According to a court filing by the Los Angeles Times, the secret origin of my firing last summer was a secret meeting between the chief of police of Los Angeles, Charlie Beck, and the publisher at the time, a billionaire named Austin Beutner who had political ambitions. Beck gave Beutner an audio recording full of noise and static that purported to… Read More. | Leave a comment.

State legislatures in states like California passed "anti-SLAPP" laws to allow small individuals to defend themselves from "Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation" - nuisance lawsuits filed by deep-pocketed corporations in order to punish or silence critics and whistleblowers. But now corporations are abusing anti-SLAPP laws by filing moti… Read More. | Leave a comment.

When the LA Times fired me in July 2015, they claimed that the LAPD had given them official police documents showing that I had lied in an article. After I sued them, however, it turned out that that was a lie. The documents were completely unofficial. And they had been given to the Times by the police chief, Charlie Beck, as a personal vendetta to… Read More. | Leave a comment.

Democrats and their allies in the corporate media keep emphasizing that Donald Trump is an existential threat to American democracy who is so dangerous that he must be stopped at all costs. A vote for a third party, or staying home on election day, they say, is the same as essentially voting for Donald Trump. Whether or not you think they are exagg… Read More. | Leave a comment.

Hillary Clinton has been directly responsible for the deaths of more than 1 million Muslims. She voted for the US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, which killed over 1 million people total. As Secretary of State, she watched approvingly as President Obama ordered predator drones to assassinate thousands of innocent civilians, including many women a… Read More. | Leave a comment.

Khizr Khan, Father of a 27-year-old Muslim Army captain who died in the US invasion of Iraq, delivered a speech at the Democratic national convention that sparked a controversial exchange between him and Republican nominee Donald Trump. It was a bizarre argument. Democrats complained that such brave young men could never make it into the United Sta… Read More. | Leave a comment.

America celebrates the possibility of its first woman president, Hillary Clinton, it's important to remember that the way that we are perceived overseas is not likely to change because the policies are not going to change. Read More. | Leave a comment.