By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Democrats launched a series of legislative efforts this week to try tackling the monopoly power of Big Tech. But are they asking the right questions? And will the efforts simply fail because Republicans won’t go along? Led by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat from…
By Glynn Wilson – Former President Barack Obama chose Independence Hall in Philadelphia to frame his video address to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, with the United States Constitution as the backdrop. This speaks volumes, which will largely be ignored by the talking heads on TeeVee, because they simply don’t get it, and brushed…
Biden Leads Sanders Among Likely Democratic Party Voters 33 to 25 Percent – By Glynn Wilson – It’s still early in the race for the White House with a year and a half to go before Election Day on November 3, 2020. So public opinion surveys are not so important or reliable yet, although they…
By Glynn Wilson – Mr. Donald J. Trump’s lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen may have laid down a corner stone of the legal fix that could bring down a president. Testifying in Washington before the House Oversight Committee Wednesday, Cohen established through documents and testimony a legal pattern of criminal conduct on the part of…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Try to imagine the reaction inside the Hoover building at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue as arguably the most corrupt and incompetent president in American history openly committed treason on foreign soil in Helsinki, Finland on Monday. If anyone other than Attorney General Jeff Sessions of Alabama was in charge…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — It is unclear why the national press should care now, other than the fact that the story is a bit of traffic driving sensational tabloid clickbait, yet a story is making the rounds on Twitter this morning quoting former Ten Commandments judge and Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore…
ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — When the tea in Boston Harbor dissipated, a new nation emerged from the carnage. Now that the tea party in modern American politics is clearly over, it looks like another new nation is emerging, one that will no longer stomach the election of people who tear…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Since the early days of science and later objective journalism, we have known that reaching breakthroughs in knowledge is gained over time in fits and starts. A scientist, or a journalist for that matter, practicing the American invention of objective journalism, becomes immersed in the literature of a…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The shrinking popularity of President Donald Trump and the public pronouncements and policies of his administration are creating a boost for Democrats that could play out to their advantage going into the 2018 mid-term election cycle. A Gallup poll just released shows a significant increase in the American…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald J. Trump is a liar who can’t be trusted and did not want the FBI director getting to the bottom of the investigation into Russian “meddling” in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, especially vis a vis his “satellite” associates, especially fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.…
The president may have obstructed justice in pressuring FBI director to drop Flynn investigation – By Chris Strohm and Steven T. Dennis – Bloomberg News – Donald Trump is facing the deepest crisis of his presidency after contents of a memo written by James Comey when he was FBI director surfaced Tuesday, alleging that the…
By Glynn Wilson – Due to a major national backlash against President Donald J. Trump and the Republicans in Congress for messing with people’s health care, the Democrats are now in a position to make major gains in the U.S. House next year, according to a new poll just out from Public Policy Polling. Democrats…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Not since George W. Bush’s 100 day losing war with Iraq based on bad intel has America suffered such days of grief as the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency. For those who are too young to remember or who somehow rode out the Bush years…
By Norman Solomon – After Hillary Clinton’s devastating loss nearly six months ago, her most powerful Democratic allies feared losing control of the party. Efforts to lip-sync economic populism while remaining closely tied to Wall Street had led to a catastrophic defeat. In the aftermath, the party’s progressive base — personified by Bernie Sanders —…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Do you wake up in the morning, make the coffee, crank up your computer and look at your Facebook news feed and ever feel confused about what’s really going on in the world? Don’t feel bad. You are not alone. Rapid changes in technology over the past…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The mainstream, corporate news media in America is in a quandary over what to do about the new U.S. president, Donald J. Trump. He calls them all “horrible people” and “liars” and purveyors of “fake news.” So what do they do? The broadcast media, so far, has…
By Glynn Wilson – Hundreds of thousands of people afraid for the future of America took to the streets across the country on Friday and Saturday in mass protests against the election and inauguration of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States, in what news organizations such as Reuters called “an early indication…
The mainstream, corporate news media sacrificed democracy for ratings. By Thom Hartmann – AlterNet – The media are engaged in an orgy of navel-gazing about the Trump presidency, but they’re totally, utterly, absolutely, no-way-in-hell willing to gaze at their own navel. Did Russian hackers revealing that Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Donna Brazile had put their…
By Glynn Wilson – As Donald J. Trump prepares to take the oath of office on Jan. 20, less than half of Americans say they are confident in his ability to handle the duties of a president of the United States. According to the latest Gallup poll on the subject, only 44 percent of respondents…
EDITOR’S NOTE: We have been following with interest all the stories claiming the Russians were behind the hacking and leaking of Democratic Party emails and claims that fake news stories about this impacted the U.S. presidential election, hurting Hillary Clinton and helping Donald Trump. We have already published several stories and columns viewing this story…
