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Life goes on, right? I’m not as certain about that as I used to be – or maybe I no longer understand the term “goes on.”
I’ve been pondering past decisions I’ve made in this life of mine – decisions of enormous impact, decisions that created my future, essentially out of the blue. Forty-nine years ago, for instance, I moved from rural, southwest Michigan to . . . ta da . . . Chicago. I’d been a back-to-the-lander for the previous four years, having transformed with many of my fellow boomers from antiwar activist and hippie to planet-saving environmentalist. I was also married, but that marriage – numero uno – fell apart and I found myself, in my late 20s, with my entire future in my hands. I loved gardening. I’d been raising barred-rock chickens. Every spring we made maple syrup. On and on. Love the planet, man.
But I found myself looking beyond the moment and knew I had a future to create – ooh, serious responsibility here. I knew I wasn’t meant to remain a farmer. What I loved was writing. And it was something I was good at. I also could envision only one way to make an actual living as a writer: journalism.
Israel is meticulously following a textbook model of instigating unrest in the occupied West Bank. The latest such provocations consisted of stripping the Palestinian-run Hebron (Al-Khalil) municipality of its administrative powers over the venerable Ibrahimi Mosque. Worse, according to Israel Hayom, it granted these powers to the religious council of the Kiryat Arba Jewish settlement, an extremist settler body.
As President Donald Trump strives to dominate the United States and the entire globe, the ground under his feet is being eroded out by the explosive Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal.
I had lunch at Epstein’s palatial New York City house on E 71st street. I met him and the crème de la crème of New York’s Jewish real estate society. With me were two of Canada’s media celebrities.
I was brought to the luncheon to renew my relations with Epstein’s British girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, whom I had known socially in New York for some years. Maxwell was then giving lessons to her lady society friends on how to give good sex. As an accomplished lothario, I was invited to amuse the naughty Miss Maxwell but never had a chance to do so.
As I’ve previously said on Australian TV, I was offered a “massage” soon after arriving at Epstein’s house. To me, a veteran of Cold War Moscow and the Mideast, I was astounded by such a brazen attempt at blackmail. “How stupid do they think we are?”, I asked. In Moscow, we used to joke about the so-called “swallows” sent by KGB to entrap journalists and diplomats. I asked the KGB boys for 8x10 prints to send to my friends.
It’s all over but the official count. Georgia Republicans can’t win the Senate seat now held by Democrat Jon Ossoff — the demographics will drown them: Georgia is now a “majority minority” state with non-whites predominant. EXCEPT. EXCEPT if the GOP can come up with a way to stop those un-white voters from voting.
And they have. This week, the violently partisan Republican Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, announced that he is removing tens of thousands of voters who live in addresses that Republicans rarely haunt: office spaces used as housing [and] homes with 10 or more registrants.
The incredible LEV PARNAS tells us an astonishing story of the dark money & deep betrayal that is Donald Trump.
Born in Ukraine, Lev was raised in the mobbed-up corners of Brooklyn, leading to the unlikely depths of the Trump miasma.
As the star of “From Russia with Lev” by Rachel Maddow, Lev answers some of the most critical questions of Trump’s pending demise.
In this is an unforgettable insider hour; Lev gives us unique, powerful insights into the seismic Trumpian madness now shaking our world.
Solartopia co-host MYLA RESON introduces Donald & William Barr into this rogue’s gallery of global embarrassment.
Progressive PR maven ILENE PROCTOR tells us about Ghislaine Maxwell and more.
Alabama Doctor RUTH STRAUSS argues that the “Apprentice” movies goes too easy on Trump.
Long-time activist HEIDI VERTHAILER chimes in.
Co-convenor MIKE HERSH adds a dimension on Watergate.
Health Care activist CHUCK PENACCHIO explains his sterling campaign for the public wellbeing.
Cal Care proponent PAUL NEWMAN checks in from Santa Monica on AB2200 which was killed by Gavin Newsom.
