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 …

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, …

Gareth Porter: The Shaky Case That Russia Manipulated Social Media to Tip the 2016 Election — a Dismantling of the Deep State Narrative Promulgated by the CIA and the NYT

The Shaky Case That Russia Manipulated Social Media to Tip the 2016 Election Published in full text online with permission of the author in order to enable this important work to be read in Russian and other languages using the translation widget. The idea promoted by NYT’s Shane & Mazzetti that the Russian government seriously …

Mongoose: The Hill Exposes DNC-FBI COllusion on Russia Witchhunt — DNC Lawyers (Who Funded the Fake Dossier) Met FBI Officials BEFORE FBI Sought a Surveillance Warrant

Collusion bombshell: DNC lawyers met with FBI on Russia allegations before surveillance warrant John Solomon, The Hill, 3 OCT 2018 Congressional investigators have confirmed that a top FBI official met with Democratic Party lawyers to talk about allegations of Donald Trump-Russia collusion weeks before the 2016 election, and before the bureau secured a search warrant …

Penguin: Forbes on Internet and Tim Berners-Lee “Take the Power Back”

Enough Is Enough: The World Wide Web’s Creator Is Taking The Power Back In an interview with Fast Times, Berners-Lee demonstrated an early version of an app running on Solid. Author Katrina Brooker describes it as “a mashup of Google Drive, Microsoft Outlook, Slack, Spotify, and WhatsApp.” The difference, she explains, is that every every …

Paul Craig Roberts: Truth Is Evaporating Before Our Eyes

Truth Is Evaporating Before Our Eyes Wherever we look in these times, we see evidence-free accusations established as absolute facts: Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction,” “Iranian nukes,” “Russian invasion of Ukraine,” the Trump/Putin conspiracy that stole the 2016 US presidential election, Syrian use of poison gas. Not a scrap of evidence exists for any …

Robert Steele: Rod Rosenstein and Legalized Lying and Cheating at Justice — The Week in Review

Not now, but soon. Top to bottom coast to coast cleansing of the stables. ROBERT STEELE: I have known for years that the Department of Justice claims the right to lie to the Courts; I have known for years that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is a theatrical agency with a pedophile chain of command …