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"When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution"

Essays Fascism Memes News War

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New Forever War: Turkey, Tayyip & Playing Both Sides Against the Middle

As the New Cold, Old Forever War in the Middle East between the US, Russia and their various client stats inches closer to reality, it’s time to stop and take a look at a longtime NATO power sending off confusing signals to the West; Turkey and its president Recept Tayyip Erdoğan.

Essays media Memes News War

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Fear and Droning: Manufacturing Consent for War as a Public-Private Partnership

After finally finishing a protracted move, I’m back with a thorough study of the US perpetual war machine and why the elite class in western democracies are always manufacturing consent for conflict

Memes News Russiagate War

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The Simple Truth: No Puppet

Despite being in the middle of a move, I took a night off to talk about what recent foreign policy developments in Ukraine, Iran & Syria do for the Trump is Putin’s puppet theory in the Russiagate scandal – hint, it’s not pretty.

Essays Politics Russiagate War

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Bipartisan Support: Russiagate, Foreign Policy & the Coming Forever War – Part Two

As news comes out of Iran faster than I can write about it, we take a look at mounting evidence of a coming storm and proof that regime change in Iran is a bipartisan issue for the bloodthirsty US political establishment

Blog Memes News War

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Fear & Droning: A War on Everyone, Including Ourselves

My internet conked out on New Years Even and it was either write about something I knew from memory, or read a book written by Hillary Clinton; so let’s talk about the endless US war on everyone, including ourselves.

Essays Memes News Russiagate War

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Gimme Shelter: Russiagate, Foreign Policy & the Coming Forever War – Part One

After a holiday break, I’m back with a detailed and heavily-sourced look at what I think is the coming US “forever war” in the Middle East

Blog Neoliberalism News Politics

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The Simple Truth: The FCC & ISPs Are Attacking Free Speech Online

I’m back with a quick but informative look at the FCC’s recent 3-2, heinously anti-democratic decision to repeal Tittle II protection for Net Neutrality and what you can do about it

Essays Politics Social Justice Take Downs

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The Darkness of Donald: Trump is a Sex Abuser

I finally get around to a Deep Dive examination of the history of sexual abuse allegations against Donald Trump; strap in tightly folks, this one gets *extremely* dark & very, very icky.

Essays Fascism News Police State

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TADMZ: Police State of Denial

A look at two clear signs that the US government is aligning itself with right wing reactionaries and against left wing protestors while corporate media shows tepid interest at best.

Essays media Politics Russiagate

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Russiagate, Swine Emperor Trump And Me

After months of carefully explaining my politics every time I wrote about Russiagate, I finally sat down to explain my position in essay form.

Blog Site Updates War

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Introduction to the New (Old) Forever War

A short blog post about America’s perpetual quest for conflict, that introduces our newly updated Pig Empire imperialism page – The New (Old) Forever War.