Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Prefabricated Fascists: The FBI’s Assembly-Line Provocateurs (UPDATED, 12/8) “Valhalla” at work: FBI undercover asset Hal Turner, who was tasked to infiltrate and radicalize the “far right,” speaks at a rally sponsored by the FBI-controlled National Socialist Movement (left); below, left, Turner holds forth at an event in Washington, D.C.; below, right, […]

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 The Thin Blue Whine, Pt. I: Petulant Police Demand Impunity Stand up for thuggery! Hundreds of Portland, Oregon police officers and supporters surround City Hall during a protest march on behalf of Officer Chris Humphreys, who was placed on administrative leave (that is, paid vacation) following repeated use of unnecessary force […]

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 The Plague of Punitive Populism “Wherever there’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there.” — Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath In Virginia, police officers raid a baptismal party for two small boys. Without cause or provocation they assault the grandfather who owns the home, tasering him three […]

Monday, December 14, 2009 The Thin Blue Whine, Pt. II: The Crybaby Thugs of Maricopa County (Second Update, December 18) Uniformed thug as “political prisoner”: Maricopa County Deputy Sheriff Adam Stoddard strikes a martyr’s pose for the camera after a few days in “jail.” Stoddard was found in contempt after stealing a document from the […]

Sunday, December 20, 2009 The Thin Blue Whine, Pt. III: Who Mourns the Murdered Mundanes? (Update) The Brotherhood in Blue (and Red) Gathers at the Tacoma Dome during a memorial service for four police officers recently murdered in an ambush in Washington (above, and below, right). More than 20,000 police officers, including 1,000 members of […]

Friday, December 25, 2009 The Truce of God (This essay was originally published in The New American magazine.)In August 1914, Europe’s major powers threw themselves into war with gleeful abandon. Germany, a rising power with vast aspirations, plowed across Belgium, seeking to checkmate France quickly before Russia could mobilize, thereby averting the prospect of a […]

Wednesday, December 30, 2009 The Old “False-Flag Trick”? “Ahem — yeah, well, we’ll take it from here”: Government security personnel take suspected terrorist Umar Farouk Abdelmutallab into custody in Detroit after passengers did all the hard stuff — subduing him when his “lap bomb” failed to detonate and extinguishing the incendiary device. You know, Chief, […]

Wednesday, January 2, 2008 “Turbo”-Charged Idiocy About Torture Roughly thirty years ago, the late Johnny Carson unveiled the masterpiece in his collection of sketch-comedy characters: Floyd R. Turbo, the plaid-wearing people’s pundit. Imagine a genetic experiment that produced a hybrid of Elmer Fudd and George W. Bush (especially the familiar vacant stare) and you’ll get […]

Friday, January 4, 2008 Yoo’s On First: Let The Lustration Begin! Lustration, n. — 1) The act or process of cleaning, purging, or purifying; 2) A rite or liturgy to cleanse people, cities, or armies that have been defiled through crimes or pestilence. The end of the Bush Regime a little more than a year […]

Thursday, January 10, 2008 The Nanny State Goes Nazi “Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.” This instruction was given by President Andrew Johnson during the military occupation of the conquered southern states as a means of winnowing out the real troublemakers for special treatment. Today, being described […]

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 The ADL’s Holocaust Denial What happens when the State has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force: The Anti-Defamation League agrees with the late, unlamented National Socialist regime that this Jewish woman about to be murdered holding her child had no right to take up arms against the government that […]

Thursday, January 17, 2008 An American Pugilist Like countless six-year-old boys before him, and countless who will come after him, Joey Hughes got in trouble for fighting at school. It was nothing serious, just random, unfocused scuffles that messed up clothes and hair but left no permanent marks. Nonetheless, Joey’s mother Audra was furious at […]

Friday, January 18, 2008 Pick-Pockets, Leg-Breakers, and Bigots: One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others “[O]ur rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers […]

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 “Pre-emptive” Nuclear War: The Safeties Are Off 99 [her luminous eyes distended in horror at the spectacle of a nuclear mushroom cloud]Oh, Max — what a terrible weapon of destruction.Max: Yes. You know, China, Russia, and France should outlaw all nuclear weapons. We should insist upon it.99: What if they don’t […]

Monday, January 28, 2008 My President Is Nobody Samuel warned them, but they didn’t listen: Saul is anointed king over the Israelites.“`… you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves [warned the prophet Samuel], and the Lord will not hear you in that day.’ Nevertheless the […]

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 “I Hate Rude Behavior In a Man” By the time they reached Ogallala, both the cowboys and the stock from the Hat Creek Cattle Company were utterly depleted. Their journey, which began on the banks of the Rio Grande, had already claimed the life of one of their number. And their […]

Friday, February 1, 2008 Federal Provocateurs: The “One Percent Solution” (Updated, Corrected, February 3) Draped across the throat of our nation like a lank noose about to be pulled taut is a system of 102 Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs). These entities, which could properly be called homeland security soviets, combine state and local police […]

Wednesday, February 6, 2008 The Torture State’s Domestic Face Caveat Lector: The following essay includes exceptionally disturbing video footage and one very offensive photograph. They are both indispensable to the story told below.An additional note: Literally minutes after I posted this essay, the embedded videos of Hope Steffey’s molestation were removed from YouTube due to […]

Friday, February 8, 2008 Makers vs. Takers: A Firebell in the Night? “The only way I can put it in context,” Gerald Thornton told CNN, “is that my brother went to war tonight with the people that were of the government that was putting torment and strife into his life.” Gerald’s brother Charles “Cookie” Thornton […]

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Our Collapsing Kleptocracy (UPDATED) The frontman looks for cover: Bush cowers behind former Fed Commissar Alan Greenspan, architect of the debt bubble that is devouring the world economy. TODAY correspondent Ann Curry: Some Americans believe that they feel they’re carrying the burden because of this economy. George W. Bush: Yeah, well… […]