The US is a de facto one-party state where the ideology of national security is sacrosanct, unsustainable debt props up the empire, and the primary business is war. When all else fails, when you are clueless about how to halt a 7.5% inflation rate, when your Build Back Better bill …
Read More »Chris Hedges: The execution of Julian Assange
Let us name Julian Assange’s executioners. Joe Biden. Boris Johnson. Scott Morrison. Theresa May. Lenin Moreno. Donald Trump. Barack Obama. Mike Pompeo. Hillary Clinton. Lord Chief Justice Ian Burnett and Lord Justice Timothy Victor Holroyde. Crown Prosecutors James Lewis QC, Clair Dobbin QC and Joel Smith. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser. Assistant …
Read More »Chris Cuomo describes how thick-skinned he is after losing another show
“The way my time ended at CNN was hard,” Cuomo said on Monday. “While I have a thick skin, I also have a family, for whom the past week has been extraordinarily difficult.” Cuomo said he will be focusing on “what comes next” and promised to be “back in touch” …
Read More »Chris Cuomo hit with sexual misconduct accusations after CNN ouster
In a statement released on Sunday after CNN announced Cuomo had been fired, attorney Debra Katz said she was disturbed by the anchor’s “hypocrisy” for claiming on television that he had “always cared very deeply” about women’s issues, while simultaneously aiding his brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, with …
Read More »CNN fires Chris Cuomo following suspension over role in brother’s defense
The CNN host was suspended by the channel earlier this week after texts released by NY Attorney General Letitia James shed light on his attemps to do damage control for his brother as the former was fighting multiple allegations of sexual harassment. In a statement on Saturday, CNN said that …
Read More »CNN suspends host Chris Cuomo over defense of ex-governor brother
CNN announced the move in a statement on Tuesday, saying that newly released documents from the New York Attorney General’s office raised “serious questions” about Cuomo’s conduct. The network claimed that while it was aware Cuomo had given his brother “advice” during the harassment controversy, it did not realize the extent of his involvement. …
Read More »CNN’s Chris Cuomo’s interference for brother Andrew laid bare
Cuomo, who had supposedly promised not to cover his brother on the air in an agreement with CNN that fell by the wayside during the Covid-19 pandemic, apparently spent much of his time over the past year struggling to cover up for Andrew’s alleged sexually harassing behavior, according to messages …
Read More »Chris Hedges: The Assange case is the most important battle for press freedom in our time
For the past two days, I have been watching the extradition hearing for Julian Assange via video link from London. The United States is appealing a lower court ruling that denied the US request to extradite Assange not, unfortunately, because in the eyes of the court he is innocent of …
Read More »Chris Hedges: America’s fate is oligarchy or autocracy
The competing systems of power in the United States are divided between oligarchy and autocracy. There are no other alternatives. Neither are pleasant. Each has peculiar and distasteful characteristics. Each pays lip service to the fictions of democracy and constitutional rights. And each exacerbates the widening social and political divide …
Read More »Chris Christie family bar mitzvah blamed for Covid-19 ‘outbreak’ that caused return to virtual learning for NJ school – reports
Mendham Township schools Superintendent Salvatore Constantino claimed to the New York Post that multiple positive cases of the virus were found among students and adults following the recent bar mitzvah of Christie’s nephew, the son of Christie’s brother Todd and his wife, Andrea. “There were, unfortunately, a few adult cases …
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