Google Threaten Our Civil Liberties
The social network is too big and broken to properly function, and these “fixes” will only create more problems… Read More Taibbi: Beware the Slippery Slope of Facebook Censorship
Every voice has been shoved off the stage but that of the political and media establishment which just so happens to be owned and operated by the same powerful oligarchs who want Assange silenced and prosecuted for challenging their rule… Read More As Long As Assange Is Silenced, Claims Against Him Are Illegitimate
Though The New York Times itself has not reported it, it’s No. 2 lawyer told a group of judges that the prosecution of Julian Assange could have dire consequences for the Times itself… Read More The Gray Lady Thinks Twice About Assange’s Prosecution
The appropriate response to the threat of a world war erupting in Syria is not really fear; it is unmitigated, howling rage at the western sociopaths who created this situation in the first place… Read More What the West Has Done to Syria
Julian Assange is on a most wanted list not for what he’s already published, but for what he might yet publish in the future… Read More I Am Julian Assange
A sustained campaign is underway to lower our defences and weaken our critical thinking in ways that assist those in power to launch their assault on democratic norms… Read More 2018: When Orwell’s 1984 Stopped Being Fiction
As the U.S. moves closer toward all out war in Syria, a lot of what our government seems to base its intelligence on, especially claims of chemical weapon use by they Syrian government, is an impartial humanitarian group called the White Helmets. But whose interests do they actually serve? Follow the money. … Read More Reality Check: Who’s Funding the White Helmets?
Neo-fascists play an important official or tolerated role in US-backed Ukraine.… Read More America’s Collusion With Neo-Nazis
The Left’s anti-Brexit hysteria is based on a mixture of bad economics, flawed understanding of the European Union, and lack of political imagination… Read More Why the Left Should Embrace Brexit
When is a witness not a witness?… Read More The West Closes Its Ears to Douma Testimony
