John & Nisha Whitehead “Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.” Gene Sharp, political science professor The U.S. Supreme Court was right to keep President Trump’s name on the ballot. The high court’s decree that the power to remove a federal candidate from the ballot under the Constitution’s “insurrectionist ban” …
Brian Wilson and I smacked around Biden’s Ukraine policy in this week’s podcast. Also a few pre-game elbows thrown for the GOP presidential candidate debate. You can listen to the podcast by clicking here or https://brianwilsonwrites.substack.com/p/the-two-and-only-s2-ep-35?utm_… From Brian’s website: Jim Bovard’s website Be sure to check out Brian’s other sites: Brian Wilson Writes (Substack) Brian’s […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On August 7th, Gallup in the United States published the results of their many polls of Americans on a wide range of publicly debated issues, and they found 20 issues that produced more than a 5% difference between the adherents to America’s liberal Democratic Party versus the adherents to America’s […]
Eric Zuesse Why do congressional Republicans vote for the Democrats’ war in Ukraine? That war didn’t start on 24 February 2022 like the fake ’news’ media claim, but instead in February 2014 when the Barack Obama Administration — including V.P. Biden — perpetrated there a barbaric and bloody coup, which hired racist-fascist — nazi — […]
The 2022 US midterm elections are perhaps the second strangest contest in recent US political history. Pollsters on both sides got it quite wrong – there was no predicted “Red Wave”, let alone the more popularly talked about “Red Tsunami”. Instead, we are witnessing a repeat of 2020 – a slow grind towards Democrat victories […]
This may amount to a summary of the obvious, but I have not seen it discussed anywhere else, so it is time to discuss it here. The most successful form of oppression seen in world history is being brought to bear against Russia. It is the finely-honed technique of “cancel culture” as we call it […]
What follows is a full repring of John Varoli’s writing in his own newsletter. It is useful to try to expand his audience – hopefully those reading this, especially in the USA, will take action and contact their representatives and the White House in a “melt the phone lines” campaign – ostensibly to save the […]
21WIRE | Red states dominate list in the states with most freedoms, while Democratic governors bring up the rear.
For those who don’t know it, The Counterflow is a weekly podcast hosted by musician and firefighter Buck Johnson and featuring discussions and interviews with people who are outside of and critical toward mainstream politics. Counterflow challenges the conventional right/left binary and is concerned with the more important distinction of free vs unfree. The show …
Eric Zuesse The way it works in America and other ‘democratic’ regimes is that everything in politics comes down ultimately to two political parties, each of which is owned/controlled by one of the two contending factions of the country’s ruling oligarchy (i.e., of the country’s billionaires), and different oligarchic families control each one of the […]
