Antidote to FAKE NEWS PART 3
To Celebrate or to Not? The Mueller
Question https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/26/to-celebrate-or-to-not-the-mueller-question/
Finally, it’s over. Well, sort of, anyway. Late Sunday afternoon,
Attorney General Bill Barr released his much-anticipated summary
of Bob Mueller’s Russia investigation. The big news, of course, was that nobody
in Trump’s orbit “knowingly” coordinated with Russian efforts to disrupt the
2016 election. Trump won’t be charged with obstruction of justice and not a
single American was indicted for conspiracy.
The Fox in the Henhouse: Bernhardt at
Interior https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/26/the-fox-in-the-henhouse-bernhardt-at-interior/
Everyone has heard the old saying about “the fox guarding
the hen house” — which generally means you wind up with a fat fox and dead
chickens. That’s something Montana’s senators should keep in mind when the
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee weighs Donald Trump’s nomination
of former oil, gas and mining lobbyist David Bernhardt to be the next Secretary
of the Interior following the December resignation of ethics-plagued Ryan
Zinke.
Business bullshit is about the meaningless language
conjured up in schools, in banks, in consultancy firms, in politics, and in the
media. This language drives thousands of business schools. It is this language
that is handed down to MBAs.
Detectives on Smollett Case Have Troubling
Backgrounds https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/26/detectives-on-smollett-case-have-troubling-backgrounds-2/
The Chicago Police
department calls a survivor of violence a ‘liar’ and the world
agrees? Nah. Whether we look at it logically, legally, or
historically, there’s much more to the story than that.
I had
never heard of Jussie Smollett before the attack and media
coverage. I don’t watch TV and had never watched Empire,
but something seemed off in the way the story developed so I started
investigating.
12 Ways to Make Sense of the Border
Mess https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/26/12-ways-to-make-sense-of-the-border-mess/
Borders are cruel. I know this because I’ve been studying
the U.S.-Mexico border for more than 40 years. It features prominently in two of my books, written in different
decades. It keeps pulling me back. Every time I cross that border, I say to
myself that this is no big deal — I’m used to it. And every time, I feel that
familiar fear-or-flight jolt of adrenaline and hear the inner warning: Watch
out! Things go wrong here.
Ardern’s Response to Christchurch has
Put Other Leaders to Shame, But Not for Its Compassion Alone https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/26/arderns-response-to-christchurch-has-put-other-leaders-to-shame-but-not-for-its-compassion-alone/
Drawing by Nathaniel St.
Clair
Cometh
the hour, cometh the woman. Jacinda Ardern won her
spurs last week with her response to the Christchurch atrocity. But the world’s
praise for her eloquence and compassion missed the point.
Ardern
was different. She fought from the start like a real politician, scorning the
killer, attacking racism and slapping back at Turkish
president Erdogan’s revolting election propaganda – which used the
murderer’s own video – then hitting out at US president
Trump. And insisting that New Zealand’s gun laws would change
forever.
Disinviting Jordan Peterson: the Faculty
of Divinity, Cambridge and Approved Ideas https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/26/disinviting-jordan-peterson-the-faculty-of-divinity-cambridge-and-approved-ideas/
Quentin Crisp’s Posthumous Book, the
Sequel https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/26/the-poisonous-history-of-neo-classical-economics/
“The conscious and
intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is
an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen
mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true
ruling power of our country.”
— Edward Bernays
March 25, 2019
Three Lessons for the Left from the
Mueller Inquiry
White House photo by
Joyce N. Boghosian
Here are three important lessons for the progressive left to consider now that it is clear the inquiry by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russiagate is never going to uncover collusion between Donald Trump’s camp and the Kremlin in the 2016 presidential election.
The TSA’s Role as Journalist Harasser
and Media ‘Watchdog’
Transportation Security
Administration – Public Domain
Sometimes you have to leave the United States to
understand how far this country has evolved towards becoming a police state.
I got a good example of this just last week on a trip
with my harpsichordist wife to Vienna where she had been contracted to perform
on Austrian State Radio in Vienna a concert of music by a leftist Jewish
composer who settled in the US after fleeing from Austria just ahead of the
Nazi Anschluss that took over and incorporated that country into Germany.
Epifanio Camacho: a Militant
Farmworker Brushed Out of History
Image Source Pakal
Hatuey’s Youtube Video: Complete Interview With Epifanio Camacho
Cesar Chavez
is perhaps best known for his role in the 1965-1970 Delano grape strike and
boycott and his nonviolent tactics in those protests.
Although Chavez insisted on nonviolence, there was
dissent within the National Farmworkers Association as some workers believed
more militant tactics were necessary. One of these workers was Epifanio
Camacho. With Cesar Chavez day approaching, it is important to remember
the work and life of Epifanio Camacho, who recently published his memoir.
Don’t Believe the Hype: Here’s Why
ISIS Hasn’t Been Defeated
Drawing Nathaniel St.
Clair
After all the headlines about the supposed defeat of Isis,
anyone who doesn’t believe a word of it may seem a bit of a spoilsport. But
whenever I read that victory has been declared – whether it be of the Bush
“mission accomplished” variety or the “last Isis stronghold about to
fall” fantasy – I draw in my breath. Because you can make a safe bet that
it’s not true.
The Capitulation of Jerome Powell and
the Fed
Photograph Source
Federal Reserve – DSC_6329 – Publica Domain
This past
week, on March 20, 2019, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell announced the
US central bank would not raise interest rates in 2019. The Fed’s benchmark
rate, called the Fed Funds rate, is thus frozen at 2.375% for the foreseeable
future, i.e. leaving the central bank virtually no room to lower rates in the
event of the next recession, which is now just around the corner.
Good Agent, Bad Agent: Robert Mueller and
9/11
This profile of Robert Mueller originally
ran in CounterPunch on June 21, 2017.
Robert Mueller,
the former FBI director named special counsel for the investigation into
Russian interference in the presidential election, is depicted as an iconic
G-man: serious, patrician, and totally incorruptible. But in reality, it’s a
little different. As with FBI Agent Dale Cooper in the latest iteration of
“Twin Peaks,” there is a Good Mueller and a Bad Mueller. We’ve heard a lot
about the good-guy Mueller, but nothing much about his bad side. And there is a
bad side–though it’s not the one that Trump supporters would have us think.
Russia and the Democrats
Two
years ago authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes wrote in their book Shattered:
Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign that within 24 hours of her 2016
electoral loss, Hillary Clinton’s senior campaign staff decided to blame the
loss on Russian interference. Given the apparent source of the charge in
opposition research funded by the Clinton campaign, the move seemed both
desperate and pathetic— a thread for Clinton’s true believers to hang onto, an
effort to keep campaign contributions rolling in and a ploy to cleave liberals
from the left through red-baiting. More https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/27/russia-and-the-democrats/
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