By Mark | September 5, 2018
Generally speaking, I have have very little sympathy for those who have chosen to work for Donald Trump. And I certainly don’t think of them as heroes, which, based on things I’ve read in the past, is how many of them apparently see themselves. They argue that, by remaining in the administration, they’re able to […]
Posted in History, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged betrayal, Bob Woodward, Dina Powell, Donald Trump, Gary Cohn, ghosts, gutless, LBJ, murder, Omarosa Manigault Newman, op-ed, Oval Office, resistance, Rex Tillerson, Shakespearean, traitors |
Shortly after taking his position as White House Communications Director, Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci, discussing how unauthorized leaks were keeping the President from pursuing his agenda and making America great again, said, “I want to fucking kill all the leakers.” Well, today, there was another leak, and it was a big one. According to the […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Anthony Scaramucci, chaos, coverups, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., fake news, John Kelly, leaks, madness, Mooch, Robert Reich, Russia |
Speaking with Andrea Mitchell last night on MSNBC, Delaware Senator Chris Coons suggested that the FBI was in possession of transcripts of calls that could not only prove useful in the ongoing congressional inquiries into Russia’s involvement in our 2016 presidential election, but might also demonstrate collaboration between Putin’s government and the Trump campaign. “There […]
By Mark | January 16, 2017
Every now and again, as I’ve written about him a few times in the past, I get an odd call about infamous Ford enforcer Harry Bennett, who built a fortress not far from here in 1930 to protect him from his many enemies. Not too long ago, as you might recall, a man contacted me […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Corporate Crime, History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anti-union, Arthur Brisbane, Battle of the Overpass, Benjamin Stolberg, Black Legion, castles, Ford, Ford Service Department, Gestapo, guns, Harry Bennett, Hitler, intimidation, KKK, labor history, lions, murder, Rouge plant, The Black Legion Rides, tunnels, union busting, unions |
By Mark | August 19, 2016
After our long vacation, the Saturday Six Pack will be back on the air this weekend with poet, activist John Sinclair, the former manager of the MC5. While I’m sure we’ll talk at length about both his time with the “The Five”, and the ten year sentence he received for selling two joints that made […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged '60s, Alan Haber, Ann Arbor Sun, Benjamin Edmondson, Black Panther Party, Bob Rudnick, bummercore, Cash Harrison, CIA, communes, Danny Fields, Dennis Frawley, Detroit Artists Workshop, drug busts, Elektra, FBI, Fifth Estate, Flint, government spying, hippies, informants, Jackson Prison, John Lennon, John Sinclair, John Sinclair Freedom Rally, Kick out the Jams, Kokaine Karma, Leni Sinclair, liner notes, Luther House, marijuana, MC5, Michigan Supreme Court, old hippies, police setups, police stings, pot, Richard Nixon, SDS, Students for Democratic Society, Supreme Court, The Beatles, Tom Hayden, Trans-Love Energies, White Panther Party, yippies |
