Andrew Bacevich: Pseudo-Events as a New Normal
Are pseudo-events the bread and circuses of the Information Age?
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Twitter Is Blocking My Tweets (Updated: Back to Normal)
I appear to have been banned on Twitter.
Read more...#MeToo Shamefully Nowhere To Be Found as SEIU Not Only Refuses to Fire Staffers Charged With Multiple Instances of Sexual Misconduct, but Retaliates Against Press and Whistleblowers
SEIU is acting like thugs. Please help reporter Mike Elk who has exposed more of their dirty linen than they can stand to have aired.
Read more...The Truth & the Irony: Consortium News and The Continuing Tale of Chrystia Freeland’s Grandfather and His and Her Nazi Scheme for Ukraine Today
Consortium News is suing Canada’s NSA for depicting the publisher as part of a Russian cyber-campaign for exposing then Foreign Minsister Chrystia Freeland lying over her history. But has CN undermined its case?
Read more...Thoughts on Warren, Sanders and the Convention: Warren’s Choice?
Unpacking the implications of the Warren attack on Sanders.
Read more...PolitiFact Wrongly Lets Biden Off the Hook: The Truth About Social Security Cuts
Going after yet another Biden lie.
Read more...The 2020 Election in Three Graphs
Following the all-important election money.
Read more...Can The US Assassination Of Qassem Soleimani Be Justified?
A useful high level discussion of the Soleimani killing.
Read more...Jane Fonda Is Pitching For Our Future. Lend an Ear.
Jane Fonda gave an engaging yet forceful talk on climate change at the Press Club.
Read more...Bloomberg Making Nice to China Pays Off; Highly Profitable Conferences Help Stoke Terminal Business
Bloomberg goes to some lengths to toady to China. And his commercial motives are much more obvious than Trump’s were with Russia.
Read more...Iraq Coverage: Yet Another Cavalcade of Stupid at the Wall Street Journal
Our famously free press in action.
Read more...An Extremely Online Christmas Sampler
A Boxing Day unwrap-up of bright shiny objects
Read more...‘Hurricane Truthers’: Bonkers Conspiracies Are Putting Lives in Danger
First ant-vaxxers, now hurricane skeptics……
Read more...Tucker Carlson Tears into Vulture Capitalist Paul Singer for Strip Mining American Towns
Tucker Carlson takes on the feared vulture capitalist Paul Singer as an examplar of how hedge funds are destroying American communities.
Read more...CalPERS Still Owns Toxic National Enquirer Via Hedge Fund Chatham; CEO Marcie Frost Falsely Says It Was Sold; Columbia Journalism Review Depicts Pending Sale as a Sham
CalPERS is trying to pretend it is done with the National Enquirer. A pending sale would still have CalPERS subsidizing the Enquirer’s costs.
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