A Tale of Two Websites

Facebook gets fellated while Wikileaks goes to jail, but we know the score

His dead, soulless eyes gaze out from the red borders of the magazine with a thousand mile stare; the photograph looks like an android failing the Voight-Kampff test, or the mug-shot of a frat boy baked on XTC; but this is not just another arrogant whelp of privilege and nepotism, this glassy-eyed perp is Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire monomaniac behind Facebook and its 550 million willing victims.

This is TIME Magazine's Person of the Year.

The Current King of Lies

Interviewed in Rolling Stone, Obama made a naked appeal for unthinking partisan loyalty, stating: "It is inexcusable for any Democrat or progressive right now to stand on the sidelines in this midterm election."

No, what is inexcusable is to vote for either of these sham parties in a fake electoral system that is set up to highlight emotional differences of no economic consequence to billionaires, thereby perpetuating the illusion of choice in a system where you have none.

Progressives must abandon a Democratic party that abandoned them years ago, a party that sold them like so much cattle to their corporate paymasters, all for a few crumbs from the masters' troughs.

Blood Money - Ill-gotten gains guarding the Left gate

This was originally to be a comment on Antifascism Calling's excellent All in the Family - Global Drug Trade Fueled by Capitalist Elites but it sprawled beyond the comment box and became its own post.

Tom Burghardt has compiled a fascinating and detailed article that follows the deep state intersections between drug runners, shadowy intelligence operatives, and the money laundering activities of our criminal banking cartel.