It’s being reported that we have White House Chief of Staff John Kelly to thank for today’s uncomfortable press event, during which Donald Trump tried to walk back the fact that he’d taken the side of Vladimir Putin over the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation. According to Vanity Fair, it was Kelly, who, after […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged collusion, Donald Trump, election hacking, election meddling, FBI, Igor Konashenkov, John Kelly, KGB, Russia, Russiagate, treason, Vladimir Putin |
By Mark | October 30, 2012
Earlier this evening, I had the occasion to speak with activist and author Tom Hayden about his role in the drafting of the Port Huron Statement, the circumstances which gave rise to this widely influential manifesto of the New Left, and his evolution from student journalist to impassioned activist. Hayden, who is often credited with […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, History, Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1957, 1960's, 1961, activism, Alan Haber, Bob Ross, Chandler Davis, Clement Markert, DNC, freedom rides, House Unamerican Activities Committee, Jack Kerouac, JFK, journalism, kids today, labor, labor movement, Mark Nickerson, Michigan Daily, New Left, On the Road, participatory democracy, Port Huron Statement, SDS, share croppers, Sharon Jeffrey, sit-ins, SNCC, student activism, Students for a Democratic Society, Tennessee, the progressive agenda, Tom Hayden, UAW, unions, University of Michigan, Voice, voting rights |
By Mark | October 23, 2012
People came away from the last presidential debate not talking about Romney’s commanding presence, but his gaffs. What had people talking the next day, as they stood around the coffee pot at work, wasn’t a clever zinger that the successful dismantler of companies had made about Obama’s hatred of capitalism, but Romney’s nonsensical and offensive […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1920s, 1950s, 1980s, Afghanistan, al Queda, binders full of women, debates, foreign policy, horses and bayonets, Iraq, Obama, Presidential politics, Romnesia, Romney, Russia |
Remember how, a couple of days ago, we were talking about that new book on Area 51, and it’s bombshell revelation that Nazi scientists made tiny, alien-looking people for the Soviets after WWII, and then launched them into the side of a bluff in Roswell, New Mexico? Well, the author of the book, Annie Jacobsen, […]
Linette’s all freaked out tonight. She heard something on Fresh Air today about Area 51. Apparently, there’s a new book out by a journalist named Annie Jacobsen about the highly-restricted parcel of government land outside of Las Vegas, it’s history, and the many conspiracy theories that revolve around it. Most troubling for Linette was the […]
Posted in History, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1947, Annie Jacobsen, Area 51, black propaganda, book ideas, child-sized pilots, CIA, conspiracy theories, human experimentation, Josef Mengele, Mark's big ideas, Nazi, nuclear arms race, Roswell, Soviet Union, Stalin, UFO, Walter Bedell Smith, War of the Worlds |
