The Rosen Report

(photo ABC News, President Biden's home being searched by DOJ on Jan. 21, 2023) Hidden In Plain Sight-- The Actual Real Danger Of Biden's Document Problem (Written before the breaking news of the 13 hour long consensual search of President Biden's home on January 21 which yielded more classified material)  Introduction-- Almost like a mantra, or the repeated chants and incantations of the local shaman at your neighborhood Yoga retreat, or going back in time to the refrains of a Greek Chorus, the Democratic base, its activists, liberal media, and cable commentators are belting out the exact same tune regarding the Biden classified document investigation, in unison and almost without deviation.  "There are huge differences between what Trump did, and the situation with President Biden." And the coverage has consisted of a thousand different takes on the identical concept, in what seems to be a bizarre contest for coming up with the "world's greatest metapho...

This is for those who read my recent piece on how Associated Press is sanitizing many of the worst Trump/MAGA figures in the US in order to make fascism acceptable through propaganda spin and managed news, using headline subliminal messaging to mislead us. They also print "human interest" stories about the fascists in order to make them seem normal, or "relatable." And of course, the point being that this is emphatically not a new thing.  In case some thought this was hyperbole, exaggerated or entirely off the wall, this piece linked here is a good read.  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/30/associated-press-cooperation-nazis-revealed-germany-harriet-scharnberg It is a review of a book by Harriet Schamberg published in "The Guardian" six years ago documenting the symbiotic relationship and full collaboration by AP with Hitler's propaganda ministry throughout the 1930's, up until Pearl Harbor. Some might find this shocking, but not I.  My g...

This story covered in "Axios" is somewhat buried in an avalanche of coverage about Joe Biden's garage. However I'm keeping my eye on it because reauthorization the FISA act is a vital necessity in the face of intensifying asymmetrical warfare attacks emanating from Putin's GRU, and to a lesser extent China.  https://www.axios.com/2023/01/13/nsa-leader-plea-key-surveillance-power Those who oppose it are a tag-team of civil libertarian spokespersons, and of course Trump/MAGA Russian intelligence assets who have many secrets they wish to remain as secrets. Warrants issued under FISA give our agencies more tools for fending off such attacks, and in the words of General Nakasone, head of the NSA, they have saved lives.  We will likely not know the details of how that has been the case, but my perspective is that I have a list of seditious conspirators and traitors in the service of Putin who I would hope could be put under surveillance, of course all done legally with ...

The "Guardian" Exposes Leading Think Tank Running Covert Campaign For Voter Suppression Laws This article in today's "Guardian" has the story on who is funding the nationwide campaign for increased voter suppression laws through "dark money" contributions. It is the political action arm of the DC based think tank the "Heritage Foundation," named Heritage Action. It identifies a primary donor as Rebekah Mercer, well known as a leading funder of the extremist right-wing in the GOP/MAGA-verse.  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/13/heritage-foundation-voter-suppression-lobbying-election-action-plan Martha and I know the Heritage Foundation too well, as throughout our years of political activism, we worked to expose them and their radical agenda for deregulation, free-market looting of our labor force and vital infrastructure, and large scale proposals for privatization of the military, law enforcement, education, among other things, as...

That Dull Pain We Are Feeling Today Is Our Conscience-- He risked everything to bring to his people those freedoms which they had been denied, and to help white America to redeem itself. He even strove to redeem Christianity, which had been hijacked by white men wearing collars during the daytime and then white hoods at night. He went to jail, had his house firebombed, was repeatedly assaulted and his family threatened. And of course he was murdered. That was his reward for preaching the gospel and wanting the Constitution of the US applied equally. Because, after all, he was an actual Christian, a human being who both sinned and atoned.  What would he say about us today, we who allowed the forces of States Rights, nullification, discrimination and the armed "midnight riders" to return to power, with 71 million Americans voting into the Presidency a modern Jefferson Davis, leading the Party of the "new Jim Crow?" Yes, by all means, honor his memory today with servic...

Important "Signal Piece" In Today's CBS News-- Yes, the comparison between the Trump document case and Biden's are, as stated by a source in the CBS article below, "Apples and Arsenic." Obstruction vs cooperation. There is no debate on that question.  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-documents-classified-white-house-response-democrats/ However, the delay in making this public which concerned me from the beginning is, according to this report, a general source of great frustration among those close to the President.  I'll just mention parenthetically that the White House Counsel who appears to be in charge of handling this is Bob Bauer, as covered in the CBS piece. Bauer has been on my radar for more than two years because he is married to Biden strategist Anita Dunn. I'll not comment publicly on the possible significance of this until more facts are available, but I know what I am going to have my eye out for.  The question many are asking is, ...

"Just Security" Article Analyzing January 6th Final Report Sounds Alarm On Growing Threat Of Paramilitary Violence-- This article in "Just Security," which warns of a serious threat of extreme right paramilitary violence, is based in reality, and centers on two very critical facts. One, that the political right-wing conservatives have formed an open alliance with the neo-fascist conspirophile white supremacist paramilitaries, effectively welcoming them into collaboration on their anti-democratic culture wars. Two, that the dangerous character of this alliance has taken root, such that it is now able to grow and survive with or without Trump, and that their threat has not diminished with Trump's recent defeats but increased.  The report by security expert Mary B. McCord is a partial review of the House Select Committee final report on January 6th.  I would add to the picture she presents by emphasizing the national security aspect of this dangerous combination of...

Putin's Puppet Medvedev Spills The Beans: The Russians Are Banking On A US Civil War-- Former Russian President and close Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev issued a spectacular statement yesterday, predicting the US will become embroiled in Civil War in 2023. He also predicts Elon Musk will run for President and win the early primaries.  https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/epic-elon-musk-reacts-to-russian-leaders-prediction-he-will-be-president-in-a-us-torn-by-civil-war/ar-AA15GW3Q?li=BBnb7Kz&fullscreen=true&cvid=22ae718ff8214c559791a216f56e7e1b#image=1 Musk's response? "Epic thread, LOL!" exactly what you would expect of a mentally disordered narcissist consumed with his own arrogant hubris. He also added that Medvedev should get back to him next year to see how his predictions turned out.  First of all, he is engaging in banter with Russia's modern version of Hermann Goering, a lead figure in conducting a genocidal war of aggression to impose Putin's ...

History IS Personal--- A Retrospective Two Years Later Two years ago today, Martha Rosen called out to me in the kitchen to tell me that Trump's fascist mob had broken through the Police security fences and was storming the Capitol. I dropped what I was doing and sat down to begin writing. The short piece linked below ("It Has Begun") is what came out in about ten minutes, all in a rush almost without thinking.  https://therosenreport.blogspot.com/2021/11/it-has-begun-written-on-january-6-2021.html It was one of those singular events like the JFK assassination or 9-11, where time itself screeches almost to a halt, and in your mind's eye you can see the events of past years and thousands of words and conversations scrolling by all at once in slow-motion, like a film, playing over and over on a loop, and each time seeing it, it is as if it were the first time and you see something different.  Has anyone else had this experience? Is that just fear, neurosis, PTSD, an anx...

Israel's new National Security Minister for Netanyahu's psychotic religious fascist dictatorship, Itamar Ben Gvir, is a terrorist, who played a role in supporting and endorsing the assassination of Israel's peacemaker Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.  His deployment onto Al Asqa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, is a deliberate provocation for violence, designed to trigger a Palestinian Intifada and give the current government the pretext they need to declare war on Israel's Arab population.  https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/us-warns-israel-unacceptable-actions-itamar-ben-gvir-visit-al-aqsa-temple-mount/#app Netanyahu and the insane fundamentalist Rabbis who back him are proponents of forced mass deportation of the Palestinians into the Jordanian desert, which is their concept of "Eretz Israel."  It is good that the UN is likely to condemn this provocation, and the US has warned them, but a warning is not good enough. President Biden must come down...

We Need A DOJ National Security Investigation Of The "Freedom Caucus," Starting Yesterday:  Go After The Russian Moles My reply to Professor HCR's letter from this morning--  I think its time that a question is in need of asking; "are the Freedom Caucus Congressmen who are threatentening to use the debt ceiling to push the US into default influenced directly by Vladimir Putin and Russian intelligence?"  The economic and strategic damage to the United States and our NATO allies which they are now preparing to unleash is much worse than them simply lacking the skills to govern. They are, along with Trump himself, the single most dangerous threat to our national security and stability as a democracy. They have already stated their intention to defund US military assistance to Ukraine to the benefit of Putin's war aims, as well as the FBI, (effectively blinding federal law enforcement and its intelligence functions) along with Social Security, Medicare, and a si...

McCarthy Is America's Franz Von Papen-- We've Seen This Movie Before The threat of pushing the US into a sovereign debt default in order to force the dismantling of Social Security, Medicare, the social safety net, and NATO is an act of terrorist hostage-taking and a national security threat of the highest order, which will imperil the full faith and credit of the United States, cripple the US economy, and hand much of Europe over to our strategic adversary, Russia. It is treason. That is the essence of "Speaker" McCarthy's agreement which finally gained him his gavel, "his thirty pieces of silver."  The actual consequences of such policies will be Nazi-style mass murder, committed through the legislative triage of millions of defenseless human beings, using a budget knife instead of machine guns and gas chambers.  If they succeed, Kevin McCarthy will go down in history as America's Franz Von Papen, the German "conservative" who helped inst...

  Introduction-- The decision to write this article was made partially in reaction to a reply to a comment I wrote on a friend's post, which was on the subject of a New York Times (NYT) editorial so-called SNAFU from that day, in which smack in the middle of the daily crossword puzzle appeared an unambiguous Swastika! On the first day of Chanukkah! My "tongue-in-cheek" comment addressed the Times "conflicted" history regarding their support for the rise of European fascism and Hitler's seizing of power.  The reply to my comment was surprisingly hostile, not in defense of the Times or Hitler, but it was a personal attack on me, in response to a one sentence long comment attached to a Times piece from 1925 covering Hitler's release from prison.  It was published after his failed Munich Putsch, in which the threat of the Nazis was dismissed on the grounds that "Hitler had been tamed by prison," and would fade into oblivion as a reformed man. I sta...