There’s something happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear. But, the picture is coming into view if you are willing to open your eyes and realize how evil our billionaire overlords really are. If you make oil scarce, you create famine, and famine creates death on a massive…
The old line about “truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne” comes to mind regularly now, as I observe the dying throes of the American Republic. It’s probably fitting that we’ve closed most of the mental institutions, since the entire country has largely devolved into the…
“The cost of war is too damn highNot another nickelNot another dimeWe won’t pay for Trump’s war crimes.”—Chanted by anti-war military veteran protesters in DC Reports of food shortages on naval ships deployed to the Middle East. Video footage of disabled military veterans—some in wheelchairs,…
Donald Trump ran for the presidency as a populist and he won as a populist. All the usual suspects—such as Hillary Clinton—condemned him as a populist. The political playbook his campaign followed served up the typical populist fare for the voters. That is, Trump promised to serve the…
House Republicans on Thursday unveiled legislation to extend for three years a surveillance authority that permits the collection of communications from non-U.S. persons located abroad without a warrant. The House Rules Committee released the nine-page bill, which would renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) through…
The Justice Department’s recent indictment of Southern Poverty Law Center on “11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering” gives me significant pause. The indictment alleges that the so-called “civil rights” outfit, has given around $3 million dollars to…
Another Tuesday and another TACO night. But of course we are not complaining that the bombs aren’t falling. Thank heavens for the partial and tenuous respite from the BibiDon mayhem in the Persian Gulf. What this latest Trumpian gambit tells you, however, is something far more ominous: To wit,…
We’re in the “lull in the action” phase of the conflict, as both sides posture and maneuver to get a bead on the other both politically and diplomatically. And this lull has seen a lot of peculiarities. Firstly, the US Secretary of the Navy John Phelan has either…
You have probably never heard of Palantir Technologies. That is not an accident. Palantir is the surveillance company the CIA helped fund in 2003. It tracks what you buy, who you call, where you go, what medications you take. It feeds that into AI systems that rate every American…
Washington continues to escalate tensions with Tehran, attempting to enforce its blockade on Iranian ports. This, as a third U.S. aircraft carrier, more warships and thousands of additional troops are heading toward the Middle East. Ret. U.S. Army Col. Douglas Macgregor said he’s being told that the next U.S.
