Hamid Dabashi: An American and an Arab Walk Into a Saudi Consulate….One (Thomas Friedman) Come Out Smiling and Writes About Saudi Reforms, the Other (Jamal Khashoggi) is Tortured, Dismembered, and Never Seen Again. What Can We Learn from This?

An American and an Arab journalist walk into a Saudi Consulate On Thomas Friedman, ‘his friend’ Jamal Khashoggi, and our duty to expose the malicious ignorance of imperial messengers. Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. The New York Times is the barometer of the health and sickness …

Mongoose: Fake News Legalized Lying – Thanks to Supreme Court Ruling in 1964

Supreme Court Ruled The Media Can Lie With Impunity So, the Court held that the First Amendment protects the publication of all statements, even false ones, about the conduct of public officials, except when statements are made with actual malice (with knowledge that they are false or in reckless disregard of their truth or falsity).  …

Rick Aiello: The Case AGAINST a Constitutional Convention

To Robert David Steele: I applaud your open source initiatives and have enjoyed your interviews, but I have seen two recent emails from your Public Intelligence Blog expressing your support for a Convention of States. While your DOUBLE-DOWN, MODIFY & EXPAND, and REVERSE ideas for changing existing Amendments certainly make sense, a Convention of States, …

David Smith of The Guardian: Trump Will Be Re-Elected — Scaramucci “The Whisper is Up” Plus Robert Steele 3 Things President Can Do To Get a Mid-Term Bump

‘He’ll be re-elected’: Trump and allies tout the sweet smell of 2020 success Anthony Scaramucci, who spent an ill-fated 11 days at the White House last year as communications director, has written a book lionising the president. Scaramucci believes the mood on the ground is quietly shifting in the president’s favour despite the attached social …

Ron Unz: American Pravda – 9/11 Conspiracy Theories and the Zionist Control of America

American Pravda: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories As President George W. Bush began inexorably moving America toward the Iraq War in 2002, I realized with a terrible sinking feeling that the notoriously pro-Israel Neocon zealots had somehow managed to seize control of the foreign policy of his administration, a situation I could never have imagined even in …

Robert Steele: 15 Constitutional Amendments — Protect, Modify, Cancel — UPDATE 4

Short URL: https://tinyurl.com/PBI-Constitution We need a Convention of States to restore the original construct in which the federal government is a service of common concern to the SOVEREIGN states, and individual sovereignty is restored. All three branches of the federal government have been chipping away at the Constitution, to include the right to a trial …

Steven Aftergood: It Is Official: Federal Government Can Lie in Budget Statements

Accounting Board Okays Deceptive Budget Practices Government agencies may remove or omit budget information from their public financial statements and may present expenditures that are associated with one budget line item as if they were associated with another line item in order to protect classified information, the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board concluded last week. …