Who’s afraid of William Barr?
- Stephen F. Cohen
Liberals and other Democrats seem to want to cover up the CIA’s role in Russiagate.
William Barr, a two-time attorney general who served at the CIA in the 1970s, would seem to be an ultimate Washington insider. According to his Wikipedia biography, ...
‘It feels like being hunted’: Latinos across U.S. in fear after El Paso massacre
- Various Authors - Autores varios - Auteurs divers- AAVV-d.a.
By Simon Romero, Caitlin Dickerson, Miriam Jordan and Patricia Mazzei
EL PASO — After 22 people were shot to death at a Walmart in El Paso over the weekend, a Florida retiree found herself imagining how her grandchildren could be killed. A ...
Gun control, white paranoia, and the death of Martin Luther King, Jr
- Rich Benjamin
"A distinct strain of white paranoia permeates the cheerleading for the Second Amendment. Gun enthusiasm pervades the white survivalist’s imagination."
Not even forty-eight hours after Martin Luther King, Jr., was murdered, on April ...
The El Paso shooting and the virality of evil
- Andrew Marantz
Shortly after 10 a.m. on Saturday, an unsigned document was posted to 8chan, a site that calls itself “the darkest reaches of the Internet.” Its author appeared to be a twenty-one-year-old white man from near Dallas, Texas, who had just ...
War profiteers and the demise of the US military-industrial complex
- Dmitry Orlov Дмитрий Орлов
Within the vast bureaucratic sprawl of the Pentagon there is a group in charge of monitoring the general state of the military-industrial complex and its continued ability to fulfill the requirements of the national defense strategy. Office for acquisition ...
Noam Chomsky: Trump is consolidating far-right power globally
- C. J. Polychroniou Χ.Ι. Πολυχρονίου
Noam Chomsky calls Trump's foreign policy a deadly farce that is consolidating the global alliance of right-wing leaders.
It is no easy task to make sense of U.S. foreign policy in the current era. Trump is wildly unpredictable and lacks any semblance ...
New CNN Assange smear piece is amazingly dishonest, even for CNN
- Caitlin Johnstone
CNN has published an unbelievably brazen and dishonest smear piece on Julian Assange, easily the most egregious article of its kind since the notoriously bogus Assange-Manafort report by The Guardian last year. It contains none of the “ ...
A plan to mine the Minnesota wilderness hit a dead end. Then Trump became president
- Various Authors - Autores varios - Auteurs divers- AAVV-d.a.
By Hiroko Tabuchi and Steve Eder
Reporting was contributed by Lisa Friedman in Washington, Jesse Drucker and Kate Kelly in New York, and Pascale Bonnefoy in Santiago, Chile. Kitty Bennett and Alain Delaquérière contributed research. ...
On Willem Van Spronsen’s action against the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma
Including the full text of his final statement
- CrimethInc.
On July 13, Willem Van Spronsen was killed by police while apparently taking action to disable the fleet of buses that serve the Northwest Detention Center, a private immigration detainment facility. His final statement, reproduced below, conveys that ...
Trump's latest war on reality: Cover up the concentration camps
- Heather Digby Parton
Despite ample evidence of inhumane conditions, Trump and his minions are ready to roll out "alternative facts"
This is not...
...a concentration camp...
...just a "tent city" for migrant children in Tornillo, Texas. The kids ...
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