In Part 2 of her multi-part investigative series, ‘Freeing Julian Assange’, Suzie delves into where the smears come from that Wikileaks has been a tool or collaborator with both Donald Trump and the government

A lot has been written and said about Julian Assange and Wikileaks during these past eight years or so, while Assange has been essentially on the run from the U.S. deep state and its complicit partners

A basic truth. Everybody needs some kind of job in this world. It’s what you have to do to eat and keep a roof over your head (though, these days, we should shamefully admit that not everyone who works

Back in the 60s, during the height of the antiwar movement, one of the dynamics that emerged was a confrontational and anti-authoritarian kind of humor. It was like a constant wave of laughing and pointing

It's really kind of fascinating. Over the past two years, in the wake of the fraudulent Democratic presidential primary and the subsequent loss of Hilary Clinton to a racist shady real estate developer

It’s interesting. When I make the attempt to examine how my own psyche works, one of the things I consistently find is how much works of art across various disciplines (painting, poetry, photography, fiction,

Back in the pre-Facebook days of the early 2000s, I was living in Somerville, Massachusetts. It’s one of those dingy mid-20th century looking towns set on the edge of a more important city, that being

When the U.S. invaded Iraq in the Spring of 2003, I was working as a writer at a large financial services company, a refugee from a dot-com that flamed out when the first Internet bubble burst in 2001.

Alright, I recently published a piece (admittedly, broad in scope) about the evolution of the press in the U.S. I wanted to lay down some foundational information as a way of getting to a discussion about

The war drums, which have been set on continuous repeat in this country since 1941, are getting louder. But they’ve been playing for so long now, we’ve gotten used to them. They’ve become like the muzak

Going back a few years, I was helping take care of a North Carolina bookstore for an ailing owner. Days were often quiet. It was a small place, easy to miss, not much foot traffic. So I read a lot. I’d

If you’ve watched or attended speeches by a political intellectual of one stripe or another — could be Noam Chomsky, could be Samuel Goldman, could be Naomi Klein, could be Andrew Bacevich, could be Angela

Can we talk about killing? As citizens of the United States, we live in a culture that sends people and weapons around the world to other cultures to kill people. We send people to kill people. Or we send

Hi Steemers, It’s always bothered me the way many journalists and critics tend to write. Omissions of context. Bold assertions without factual backup or even an explanation of their line of thinking.