By Eileen Jones
Thor‘s not good. It’s so ungood, in fact, it caused New York Times film critic A.O. Scott to consider throwing himself under a bus. It seems Scott despaired over the realization that “Thor is an example of the programmed triumph…
By Mark Ames and Yasha Levine
On Tuesday May 3, a lawyer for the rightwing Rutherford Institute sent a threatening letter to The eXiled because we reminded our readers about the dark, extremist homophobic ideology behind the early years of the Rutherford Institute and its co-founder, John Whitehead.
By Mark Ames
Yesterday, as President Obama ran victory laps at Ground Zero to the cheers of “U-S-A! U-S-A!” eXiled Online editor Mark Ames was up in midtown Manhattan spreading his buzz-kill message to America from MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan Show. Ames describes the…
By Mark Ames
This story first appeared in TheNation.com The headline that topped the Drudge Report Tuesday morning had frightening news for its millions of readers: yet another credit ratings agency downgraded America’s debt, this time to “C”—at or near “junk” status in…
By Gary Brecher
You’re gonna have to give me the weekend off. I moved yesterday. To a new town, new job. Trusted Google Maps to get me there. Don’t ever do that. That’s what I think must have happened to that famous lost…
By Mark Ames and Yasha Levine
On the same day he posted his famous “don’t touch my junk” TSA video, Tyner destroyed evidence that would have exposed his deception, because he feared that if he didn’t, the public wouldn’t believe his “don’t touch my junk” story with the TSA.
By Gary Brecher
Something’s been going on in Syria for a while now. I’ve already written about the Deraa protests as an example of the big role guerrilla funerals play in irregular war, but it’s time to look at the more general prospects…