Rule # 1: As Long As The Cop Kills His Victim, He Can Make Any Claim He Wants--Uncontested--At The Inquest

Police officer escapes indictment for shooting unarmed man in Colorado - World Socialist Web Site

When Will The American Public Find The Courage To Take Our Country Back?

From the "Red Scares" of the Cold War Era to the "Green Scares" post-9/11, fear has been the most potent tool in the hands of the anti-democratic Corporatocracy that rules this craven nation.

All Together Now!

Same As It Ever Was

LUPE FIASCO - THE L.A.S.E.R.S. MANIFESTO

The American Religion: Disneyanity

Anything can be true, if you just believe it is!

The Smear Campaign Against 1/5th Of The World's Population Continues Apace

FBI Director Comey admits that the alleged perps of the San Bernadino homicides made no social media posts supporting IS.

Surprised? If so, you haven't been paying attention. This tactic has become standard operating procedure in the White Supremacist Police State. "Leak" scapegoating falsehoods to the media while you have everyone's attention and then, later, when interest wanes, issue a correction or disclaimer. The damage is done. If you are ever confronted with evidence to the contrary, pull a Ronnie Reagan "Mistakes were made" mea culpa with no consequences attached.

We will never really know what went down in San Bernadino because, conveniently, the alleged attackers were killed by the police--unlike, say, Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Dear (angry white Christian male). Once dead, they are unable to defend themselves and they and, indeed, their co-religionists the world over, can be defamed at will.

Is this a great country or what?

The "T" Is Silent

I really wish people in the media would learn how to pronounce the Donald's last name correctly. It should be obvious to everyone by now that the "T" is silent.

The Donald

White America's "trump card."

One sentence in this Op/Ed requires editing (as follows): "On the one hand, Trump’s rise represents [delete: the best of] American democracy, which allows any [add: very wealthy and/or politically connected] person to run for public office and permits all views [add: deemed acceptable by the ruling elite] to be aired in the court of public opinion." Full disclosure is always best.

Every Time You Pay Your Federal Income Tax

YOU FUND TERRORISM.

Do We Really Need A Chronic Case Of Arrested Development In The Oval Office?

Think about it...

The New American Nightmare

Social inequality and the disintegration of the American middle class - World Socialist Web Site

Niels Harrit on WTC 7 Evaluation

Simply Stated

Terrorism Takes Many Forms...

Video shows murder by San Francisco police firing squad - World Socialist Web Site

Angry White Men

Gun culture and mass shootings are expressions of the deep insecurities that afflict middle class white males who see their historic socio-economic and cultural privileges slipping from their grasp. But it is the massive transfer of wealth from the middle class to a much smaller privileged few that is actually disenfranchising the Angry White Man. Ironically, that massive transfer of wealth has been engineered by the political elites (Republican and Democrat alike) for whom the American middle class has voted in election after election since at least the 1970s.

Though middle class white males have no one to blame but themselves for their present predicament, some choose to vent their anger and frustration through acts of violence against the poor and people of color, or against the various smoke-screen diversions (like Planned Parenthood) upon which the elites (who are actually robbing them blind) have consistently laid the blame. Or even against random targets--for pulling the trigger delivers a sense of pleasurable control that they cannot find in their homes, their jobs, their churches, or the political process.

The situation is as pathetic as it is dire.

The Runaway Train Called America

Dear Fellow Subjects of the Empire:

Ask yourselves: What is going on in these United States?

IN THE PAST TWO DECADES, MASS SHOOTINGS HAVE BECOME A REGULAR FACT OF LIFE IN THIS COUNTRY.

College campuses, high schools, elementary schools, movie theaters, shopping malls, churches, and office buildings have all been sites of gun and bomb-related tragedies.

As you are no doubt aware, in the past couple of months, the city of Colorado Springs alone has had three active shooter cases.

And you are worried about ISIS?

You should be angry that your government created the conditions in the Middle East that led to the emergence of a criminal organization like ISIS.

YOU SHOULD BE OUTRAGED THAT THE ARCHITECTS OF THOSE CONDITIONS (BUSH, RICE, CHENEY, RUMSFELD, ET AL.) OPERATED IN YOUR NAME AND MANY OF THEM HAVE PROFITED HANDSOMELY FROM THEIR ACTIVITIES AND NONE OF THEM--NOT ONE--HAS BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE IN A COURT OF LAW OR EVEN THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION FOR THEIR NEFARIOUS DEEDS.

Meanwhile, the runaway train called America continues to barrel down the tracks towards oblivion...

Now, I know for a fact that many of you believe in a god, or claim to.

What kind of a god are we talking about here?

A god of war, a god of lies, a god of mass murder and mayhem for profit?

Let me ask you something with all due respect: Have you completely lost your minds?


Or have you so stupefied yourselves on drugs and alcohol, on ice cream and bacon-fat, on fried bread and virtual reality war games to the point where you don't know which end is up anymore?

Perhaps that is why you go on "pro-life" shooting sprees. Of course, it doesn't really matter how you attempt to justify your actions. All that really matters is that, with a gun, you can exercise real power over others. Because you know that, when you pull the trigger, something real is finally going to happen for you.

Disneyanity, the American religion of self-delusion, is, at bottom, pure nihilism...

Nothing but fairy dust...

The Face Of Terror

Bob Dear.

Nota bene how the NYT effectively buries his "pro-life" confession.

It's Simply Mathematics

A History Lesson

American Resistance to a Standing Army | Teachinghistory.org

See The World We Have Made!

Call it "McWorld" and hire thugs to try to keep it in place...

Her Royal Clintonness Has Kept Her "Progressive Facade" Hidden From Me Since About 1993...But, Whatever...

Hillary Clinton Sheds Progressive Façade With Bold Rightward Lurch (from @Truthdig)

Working Class Troubadour

Joe Hill.

The Continuing Betrayal Of Our Democratic Aspirations By The 4th Estate

The media and the Paris terror attacks - World Socialist Web Site

Keeping Tabs On The 4th Estate

Media coverage of terrorism.

Your Wars, Our Dead

Commentary by Julien Salingue.

How Cultures Die

Sound Advice

The Thick Blue Line

Number of people killed by police this year in US surpasses 1,000 - World Socialist Web Site

Baldwinian Love

State Of The Onion

How Long?

How long can the American people subsist on a diet of hate and fear? This poisoned cocktail fuels the engine of the Two Party system. The Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama years have been overwhelmingly colored by it: even "the man from Hope" and the candidate who made Hope one of his campaign slogans have demonstrated themselves all too capable of re-fueling the tank with the toxic brew when they felt it was politically expedient.

I came to political consciousness in a different time...

Deja Vu All Over Again

By current standards, Richard Nixon was a Liberal. By current standards, Hillary Clinton is a Liberal. So, if Clinton is Nixon, then Trump must be George Wallace and Bernie Sanders is Eugene McCarthy.

We have all been here before.

$420 Tiny House Made from Recycled Materials

Let's Follow Canada's Lead

And put Bonzo back to bed...Permanently...

A Snowball's Chance?

Bernie Sanders on Black Lives Matter and Planned Parenthood

Is This Supposed To Be Reassuring?

Bernie Sanders Is About as Radical as Harry Truman

The Politics Of Wishful Thinking

Chimes Of Freedom

Bob Dylan.

Meanwhile, In A Land Without Guns...

How Japan has virtually eliminated shooting deaths.

U.S. Is # 1

In mass shootings.

The National Anthem

Reassuring Or Disappointing?

Wouldn't a "mainstream Sanders" ultimately mean "more of the same"?

Despite What Corporate Media Tells You, Bernie Sanders' Positions Are Mainstream | BillMoyers.com

Political Candidates Debate

When Oligarchs Rule

When oligarchs rule, political spectrum is lost and political spectacle fills the void.

Donald Trump is merely emblematic of this principle.

The oligarch Hillary Clinton is hardly a solution.


The feeling that you must choose one or the other is only confirmation that you are caught in a trap.

Whereas voting ratifies the oligarchic system--because it suggests that the United States has a functioning democracy--refusing to vote casts a REAL vote against the system itself.

Which would you rather do? Let your conscience be your guide.

Once again, I call for A MASSIVE NON-VOTE in 2016. De-legitimize the oligarchic system. Send it into crisis mode. Let the revolution begin.

Or stop complaining, have another glass of Kool-Aid and, between gulps, profess your love for Big Brother.

Is Fox News More Dangerous Than Isis? Russell Brand The Trews

Why Isn't Dick Cheney Behind Bars?

We Never Came Home

The climax of Senator George McGovern's acceptance speech at the 1972 Democratic convention in Miami, Florida:

From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America

From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America.

From the entrenchment of special privileges in tax favoritism; from the waste of idle hands to the joy of useful labor; from the prejudice based on race and sex; from the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected sick -- come home, America.

Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward.

Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world, and let us be joyful in that homecoming, for this “is your land, this land is my land -- from California to New York island, from the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters -- this land was made for you and me.”

So let us close on this note: May God grant each one of us the wisdom to cherish this good land and to meet the great challenge that beckons us home.

And now is the time to meet that challenge.

GREAT BLOG!

Wide Asleep In America.

Here's How It Works

As the minority party, the Republicans have come to recognize that, in order to have their way, they must work not only with the Democratic Party but through it.

In fact, shrewd Republicans prefer to work through the Dems rather than with them because, that way, the majority of the electorate can believe that it is having its way when, in fact, it is being manipulated by the minority.

In light of this fact, it should be clear that, at present, there is no Presidential candidate more acceptable to the GOP than Hillary Clinton. Her record in the Senate clearly demonstrates that she is a pachyderm at heart. How best to ensure her election? Everyone knows that Clinton has no truly viable challenger among the Democratic hopefuls so there is nothing to worry about from the so-called Party of the People. All that the Republicans have to do is throw the election. And who better to help them do that than...the Donald?

NOLA: State Of Delusion

Former presidents Bush and Clinton celebrate transformation of New Orleans - World Socialist Web Site

Tired Of Reaganomics?

Consider heading portside.

Who's Too Big To Fail?

US stock rally collapses amid fears of global slump

The Gulag Across Town

The cover-up of torture in America’s prisons - World Socialist Web Site

A "Fair And Balanced" Look At Ronald Reagan

Tear Down This Myth: Six Questions for Will Bunch | Harper's Magazine

Let's Put The "Christ" Back In "Christian"

Part One: The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America

<em>The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America</em>

Part Two: The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America

<em>The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America</em>

The Fiction Of A "Liberated" Iraq Continues To Unravel

Abadi announces reforms aimed at “decentralization” of Iraq

Meet The Senator From The State Of Israel

Chuck Schumer.

He took over the post from the former Senator from the State of Israel, Joe Lieberman.

It's important to know the true constituencies of these politicians: whose interests they represent, and whose interests they do not represent.

The 70th Anniversary Of The Bombing Of Hiroshima

The 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima - World Socialist Web Site

Grand Old Party

Is The GOP Becoming a Party of Fascists?

Those Who Cannot Remember The Past...

are condemned to repeat it.

The Court of Star Chamber.

He's A Lawyer, What Do You Expect?

Eric Holder and the Corporatocracy.

Photos Recently Released From Government Archives...

...pursuant to FOIA requests suggest that the tragic events of 9/11/01 were less than enthralling for the man who had helped to script them: Dick Cheney.

American Mass Murder Madness

As the stories unfold in Lafayette Louisiana and Broken Arrow Oklahoma (among other tragedies in this all-too-tragic summer), we need to ask ourselves: what is going on here?

The Police Murder Of Sandra Bland

The police murder of Sandra Bland - World Socialist Web Site

The New York Times

Should be shut down.

They Won! They Won! Hallelujah, They Won!

Raising the Cuban flag on U.S. soil means one thing and one thing only: after over half a century of struggle, the great people of Cuba have beaten the last superpower!

Commentary On The Confederate Flag Controversy

From The Socialist Worker.

Got Conscience?

Buy a T-Shirt:

'Cause the World Can't Wait.

Feudalism Then And Now

And So It Goes...

Straight From The Orwellian Playbook

Got To Be Thwarting Something...

Glenn Ford: An American Tragedy

Glenn Ford: An American tragedy - World Socialist Web Site

If You're No Longer Of Any Use To The Corporation, You Should Just Do The Decent Thing And Die

Pittsburgh energy company cuts health care for 4,400 retired workers - World Socialist Web Site

Lies My Teacher Told Me

The homepage of James Loewen.

Another Pitcher Of Kool-Aid For A Thirsty Populace

The US Supreme Court and marriage equality - World Socialist Web Site

Meanwhile, In The Orwellian States of Amnesia, The Race Killing Continues...

The mass killing in Charleston, South Carolina

Boston Bomber Execution - Justice Or Crime?

The Face of Terrorism

Read about the Rev. Doggart's plan here.

The Trews

We Are Many

Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number –
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many - they are few.

[from P. B. Shelley, "Masks of Anarchy"].

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Seymour Hersh

The bin Laden assassination and the lies of the “war on terror” - World Socialist Web Site

It Can't Happen Here

Oh yeah? It's already happening...

Gospel of Wealth