The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Pentagon Wants More Control Over the News. What Could Go Wrong? The Pentagon is using a moral panic over “fake news” to gain influence over the domestic news landscape If there’s a worse idea than the Pentagon becoming Editor-in-Chief of America, I can’t remember it. But we’re getting there. Read full article.
SUMMARY REVIEW Seven Stars Life Transformational — Sickening Detailed Account of Trillion Dollar Crimes by Bankers Ignored While Black and Latino Workers are Beaten Daily for Profit at the Bottom of the Injustice Pyramid Review by Robert David Steele I read this book on my way to and from Dimensions of Disclosure where I delivered …
Taibbi: It’s Official – ‘Russiagate’ Is This Generation’s WMD The Iraq war faceplant damaged the reputation of the press. Russiagate just destroyed it… Nobody wants to hear this, but news that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is headed home without issuing new charges is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media. Nothing Trump …
Taibbi: Censorship Does Not End Well How America learned to stop worrying and put Mark Zuckerberg in charge of everything Now the line is gone. Depending on the platform, one can be banned for “glorifying violence,” “sowing division,” “hateful conduct” or even “low quality,” with those terms defined by nameless, unaccountable executives, working with God …
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In Response to Trump, Another Dangerous Movement Appears Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Now, the cover story in The Atlantic magazine features the most aggressive offering yet in an alarming series of intellectual-class jeremiads against the dangers of democracy. In “How American Politics Went Insane,” Brookings Institute Fellow Jonathan Rauch spends many thousands of words arguing …
Hillary Clinton’s New Anti-Trump Ad Misses the Mark By blaming Trump for a problem caused by their own political patrons, Hillary and the Democrats are walking face-first into Trump’s rhetorical buzz-saw. Couldn’t they find something else to hit him with?
Revenge of the Simple: How George W. Bush Gave Rise to Trump Bush was just an appetizer — Trump would be the main course Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, 1 March 2016 Rove correctly guessed that a generation of watching TV and Hollywood movies left huge blocs of Americans convinced that people who read books, looked …
