 On Election Corruption in E2024: A Comprehensive Report "The Election Truth Alliance is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization founded in December of 2024 when multiple individuals came together to share independent data, analysis, and research into the results of the 2024 US Presidential Election. As concerning trends emerged from their shared data, they moved quickly, at the speed of trust, to make their findings more accessible and understandable to the broader public." ... |
 Trump Wants Big Tech to Own the Dollar The IMF-World Bank Spring meetings are usually placid affairs that participating central bankers wish to forget soon after they are over. Not this Spring. This April the feeling several central bankers brought back home with them was not the usual relief but something far more visceral: dread, terror even. The reason? The spectre of the Genius Act—the U.S. stablecoin bill barrelling toward ... |
 These Hidden Provisions in [Trump's] Budget Bill Undermine Our Democracy "Most attention on [President Trump's] budget bill has centered around issues like the tax code, Medicaid and immigration. However, there is a lot more hidden in the House’s reconciliation proposal, including two provisions Campaign Legal Center (CLC) has identified that would severely harm voters and threaten the rule of law. "The first of these outrageous poli... |
 The Questionable Case of Kristi Noem's $50 Million Luxury Jet Trump's secretary of Homeland Security, came under fire last week for her department's eleventh-hour request for a new luxury jet: $50 million for a Gulfstream 5 for Noem's personal use, paid for out of the budget of the Coast Guard. DHS argues Noem needs a new jet for safety reasons while taking the budget from the aging Coast Guard rescue and interdiction fleet. Experts and members of Congress are left quest... |
 GOP Plans to Steal 2026 Midterms - LA Progressive "The Republican Party is attacking the right to vote with a raft of new election laws--and criminal penalties for breaking them. ... At the center of the plan is the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, passed on April 10 by the House and pending before the Senate, and an executive order issued by President Donald Trump on March 25 with the Orwellian title of 'Preserving and Protec... |
 Josh Hawley: Don't Cut Medicaid A cogent, well-reasoned, and compelling oped from an unexpected source, a MAGA Republican, Sen. Josh Hawley. A pleasant surprise. He's concerned with the loss of working-class Republican votes--see Thom Hartmann's column today on how many Blacks have been kept from voting--but there are many whites among the working-class constituency whose votes are still counted. |
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Pepe Escobar: From Sana'a to Saada -- Yemen during wartime
Pepe Escobar, the Eurasia-wide geopolitical analyst, was among a small group of people from East and West who partook of a conference on Palestine in Yemen's capital Sana'a called "You Are Not Alone". A conference organizer observed that these were the first foreigners to enter Yemen in years. The history of Yemen is ancient and largely dismissed by Westerners whose first strike on the country by the Obama-Biden a... |
Trump Assumes Unheard-of Powers in Ordering Federal Overhaul of Elections "In one of his many bold, sweeping and likely unconstitutional gestures, President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order that purports to 'protect election integrity.' Many experts have already charged that it constitutes a clear abuse of power that flagrantly exceeds the president’s allotted authority." Multiple lawsuits have already been filed against the EO. |
 The Case Against European Rearmament If we truly want to strengthen Europe, the first step is not to rearm. It is to forge the democratic union without which stagnation will continue to erode Europe’s capacities, rendering it unable to rebuild what is left of Ukraine once Vladimir Putin is finished with it. ATHENS – Inducting Ukraine into NATO after forcing Russia back behind its ... |
![I [think I] VOTED TODAY, From CreativeCommonsPhoto](https://live.staticflickr.com/117/291225685_18c3d5635c_m.jpg "I [think I] VOTED TODAY, From CreativeCommonsPhoto") Trump Seeks Takeover of Elections in a Bid for More Presidential Power Among the ocean of executive orders is this recent one, requiring proof of citizenship upon voter registration. Documentation is often difficult to produce--few Americans have passports and/or birth certificates, especially if they had to leave their homes in a hurry because of various forms of oppression. Millions of votes will be lost if this order survives court challenges--it was eclipsed by "Signalgate" among other ... |
 Don't Count on the Courts to Save Democracy "Giving courts the last word is part of what got us into this mess. It won’t get us out. ... [The] notion that upholding the rule of law means the president goes no further than the Supreme Court allows, and that we are only in a crisis if he pushes beyond that boundary, is a dangerous mistake of principle and practice.... [The] real resistance must ... |
 Donald Trump's economic masterplan Faced with President Trump’s economic moves, his centrist critics oscillate between desperation and a touching faith that his tariff frenzy will fizzle out. They assume that Trump will huff and puff until reality exposes the emptiness of his economic rationale. They have not been paying attention: Trump’s tariff fixation is part of a global economic plan that is solid â€... |
 The Argentinian President's crypto scam exploited the dangerous illusion of apolitical money On Friday 14th February, President Milei of Argentina tweeted about the $LIBRA coin, encouraging his followers to buy it on the grounds that it would “help fund small businesses and start-upsâ€Â. As if that weren’t enough, he shared a link for people to buy it online. Naturally, within a f... |
No One Knows How This Will End (But I Do Not Think It Will End Well for Them)- Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit: I can sum up the Trump/Musk/Vance theory of power in five words: "We have power; you don't."...They seem to believe that nothing is really connected to anything else and nothing should be. This is why they're hacking away at the US government and international alliances and good relationships with everything and everyone from the European Union to Canada and Mexico to a whole lot of the American people...... |
 How the "Subversive Genius" of Kendrick Lamar Sent Trump Home a Loser The Philadelphia Eagles and Kendrick Lamar’s collective of geniuses made this the Super Bowl we needed. When the hip-hop maestro took center stage he unleashed an artistic inferno rooted in Black culture, Black poetry, and Black resistance. Lamar, who is more an abstract master of symbology than political rabble-rouser, performed something right in Trump’s face that I think people will be decoding for y... 12  |
 As an Ex-President, Jimmy Carter Fought for Peace Former president Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100. After leaving office in 1981, he enjoyed by far the longest retirement of any president in history—just over 42 years. Recent tributes have invariably described Carter as a decent, dedicated public servant; a longtime Sunday school teacher who built homes with Habitat for Humanity. A humble man who lived modestly and who, unlike his successors, did... |
 Luigi Mangione Is America Whether We Like It or Not Now that 26-year-old Luigi Mangione has been apprehended and charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, public reactions ranging from schaudenfreude to giddiness have hardly died down. The Altoona, Pennsylvania, McDonald’s has been flooded with angry reviews, in apparent retaliation against the manager who allegedly called in the tip that led to Mangione’s arrest. “Free L... |
 Elie Mystal: OF COURSE Joe Biden Was Right to Pardon His Son Elie Mystal gets it exactly right: "I do not believe I have read a worse collection of takes in the weeks since Donald Trump’s reelection than the endless array of white columnists and pundits whining about Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter Biden. The idea that the “rule of law” is somehow undermined—in this lunatic country that just elected a convicted felon who has promised... |
 Consequences of The Heritage Foundation Project 1981 and Project 2025's Guide to Subverting Democracy The Economic Consequences of Project 1981 is depicted by the linked graphic. It led to the suspension of the fairness doctrine, contributing to today’s partisan polarization and Reagan endorsement of candidates’ pledge to oppose tax increases which has put the U.S. Government on a path to bankrupt. Trump 45, as a system destroyer, abandoned Obama’s pandemic plan, resulting in 400,000 Covid Deat... 1 |
 What I Learned When I Read 887 Pages of Project 2025 NYTimes columnist Carlos Lozada dissects portions of this 887-page monstrosity that Trump claims not even to have read (fortunately or unfortunately?). "Undoing" damage will replace it with nightmarish scenarios and, as we know, the death of democracy. He writes: " ... [U]nder the leadership of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, the book announces itself as part of a 'unified effort to be ready ... |
 Poll: Two-Thirds of Americans Think Trump Won't Accept 2024 Election Outcome As if we needed more reasons to dread this year's Election Day, these latest polling results exacerbate it. Once upon a time, ED was a holiday. What is the opposite of a holiday? Being glued to the television watching returns with a sinking stomach since the results promise to be so close? Since Biden stepped down, voter registration has surged, among youth and others. So have multiple forms of "election interference"--... |
 Election Interference Can Mean So Many Different Actions The term "election interference" can mean so many different things, from SCOTUS deciding Election 2000 in terms of its own political leanings to the GOP in Washington State selecting candidates with the same name as the Democratic counterpart to confuse the public. It can refer to one person donating millions of dollars to their favorite candidate or Trump begging GA SoS Raffensperger to find him enough votes to win t... |
 The Heritage Foundation Wants to Finish the Job, Stealing The American Dream, with Project 2025! Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? was a 2011 documentary which explains the giant shift in American politics. It goes on to mention the Heritage Foundation was created to do the ideological marketing. This 2011 documentary highlights the Heritage Foundation’s January 1981, Mandate for Leadership accomplishments over three decades to move America in the wrong direction! In May2011, the Heritage Foun... 2 |
 I Left Biden's Campaign Over Gaza. Here's How Harris Can Earn My Trust Again. I stopped participating in Pres. Biden’s national finance committee because I could no longer support his feckless approach to ending the war in the Gaza Strip, where Israel continues to use US weapons every day to kill innocent women and children... Now I’m cautiously optimistic that Harris and Walz have the political space and resolve to do what Biden could not: make a fundamental course co... 4 |
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The People's Court of New Normal Germany
The satirist C.J. Hopkins, who moved from the US to Germany a couple of decades ago, is on trial:
Just when I thought things could not possibly get more shockingly totalitarian in New Normal Germany, where I’m being prosecuted in criminal court (for the second time) for tweeting, the German authorities have gone and surprised me again. No, they haven’t established an actual Nazi-style Peopl... |
 Connecting-the-Dots from Our Disruptive 2024 Weather to the Heritage Foundation Champion of Project 2025/Agenda 47 The linked article mentions the Heritage Foundation’s dismal track record when it has weighed in on past environmental issues, its dismal track record dates back to Tobacco Health Risk Denialism and is ongoing, today and into the future, with Fair Election Denialism. Concisely, Denialism. is a cancer, injected into America’s political discord, since the formation of the likes of the Heritage Foundation i... 1 |
Security Needs Protection | Joseph Milteer
In 1963, Joseph Adams Milteer was a right wing extremist from Quitman, GA. On Nov. 9th he had a conversation with a friend, William Somersett, who happened to be an informant for the Miami Police and recorded the details of a plot to assassinate JFK.
My name is Michael Capasse. I am a critic of the Warren Commission's conclusions in the JFK assassination. I have studied the case since 1973, and consider it an ongo... |
 No, the Olympics Ceremony Did Not Copy "The Last Supper" In the artistic reenactment during the Paris Olympics inauguration on Friday, July 26, a cast of drag artists, dancers, and other performers dressed in elaborate costumes referencing Greek mythology gathered around a long platform on the Debilly Footbridge. A massive dinner platter was lifted to reveal a blue-skinned, scantily clad Bacchus, portrayed by French actor and singer Philippe Katerine. “First and fo... |
 "My Leftist Worldview Got Disproved, Hamas DOES Represent Palestinians": Dr Einat Wilf (Video) Dr. Einat Wilf talks to Ollie about how the hypothesis that land/gestures for peace could result in a peaceful settlement between Israel and the Arabs has been empirically disproved. Together they discuss what needs to be done to tackle the roots of the Israeli-Arab conflict, the need to keep UNRWA defunded, as well as the antisemitism and ignorance around the world. |
 Who gets to decide if you're allowed to call yourself an artist? I have wrestled, mightily, with my identity as an artist. Even calling myself a creative feels a bit like hiding, like finding a safer way of claiming my power...I consider how desperately we need art to get through this incredibly trying time. Genocide. Political instability. A global rise in far-right movements. Attempted assassinations. All that endures, the way we find meaning through it all, in my opini... |
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