SchwartzReport: Will Marijuana Challenge Destroy the GOP and the Supreme Court in One Go?

It is driving the rightist prohibitionists crazy that none of the dire predictions they made about ending Marijuana prohibition have come to pass. In fact the outcomes have been the exact opposite to what they said would happen. So now they are trying to get the conservative majority on the Supreme Court to reverse what …

Review: Shadow Government — Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World

Tom Engelbardt 5.0 out of 5 stars Responsible and Compelling — Avoids Some of the Darkest Facts, October 16, 2014 A more timely relevant book for US citizens could not be imagined, at least by me. By the sheerest coincidence, I have also recently read two books that in my view form a tri-fecta of …

Review: 935 Lies – The Future of Truth and the Decline of America’s Moral Integrity

Charles Lewis 5.0 out of 5 stars Title Short-Changes Value — This is One of the Most Important Books of Our Time, July 12, 2014 I’m not thrilled with the title because it implies to the browser that the book is about the 935 now-documented lies that led to the war in Iraq, and that …

21-23 Nov 2013 — Dallas TX Two Conferences on JFK Assassination — 50 Years

Our 18th Annual International Conference on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy JFK Lancer’s NID 2013 is a historical research conference focusing on expertise in political and intelligence history of the 1960s, also its ability to do highly effective archival and document work and how it applies to the assassination of President John F. …

Open Power: Democracy Lost & Found Essay, Book Review Blurbs and Links [Updated 3 MAR 2015]

NEW: Kindle Book Open Power ($2.99) OLD: Core Documents for Both Initiatives (Free) OLD: the foundation book The Open Source Everything Manifesto ROBERT STEELE: There are two schools of thought on effecting political (and hence economic and social) reform. One school is the school of love — this school emphasizes trust building and doing no …