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By: Donnie Casto II “The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.” – H.L. Mencken The blood of innocent lives has been shed in France. Paris, it seems, has suffered their equal to our very own ‘Boston Massacre’, an event in which the […]
By: Jeroen Melis 08.01.2015 The day after, people are claiming to be Charlie right now. They have never written, drawn or said any word of sense before. Social media users proclaim ‘Je suis Charlie’ (‘I am Charlie‘) after terror attack kills 12 at Charlie Hebdo magazine office in Paris. Inside […]
reposted from www.beaconreader.com/ Ralph Steadman knows what it’s like to provoke fear and loathing in the subjects, one might say targets, of his artist’s pen. Yesterday’s murder in Paris left him shaken and unable to respond. He sent this word today, with images to illustrate his revulsion. Dear Michael: Yesterday we […]
from Al Jazeera Jan. 7, 2015 Gunmen stormed the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in central Paris on Wednesday, leaving at least 12 people dead and sparking a massive manhunt for the killers. Clad all in black with hoods and machine guns and speaking flawless French, the three attackers, […]
By: Barrett Brown A week before Christmas, a half-dozen guards at the Seagoville Federal Detention Center pulled me from my cell, handcuffed me, and took me to the hole, where I was processed and put in another cell, before being ushered out and placed in the prison’s receiving/departures section to […]
Jan. 3, 2014: by David Pratt In response to Palestine’s move to join the International Criminal Court, Israel said it is withholding $127 million in Palestinian tax revenue it collects for the Palestinian Authority. Palestine warned this could lead to the collapse of the Authority and the loss of public services in the West Bank, […]
By Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone December 31, 2014 Brace yourselves for a weird night. There might be a little extra drama when the ball drops in Times Square, thanks to one of the more confusing political protests in recent memory. On a night when more than a million potentially lawbreaking, […]
When GonzoToday Poetry Editor Ron Whitehead told us art legend and Hunter S. Thompson illustrator Ralph Steadman had agreed to create the official GonzoToday logo in his studio all of the staff and family of GT went stark raving mad. When we actually received the artwork this morning we were […]
By KAREEM FAHIM for the New York Times Jan. 1, 2015 CAIRO — Egypt’s highest appeals court on Thursday ordered a retrial for three imprisoned journalists from Al Jazeera’s English-language service, acknowledging critical procedural flaws in a case that focused international criticism on the government. Still, the decision offered no guarantees […]
Julian Assange explains the radical thinking that led him to create WikiLeaks in When Google Met WikiLeaks, published by OR Books. “I looked at something that I had seen going on with the world, which is that I thought there were too many unjust acts. And I wanted there to […]
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