Peter Kafka in an interview with journalism critic Jay Rosen recently wrote at Vox, Trump’s denial of his coronavirus failings will be “one of the biggest propaganda battles in American history”: Americans don’t trust the government, and they don’t trust the media. That trend has been evident for years, but the Trump era has accelerated it. Now … Read more
Over the last six weeks, HBO has broadcast the adaptation of Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America. The plot of the work, an alternative dystopian history of early 1940’s America, shows the original America First darling, famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, running for President in 1940 against Franklin Roosevelt on an anti-war platform. Lindbergh, riding an … Read more
This live webinar recording was made on April 20, 2020, hosted by Larry Bodine, President of Democrats of Greater Tucson. Democratic Candidate Jonathan Mosher, running for Pima County Attorney, discussed his opposition to the death penalty, opposition to prosecuting low-level non-violent drug possessors, how the office can help schools and students, policies and procedures he … Read more
I recently wrote an opinion piece in which I speculated that the GOP really didn’t want people to return to work and die, they were just positioning themselves politically to insulate themselves from the inevitable CoronaDepression. I assumed they would make a lot of noise about the damage to the economy, and then prudently, and … Read more
Back in March, I warned you about The Saudi Arabia-Russia oil war against U.S. oil producers (snippet): Two of Donald Trump’s favorite autocrat buddies, Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud of Saudi Arabia and Vladimir Putin of Russia, have decided to engage in a price war over oil in an effort to capture market share in … Read more