"There are a lot of ways to practice the art of journalism, and one of them is to use your art like a hammer to destroy the right people" - Hunter S. Thompson
Kelley B. Vlahos in her article on Antiwar.com points to the hypocrisies of a government and a President who condemn torture but try to destroy those who try and expose when we are at fault for … Read more…
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, who you’d imagine would have a handle on the characteristics, definitions, and desires of the Occupy movement because of the huge Occupy actions that have taken place in her city, still … Read more…
Tensions built up over the past weeks over worker rights at a ceramics factory in Yanam, Andra Pradesh, India. Management of the ceramics factory used local judges and police to lock workers out or arrest … Read more…
What the media won’t tell you about the January 28th, 2012 Occupy Oakland protest march. Our interview with Louis Lingg, Anarchist, Occupier, Oaklander, protester.
Bat Country: What’s your age, gender?
Louis Lingg: 29, male.
Bat Country: Can … Read more…
Originally published in RE:UP Magazine 2006
We are posting this as it was proudly written by one of our own who in doing so, started a correspondence with Ralph Steadman which led to the creation of … Read more…
Tony Perkins, radical Islamist Christlamist, creates hilarious non-story involving a Star Wars game and gay people. Perkins, repressed homosexual Christian right-winger, has been dreaming up gay Star Wars puns and sitting on them (ahem!), waiting … Read more…
When Rick Perry isn’t busting broncs or jumping claims or whatever he does in those boots and that Hank Williams-cut tailored suit, he’s traveling the country promoting his book How to Lose an Election for … Read more…
Really Newsweek? We could have lived without your vaguely homo-erotic gladiator fantasies about these two. I’m picturing the art department meeting…
“We really need to see more thigh from Newt, punch up the nipple, and more … Read more…
If you’ve watched any of the GOP campaigning you’ve heard a lot of fringe ideas, including immunization causing mental disabilities, a return to tying our currency to a rock, and Earth’s moon becoming the 51st … Read more…
By Hunter S Thompson and Tom Benton - 1970
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