President-elect Donald Trump continues to frustrate the legacy media by making his announcements around the traditional media enterprises; this time via Facebook. A secondary source of media antagonism is the lack of institutional academics amid all of the various appointees and nominees…
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Power to the People: John Lennon’s Legacy Lives On by John W. Whitehead…
Militant nonviolent resistance works. Peaceful, prolonged protests work. Mass movements with huge numbers of participants work. Yes, America, it is possible to use occupations and civil disobedience to oppose government policies, counter injustice and bring about change outside the confines of the ballot box. It has been done before. It is being done now. It […]
Two Juveniles Charged with Arson in Tennessee Wildfires that left 14 People Dead…
Two juveniles have been charged with aggravated arson in connection with the East Tennessee wildfires that killed 14 people last week and left nearly 150 others injured, authorities said Wednesday…
Who’s Behind Faux Blacklist of News Websites…Fascinating Read!…
A shadowy group called PropOrNot (shorthand for Propaganda Or Not) that has gone to a great deal of trouble to keep its funders and principals secret, is promulgating a blacklist of 200 alternative media websites that it has labeled “Russian propaganda outlets”…
The WPost Admits the McCarthyite ‘Fake News’ Article THEY Published Was, Well, Fake News…
“The Post, which did not name any of the sites, does not itself vouch for the validity of PropOrNot’s findings regarding any individual media outlet, nor did the article purport to do so. Since publication of The Post’s story, PropOrNot has removed some sites from its list”…
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Marine Corps General John Kelly To Be Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary…
President-elect Donald Trump has selected retired Marine Gen. John Kelly to head the Department of Homeland Security, according to CBS. Kelly was the head of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) until his retirement in January. He is the third general joining the Trump administration…
Trump Taps Oklahoma AG to Lead EPA…
President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate Scott Pruitt, the Republican attorney general of Oklahoma and a frequent legal adversary to President Obama, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according to multiple reports…
Denzel Washington “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you do read it, you’re misinformed”…
Denzel Washington was the subject of a phony story earlier this year that falsely claimed he was switching his support of then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to GOP White House hopeful Donald Trump…
Time Warner CEO: The ‘Real Threat’ to the First Amendment Came from Democrats, Not Trump…
Bewkes said “we should all worry” if someone were seeking to change the First Amendment. He suggested that came from the Democratic Party, which “had a campaign plank to change the First Amendment, and they were doing it in the guise of campaign finance reform”…
GOP Readies Cuts to Federal Workforce under Trump…
For years, Republicans in Congress have been eyeing an overhaul of the federal workforce — by reducing the number of workers and curtailing benefits and pay while making it easier to fire bad employees. Now, with a president-elect who has promised to do much the same, 2017 could be the best time…
Obama NLRB Wiped Out 4,500 Years of Legal Precedent…
In all, the board has overturned 91 precedents, wiping out more than 4,000 years of case law—averaging more than 45 years per decision; the agency’s new election rules overturned a combined 454 years of protocol, according to a study from three labor attorneys at the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace and Workplace Policy Institute…
10 Years Later, Fake U.S. Embassy Shut Down in Ghana…
One of the most curious details of this story is the way it was reported. The phony embassy was actually raided and shut down over the summer, but even though the U.S. State Department was a key part of the investigation, the raid wasn’t publicized in any news releases by State or its Bureau of […]
Trump Doesn’t Have Boeing Stocks…Sold All His Stocks In June…
Trump’s ‘investments in a wide range of well-known companies, including Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Boeing and Visa Inc. Trump’s stock portfolio was worth roughly $40 million as of December 2015. The President-elect had between $50,000 to $100,000 of Boeing Co. stock when he filed his personal financial disclosure on May 15…
SCOTUS Rulings: Court Chucks $399M Verdict in Apple-Samsung War…
Reversing Apple’s $399 million patent win, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that entire phones cannot be considered infringing even though the “innards of Samsung’s smartphones were not sold separately from their shells”…
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Navajo Nation Sues EPA for $160M Over Colorado Mine Spill…
The Navajo Nation has filed a $160 million lawsuit against the US government for damages and ongoing injuries caused by an August 2015 mine spill which released millions of gallons of toxic waste near the tribe’s territory…
Lou Dobbs Discusses China, Taiwan and Trump…
Donald Trump took a congratulatory phone call from the President of Taiwan…and immediately, the pearl-clutching media and professional political class went nuts because the U.S. is not supposed to do anything that might upset China. For over 30 years the issues between China and the breakaway free and democratic Taiwan have been tenuous…
Saudi Arabia Is Astroturfing America to Roll Back 9/11 Law…
The government of Saudi Arabia and its agents appear to be recruiting U.S. military veterans and people with foreign policy credentials to submit basically the same op-ed to newspapers around the country in an effort to concoct the appearance of an organic groundswell of opposition to the ‘Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act’ (JASTA)…
Iraq Was Probably a “Mistake,” Said Gen. James Mattis, Trump’s Defense Pick…
“Ladies and gentlemen,” Mattis said, “we will probably look back on the invasion of Iraq as a mistake — as a strategic mistake.” Mattis was one of the Iraq campaign’s most important ground commanders. He led the 1st Marine Division during the invasion and later oversaw the bloody retaking of Fallujah from insurgents in 2004…
Is the Mainstream Media so Threatened by Alternative News They’d Create Orwell’s ‘Ministry of Truth’?…
What mainstream media outlets appear to be arguing for is the creation of a “Ministry of Truth” managed by mainstream U.S. media outlets and enforced by Google, Facebook and other technology platforms. In other words, once these supposedly responsible outlets decide what the “truth” is, then questioning…
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Second Dem Lawmaker Won’t Support Waiver Allowing Gen James ‘Mad Dog’ to Serve as Def Secretary…
Rep Ruben Gallego “As a veteran, I believe strongly in the principle of civilian leadership of the military. Current law requires that a military officer be out of active duty for at least seven years before taking the job of defense secretary”…
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