JOHN RUTHERFORD “The most striking fact about the story of Rip Van Winkle is not that he slept 20 years, but that he slept through a revolution. While he was peacefully snoring up on the […]
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By John Stanton According to Counterpunch (2007) editors Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair: “The desire for secrecy is one of Mrs. Clinton’s enduring and damaging traits…Befitting a Midwestern Methodist with a bullying father, repression has […]
Kerry Lutz, Financial Survival Network, Released on 4/11/16 Doug Casey is bullish on the resource sector. He believes that it has hit bottom and will be going up from here. On the government and human […]
By Michael Hasty Perhaps the most important result so far of the Bernie Sanders insurgency is how starkly it has exposed the truly totalitarian nature of the 21st century American state. Of course, this is […]
Nick Giambruno Senior Editor, InternationalMan.com Today, I’m going to share one of the most important things I’ve learned traveling around the world: There’s a crucial difference between committing a real crime and breaking the law. […]
There are numerous tactics available to those who aim to make problems worse while pretending to solve them, but misdirection is always a favorite. The reason to want to make problems worse is that problems […]
Jeremiah Johnson Many of the things that are happening this very moment have direct parallels in literature of the past. Whether it is an account such as the “Gulag Archipelago” by Solzhenitsyn or a work […]
William Astore and Tom Engelhardt, March 23, 2016 Originally posted at TomDispatch. In recent times, one of the strangest aspects of war, American-style, has been the inability of the most powerful military on the planet […]
by John W. WhiteheadFebruary 26, 2016 “I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear. It was in the Constitution, the Bill of […]
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