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Wayne Madsen is an investigative journalist, nationally distributed columnist, and author who has covered Washington, DC, politics, national security, and intelligence issues since 1994. He has written for The Village Voice, The Progressive, CAQ, Counterpunch, and the Intelligence Newsletter (based in Paris).
Look for his new book, Overthrow a Fascist Regime on $15 a Day: The Internet Irregulars vs. The Powers That Be!, in the fall.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 7, 2021 False Charges of Leadership Senility have always been sourced to malign players
False charges from the right-wing that President Biden is hampered by senility represents an old and worn-out tactic by malign players who have used the tactic against elder statesmen who have served as presidents, heads of state or heads of government.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, December 6, 2021 The last vestiges of pro-democracy journalism in the U.S.
While most of the corporate media seek to outdo one another in normalizing seditionists, fascists, insurrectionists, died-in-the-wool racists and anti-public health conspiracy zealots the last vestiges of a once-vibrant press in the United States refuse to go quietly into the night.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 2, 2021 A Coup by any other name is still A Coup
Trump's involvement in the first actual American coup d'e'tat should be met with a criminal indictment and trial. To do less only cheapens America's constitution and rule of law.
(8 comments) SHARE Friday, November 19, 2021 Trump's and Bannon's Alternate World
Unless the Biden administration wishes for the United States to fall further into Third World style instability it should put a quick end to Trump's trappings of running a rival presidential administration even if that includes indicting him for insurrection and sedition and jailing him until trial as a flight risk.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, October 25, 2021 Move Over 'Watergate' Here Comes 'Willardgate'
Trump may get away with almost having carried out a coup. Most of the congressional Republican caucus remains loyal to Trump and Attorney General Merrick Garland has reportedly decided to "look ahead".
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 21, 2021 Hold the tears on Colin Powell
That their well-rewarded lying ends up in even more losses of human life. Consider that Powell's big lie before the UN Security Council paved the way for as many as 208,000 civilian deaths in Iraq.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, October 15, 2021 Trump's Undermining of the Electoral Process Gives U.S. Third World Nation Status
With Trumpists seeking to take over local elections and canvassing boards and Secretaries of State positions the United States is heading in the direction of India and other countries where voter intimidation is the rule of the day.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 4, 2021 Foreign Cash Bought the White House for Trump
Repeated attempts by Congress to close campaign finance loopholes that permit foreign money to flow into the campaign coffers of American political candidates have met with failure.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, June 28, 2021 The Many-Tentacled Kraken of Present-Day Fascism
Not since the days of the Weimar Republic of Germany has a democratic country-in this case the United States-faced such a threat from a determined and well-entrenched fascist bloc.
SHARE Monday, June 14, 2021 Manchin: the last of the Democratic Dixiecrats
Manchin's opposition to federal legislation protecting voting rights, raising the federal minimum wage and his continued support for the Senate filibuster, instituted by segregationists and pro-slavery senators in the 19th century to block anti-slavery legislation, marks him as a de facto Dixiecrat.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 2, 2021 An unsettling similarity between the German Nazi Party and the current U.S. Republican Party
The planners of the attack received logistical and other support from pro-Trump Republican members of the Senate and House. Exposing these members would risk their seats in Congress and any hopes of the Republicans regaining the majority in either chamber.
(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 2, 2021 Republicans Adopt Fascist Government Platform
The Republican Party through bills passed in state legislatures and signed by GOP governors is adopting one of the central platforms of fascism, namely the elimination of the powers of state officials including secretaries of state, governors and others.
(10 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 25, 2021 The Republican Party must be destroyed along with Trump
Either the Republican Party undergoes a de-Trumpification or like the parties of Mussolini and Hitler which rejected democracy and the rule of law it must be abolished as both an existential and domestic terrorist threat to the security and safety of the United States
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, May 24, 2021 The Failed Bloody Fascist Coup of 2021
For Trump and his co-conspirators to eliminate any constitutional challenges he would have had to eliminate the number two and three in the line of presidential succession, namely, Pence and Pelosi.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 1, 2021 The Dawning of the Age of Nefarious
If Friedrich Engels were alive today he would likely define the criminal neglect of Covid-19 by the like of Trump and Bolsonaro as "social murder" - a term he coined in his 1845 opus "The Condition of the Working-Class in England.