It will be a couple years before we know the full story of the COVID-19 Crisis. But one thing is certain right now. When the dust settles, the corporate press better have been right on this one. They have gone all in with non-stop, wall-to-wall coverage of the...
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1/24/20 Nozomi Hayase on Glenn Greenwald and the ‘Assange Precedent’
Scott talks to Nozomi Hayase about the movement to prosecute Glenn Greenwald for cybercrimes in Brazil. Greenwald is accused of helping to steal confidential text messages, as opposed to simply publishing information that had been hacked by someone else. This is...
Glenn Greenwald Charged With Cybercrimes in Brazil
Breaking in the New York Times. Note that this is the same as Trump's case against Julian Assange: The recipient and publisher of a leak is a co-conspirator with whoever did the leaking. It's a war against honesty in language first and foremost, and it's a threat to...
The Heroic Chelsea Manning Rots in Prison
On FPF #438, I talk about the torture of Chelsea Manning. Chelsea heroically leaked to Wikileaks the Afghan war logs, Iraq War documents, and State Department cables that revealed US war crimes. Chelsea was given 35 years for liberating the documents. She spent the...
The Christmas Truce of 1914: Proof that Peace Is Possible
As 1914 drew to a close, Europe had been at war for months. On the Western Front, opposing armies faced each other across a stalemated front line running from the North Sea to the Swiss border. On December 24, 100,000 soldiers from both sides of that line decided to...
It’s a Metaphor, You Idiots
Clint Eastwood is not saying that Atlanta Journal reporter Kathy Scruggs traded sex for new stories. He's saying that she was a whore. This is entirely accurate. And she was not alone. Kathy Scruggs was and will always be a disgrace to journalism and humanity. Just...
What the Afghanistan Papers Really Reveal
The recent revelations in the “Afghanistan Papers” is nothing unknown for those who cared to take notice. It is a revelation in the sense that it took the mainstream media so long to report on the real war in Afghanistan. It was a revelation homogenised and packaged...
In Light Of Ukraine Drama – Remember The Yahoo Who Said It Was A Blatant Coup?
In 2014, George Friedman of Stratfor said that the Kiev, Ukraine coup was "the most blatant coup in history". Then, by 2016, he backtracked. He said something to the effect that if it was a coup, it would be the most blatant coup in history. Implying it's obviously...
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