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And please remember: almost all of it will be brought to you by some of the most powerful corporations in modern America: the media conglomerates, national and local, who are eagerly taking Trump money to disseminate his arrant, death-dealing lies in his ads; the social networks – Facebook, Google, YouTube, etc – who also gobble up the Trump dollar or else rake in profits by "monetizing" the outpourings of the deranged extremists and organized fascist networks spreading Trumpist filth; the print media, such as the NYT, who continue to pretend we are in some fairly ordinary "horse race" political situation, while slavishly adhering to their cult of "both siderism," which paints a completely false picture of reality when one "side" is actively, openly, gleefully trying to destroy American democracy and literally killing thousands of Americans every week with its deliberate, documented policy of allowing the pandemic to spread. It is a dangerous act of weakness that will only embolden the enemies of democracy (again, many of whom are in Congress right now), who see that the Democratic leadership will do nothing, absolutely nothing, even in response to a violent attack on their own institution, on their own persons. It's hard to know how much people outside Fallujah are aware of what is going on here. And tear the veil from people’s eyes About CORE Blog Contact us. Roberts has done it again with his latest piece: It's hard to understand why all our serious commentators are writing that Barack Obama's presidency is in trouble, and offering sage advice, from right, left, and center, on what he needs to do to "get back on track." Apologies. Bob Dylan’s ‘Empire Burlesque’ (CBS–86313) was the artist’s 28th album to hit the Official UK Music Charts. Again, overall, it's a very good story in detailing the suffering of innocent people under the operation, and it does note that the US was fully aware of all the atrocities being inflicted, and that many of the torturers were trained by the US at the infamous "School of the Americas." Empire Burlesque 1.0 High Crimes and Low Comedy in the American Imperium. Empire Burlesque; Eschaton; Facing South; Fix the Pumps; Free Range Kids; G-Bitch; Humid City; Lawyers, Guns and Money; Library Chronicles; Liprap’s Lament; Maitri; Michael Homan; Mommyish; Multi Medium; Noladishu; Oh No They Didn’t: Political; Power Pop; Pruning Shears; Robert Feder ; Romenesko; Rude Pundit; Shayera; Skippy the Bush Kangaroo; Southern Beale; Spocko’s Brain; Susie … Ruby maintains the role of producer, and head … How can we battle back against those who will mobilize hatred to cement into place an American fascism? This economic rent is the major return to wealth. And if we fight, even with this tragic vision, we will lead lives worth living and keep alive another way of being. I think that Empire Burlesque rides a very fine line between genius and absurdity, and can fall either way depending on your tastes. It was only because the most powerful nation in the history of the world, with bristling nukes ringed around the borders of all its adversaries, which was dropping more bombs on one tiny nation that had been used in all of WWII, which was ensconced in riches and economic power beyond anything ever seen in history, was scared that it would be utterly destroyed ("existential threat") unless innocent human beings were thrown out of helicopters into the sea by unaccountable tyrants. 33 in the U.S. and No. The background here is good as far as it goes, but it omits the salient point of that mutilation of American mercenaries; it followed a series of security shoot-em-ups that killed a number of innocent civilians in Fallujah. 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