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' reporter Shane Bauer sent out this tweet, saved via screenshot: Bauer ...read more
The Banter Long Read: Evidence is coming out that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to cheat his way to the presidency, and his attorney general finds himself caught in the lies. Paul Manafort and Rick Gates have been indicted; George Papadopoulos has pled guilty; and ...read more
Catalan President Carles Puigdemont missed a crucial deadline this morning to formally declare independence from Spain. and the future of his government remains in jeopardy as Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy plans to meet on Saturday to possibly invoke Article 155 of the ...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
California Republican Dana Rohrabacher is no stranger to conspiracy theories. In his meeting with Julian Assange last month, Rohrabacher stated his belief that not only was WikiLeaks not involved in the emails, he even went so far as to say WikiLeaks deserves White House press ...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
Last week, Fox News latched onto the instantly debunked conspiracy theory that the tragically murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich was communicating with Wikileaks. For the record, police maintain that Rich was killed in a botched robbery, and not at the behest of Hillary Clinton, ...read more
In a surprising, holy shit, I can't fucking believe something is actually done about Trump development, the U.S. Justice Department has appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to "investigate alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and ...read more
The only thing more insulting than how stupid Wikileaks and Fox News thinks American conservatives are is that they're not wrong. Without a racist executive order or a giant bomb ready to drop as a distraction, Trump's buddies at his two favorite propaganda outlets had to do ...read more
Update: There have been complaints about the misleading nature of this article because the French is media is not legally allowed to publish anything about the election during the blackout period. However, not every outlet obeys this law and Le Monde choosing to honor the ...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
I swear to Dog, the desperate need for people on the far left to turn Hillary Clinton into the moral equivalent of Donald Trump is nauseating, not least because they consider themselves to be more "liberal" than the rest of us establishment, pragmatic "sheeple". The same day ...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
Let's just skip right to the point here: There aren't enough hyperbolic adjectives to truly and properly express just how big a deal it is that Russia is almost certainly behind the hack of the Democratic National Committee and that the goal of that hack was likely to throw the ...read more
There's a lot of bullshit going around about the DNC email leak. Ever since Wikileaks dumped the latest batch of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee on Friday, the political media has been joining Bernie Sanders and his supporters in breathlessly reporting that ...read more
I knew for months that I would need to hold my nose and vote for Hillary on November 8th, but christ, I didn't think it would be this hard. Is there some kind of hermetic memory-foam shit I can cover my whole face with? Has NASA gotten enough funding to develop some new space ...read more
I'll have more later on the blizzard of bullshit that's being spread about the latest Wikileaks dump of DNC emails, but here's a little appetizer: On Monday morning’s Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough, in discussing the leaked DNC emails, claimed that DNC officials planned to ...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
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
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
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 may as well read today instead of bemoaning the fact that you're back at work for another crappy week: 1. There's No "I" in Team Yes, it's probably just a lot of nonsense saber-rattling cynically aimed at endearing themselves to the idiots in the base, but ...read more
Bradley Manning was sentenced today to 35 years in prison on Wednesday for sending WikiLeaks sensitive government documents pertaining to America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Here's what you need to know: From the BBC: The US soldier convicted of handing a trove of ...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
Pvt. Bradley Manning. By Dennis J. Bernstein The grassroots activist group, RootsAction.org, has drafted a petition addressed to the Norwegian Nobel Committee calling for the Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded to imprisoned U.S. whistleblower, Pvt. Bradley Manning. According to ...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 UN special rapporteur on torture has formally accused the US government of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment towards Bradley Manning, the US soldier who was held in solitary confinement for almost a year on suspicion of being the WikiLeaks source. Juan Mendez has ...read more
President Obama's policy towards the Israel/Palestine conflict has been one of avoidance and acquiescence to Israel. Over and over again Obama has rolled over to Netanyahu's demands, and the Israeli state continues to colonize Palestinian territory and brutalize its people. In ...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
Glenn Greenwald asks why Bin Laden's crimes against America are deemed uncontroversial (the consensus being that 9/11 was unjustified, criminal and evil), while America's crimes against say, Iraq, are controversial when it seems fairly clear that the latter was far more damaging: ...read more
