07 Nov 2019

R.I.P. “Happy Joe” Whitty

By Julie McCarthy

The day I began working at the first Happy Joe's Pizza & Ice Cream Parlor down in the East Village of Davenport, Joe Whitty sat me down in his office and imparted wisdom that affected the rest of my life.

19 Jun 2019

Is the U.S. Slow-Walking Assange's Death?

By Daniel McAdams

As U.S. Constitutional scholar and George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley wrote in May, the U.S. Attorney General is completely wrong in his efforts to prosecute Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange under the Espionage Act. "The use of the Espionage Act strikes at the heart of the First Amendment," wrote Turley, who noted with approval that several prosecutors in the Attorney General's office shared his view that the indictment of Assange on espionage charges is a terrible idea.

01 May 2019

Debunking the Julian Assange Smears

By Caitlin Johnstone

Ever noticed, whenever someone inconveniences the dominant western power structure, the entire political/media class rapidly becomes very, very interested in letting us know how evil and disgusting that person is? It’s true of the leader of every nation which refuses to allow itself to be absorbed into the blob of the U.S.-centralized power alliance, it’s true of anti-establishment political candidates, and it’s true of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

16 Apr 2019

Note to Six Senators: “Present” is not Presidential

By Thomas L. Knapp

On February 7, U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) and U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) released the text of a joint resolution calling for a “Green New Deal.”

09 Apr 2019

People Will Never, Ever Rebel As Long As They’re Successfully Propagandized

By Caitlin Johnstone

The difficulty of our times is not that we are locked up; we aren’t. The difficulty is that far too many of us are manipulated into choosing a prison cell over freedom.

05 Feb 2019

Uncle Sam Wants Your DNA: The FBI’s Diabolical Plan to Create a Nation of Suspects

By John W. Whitehead

Uncle Sam wants you.

Correction: Uncle Sam wants your DNA.

Actually, if the government gets its hands on your DNA, they as good as have you in their clutches.

05 Feb 2019

“No-Knock Raid” Is Just Another Term for “Violent Home Invasion”

By Thomas L. Knapp

On January 28, home invaders murdered 58-year-old Rhogena Nicholas and 59-year-old Dennis Tuttle of Houston, Texas. Nicholas and Tuttle wounded five of the (numerous) armed burglars before being slain.

That's not how the news accounts put it, of course. Typical headline (from the Houston Chronicle): "4 HPD officers shot in southeast Houston narcotics operation, a fifth injured."

22 Jan 2019

Uncle Sam Wants Your DNA: The FBI’s Diabolical Plan to Create a Nation of Suspects

By John W Whitehead

“As more and more data flows from your body and brain to the smart machines via the biometric sensors, it will become easy for corporations and government agencies to know you, manipulate you, and make decisions on your behalf. Even more importantly, they could decipher the deep mechanisms of all bodies and brains, and thereby gain the power to engineer life.

22 Jan 2019

Parkland and Covington: Two Schools, Two Causes, One Lesson

By Thomas L Knapp

"You're not interesting because you went to a high school where kids got shot," comedian Louis CK said at a New York gig in December, addressing Florida high school students who trafficked on their credentials as "school shooting survivors" to shill for the gun control movement. "You didn't get shot. You pushed some fat kid in the way and now I gotta listen to you talking?"

America's "left wing" went ballistic. How dare this man mock kids who'd been through something so horrible?

02 Jul 2018

Support Your Local Humane Society, Not National

By Michael Helke

Let’s assume you love cats and/or dogs. And you see an ad for The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), on television or on the Internet (RCReader.com/y/hsus1). Do you get emotional over the sight of stray cats or dogs living in Dickensian squalor before being euthanized? And do you consider writing out a check to the national organization based on the work it does on behalf of those animals, consistently depicted in rescue shelters?

It’s an impulse you may want to reconsider.

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