Max Parry Editor’s Note – This article was written, and submitted to us, before the Taliban’s take-over of Kabul. In May, the HBO television network aired a new two-part documentary exploring America’s ongoing opioid epidemic entitled The Crime of the Century. The first episode summarized the role of the pharmaceutical industry in the crisis, specifically …
Caught with their proverbial pants down? The blustery conversations tied to corona virus, lockdown, Trump LLC, Pelosi and Comp., and the failed state that is the USA are to be expected.
It is a country of nanosecond attention spans.
A country with amnesia in vitro.
A country that has sacrificed future and future-future generations for the all mighty dollar.
Dog-eat-dog?
Survival of the fittest (or in the reverse Darwinism, survival of the least fit, the least smart, the least humane, the least human).
Out of fury against President Trump, many liberals have enlisted in the ranks of the New Cold War against Russia, seeming to have forgotten the costs to rationality and lives from the first Cold War, warned the late William Blum.…Read more →
Source : CovertAction Magazine, Chris Agee & Luis Wolf, 09-12-2018
Par Chris Agee et Louis Wolf • Le 9 décembre 2018
William Blum (1933 – 2018)
William Blum est mort en Virginie tôt le matin du 9 décembre 2018. Il était entouré par ses amis et sa famille après une chute dans son appartement de Washington DC et avoir essuyé de sérieuses blessures 2 mois plus tôt. Il était âgé de 85 ans.
Source : Chris Agee, Louis Wolf, 11-12-2018
William Blum est décédé en Virginie tôt ce matin, le 9 décembre 2018. Il était entouré d’amis et de membres de sa famille après être tombé dans son appartement de Washtington D.C. et avoir subi de graves blessures il y a 65 jours. Il avait 85 ans.
In the incessant self-praise of the US imperial project, kept safe in a state of permanently enforced amnesia, occasional writings prod and puncture. Mark Twain expressed an ashamed horror at the treatment of the Philippines; Ulysses Grant, despite being a victorious general of the Union forces in the Civil War and US president, could reflect that his country might, some day, face its comeuppance from those whose lands had been pinched.
Olympics hack, Twitter stacks and AI conversation hearts + this day in history w/European Vega rocket launch and our song of the day by Wye Oak on your Morning Monarchy for February 13, 2018.
Sen. (and former comedian) Al Franken was a rising Democratic Party star before sexual harassment allegations brought him down to earth, but was he really ever a progressive hero, asks William Blum at Anti-Empire Report. By William Blum Poor Al,…Read more →
A big part of the Russia-gate hysteria is to accuse Russia of spreading U.S. dissension via Internet “trolling,” but that’s just one more wild exaggeration among many, as William Blum describes at Anti-Empire Report. By William Blum Webster’s dictionary: troll…Read more →
Some of our special stories in September examined the risk of nuclear war over North Korea, the shifting power balance in the Middle East and the escalating hysteria over Russia-gate. “Seymour Hersh Honored for Integrity” by Ray McGovern, Sep. 1,…Read more →
