Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) This article is about how the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment’s freedoms of speech and of the press are treated by today’s American press — treated with hostility — by them: ignored when possible, and suppressed when not. What’s more important to them is to do the propaganda, and this means […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) [This case, which will ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, will define what (if any) political censorship-activities the U.S. Government may legally engage in. The landmark first court-decision on this case ruled, on July 4th, that the likely answer will be “none” — that the First Amendment […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The few people who benefit from the U.S. Government’s being the world’s most powerful are U.S.-and-allied billionaires, who profit from the enormous sales of U.S.-made war-weapons and from the international extraction corporations such as Exxon-Mobil which rely upon its military, but all of this comes at the expense of the […]
Eric Zuesse The former U.S. Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, who used to be a regular (and often the best) commentator on Fox News, has become deeply worried by the U.S. perpetual-warfare, MIC-(military-industrial-complex)-controlled, and (as he has argued) anti-U.S.-Constitutional, foreign polices of aggression. America was, in fact, founded by people who waged the American Revolution and […]
Eric Zuesse Alan J. Russo opened the “Conclusions” section of his extraordinary (extraordinarily fine) 1970 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review article, “Equal Protection from the Law: The Substantive Requirements for a Showing of Discriminatory Law Enforcement”, by saying: In order to be acquitted in a penal proceeding on grounds of discriminatory enforcement, a defendant […]
Eric Zuesse An insane belief is one that is so blatantly false so that even pointing out scientifically proven reality won’t change it. The generalized opposition to abortion is an excellent example of a common insane belief. Like most of the common insane beliefs, it is usually a reflection of a religious or other philosophical […]
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Fifteen year ago Donald Rumsfeld said Afghanistan was pacified and George W. Bush said the U.S. mission in Iraq was “accomplished.” Fifteen years later the disastrous neoconservative assumptions are in full view, says Chas Freeman. By Chas Freeman Fifteen years…Read more →
A little-noticed Senate bill would give Donald Trump blanket permission to launch wars in violation of the Constitution, says John Kiriakou. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News Have you ever heard of Senate Joint Resolution 59 (S.J.Res. 59)? Neither…Read more →
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has nothing but contempt for international law. But he has shown uncritical deference to executive power, particularly in the so-called war on terror cases, argues Marjorie Cohn. By Marjorie Cohn The two primary sources of…Read more →
