Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
What constitutes an impeachable offense?
Yesterday in The Internecine Deep State Conflict Moves to Stage Two I suggested that the conflict was heating up, a move confirmed by former Trump advisor Michael Flynn's guilty plea that he lied to the F.B.I. regarding his contact with Russian officials.
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
It now seems evident that the Neoliberal Camp of the U.S. Deep State is highly vulnerable on an individual basis.
I tend to notice things like a year-old blog entry suddenly getting thousands of page views. The essay that received a surge of recent interest: Is the Deep State at War--With Itself? (December 13, 2016).
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
Shall we compare the damage that will be done when all these bubbles pop?
Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
Check the context before uncritically accepting sensationalist conclusions.
Let's start with a primer on how to write a sensationalist story that can be passed off as "journalism:"
1. Locate credible-sounding data that can be de-contextualized, i.e. sensationalized.
2. Present the data as "fact" rather than data that requires verification by disinterested researchers.