Friday, May 3, 2024

CIA Mission: Destroy the Whistleblower and Perfume the Stench of ‘Operation Merlin’

Does more secrecy breed more impunity? The Jeffrey Sterling case brought to the surface more serious questions about Operation Merlin and indicates that the CIA program was more "shoddy and irresponsible" than Risen’s book reported.

Why we need to keep our super rich ‘occupied’

We don’t quite know yet how the current spotlight on taxing America’s wealthiest is going to turn out. But just getting to this point, counts as a significant step into a more just and equal future.

The Costly Truth of Emergency Spending in Iraq and Afghanistan

Despite troop reductions, the Pentagon's war budget is increasing.

Attention, Democrats: Voters want more government, not less

Activist politicians for an activist government: it’s an approach more Democrats should consider.

To regain people’s trust, the Democratic Party must support single-payer

Nearly 60 percent of Americans want Medicare for All. Democrats must support it, too.

Corporate seditionists are no better than the seditionists who attacked the Capitol

The tsunami of money now flowing from corporations into the swamp of American politics is larger than ever.

If Donald Trump is the symptom…then what’s the disease?

The Donald caught the spirit of a moment in which both imperial and economic decline, however unacknowledged by the Washington political elite, had indeed begun.

Experts, Journalists Slam Trump’s All-Male Economic Advisory Council

There are 13 People on Donald Trump's new Economic Advisory Council. All 13 are men. None are actual economists.

Spineless, craven Republicans and Trump sow the seeds of hate that proliferate mass shootings

Only if the people of America rise en masse and demand that these corrupted politicians put an end to this madness, will this situation come under control.

Fox News’ Presidential Debate Moderator: “It’s Not My Job to be a Truth Squad”

Wallace says he is “proud to be a representative of Fox” and believes his selection will help fight the belief that Fox is a “right-wing network” that “favors Republicans.”