Meet Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian Oligarch Indicted in U.S. Election Interference

Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, left, serving dinner to Vladimir V. Putin in Moscow in 2011, when Mr. Putin was prime minister. Mr. Prigozhin has emerged as Mr. Putin's go-to oligarch for sensitive and often-unsavory missions like the troll factory - called the Internet Research Agency - or recruiting contract soldiers to fight in Ukraine and Syria.

Atlas Shivered

A recent article by Matthew Moore appeared in The Times titled "Trump's philosopher is heading for your local". The piece not only suggests that Donald Trump is capable of reading a book, which seems unlikely enough, but that he's also capable of reading a philosophical book.

Changing of the Guard in South Africa: Jacob Zuma Was Drawing Too Much Attention

There are numerous other South Africans who are not as obscenely rich as Cyril Ramaphosa, quite capable of succeeding Jacob Zuma, but then they are not members of the plutocratic oligarchy. Just as Obama, the first black president of the U.S., was selected by 'deep state' factions of unaccountable neo-liberal capitalism, so too was Cyril Ramaphosa.

Death Cult

If you dip into the gun nuts swamps of the internet, and their enablers/sympathizers among supposedly respectable conservatives, it's quite clear that they get very excited when there's a mass shooting event, even at a school.

Can The U.S. Combat Election Interference If Some Don’t Believe It’s Happening?

Left to right: FBI Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Robert Ashley, NSA Director Adm. Michael Rogers and National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Director Robert Cardillo testify before the Senate intelligence committee Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption Left to right: FBI Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Robert Ashley, NSA Director Adm.