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Ellen Brown: Crushing the States, Saving the Banks: the Fed’s Generous New Rules
It has long been a goal of conservatives to privatize public pensions, forcing seniors into the riskier stock market. Lured in by market booms, their savings can then be raided…
Maj. Danny: America’s Libyan Detritus: The One Time Trump Was Right – It Was All Obama’s Fault
Nine years on – and one pandemic later – the Libyan 'shit show,' has gone full mercenary … and few notice.
Andrew Bacevich: A Greatest Generation We Are Not
We’re two decades into a new century, one in which the U.S. has been fighting a series of wars that won’t end and in which this country has only recently…
Netanyahu Uses Apparently Faked Docs to Push US Toward War with Iran
An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli fabrication designed to trigger US military conflict with Iran.
New Fauci Interview: No Scientific Evidence the Virus Linked to China Lab
In an exclusive deep-dive interview with National Geographic published Monday, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases “shot down the discussion that has been raging…
Plague Journal #7: Remembering the Shock of Reporting on Kent State
A mostly forgotten element that bridges the Nixon-Trump eras is the thuggish fact-free ways Trump et al are dividing the country to preserve their electoral viability. As is the search…
Maj. Danny: Eugene Debs and the Age of Corona
In this pandemic-era, it has become increasingly clear that we are only as healthy as the least insured—hence the poorest—in our society.
Blind Rage
Mr. FishDwayne Booth (a.k.a., Mr. Fish) is a cartoonist and freelance writer, has been published in many reputable and prestigious magazines, journals and newspapers. In addition to Harper’s Magazine, his…
An Army of Humanity to Fight Crimes Against Humanity
A United Nations Rapid Deployment Force would give individual citizens all around the world the ability to volunteer to do more than just “serve their countries.” It would give them…
Tom Engelhardt: ‘The Killer-in-Chief’
Historically speaking, killing Afghans or Iraqis or Syrians or Yemenis or Somalis has always been one thing, but Americans? That’s another story entirely, no? As it happens, the answer is…
[Rewind] Shoshana Walter: America’s Drug Rehab Gulag Provides Free Labor for Corporations
In a groundbreaking series, the journalist reveals the work camps operating all over the country under the guise of rehab centers.
Maj. Danny: Heaven Protect Us from Another President’s West Point Graduation Speech
Thus far, the media focus has unsurprisingly been on either the foolishness – or near criminality – of President Trump "requiring” West Point’s seniors to return to campus for the…
Putting the Pandemic in Historical Context: Robert Scheer on ‘Fortress on the Hill’ (pt. 1)
Robert “Bob” Scheer, famed journalist, interviewer, activist, and editor, stops by the podcast to discuss his career, his interviews with American presidents from Nixon to Clinton, and his radio show…
Netanyahu Confident Trump Will Let Him Annex Vast Swathes of Palestinian Territory
Since Europe is weak and pusillanimous when it comes to dealing with Israeli aggression, or in some cases is simply perfidious, the issue has been left in the hands of…
Chris Hedges on The Jimmy Dore Show: On Sanders and the New (Old) Normal
Host Jimmy Dore intervews Chris Hedges. Discussion starts with how progressive national leaders have rolled over for the corporate forces during the pandemic before moving on to where things are…