There is a dark side to President Barack Obama’s legacy on national and international security matters that will enable President-elect Donald Trump to damage America’s political institutions as well as its standing in the global community. President Obama, a Harvard-trained lawyer and an expert in constitutional law, was insufficiently scrupulous in protecting our moral obligations, creating an ironic and unfortunate …
PAUL STREET – Beyond Anti-Trump
Let’s be careful about the phrase “anti-Trump coalition.” The phrase leaves the door open for everything being about the Big Bad Donald and for progressives to get sucked/suckered once again into the ruling class politics of the Democrats. We need to take on the unelected deep state dictatorships of money, class, race, empire, militarism, sexism, and ecocide – the reigning oppression …
AMANDA MARCOTTE – Fake news for the Great Leader: Donald Trump’s readymade White House propaganda machine
Donald Trump ran a campaign built almost exclusively on lies and demagoguery, so it stands to reason that his presidency will usher in a new era of deceitful propaganda as well. It could very well dwarf the George W. Bush administration’s infamous propaganda push around the Iraq War. As detailed in a recent report from Media Matters, is that Trump …
Trends This Week – Crybaby liberals can’t get over the election – 01.04.17
From blaming Hillary Clinton’s loss on alleged Russian hacking to screaming “fake news, fake news” at every turn, liberals, aided and abetted by the mainstream media, just can’t get over November 8. And, as Gerald Celente so powerfully points out, they’re embarking on a fast-moving downward spiral.
Jon Queally – Majority of Americans Unconvinced Trump Can Handle Nation’s Top Job
With his inauguration now less than three weeks away, a new survey shows a majority of the American people are far from confident that Donald Trump, a former reality television star who won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, is up to the major tasks entrusted to the President of the United States. …
Expat Files – 12.30.16
#1- Driving your car from the US to Latin America(or not): Though its not normally recommended that you drive down, just in case you’re the adventurous type and want to roll the dice, here are a few tips … #2- Tips on buying a car in Latin America: mostly what NOT to do. #3 -Mexico’s complicated rules of car ownership …
Lynn Stuart Parramore – Homo Obnoxious: Is Toxic Masculinity Really Taking Over the Country?
It wasn’t supposed to turn out like this. We were said to be approaching the demise of a certain type of swaggering, predatory masculinity: let’s call him Homo Obnoxious. As men like Roger Ailes, Bill Cosby, Anthony Weiner, and Billy Bush scrambled unsuccessfully to find cover in the old-boy bastions of privilege, Homo Obnoxious appeared to be lumbering around like …
The Gary Null Show – 12.27.16
On today’s broadcast of The Gary Null Show, Gary covers the topics of high fat diets, what you can do to have more energy, You’ll also want to hear what Gary has to say if you have plants in your office. In the second half of the program Gary goes to an audio clip talking about DEA Absolutely Wrong In Making CBD Oil Schedule 1 Drug, Why the Agency is Harming Tens of Thousands of Families and Doesn’t Even Have The Authority To Do So. and a commentary about the goverment leading into a clip about Syria. Instead of bringing food, shelter, and help into Syria, western billionaires and politicians scheme to take oil and money out of the already ravaged country.
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Nadia Prupis – Saddam Hussein Was Not ‘Worth Removing From Power’: Ex-CIA Agent
A former CIA analyst who personally interrogated Saddam Hussein said the U.S. “got it so wrong” on the invasion of Iraq and should have left the now-deceased leader in power. In an excerpt from a memoir about his time with the agency, Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein, former analyst John Nixon—who was the first officer to question …