“Past is F*ing Prologue,” – The Origins of the Roger Stone-Donald Trump Relationship and the Ghost of Political Scandals Past

Peter Grant Jul 12, 2022 (Medium.com) “Past is fucking prologue,” — Stone’s Rule #4 This article is an excerpt from my book, While We Slept: Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of American Democracy, available here. ROGER STONE AND THE JANUARY 6TH INSURRECTION Convicted felon Roger Stone, one of America’s most… Continue reading

Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court

FRONTLINE PBS | Official May 9, 2023 FRONTLINE As controversy erupts around Clarence and Ginni Thomas, this two-hour documentary special tells the inside story of their path to power. This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: http://www.pbs.org/donate​. Over the past three decades,… Continue reading

The Committees of Correspondence

The Committees of Correspondence were vital Patriot networks established by American colonies before the Revolutionary War. Initiated by Samuel Adams in Boston (1772) and expanded colony-wide by Virginia (1773), they allowed leaders to share political grievances, mobilize grassroots resistance, and coordinate the First Continental Congress. Wikipedia +5 Origins and Purpose Before the American… Continue reading

What was the Pope’s 1452 declaration?

By Mike Zonta, OccupySF.net co-editor Me: What was the Pope’s 1452 declaration? ChatGPT: You’re probably referring to the papal bull Dum Diversas, issued by Pope Nicholas V on June 18, 1452. This document has become one of the most controversial papal decrees in history because it authorized the Portuguese crown to wage… Continue reading

San Francisco and the Unfinished Promise of 1776

San Francisco and the Unfinished Promise of 1776

In the mythology of history, 1776 belongs to Philadelphia: declarations, rebellion and the birth of the United States. Yet on the far edge of a continent the revolutionaries hadn’t fully imagined, another founding was quietly unfolding that same year. While Thomas Jefferson drafted ideals of liberty and self-government in the… Continue reading

The Rise and Fall of America’s Wickedest Neighborhood: The Barbary Coast, San Francisco

Paul McAllister and Johnny Desert Jun 28, 2026 San Francisco’s Barbary Coast ran for nearly seventy years on a three-block stretch of Pacific Street — longer than any red-light district in American history. It began in the chaos of the 1849 Gold Rush, when the city’s population exploded from under… Continue reading

For Decades, Americans Learned the Treasonous Truth After the Votes Were Counted. This Time Is Different.

For half a century, the evidence surfaced after the winners took office. This election may be the first where the public sees it beforehand… Thom Hartmann Jun 17, 2026 (HartmannReport.com) Share Republicans have gotten away with it four times now, in a big way. Each time it was because Democrats didn’t… Continue reading