Editor’s Note: While the United States is calling for sanctions against Russia for accusations of interference in the 2016 US elections, it is being exceptionally hypocritical. The US has a sad and long history of interfering in the elections of many other countries in the world. As noted in the LA Times article below “One…
Monthly Archives: December 2016
Trump’s Attack on the Freedom of the Press
By Robert Reich – Historically, tyrants have tried to control the press using 4 techniques that, worryingly, Donald Trump is already using. 1. Berate the media and turn the public against it. Trump refers to journalists as “dishonest,” “disgusting” and “scum.” When Trump lies – claiming, for example, “massive voter fraud” in the election, and…
Mobile Artist Alton Dwight Adams Dies of Injuries Suffered in Bike Crash with Car
MOBILE, Ala. — Beloved local artist Alton Dwight Adams has died from injuries suffered on Dec. 13 when he was hit by a moving vehicle while riding his bicycle on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. He was 62. Adams was a familiar face to people who worked, lived, or played in downtown Mobile, according to…
President Obama Declares Bear Ears in Utah a National Monument
By Glynn Wilson – Navajo hideout Bears Ears in southern Utah will now be protected as a national monument. President Barack Obama signed the proclamation Wednesday to protect this land for future generations “Thanks to his action, this land will be finally given the legal reverence and protection it deserves,” said Russell Begaye, President of…
President Obama Still the Most Admired Man in America, Well Ahead of Trump
By Glynn Wilson – As President Barack Obama prepares to exit the national stage in January after eight years in the White House, he will leave office as the most admired man in America, even if as the first African-American president his tenure has been controversial to those on the political right. In the latest…
Looking Back on Tumultuous Year, 2016
Electoral College Revolt Yields More Defections from Clinton than Trump
Donald Trump Affirmed as President With 304 Electoral College Votes – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – After all the screeching and howling, sharing and protesting, weeping and gnashing of teeth, Donald J. Trump was affirmed as the 45th president of the United States on Monday with 304 Electoral College votes to Hillary…
President-Elect Donald Trump Ends ‘Thank You’ Tour in Mobile
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — Television celebrity president-elect Donald J. Trump ended his “victory tour” or “thank you tour” where his campaign took off 16 months ago, before an adoring crowd of average, working class “conservative” Republicans at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in the home town of Senator Jeff Sessions. When Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home…
President Obama Weighs in on Russian Hacking Story in Press Conference
Facebook Teams up with AP to Combat ‘Fake News’
Trump Did Us All A Favor: He Destroyed Voter Apathy
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Don’t be so quick to declare the death of American democracy just because voters elected Donald J. Trump president. In my entire lifetime I’ve never seen so many people so interested in politics and public affairs. People are getting themselves educated even on the subleties of how…
What Cost Hillary Clinton the Election and Handed the Country to Trump?
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.” — Hunter S. Thompson By Glynn Wilson – Allow me to give fools…
New Oil Pipeline Leak in North Dakota: Standing Rock Sioux Protest Not Over
By Glynn Wilson – The fight against big oil embodied in the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline is far from over, according to the latest statement issued by Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II. As if to vindicate the tribe’s objections to the Dakota Access Pipeline running right through a fresh…
America Has Fallen and Can’t Get Up
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, Couldn’t put Humpty together again. â Humpty Dumpty – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – America has fallen and it canât get up. Unfortunately there is no âlife alertâ button hanging around…
President-Elect Donald Trump to Bring ‘Victory Tour’ to Mobile
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — President-elect Donald J. Trump is planning to bring his “victory tour” or “thank you tour” to Mobile on Saturday, Dec. 17. The event will take place at âLaddâPeebles Stadium beginning at 3 p.m. You can obtain tickets here. This was first reported by the local CBS News affiliate…
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Denies Easement for Dakota Access Pipeline
By Glynn Wilson – Apparently President Obama is not quite ready to bow out as a lame duck just yet and give President-elect Donald J. Trump all the Twitter fun. His administration announced Sunday afternoon that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided to deny a request for an easement so the Dakota Access…
Trumpeting Triumph Over Castro: New President Yearns to Turn Back Time
By David Underhill â MOBILE, Ala. â Most American cities have official sister cities sprinkled around the globe. Mobile’s include Havana, Cuba. This happened three decades ago through the unorthodox efforts of a few Mobilians. They decided to ignore the chronic Cold War anti-commie fevers of the time and focus instead on the three centuries…
President Obama: It’s Time to Send in the National Guard to Protect the Water Protectors
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – What is the Obama administration waiting for? It is time to call up the National Guard and deploy it to Standing Rock to protect the water protectors. At the height of the civil rights struggles in Alabama during the tumultuous 1960s, President Johnson was waiting on the…
Trump Victory Tour May Get Surprise in Mobile: Burning Confederate and Nazi Flags
Opponents of Dakota Access Pipeline Face Harassment From Law Enforcement, Businesses
By Glynn Wilson – Opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline are reporting through social media that they are being targeted and harassed by law enforcement and local businesses throughout the Bismarck and Mandan areas, according to a report out from the Native News. The State of North Dakota issued a statement early Tuesday morning saying…