SICKOFITRADLZ: January 2022

Monday, January 31, 2022

What will Joe do now?

I've weighed in on the topic of Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee already in "Joe Biden, don't screw with me." But I wanted to return to it to note this from Jonathan Turley:

Biden has promised that he will not consider males or non-black candidates. Now, an ABC News/Ipsos poll shows that 76 percent of Americans reject such a threshold exclusionary rule based on race or gender.

During the primary, Biden wanted to garner support with black voters by saying that he would only consider black women for the next seat. He made the pledge after Rep. James Clyburn pushed him to do so during a break in the presidential debate. Biden turned around and made the commitment when the debate resumed according to a new book. Clyburn later gave Biden his critical endorsement that many (including Biden) attribute his victory to in the key South Carolina primary.

As discussed previously, commentators have insisted that Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, and George H.W. Bush made the same pledge. That is also false. While seeking to appoint women and African Americans, none of the three excluded other races or genders from consideration and had diverse short lists. Yet, even if they did, the question remains: should admission to the Court be based on an exclusionary threshold qualification that the Court has rejected as unconstitutional or unlawful for schools and businesses.

Notably, even 54 percent of Democrats agreed that Biden should consider all potential candidates. “Just 23% want him to automatically follow through on his history-making commitment,” according to ABC News. Yet, Democratic senators have applauded Biden for his pledge.

My thoughts again? I don't need the nominee to be African-American or a woman. But if Joe's saying she's going to be Black, she better be Black -- not bi-racial or multi-racial. Black. That's what he's said. And I'm not talking about on the campaign trail. I'm talking about last week.

Now if he wants to go back on that -- on it being a Black woman -- he can. Just explain why -- that's not sarcasm. Just say, "I shouldn't have used those parameters." But if he's going to use them, the woman better be Black.

Here's C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"

Monday, Janaury 31, 2022. The stalemate continues in Iraq as does the silence on NPR.

The stupidity never ends in the world of the press. Case in point, NPR's MORNING EDITION. They've found Iraq. They haven't. They speak to AP's Sarah El Deeb. Before they do, they want you to know that they're concerned about a "resurgence" of ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Resurgence? It never went away. We were addressing that on Friday, you may remember. This morning, ABNA reports, "A security source said two policemen were killed in the attack of the members of the ISIS terrorist group on the Iraqi province of Kirkuk on Sunday evening. The Iraqi security source told Shafaq News Agency that members of the ISIS terrorist group have attacked Kirkuk province on Sunday." NPR's ignoring that attack and they've ingored all the similar attacks. They add up and the death toll adds up. Is there a "resurgence" of ISIS in Iraq and Syria? Seems to me the only "resurgence" is in the US press bothering to note Iraq. And ten and fifteen can die a day in ISIS attacks and it doesn't matter. It only matters if the attack qualifies as "spectacular."

I'm appaled by the report for anothe reason. NPR wants you to know that, in Syria, the presion seige was carried out in part by holding children. No one takes a moment to decry children prisoners. No one takes a moment to call out children being in the same prison as adults. It's just move on and skirt every damn issue in the world but pretend that somehow, for a few seconds this week, you covered Iraq and Syria and did a segment that didn't find the hosts chuckling at the end. ("We haven't heard what happened to the children . . . We don't know how many died," Sarah declares. Alright then. Thanks for the information -- or whatever you want to call that.

What's further appalling is that the report is about Syria. The headline for the segment is "Attacks by the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq stoke concerns of a resurgence." Sarah El Deeb does not cover Iraq. She covers Syria. She can't speak to Iraq in any meaningful manner.

"We'll have to leave it there," Leila Fadel says cutting Sarah off during the too brief segment that never addresses Iraq. Not a good way to kick off your first day hosting MORNING EDITION. (Leila's hosted many NPR programs as a substitute before. She's now a regular host on MORNING EDITION.) It was also cute to watch them look back at Leila's work in the past. Egypt . . The US -- Fort Worth? (isn't that where her family lives) . . . Verything but Iraq. So 2005 through 2009 she covers Iraq but, hey, no need to offer that during the segment becuase NPR doesn't give two s**ts about Iraq. They make it clear every day in every way.

I have a feeling we're going to have to focus more on NPR in 2022 as it continues its progpaganda and ignores reality.

Three minutes on Syria -- supposedly Iraq and Syria -- and that's it. Over six minutes on an astronaut who may become something -- the first African-American woman to spend six months in space -- but thus far hasn't gong into space. Greg Myre delivers over four minutes of progaganda about how (he insists) Ukraine is trying to "break free from Moscow." Ukraine is split on what they want but, hey, if you're going to sell war, whore, baby, whore. Whore big or go home. And Greg Myre is one of the biggest whores that there has evern been. Got a sloppy floppy, Greg.

Has NPR filed a single report on the stalemate in Iraq? October 10th, elections were held. Still waiting on a government to be formed.

Dilan Sirwan (RUDAW) reports:

The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Vice-President Nechirvan Barzani met with Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and parliamentary speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi in Najaf on Monday, following an initiative from KDP leader Masoud Barzani to resolve political tensions in Iraq’s ongoing government formation process.

The meeting at Sadr’s house came following a statement from Masoud Barzani on Monday where he suggested that Nechirvan Barzani and Halbousi visit Sadr in order to discuss the political process in Iraq, and to eliminate the obstacles and issues.

The Sadrist bloc has already formed an alliance with the KDP and Halbousi’s Sunni party, Taqadum. Their initial act of alliance was during the first parliamentary session earlier this month where all three parties voted for each other’s candidates for the parliamentary speaker position and his deputies.

The sudden meeting between the three leaders comes after Iran’s Quds Force commander Ismael Qaani accompanied by Iran’s top official in Iraq, Hassan Danaeifar, met with Masoud Barzani in Erbil on Sunday, as confirmed to Rudaw by the KDP’s spokesperson.

Meanwhile, Parliament has announced 25 names for the post of President of Iraq. INA reports the candidates are:

1-Khalid Siddiq Aziz Mohammed

2-Faisal Mohsen Aboud Al-Kilabi

3-Shehab Ahmed Abdullah Al Nuaimi

4-Hussein Ahmed Hashim Al- Safi

5-Ahmed Moah U mran Al - Rubaie

6-Ahmed Yahya Jassim Jawd Al Saadi

7-Sabah Saleh Saeed

8-Kazim Khudair Abbas Dwaghneh

9-Razkar Mohammed Amin Hama Saeed

10-Klawes Ali Amin Birah

11-Louay Abdel Sahib Abdul Wahab Mohsen

12-Ribwar Orhmen Arif

13-Hamza Brissam Thijeel Al-Maamouri

14-Hushiar Mahmoud Mohamed Mustafa Zebari

15-Hussein Mohsen Alwan Al - Hassani

16-Abdul Latif Mohammed Jamal Rashid Sheikh Mohammed

17-Omar Sadiq Mustafa Majid Al-Abdali

18-Barham Ahmed Haj Saleh Ahmed

19-Thaer Ghanim Mohammed Ali Baktish Al - Othman

20-Iqbal Abdullah Amin al-Fatlawi

21-Khadija Khuda Yakhish Assad Qlaws

22-Jabbar Hassan Jassim

23-Hadi Abdel Hussein Saddam Al - Freijy

24-Raad Khudair Dafag Sail

25-Omid Abdel Salam Qadir Taha Palan

Number 18 should be forgotten. He has served as president and should step aside. Was there any real point to wasting time, money and security on elections if Barham Saleh is going to remain president? The Speaker of Parliament remained the same. Now the presidency?

In addition, there's the fact that Saleh's political party, PUK, was destroyed in the elections. Why should he remain president? Corruption? That's why?

The Iraqi people became disenchanted with elections in 2010 when Joe Biden overturned the results that year with The Erbil Agreement. Nothing since has taken place to make them believe that elecitons change anything. Keeping Saleh as president will only further undermine any belief in elections. Grasp that every election since 2010 has seen a steady decline in turnout.

February 8th. Per Iraq's Constitution, that's the date that they have to have named a president. That's days away.

Nothing is being accomplished. The plan was that the new government would usher out foreign forces. You may remember all the claims, for example, that US troops would be out of Iraq at the end of 2021. Didn't happen. The election didn't deliver that or anything else. And for those who just don't seem to get it, ABNA reports:

The German parliament has approved a plan to extend the German army’s mission in Iraq until October 2022.

On Friday (January 28th), the German parliament, known as the Bundestag, approved by 553 votes to 110 against the proposal of the federal government to extend the mission of the German army in Iraq until October 2022. Accordingly, the German army will continue to participate in anti-ISIS missions in Iraq for nine months.

The German parliament said in a statement that Germany’s cooperation and presence is only to strengthen and rebuild the Iraqi army and provide related support services as part of NATO’s missions and the International Coalition against ISIS in Iraq.

The German government believes that the efforts of various parties to implement structural reforms in the Iraqi military institutions as well as the integration of the forces of the Hashad al-Shaabi organization in the Iraqi security structures with the aim of effective and direct control of its forces by the Iraqi government should be supported!

These words of the German government show that the Westerners are seeking the dissolution of the Hashad al-Shaabi organization and will certainly implement plans to strike at the organization in the near future.

On Julian Assange, we'll note this discussion.

And we'll wind down with this:

MORE THAN A MAGAZINE, A MOVEMENT

Dear Common Ills,

This year marks the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. But it may very well be its last. In a few short months we face the likelihood the Supreme Court will overturn Roe, endangering abortion access nationwide.

In our 1972 premiere issue, Ms. magazine ran a bold petition in which 53 well-known U.S. women declared that they had undergone abortions—despite laws in most states rendering the procedure illegal.

It is time to speak out again—in even larger numbers. We are launching a new petition with the encouragement and support of some of the original 1972 signers. We invite all women to sign in order to “help eliminate the stigma” of abortion and to demand the repeal of all laws restricting women’s reproductive freedoms.

We know that women who have had abortions have spoken out many times during the last 49 years, and millions of women and men have marched in countless rallies and demonstrations for abortion rights. By a margin of 2 to 1, Americans oppose the repeal of Roe v. Wade.

We cannot, we must not, lose the right to safe and accessible abortion or access to birth control. Just as in 1972, we will send the signed petition to members of Congress, to the White House, and to the Supreme Court. And we will publish the names in an upcoming Special Issue of Ms. and on Msmagazine.com.

And we ask that you help us by promoting the petition to your friends, family and others across the country to join our fight to save abortion rights.

For equality and a strong feminist future,

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Saturday, January 29, 2022

Naomi

Naomi airs on The CW on Tuesday nights. This week? Stephanie March joined the cast. She's playing Akira. I recognized her voice but I never watched the Law and Order shows. So it must be her one-shot appearances on Happy Endings and 30 Rock and maybe her role in the Angelina Jolie film Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

So Akira who is she? Is she good or is she bad? She's an alien from the same planet as Naomi. So is Zumbado who is the bad guy on the show (unless we've all read him wrong). Somehow, he believes Naomi can be used to get them back to their planet. Akira tells him to leave Naomi alone.

Zumbado wants a disc and Naomi thought she found it -- she and her friends risked a lot to get it. But the disc is fake and was meant to be a fake. So Zumbado appears to be several steps ahead of Naomi. He had locked it away in his safe and she and her friends try to access it on a computer during a university tour and that's when it turns out to be fake. And it causes a meltdown at the university which gets the kids in trouble.

When Jen arrives at the school, she is furious with Naomi who points out that she's never been in trouble before. Her mother says to be home by six p.m. because they have to talk. (Jen is Naomi's mother.)

She's training with Dee still And he's thinking she's not ready and she's risking too much pursuing the disc. He takes her to meet Adam who is able to sense that Naomi has the disc's energy inside her. Before they can get much further, a military team starts attacking. Adam tells them to get out and he'll handle the team.

They manage to escape but, of course, Naomi is now late to get home.

Jen and Greg are furious. Especially when she claims she was studying with Lourdes and doesn't know Jen already spoke with Lourdes. Naomi is grounded and has to surrender her phone.

Lourdes comes in (yes, through the bedroom window -- like the Beatles song) and then after Loudes leaves, Naomi pops out the window. She bumps into her friend Annabelle.

Naomi's figured out another place the disc could be. She and Anabelle go there and a security guard who doesn't give a crap let's them in. She finds the disc and her powers are causing the tunnel they are in to collapse. Anabelle says that they have to leave but Naomi's trying to pull a disc loose. She can't, there's not enough time, but as she tells Dee later, she managed to translate it before everything started collapsing.

Naomi has been lying to her parents. She doesn't like that. She goes to the kitchen and tells them she wants to tell them the truth.

But. Wait.

Greg says they need to tell her something first. They get in the mini-van and end up in the forest (where Naomi went in the second episode). Greg explains the military is targeting aliens now (remember Greg's in the military) and that this spot is where he and Jen first found Naomi when she was a baby. There's an object on the ground. And Naomi touches it. It illuminates with the same sort of markings that the disc had.

Here's C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"

Friday, Januay 28, 2022. Wars continue and start anew because too many people refuse to use their voices.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is there an e-mail campaign going on to this site? Martha and Shirely counted 32 e-mails insisting that he'd made a fool of himself with his remarks on Anne Frank and that I must be embarrassed.

Nope.

I love him. He's a friend. And I didn't hear anything embarrassing in his remarks regarding Anne Frank. Sorry. If I'd spoken to him about it, I would've said, here's what you should have said as people tried to imp a fux controversy:

I want to offer my sincere apologies to the borther and sister of Anne Frank who my remarks may have offended -- Huh? THey're dead? Okay, to her parents -- Also dead? It's a historical event. Anyone can use to build a comparison. Noting what was done to Anne Frank keeps her memory alive. I am someone whose father and uncle were assassinated. I've never tried to police the use of them for analogies. I haven't thrown a public hissy. Not even when a US Ambassador elected to mock the death of my uncle John F. Kennedy at an official State Dept event in a tasteless and embarrassing manner. Didn't say a word. I mentioned Anne Frank because she's someone I respect. I know why I talked about her. My question is why, after I spoke, some people decided to talk about her? Seems it was less about Anne Frank and more about trying to smear the ideas that I was addressing.

He wouldn't have said that because he's a nicer person than I am.

I'm not embartrassed by him at all.

He is a strong person who has been through a lot and he's come through it without losing his soul.

He's used his time and name to address serious issues and done so repeatedly. When he passes away, he will know his life was not wasted.

I'm not so sure that his critics can say the same thing.

The wasted? That would be the faux 'resistance.' Where are they with Michael Avennati today? He was their hero and holy savior and now he's on trial. Do they still love him? He was a disgusting con artist and, as Ruth noted, that was obvious from the very start. I question the 'values' of those who rushed to slobber over the ambulance chaser. But that's the least of their sins against humanity. Aussie Oracle notes:

From Vaush to Richard Spencer to Rachel Maddow…all in lock step. All supporting war with Russia. All I can say is the CIA is really diverse…

4:31 PM · Jan 25, 2022

And John Stauber responds:

Of course.

@TheDemocrats

are united in their visceral hatred of #Russia, a bunch of warmongers since Truman.

4:44 PM · Jan 25, 2022

Is that what the Maddow crowd's embrace of the neocons was really all about? They knew they would whore for war so they forgave the other whores? There was no accountability for the liars who took the country into war with Iraq. None at all. And don't bring up crap-ass media. MOTHER JONES hired what blogger? There were tons of antiw-ar and peace bloggers but they went with the hideous Kevin Drum who promoted the Iraq War. That's MOTHER JONES. A joke, I know. But it wasn't always the big joke that it is today.

FAIR's a pretty big joke as well. They act as media criticis but, as we've noted so many times before, when talking about people not being held accountable for promoting the Iraq War, they never want to call out MOTHER JONES -- or the PACIFICA reporter who went on air defending the Iraq War, calling it a success and insisting things were going great. As I'm remembering it this was four months before Camp Casey kicked off in Crawford, Texas.

A lot of whores were in so-called independent media.

The only one ever held accountable for reporting or commentary on Iraq was . . . Judith Miller. And where did she get her start? Oh, that's right: THE PROGRESSIVE.

The fakery continues as they're silent about the push for war on Russia.

Not everyone is silent, fortunately.

WSWS' edistorial board has issued the following statement:

The conflict that Washington is provoking with Russia over Ukraine threatens the globe with a catastrophe beyond measure. Driven by insoluble internal crisis and rapacious geopolitical ambition, US imperialism is recklessly marching to the brink of World War III.

The crisis over Ukraine has been manufactured by the United States and its NATO allies on the basis of lies. The Biden administration denounces Russia for the movement of troops within its own borders. The claim of an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine is repeated endlessly by the White House and echoed unquestioningly by the mass media.

It is hysterical war propaganda. Russia has never threatened to invade Ukraine. Moscow has stated, however, that it cannot tolerate Ukraine becoming part of NATO.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is not a geographical alliance of “democratic” states but an imperialist cabal for war with Russia and other countries. Incorporating Ukraine would station NATO arms and forces on Russia’s immediate border and would bind the forces of US and Western European imperialism, under Article 5 of the NATO Treaty, to go to war on behalf of the far-right regime in Kiev, tied to neo-Nazis and fascists, in the event it provoked a conflict with Moscow.

US officials have revealed plans to deploy up to 50,000 troops to the borders of Russia and Ukraine. On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered a statement spurning Moscow’s written request for guarantees that Ukraine would not be allowed to join NATO. The Biden administration is not negotiating. They do not seek to ease tensions but to goad Putin into armed conflict so that he can be presented as the aggressor.

While US and NATO troops are being mobilized, Washington has set into motion the apparatus of economic warfare. Biden and Blinken have both threatened “severe economic sanctions” against Moscow, and Russia is preparing for Washington to cut its access to the global SWIFT financial system for US-dollar transactions, which would exclude the country from much of the world economy.

The US has invaded countries all over the world, and Putin knows what defeat at its hands would entail for him. Manuel Noriega and Slobodan Milosevic died in prison, Muammar Gaddafi was brutally murdered, and Saddam Hussein was hanged. Washington wants Putin dead.

The Biden administration has created a situation that Putin and Russia must construe as an existential threat. There is no concession that Moscow can make that will prevent the advance of NATO forces, short of complete capitulation. It faces the choice of war now or war in the near future when NATO stands on its doorstep.

The White House is recklessly marching to war, yet no one is discussing the implications. No reporter asks Biden what the worst-case scenario might be, and not one has asked if it might entail the use of nuclear arms. Washington acts as if the conflict it is pursuing will be neatly contained in the eastern regions of Ukraine, sealed off in the Donbass.

The United States has waged a series of wars since 1991, and each has ended in catastrophe. Millions are dead, and entire societies in the Middle East and Central Asia have been reduced to dust and rubble. They were primitively armed. Washington now has the country holding the world’s second largest store of nuclear weapons in its sights.

If the US and NATO have convinced themselves that they can level an existential threat against Russia without raising the tremendous danger of nuclear war, they are deluding themselves. How can they exclude this possibility? If they do recognize the risk, their actions are mad.

All of the war propaganda of the US and NATO depicts Putin as a deranged criminal; all of their strategy relies upon his conduct being saner than their own. There is a deeply reactionary faction within the Russian ruling elite and military circles, many of whom are imbued with all sorts of fascistic conceptions.

War has an inexorable logic of its own; it does not abide by the tidy plots drawn up on the Resolute desk of the Oval Office. The logic of the military vortex that Washington is setting into motion will drag the great powers into a global conflict.

China confronts Washington’s demand that it abandon its Zero COVID policy and allow the pandemic to kill millions of its people. The US war drive in the Asia Pacific region, almost as advanced as that confronting Russia, presents Beijing with a similar existential threat. China sees in the US deployment of troops to Taiwan a direct parallel to the developments in Ukraine.

British imperialism, donning again the pith helmet, invents its own lies in service to the war drive. Washington pressures the German bourgeoisie, with the blood of 28 million Soviet citizens on its conscience, to again set its sights eastward.

The unleashing of a war with Russia would within weeks—if not days—drag in Iran, Israel, China and Taiwan. Japan and Australia would rapidly be caught up in the ever expanding fray. Military imperatives would take over. The world would be engulfed. The loss of life that is being prepared is incalculable.

The American ruling class has shown that it is impervious to mass death. Over 900,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 in less than two years, but the Biden White House does not even speak of it. The evening news anchor discusses the daily weather and not the daily dead. There is not a shred of a conscience that will prevent Washington from starting a catastrophic global war.

If you have a voice, why are you not using it to say no more wars?

On THE CONVO COUCH (above), FIorella rightly called out what our 'indy' media is doing currently.

And it makes no sense. Being silent.

You want to wait until everything's over. An indymedia name did that, didn't she? She can't sleep now. I'm supposed to feel sorry for her because I've known her for years.

A mutual friend called and said I should reach out.

When hell freezes over.

She should feel awful. Her husband stood for what he believed in. And she did what? Undercut him on Amy Goodman's hideous show. Undercut him. DIdn't use her position to flood the market with calling out Russia-gate. Yeah, she published one guy who can't stop slobbering over her to this day. But that was it.

And now her husband's dead.

Did she think she had time to make it up to him. When she pulled the stunt on Amy Goodman's show, Elaine and I both called the husband who we'd also known for years and who we still spoke with -- while avodiing the woman. He was so hurt by what she did. Thats why Elaine went to town on the woman that night at her site.

Now her husband's dead and she's got guilt and she should.

He was being brave and speaking truth and she tried to maintain her position by undermining him. That's how he saw it -- from his mouth to my ear.

So, no, I'm not reaching out to her and if she's in pain, good. She should be. She made a calculated choice. And she gambled that she'd have time to make up for it. Sorry, he passed away, you don't have any time to make up for it.

She knew better. She's promoted herself as an expert on Russia for decades -- as laughable as her attempt to once claim -- in the WIKIPEDIA entry she had her intern write and police -- that she had won an award when she didn't win it, the magazine did.

When you lie over something that minor, you really have issues.

We all know who I'm talking about, right? The panty wetter Katy van van who kicked Elaine in the shin when she (Katty van van) was a child because Elaine noticed Katty had wet herself and asked if she needed to change? That's Katty van van.

Am I too harsh on her?

Let's see, let's check out THE NATION.

War on Russia is being pimped and where is Katty van van and THE NATION?

Worthless articles on the front page about elections and candidates that pretend to be about something.

John Nichols tries. At least? Are we supposed to be saying that?

Over 100 links to pieces of 'journalism' on the front page and only John's writing about Russia. But look at the title: "There Is No Military Solution Out of This Ukraine Crisis."

It's a crisis? Hmm. For who?

It's a matter that the people need to decide for themselves. The US government and war mongers insist its a crisis. How nice of John to use that framing?

He's worthless.

Call Katty van-van? When hell freezes over. She's haunted? She should be. She did something she knew was wrong and she made the calculation that it was the thing to do even though it meant betraying truth, betraying poeple and betraying her husband. She hurt him very badly. So she's getting what she deserves. Actions have consequences.

I'm embarrassed for her and for what passes for her notion of social responsibility. You'd think your mother killing herself in a really dramatic manner only a few years back would have taught Ktty that life was brief. But she didn't like her mom and she didn't even know her. Which is why she never found ______.

If I was running THE NATION, it wouldn't be doing lifestyle pieces -- like Dave Zirin's latest -- how the Dem Party is antagnozing "young Jews." I guess to 'sports' writer Dave, that's the most important topic in the world today.

That's John Pilger speaking with Lee Camp about important topics: War on Russia, the ongoing persecution of Julian Assange, etc. Two topics THE NATION refuses to lead on.

I long ago grasped that we'd be one of a very small number of sites covering Iraq. I rarely even bother to point that out any more. It has to be an important anniversary for me to point to all the silence on Iraq. That they walked away is clear.

But they're apparently not even going to give one serious moment to war on Russia.

Maybe that's better?

I eman, I remember the editorial about Iraq and elections. They ran the start of that editorial on the cover of the issue. It was stating that they would not vote for anyone who had supported the Iraq War. Then they promoted John Edwards and they promoted this and that person. And it finally boiled down, to, "We won't vote for Joe Lieberman! We'll vote for every other Dem that supported this war but we draw the line at Joe Lieberman!"

Such passed for bravery when Katrina and her buddy predator were interested in Iraq. Hmm. He went on my local PACIFICA and trashed me. Is it finally time for me to tell the truth about him, the ugly truth about that horrible man and why he really hates me? He called it a pass. I called it an assault. I wasn't his date. I certainly wasn't his friend. But he was all over me while I was screaming "No" and "Get off me" and kneeing him in the balls to get him off me. That's why trashes me to this day.

I trash him because he's a fake and a fraud. And I don't base that upon attempted rape. If you know me, you know I put myself last of the list. I base him being a fake and a fraud upon the fact that he's a fraud who sells out every time. I gave to THE NATION -- up until he trashed me on my local PACIFICA -- and set aside what he'd done to me. I stopped donating because it was obvious that THE NATION was a fraud that was never going to actually hold anyone accountable. Remember when they had the chance to print storeis -- by Naomi Klein -- about how James Baker and Mad Maddy Albright were profiting from the Iraq War? And they only printed the one on Republican Baker. THE GUARDIAN prtined both reports. Remember when the reporter did a lengthy investigtion into the corruption of Senator Dianne Feinstein and THE NATION paid him but refused to run it so he had to sell it to alternative weeklies? Time and again, they betray.

Katty vann refused to cover War Resisters. Refused to support them.

Time and again, the rag demonstrated what their priorities are.

Rockets hit the BAghdad airport today -- six of them. Some are wondering if the adjacent US military base was the target.

The Iraq War never ended and a fucntioining Independent Media would have told you that.

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