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A Brief Thought: Poisoned Prospects, Fallow Fields

Editor’s Note: unfortunately, I’ve spent the past couple of days running around to attend to a few personal matters and as such today’s Brief Thought will be a very quick look at an issue that bothers...

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A Brief Thought: Obama, Wall Street & Weaponized Identity Politics

Editor’s note: if the truth be told, I’ve spent the past couple of nights agonizing over how to approach this post and indeed whether or not to even write it all; every time I write about either former...

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Six Things I Think: Stunning Hypocrisy Edition

  When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one’s thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.”  –...

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Fantastic Lies: How He Falls

Editor’s Note: recently in the act of analyzing American politics for this website, I have found myself the victim of two great and even at times insurmountable obstacles; the never ending stream of...

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A Brief Thought: Rachel Maddow, Roger Ailes & Why Liberals Lose

Editor’s Note: to say that this hasn’t exactly been my greatest week (or even month) would be something of a mild understatement and as such, I’d like to apologize for how long it took to bring this...

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I Told You So: Trapping the Swine Emperor Edition

Editor’s Note: frankly, I don’t normally do this and I’d like to assure those of you expecting a new article out later today won’t be disappointed; it’s been a crazy week but yes, I finally have...

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Dead Man Talking: Comey Finally Delivers – Part One

Editor’s Note: first of all, I’d like to apologize that this post is getting to you so late; there’s a lot of source material to go through this time and I’ve been suffering from a summer head-cold and...

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Dead Man Talking: Comey Finally Delivers – Part Two

Editor’s Note: this article is the second half (and conclusion) of a in-depth look at the historically unprecedented testimony of former FBI Director James Comey before the Senate Intelligence...

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ABT: Dimwitted Donny Jr Goes Domino Dancing

Editor’s note: if the truth be told I’ve literally spent the better part of the past 36 hours (as evidenced by the voluminous number of links below) researching this piece and frankly, I’m completely...

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Russiagate, Swine Emperor Trump And Me

Editor’s Note: in the many long months that I have been writing about the McCarthyist, neoliberal fever dream that has become known as the “Russiagate” scandal, I have frequently been accused of all...

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Fantastic Lies: Special Ratf*cking Edition Part One

Editor’s note: when I originally sat down to write this post, I had intended it to be a quick and lively little jaunt through the corporate, establishment media’s never-ending war on Bernie Sanders and...

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Fantastic Lies: Special Ratf*cking Edition Part Two

Editor’s Note: this article is the second in what I believe will be a three part media criticism series focusing on early efforts to smear, block and otherwise annihilate a Bernie Sanders 2020...

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Insidiocracy: Russiagate, Corporate Media & Losing My Religion – Part One

Editor’s Note: When I sat down to write this article, I began by compiling a list of all the times mainstream corporate news outlets had been forced to retract or effectively neuter a “bombshell” story...

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Insidiocracy: Russiagate, Corporate Media & Losing My Religion – Part Two

Editor’s note: this is Part Two in what I believe will be a five part series about corporate media corrections, retractions and walk-backs while covering the truly bizarre “Russiagate” saga; you can...

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Insidiocracy: Russiagate, Corporate Media & Losing My Religion – Part Three

Editor’s note: this is Part Three in a five part series about Pig Empire corporate media corrections, retractions and walk-backs while covering the objectively unhinged “Russiagate” saga; you can find...

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Insidiocracy: Russiagate, Corporate Media & Losing My Religion – Part Four

Editor’s note: this is Part Four in a five part series about corporate media corrections, retractions and walk-backs while covering pretty much anything to do with Russia or the unhinged “Russiagate”...

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‘The Devil You Know? A Response to Recent Revisionist History From the...

An op-ed aggressively refuting the contrarian faux-left position that calling Trump a fascist is some sort of liberal psyop designed to distract the left. The post ‘The Devil You Know? A Response to...

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Film Sessions: the Myth of a Free Press on Media Madness

A December 2020 Film Sessions post about Tom Nicholas's excellent video "The Myth of a Free Press" that leans more towards the review side of the equation. The post Film Sessions: the Myth of a Free...

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Six Things I Think: The Enemy of My Enemy Is Still a Fascist, Actually

An extremely detailed Deep Dive post explaining why Boogaloos are fascists, Jimmy Dore is no leftist, and online pinkos have a crypto-reactionary infuencer problem. The post Six Things I Think: The...

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Film Sessions: Cancel Culture Fear of the Mob by Tom Nicholas

In this week's Film Session we're exploring the class and power issues behind the bogus "cancel culture debate" with What the Theory's Tom Nicholas over on Media Madness. The post Film Sessions: Cancel...

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