The dust has settled on the contentious late-October resignation of famous/infamous journalist Glenn Greenwald from The Intercept. The Twitter beefs have played themselves out. The articles, whether laudatory or derogatory, have been written. His rounds have been made, mostly on independent media channels, where he discussed the details (kind of)…

As the US continues to get pushed out of Syria, albeit with some caveats (among them its occupation of important farmland and oil facilities in the country’s northeast), it continues the hunt after its main regional quarry, Iran. With the recent use of Iraq as a staging area for the…

As we near year’s end and are pushed into the now typical “how was the year/what happened/what does it all mean?” territory, we’re exploring the slippery nature of the truth on the Words of Others podcast this week. It’s been a crazy year for the American empire — and a…

I‘m not going to offer a big essay today, but what I will say is that where much of the country is either politically unengaged (a cultural issue that goes all the way back to Alexis de Tocqueville’s observations about our populace hundreds of years ago), too strapped to pay…

Over the course of six lengthy pieces of investigative journalism, Canadian activist and writer Cory Morningstar forces us into a recognition of how deep social engineering efforts can go, how patient they are — and how effective they can be. After recording a reading of this final piece of Morningstar’s…

Much to the chagrin of the corporate media and those who pull their strings, the indy media world isn’t letting the Jeffrey Epstein story get flushed down the memory hole. While there are numerous independent outlets — both video and digital print — that have continued to dig for information…

For last week’s Words of Others podcast, I read Act V of investigative journalist Cory Morningstar’s ongoing series about the NGO Industrial Complex. It’s a lengthy piece titled For Consent: The Green New Deal is the Trojan Horse for the Financialization of Nature. As is per usual for Morningstar, she…

For those who, at one time in their life or another, committed themselves to a certain depth of study regarding World War II, a few prevalent themes about pre-Nazi Germany usually get explored. One is the extraordinary economic humiliation suffered by German citizens after their country came out on the…

About 43% of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were lawyers. After the establishment of the United States government, over a near 250-year period, the number of lawyers in Congress has, by-and-large, mirrored that original percentage. In fact, our current Congress is made up of 43% lawyers. This is…