I had the good fortune of talking to David Corn this week, who, with Yahoo! News's Michael Isikoff, has written what is sure to be remembered as one of the best books on the 2016 election, Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald ...read more
Last week, Buzzfeed reported that Medium, the popular blogging site, had suspended the accounts of several prominent alt-right figures, including Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec. In response, Mother Jones'Â reporter Shane Bauer sent out this tweet, saved via screenshot: Bauer ...read more
In November 2016, I felt pretty ashamed to be an American, but damn proud to be a Californian. The last year has only made me happier for my home state as we've led the Resistance and served as a role model for the rest of the country in how to eat progressive policies. This has ...read more
Well, I guess we’re going at it again, folks. The circular firing squad of the Democratic primary has restarted with an astonishingly dishonest excerpt from interim DNC chair Donna Brazile’s new book, Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-Ins and Breakdowns that Put Donald Trump ...read more
Where there's liberal democracy, Julian Assange will be there to undermine it. Last year he supported Brexit, and he has taken meetings with one of its strongest advocates, Nigel Farage. Then he took stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee and weaponized them ...read more
As we piece together what Russian media did to manipulate our presidential election, utilizing social media to spread fake news and hacking state voter rolls, it is of the gravest importance that we not let them get away with this again. This past week, Russian media and ...read more
The Banter Long Read: A few months ago, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy was caught on tape joking, "There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump." Although McCarthy apologized for the remarks later on, he wasn't entirely wrong.... (Word Count: 1592) To ...read more
Wikileaks, Russian puppets and haters of all things American, posted the following tweet about the man investigating Donald Trump: Clearly, Robert Mueller delivered weapons grade uranium to Russia because (insert conspiracy theory of choice here), therefor he can't be trusted ...read more
There have probably been thousands of articles and parodies written about Donald Trump since he secured the Republican nomination and rode a wave of white nationalism and racism into the Oval Office, but nothing can ever come close to matching the dick-swinging insanity that ...read more
Since well before the election, there was a nagging suspicion that the darlings of the anti-Hillary hard left, Julian Assange and Wikileaks, were not all that progressive. It started to feel like they were working very hard to tilt the election towards Donald Trump explicitly on ...read more
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange emerged, at least electronically, from his hideout at the Ecuadoran embassy in London over the weekend. The occasion was a conversation with Australian comedian Chas Licciardello sponsored by the group Think Inc. The event was held in Sydney, ...read more
Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder and willing Russian puppet, abandoned any pretense of being progressive by going onto Sean Hannity's radio show to blast the American press, sounding suspiciously similar to any number of right wing talking heads: “They’re increasingly not very ...read more
Donald Trump can't lose. His entire self-made mythology rests precariously on the premise that he's a winner. He says it over and over again because for Trump it's not simply a statement of purpose but the centerpiece of his brand. A public loss for Trump would be humiliating, ...read more
In a sign that not all hope is lost for the far left, Glenn Greenwald has gone on the record as being unequivocally opposed to how Julian Assange and Wikileaks are carrying out their war on Hillary Clinton and American politics. During an interview with Diana Swain for CBC's The ...read more
Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs posted a tweet from Wikileaks that tells you everything you need to know about their intentions: This is not the tweet of a liberal group only interested in transparency; this is a tweet by a highly partisan player with a very specific ...read more
In a statement with a surprising amount of foresight, Marco Rubio openly denounced Wikileaks as a danger to American politics. During an interview with ABC News, Rubio made the following astonishing statement: "As our intelligence agencies have said, these leaks are an effort by ...read more
Right about now, Julian Assange must be livid. His hopes and dreams of destroying Hillary Clinton and fatally poisoning America with a Trump presidency are turning to ash right before his eyes. Despite a steady stream of mildly compromising emails, Assange's grand quest to smear ...read more
At 3 a.m. EST Tuesday morning, Julian Assange appeared in Berlin on a video screen to announce his devastating "October Surprise" that would finally crush the evil that is Hillary Clinton. At least that's what people were expecting. Instead, they got a promise that for the next ...read more
Update, 8.23.16: From AP: "WikiLeaks' global crusade to expose government secrets is causing collateral damage to the privacy of hundreds of innocent people, including survivors of sexual abuse, sick children and the mentally ill, The Associated Press has found. In the past year ...read more
UPDATE: Wikileaks announced late Thursday that the redacted nation is Afghanistan: Although, for reasons of source protection we cannot disclose how, WikiLeaks has confirmed that the identity of victim state is Afghanistan. This can also be independently verified through ...read more
This might be faint praise, but I actually have to compliment author Glenn Greenwald. For nearly a year now, Greenwald has been badgered by libertarian hackers, crypto-extremists and Wikileaks supporters to dump all of his Snowden NSA documents in the same way Julian Assange ...read more
Last week on the podcast I do with him, Cesca said he'd come to realize just who Edward Snowden thinks he is. And so, from now on, whenever we mention him on the show in any way, Bob plays this sound -- the opening notes from Moby's Extreme Ways, which is the closing theme of ...read more
Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Gallagher published a triple-shot of revelations from Edward Snowden's stolen National Security Agency files yesterday, titled "Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks and Its Supporters," and as we've come to ...read more
Alyona Minkosvki is a former Russia Today correspondent who is now a host on HuffPost Live. She was named by Forbes as one of the 30 most influential media personalities under the age of 30, and she has strong views on asteroid attacks... The Daily Banter:You were born in ...read more
The Washington Postreported today that the U.S. Justice Department will not, in fact, pursue charges against Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder and Ecuadorian embassy shut-in. The Justice Department has all but concluded it will not bring charges against WikiLeaks founder ...read more
Tuesday afternoon, Matt Drudge, the notorious paleoconservative fire-eater and former mentor to Andrew Breitbart, tweeted, "It's now Authoritarian vs. Libertarian. Since Democrats vs. Republicans has been obliterated, no real difference between parties..." He rapidly followed it ...read more
They're still trying to find something rotten inside Edward Snowden's bottomless cup of NSA documents, and yet they're coming up short every time. The Glenn Greenwald modus of hyping previously-known information or documents that aren't nearly as outrageous as they're made to ...read more
Here's what you should be reading this morning instead of letting yourself be consumed with dread in the face of another work-week: 1. Greenwald vs. Grunwald In case you missed all the orgiastic outrage on Twitter over the weekend, Michael Grunwald of Time magazine fired off ...read more
While fleeing from the law in Hong Kong, Edward Snowden encouraged a return to "the rule of law rather than men." In spite of his politically incorrect usage of "men" instead of "men and women," he's right. Generally speaking, individual citizens shouldn't be held above the law ...read more
By Bob Cesca: One of the prerequisites for being a political writer/junkie is a natural and sometimes frustrating inability to keep my yapper shut. Admittedly, I have a big mouth. Nevertheless, being an outspoken critic of current events and politics is especially dangerous ...read more
By Chez Paziena: Yesterday evening I popped up a quickie post over at my blog, Deus Ex Malcontent, that generated quite a bit of push-back. (For the record, it's always the minor brain droppings, as Carlin used to say, fired off on a whim, that seem to earn me the most ...read more
The new diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks reveals a massive double standard when it comes to US policy towards Libya. In 2009, the US was actively seeking partnership with Libya when it came to counter terrorism measures, and even discussed the sale of lethal weapons. Chris ...read more
