Review: The Permanent Coup – How Enemies Foreign and Domestic Targeted the American President by Lee Smith

6 Stars: A Superb Prequel to the  Durham Indictments* * Upgraded from 5 to 6 on basis of reader inputs related to the enormity of the crimes that our President has survived, with Mike Flynn’s help. The author is expert on this topic in part because he wrote the New York Times bestseller The Plot …

J. C. Cole: American Gray Swans – July 2020 Food, Food Security, and Famine!

American Gray Swans – July 2020 Food, Food Security, and Famine! Let us be real clear, unless you can stare at the Sun to draw enough energy to stay alive than you need Food to survive. It is a concept! Famine is historically the #1 Killer of Humanity, and America, Europe, and China are all …

Ed Jewett: QAnon Rocks, MSM Whines . . .

Truth Always Wins Dispatches from the Information War Sarah Hartman-Caverly Abstract At our best, librarians are the medics of information warfare, rescuing and sustaining the truth without regard for ideological loyalty. Given the political polarization of the current information climate, how are we answering that call? Part ethnography, part media critique, and part confessional tale, …

Bloomberg: Local Currencies Emerging

Short on Money, Cities Around the World Try Making Their Own Fans of “complementary currency” are betting that this Depression-era idea for keeping towns alive by printing local money can prove its worth as pandemic relief.  PBI: Superb article worthy of a close read.  All communities should do this.