Daniel Ellsberg on the Assange Extradition and Growing Fascism
Daniel Ellsberg, in an interview with Paul Jay, describes the threat the Assange show trial poses for journalists around the world.
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The Minimal Effects of TV Debates Between Candidates
Despite the hype surrounding the US presidential debates, they do little to shift voter views.
Read more...News from the Archives: A Tale of Two Presidents, Letters Between Nixon and Trump
New exhibition of letters between Trump and Nixon reveals some common and persistent themes, including distrust of the media.
Read more...What Rent Drop? Listed Prices Aren’t Budging Where COVID-19 Hit Hardest
New York City disproves popular beliefs about flight from cities and rent declines.
Read more...COVID: Where Science Goes To Die
A forceful critique of Covid-19 research.
Read more...CalPERS Misappropriates Funds, a Violation of the Criminal Code, By Laundering $40,000 Speaker Fee Through Randle Communications, a Nearly $500,000 a Year Advisor to Marcie Frost
CalPERS is not only hiring overpriced motivational speakers it can’t afford, but it is also cooking its records to do so.
Read more...Columbia Journalism Review Publishes Detailed Expose on Gates Foundation Buys Influence With Journalists
Why you should not trust the Gates Foundation.
Read more...Koch Influence Taints New Tufts-Based Think Thank: The Tentacles of the Mercatus Center
A timely reminder that despite the raging pandemic, Koch interests keep up their efforts to influence politics and academia.
Read more...Has CalPERS Come Clean With Its Board Over Pending $500 Million Carlyle Deal, Tainted by Ownership of Carlyle Shares by Departed CIO Ben Meng?
CalPERS needs to come clean about its Ben Meng mess. A pending Carlyle transaction shows it’s still in cover-up mode.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Three: Uber’s Already Hopelessly Unprofitable Economics Take A Major Coronavirus Hit
The press is still refusing to depict Uber accurately, as a rotting corpse.
Read more...COVID-19 Survivors Face Lifetime of Disability
Funny how other countries are willing to acknowledge that Covid-19 can do very bad things without killing you, and not the US.
Read more...Patrick Cockburn: War and Pandemic Journalism
On the political forces that lead governments to minimize pandemic risks and costs and cheerlead faint signs of hope.
Read more...Austria Confirms OPCW Report On Skripal Faking by the British – Vienna Exposes Financial Times Lies and Cover-Up
Revealing a big hole in the official Skripal story.
Read more...Covid-19: To Clean or Not to Clean?
Cleaning vigilance was an early Covid-19 precaution. Have we gone overboard?
Read more...AOC Shellacking of Rep. Ted Yoho Shows How Little Progress Women Have Made
Why AOC’s impressive speech about Ted Yoho’s bad conduct reveals much about the standing of women in America, and not in a good way.
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