Shill: A person paid to endorse a product favorably, while pretending to be impartial.

Paul Rosenberg – If ever you wanted confirmation that ruling structures are biased toward conflict, you got it over the past two days.

If ever you wanted confirmation that public intellectuals jump to obey power, you got it over the past two days.

As much as I avoid the bullhorns from New York and DC, I couldn’t escape them this time. Evidently Donald Trump had a summit with Vladimir Putin and uttered unspeakable words. After Putin denied interfering in the 2016 election, Trump said this:

He just said it’s not Russia. I will say this, I don’t see any reason why it would be.

And from that, all hell broke loose. Continue reading →