[Originally published at husseini.substack.com] The State Department cancelled today’s briefing. If mass arrests and repression had taken place in universities in Iran or Russia they would go on and on about it. But now, they don’t want to talk at all. … It was fitting in a way that Peter Daszak, the deceitful head of […]
How this Election Can Go from Farce to Glory: VotePact
People need to reject the inevitability of the oppressive duopoly. A key part of that is people joining together across the political spectrum. People in 2024 need to finally stop pretending their “choice” is between the establishment Democratic Party nominee (likely Biden) or the establishment Republican Party nominee, likely Trump. And yes, Trump is part […]
Beyond “Uncommitted”: Arab Americans Can Be Key to Defeating Both Biden and Trump
Many in the Democratic establishment and its many tentacles hope that the “uncommitted” vote in the Michigan Democratic primary yesterday was a good way to let people blow off steam. As often clownish Michael Moore on CNN stressed, he wants people to vote uncommitted “in the primary only”. The corrupt DNC wants it to be a symbolic […]
VotePact: A Strategic Way to Foster Dialogue and Destroy the Establishment Duopoly
Given the seemingly grim prospects for this presidential election and the dynamics around the duopoly that help spawn disaster after disaster, I’m happy to relaunch my VotePact.org project, which literally opens the door to antiestablishment candidates winning office: The Problem Most voters don’t vote for—often don’t even consider voting for—third parties because they view voting […]
Does “Rich Men North Of Richmond” Manifest the Radical Center?
Seeing Oliver Anthony’s roots from The Clash to Johnny Cash to Leonard Cohen to Muse and the Steve Miller Band. The good folks over at Decensored News brought to my attention a bit ago how Oliver Anthony’s hit “Rich Men North of Richmond” was potentially setting off something of a political wildfire and it took me a while to give it the listen it deserves.
Is RFK Jr. Campaign Part of an Establishment Agenda — a More Insidious Sheepdog?
Kennedy’s campaign seems intent on further splintering antiestablishment forces while failing to meaningfully advance real accountability for pandemic criminality.
Talking Election, VotePact and Covid Origins on Convo Couch
I talked with Craig Pasta Jardula today. Craig recently did an admirable job in questioning RFK Jr. on Israel and also Cornel West regarding Covid policies in the last third of his recent interview with West.
The Origin of My Voting Strategy
When I was young, my dad and I would go on walks. Sometimes I loved them. Sometimes I hated them. We would talk and some of those talks were hard. But that’s a story for another day. We’d sometimes go to a park and toss a frisbee around. Sometimes we’d go to the IHOP. I […]
RFK Jr. and the Architecture of Electoral Revolution: VotePact on Steroids
RFK Jr.’s run for the presidency can be both an opportunity or a peril. Or it could be part of a larger strategy to upend the establishment. Needed: A challenger to Trump’s phony populism.
Collapse of the Peace Movement, Part II: Left-Right Cooperation
With minimal effort, there has been real success with the left and right working together. Rather than demonize the Rage Against the War Machine rally, left-right cooperation should be expanded.