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It’s always dicey to point to a date, but that’s what the Russian media has done. Foreign papers are carrying this story along with a handful of bloggers, but I haven’t heard a peep from the corporate media here. We’re in the middle of a show of force as we begin our war games in [...]
Last week Air Force secretary Michael Wynne charmed the nation when he suggested that high-tech non-lethal weapons should be tested in domestic crowd-control situations before using them overseas.
RJ Eskow, blogging for the Huffington Post, warns that the situation is, “worse than we heard … much worse.” He’s right. We’re talking about torture. We’re also talking [...]
On the day US District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled that George W. Bush and Michael Hayden violated the constitution with their warrantless wiretapping the press was in a frenzy. Unfortunately, the hysteria was over the arrest of the suspected killer of JonBenet Ramsey, an operation performed with an assist from, oddly enough, Homeland [...]
If this is old news to you, great! If not, read-up.
Laurence Britt wrote a fantastic article for Free Inquiry Magazine back in 2003. He produced a list of 14 commonalities shared by a culturally diverse set of criminal regimes:
For the purpose of this perspective, I will consider the following regimes: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Franco’s [...]
The criminals in charge keep pushing the United States down that slippery slope towards fascism. I’m sick of it. I’m new to political activism – I’d rather spend my time painting. Unfortunately, if current trends continue we’ll be living in a totalitarian hell-hole within my lifetime.
I have an English degree (creative writing really), and I’m a lover of American Literature from the Romantic [...]
