Supporting an anti-establishment candidate, as the 2016 election cycle has thus proven, at best amounts to little more than a maddening exercise in futility. Yet, droves continue flocking to the polls, ignoring that fixing a corrupt, authoritarian system by validating it through participating in its carrot-on-a-string illusion will somehow — this time — all work Read More…
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US General Finally Admits That Troops Are “Fighting And Dying” In Iraq
Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman General Joe Dunford admitted yesterday, despite Obama’s insistence that the US presence in Iraq is only as non-combatants, that US troops are indeed “fighting and dying” in the war-torn country, and elsewhere in the Middle East. He confirmed that the March 19 death of Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Louis Cardin was in Read More…
Did Bernie Sanders Just Go Full Establishment?
Comments made by Bernie Sanders this week may just have blindsided and disillusioned swathes of his support base. Some of those with higher expectations of the ‘peacenik’ candidate breathed a collective sigh of disappointment after he endorsed Obama’s extrajudicial drone assassination program. At the same time, the Democratic candidate backed the recent deployment of 250 Read More…
How Socrates Trumps Trump
They’re all trying to trump Trump, and maybe with the latest flap, this may have finally happened. I’m referring, of course, to Trump stumbling into the absurd claim that women ought to be “punished” for having abortions, and then predictably retreating from it. If this proves true, then the trumping of Trump didn’t happen by Read More…
Enough with the Trump Worship, Please
Trump worship is pretty rife throughout the Independent and Alternative Media, with many big sites putting their full weight behind supporting Donald Trump as the next US president. One can only assume that the researchers running those sites, although they are surely aware of Trump’s many faults, so desperately want a president that is not another Illuminati Read More…
5 Critical Stories the Mainstream Media Buried Under the Personal Life of Charlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen announced earlier this week on the Today show that he is HIV positive. Since that announcement, Sheen’s face has been plastered across newspapers, magazines, televisions and computer screens as the mainstream media obsesses over this single individual. Why this obsession with Charlie Sheen? His life is no more important than anyone else’s life, yet Read More…