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Here we offer third compelling perspective on the action taken by Yevgeniy Prigozhin last week, this report and assessment given on Substack by the one and only Seymour Hersh. As with the previous two pieces penned by Scott Ritter and John Varoli respectively, Mr. Hersh offers what he found out about this from his own […]

Joe Biden: The Guardian gets fooled againBy Ian SinclairMorning Star30 November 2020 “Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss”, sings Roger Daltrey at the end of Won’t Get Fooled Again, one of The Who’s greatest songs. In fact it’s one of the greatest anthems in the rock canon full stop, reaching the top ten […]

-by John SimanAs I reread in his book, Hate Inc. Matt Taibbi’s analysis of how the corporate media have worse-than-cynically divided our nation into mutually-despicable but highly profitable demographic silos, and as I await the publication of Thomas Frank’s forthcoming book The People, No!, which will, I believe, be about the grim suppression of Populism in Amer

Remember what Chris Hayes said about looking at the 2020 candidates as the cycle kicked off? I saved the video to remind you. Let's use it as a quick lens to look at Status Quo Joe. Who will he fight for? What will he fight for? Well, who has he always fought for? His own career, his family, his family's lobbying clients, Big Banks, Wall Street, corporate America, the Military Industrial Complex Eisenhower warned us about. Can he be trusted to do what he says? According to PolitiFact, 84% of Trump's checked statement have been lies. No one can compete with that...

How will these people respond if they think Sanders was cheated again?by Thomas NeuburgerLike many I watched the 2016 Democratic primary carefully, and like many I was appalled by what looked like rampant cheating of varying types and degrees by national party leaders, state officials and local functionaries.

Still wrongMilbank got just what he wanted-- a lot of attention for his poorly reasoned anti-Bernie diatribe in the Washington Post on Tuesday, Bernie Sanders has emerged as the Donald Trump of the left.

Yesterday, I tried to emphasize, when writing about that cheesy Martin/Ember analysis of the fight over the 2020 Democratic nomination, that the MSM speaks for the establishment and will always opt for the status quo or a status quo ante.

A Bernie Sanders event in Madison, Wisconsin during the 2016 Democratic Party primary (click to enlarge)by Gaius Publius“I wouldn’t want to win on an old-fashioned leftist platform.

"With no emerging leaders, no clear message, Democrats flounder," says the headline (source). The headline is false.