A Tale of Two Trials: Bradley Manning and Robert Bales
This appeal for sense and decency has been syndicated at HuffPo. One is the constitutional trial of the century so far, which started Monday but may forever reshape how we […]
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Bushed Again: New Orleans, Mr. O and Mr. Go
[Greg Palast] Five years ago this week, a beast drowned New Orleans. Don’t blame Katrina: the lady never, in fact, touched the city. The hurricane swept east of it. You […]
Expert Who Predicted Levee Break Fired
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] There’s another floater. Four years on, there’s another victim face down in the waters of Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Ivor van Heerden. I don’t get to use the […]
Pushing Forward Back
[Viggo Mortensen, Perceval Press] The White House wants to “look forward, not back”. That is the stated reason given (again) by President Obama’s Administration for not wishing to examine evidence […]
Welcome, Obama!
[Optimism as rendered in all caps, by Viggo — ST] [Viggo Mortensen, Perceval Press] WELCOME, PRESIDENT OBAMA! LET’S HOPE THAT THE DAYS WHEN CRIMINAL U.S. ADMINISTRATIONS ARE REPACKAGED AND REHABILITATED […]
JingoSport!
Here come the holidays! I’ve already been given a gift: I finished a huge chunk of my forthcoming tome JingoSport! It examines war, sports, marketing and entertainment through the looking […]
Bring The Bush Administration to Justice
[Viggo Mortensen, Morphizm] Dear President-Elect Obama, Please do all that you honestly can to bring to justice Dick Cheney, David Addington, John Yoo, William “Jim” Haynes, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Paul […]
The W-egacy
[Ross Levine, Morphizm] I for one wish I could vote for George Bush on November 4 and give him a third term. (And why can’t I, given the myriad “revisions” […]
Keep Hope Alive. Literally.
The McCain-Palin ticket is dead in the water, sundered by its allegiance to the Bush administration’s disaster capitalism and foundering on a strategy basically designed to piss off rednecks and […]
AlterNet: Wall Street Meltdown = American Police State?
So the stock market tanked like Sarah Palin yesterday, wiping out a trillion in value and setting the stage for some serious disaster capitalism before Bush leaves office in January. […]
Mogwai Howls About Hawk, Bush
“I don’t know why CSI Miami likes us so much.”
9/11’s Awkward Anniversaries: Ministry’s NWO
The video for “NWO” was equally incendiary, mashing Bush’s speech, the Rodney King riots, and probably a truckload of smoke machines into a reel that MTV would never play today.
9/11 Rewind: El-P’s Deep Space 9mm
El-P’s uncompromising poetry and stuttered beats are built only for those looking for the next level.
Infecting Nike, Intiating Obama: An Interview With Saul Williams
“I think it guarantees that the people in power in that corporation are listening close to what I’m saying and what their kids are dancing to.”
Chewing The Buddha: President Bush At The Olympics
[By Greg Palast, Photo: AP] Lhasa, Tibet — China’s secret police are just terrible at keeping themselves secret. The detective, dressed in her business suit and pumps appropriate to urban […]
The End Of The Jews? An Interview With Adam Mansbach
“ The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story.”
The McCain Plan: Homer Simpson without the Donut
[By Greg Palast] I’m guessing it was excessive exposure to either radiation or George Bush, but Senator John McCain’s comments from inside a nuclear power plant in Michigan are so […]
Disneyraq: The Unhappiest Place on Earth
The following article you are about to read is true. I researched and wrote it for AlterNet, and it is real. It is costly, and it will cost much more […]
Are Fannie and Freddie Screwed? Bush Hopes So.
Greetings, Morphizm pals. Welcome to the new blog. It’s in the early stages, but should be sitting pretty by the end of the month. Speaking of the end, Fannie Mae […]
Ring the Alarm: An Interview With REM’s Michael Stipe
“I think we can turn this around, but we can’t wait. We need the attention of everyone immediately.”
Drifting Into Dystopia: An Interview with Dahr Jamail
It does not appear as though the U.S. has any intention of leaving until all of the oil in Iraq is gone.
Lydia Lunch, 21st-Century Cassandra
“We must remember that sex is not dirty. It’s normal. Even when it’s dirty.”
Beatboxing The Ballot
Art and politics blur at your local concert venue, where artists from Ani DiFranco to Pearl Jam are making voter turnout their mission.
Margaret Cho, Emergency Revolutionary
Margaret Cho is taking her revolution to the streets. The most difficult part of revolution? Feeling you deserve one.
Mike Watt, Punk Prophet
“Boon and I were very conversational; we would literally talk about everything all day long.”