Yeah, I Know. But We Still MUST Rise Up And VOTE!!!
All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House. Hunter S. Thompson (more…)
Monday Ménage
Nancy Isenberg. Bradley Whitford. Joseph Stalin. When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win. Nancy Isenberg (more…)
Unhinged, Angry, Scared White Men: Face Of The GOP
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Cowards
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday: “Even by the far left’s standards, this shameful, shameful smear campaign has hit a new low. Senate Democrats and their allies are trying to destroy a…
Chaos, Crisis And The Collapse Of Democracy. Part Deux
Leaders are a danger to democracy if they have weak commitments to democratic rules, if they deny opponents legitimacy, if they insinuate or tolerate violence, if they show willingness to curb civil liberties, if…
Chaos, Crisis And The Collapse Of Democracy
Propaganda seeks to create in the public a chronic sense of crisis, which in turn justifies the expansion of executive power and the secrecy surrounding it. The executive then asserts his “presidential” qualities by…
THAT’S NOT NEWS!
Americans Like Their News. They Like To Get Their News From Social Media. They Don’t Expect Their News To Be Accurate. (more…)
China: Thanks Google, We’ll Take Good Care Of The Internet
In demonstrating that a company as mighty as Google was unable to resist the allure of the Chinese market, despite the terms of entry, Beijing will advance its campaign to remake global internet governance…
10 Years. Congratulations!
Free Expression A Human Right. And Then There’s Trump
“His attacks are strategic, designed to undermine confidence in reporting and raise doubts about verifiable facts” (more…)
N E X T…
Cohen Bombshell: Trump Directed Hush Money Payments. Manafort Found Guilty On 8 Counts: Faces 80 Years in LockUp. (more…)
Censored 2019: Fighting the Fake News Invasion (Pre Sale)
Censored 2019, once again presents the News that Didn’t Make the News (and why) in our annual listing of the Top 25 underreported stories, as well as documenting the corporate media’s most egregious Junk…
I Know… Parallel Universe
President’s Speech Seen As Bid To Increase Control Over Military In Face Of Criticism “The fact that he has to keep having these campaigns means he is encountering certain resistance within the military, that…
U.S. Press Push Back **UPDATED**
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Profiting From Hate
Who’s Taking Blood Money From Hate Groups? Let’s be clear; every dollar these companies make from white supremacists is BLOOD MONEY. Their inaction begs the question: whose side are they on? America is facing…
Thursday Lesson
[junkie-dropcap]A[/junkie-dropcap] little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold the bird froze and fell to the ground into a large field. While he was lying there, a cow came by…
History As Reminder
President Richard M. Nixon resigned from office 9 August 1974, 44 years ago
Rove To Trump: Stop With The Stalin Thing
Karl Rove, President George W. Bush‘s Deputy Chief of Staff, thinks Trump is sounding too much like Stalin. How bad of an American president do you have to be to have Karl Rove -…
Not Just An Image: This Is Trump’s America
Electoral gains by the far right in Europe have inspired American extremists to exchange their white robes and brown shirts for business suits in a bid to enter mainstream politics. (more…)
Monday Ménage
Mark Twain. Leo Tolstoy. Unknown. (more…)
Press Freedom 2018: Good News, Bad News
The 2018 World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders is out and for the United States it’s a good news - bad news story. Bad News: The United States remains in the mid…
Wife of Marine Combat Veteran, Mother of Two, Deported
Pleading and pressure from around the country did not stop the Trump Administration from deporting Alejandra Juarez, the wife of a Marine combat veteran and mother of two young American-born daughters. “I am very…
Who Is The Real Enemy of The People???
[junkie-dropcap]T[/junkie-dropcap]he 2016 Republican presidential candidate blamed evil media forces for his ridiculous performance at the first debate. He has blamed the media for his short-comings from the day he announced his candidacy. In fact,…
All The Usual Suspects and Then Some: RSF’s Predator Gallery
Reporters Without Borders has produced a gallery (with images and data) of world leaders afraid of Press Freedom. (more…)
History, Ain’t It Somethin’
Mass extremism, intolerance, a desperate desire for radical change - all factors that make a stable democracy impossible… .
Feeling Tired? Might Be The Fecal Parasite In Your Wrap
U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a public health alert due to concerns about contamination with Cyclospora - a fecal parasite. Beef, pork and poultry salad and wrap…
A Canadian Take: Trump Stuck In Putin’s Swamp
Donald Trump doesn't care about sex scandals or videos. He has entertained the National Enquirer's readers for decades by constantly cheating on his wife or mistress of the day. The rest of the world…
Politics & Policy
Constitutional America???
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Dead By Cop
Black, Native, Latino Americans Are Killed At A Much Higher Rate Than White Americans
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Hey, US Ed, History Calls
The invasion by Europeans of the ‘New World’ saw the First Nations population go from around 15 million in 1500 to just over 200,000 in 1900. (U.S. only. Does Not include data on First Nations Peoples of Canada).
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Project 2025 & The Military
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Shrewd, SlipUp, Or Just Plain Stupid …
In a meeting with hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals: “It’s unacceptable seeing ‘fat generals and admirals’ in the halls of the Pentagon, and leading commands around the country and the world. It’s a bad look.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Ebony McMorris, reporter for American Urban Radio Networks (AURN): “Mr. President, what are your plans for—” McMorris began (one of the few Black reporters in the WH Press Corps). “Quiet. You’re really obnoxious,” said Trump. “I’m not obnoxious, but I’m trying to ask you what about your plans for Memphis, Mr. President?” “You are really obnoxious,” said Trump (president of the USA).
“I think she’s a disgraceful person, you know, I think she’s a disgraceful person, a loser. It’s amazing the way people vote. I know it’s people from her area, maybe of the world, I don’t know. They got here and they vote her in. I don’t know. It’s hard to believe. But I think she’s a disgusting person.”
That’s the President of the United States of America making remarks about seated member of the House, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), to reporters in the Oval Office.
‘If Republicans don’t block voting rights, Democrats will allow “child molesters” and “illegal aliens” to vote and Republicans will be out of power for years’. Ted Cruz, Republican U.S. Senator from Texas. Same Ted Cruz who voted to force changing legal votes of Electoral College. Went so far as to incite an insurrection.
Simple Reminder
Stuff…
News Disorder, It’s A Thing I’m always tired because at night I can’t sleep unless I watch the news. Then I watch the news and can’t sleep.
Your Tingly Leaving You know that tingly little feeling you get when you like someone? That’s your common sense leaving your body.
Don’t Wanna Know It is possible to lead a cow upstairs – but – not downstairs. Question: Why in the hell would you want to take a cow upstairs? Wait, no, don’t tell me. I don’t want to know.
Kane’s Clinic
Wheel In The Sky
Journey From their album, Infinity – the first album with Steve Perry on lead vocals. Released January 1978.
Going Back Home
Sherman Robertson From the 1998 Rockin’ Blues album (CD) Going Back Home
Out Of The Rain
Etta James From her 1990 Soulful Blues album Stickin’ To My Guns
Dreams
Brandi Carlile * From WFUV LIVE CD (FM 90.7 in the Greater New York City area). Originally on her 2009 folk-rock album Give Up The Ghost.
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Marvin Gaye Originally On His Landmark 1971 Album What’s Going On
Amigo De Verdad
Gipsyland from their album Viva La Musica. Recorded in Cancoon Studio Paris and DreamHouse Studios London.
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