"There's a very good reason why Jack Kennedy was shot. . .

". . . and the Clintons haven't been."

A stunning and moving interview with the great Hunter S. Thompson. R.I.P.

The Last Hero

JFK in '63. Malcolm in '65. MLK, Jr. in April of '68.

But it was the execution of Robert Francis Kennedy on June 5, 1968 which not only broke the country's heart, but ripped that heart out for good. Looking back, it was the moment that opened the door to the fetid, depraved, lying, psychopathic shitpile we've become.

He descended to acknowledge his victory -- victory in the California primary and with it the chance to kick Richard Nixon's ass in the fall -- to talk about the violence and the hope, and to let a world discover in his death what it never understood or appreciated about him during his life.



Now on Netflix (and coming soon to the blog).

The Heroic Life of Walter Reuther

48 years ago this week, the greatest labor leader in American history was blown up in his airplane (after many previous assassination attempts) on orders from Richard Nixon's National Security State. (It would be quite a spring for Nixon: defending William Calley at My Lai, launching his aggressive war against Cambodia, murdering students at Kent State, Reuther's assassination, murdering students at Jackson State, overthrowing the Argentine government. Poor misunderstood Quaker. . .)

The sadness of the interview is great. A major power player in United States 1958, Reuther's union would be exterminated at last under the stoogeship of the Great Black Hope in 2009.

Dr. Michael Parenti honors Reuther with a passionate tribute.

And the inspiring '58 interview with the chain-smoking (and already insane) Mike Wallace.

Mothers

Now this is protection.

Happy Marxmas

Karl Marx @ 200 ~ and the party is thrown by Professor Richard Wolff.