Michael Jay Tucker, Author at Liberal Resistance

By Michael Jay Tucker So, I read something short but significant the other day. It was just a few lines, really. Not even a full paragraph. But powerful… and terrible… all the same. Something that hints at our destruction. The passage in question is from Steven Simon’s essay, “Powder Keg In Syria,” in the current…

There’s a lovely article over on Splinter at the moment. In Crumbling Old Man Gives $30 Million to Save Crumbling Old Party, Libby Watson gives us a depressing portrait of a depressing man, Sheldon Adelson, who has spent most of his life and many millions of dollars in an attempt to remake America in his…

We were saddened to learn of the death of the writer Tom Wolfe. If you are of a certain age (which we are) then you knew him as one of the genuinely great wits of the 1960s and 1970s. There was very little which was ridiculous in either the pop or high culture that escaped…

So whatever happened to Anastasia Vashukevich? You will remember her. She’s the Belarusian woman who was arrested in Thailand with her “trainer,” Alex Lesley, and claimed to have recordings of Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch who was also a long-term associate of Paul Manafort, chatting with his friends about ways to influence the American…

Yes, Donald Trump really is thinking about organizing a space patrol. Writing in The Washington Post, John Wagner notes that, “President Trump mused again Tuesday about adding a new branch of the military — a Space Force — and this time made clear he is thinking seriously about it.” Apparently, he said as much during…

We may have a problem. We certainly have a question. It involves one of our dearest friends, who may have hurt us. The United States has always had a special relationship with Israel. It is our only true friend in the Middle East. It has been a model democracy for most of its history. It…

In a truly astonishing development, The Guardian is reporting that Trump aides hired an Israeli intelligence gathering firm to “get dirt” on individuals in the Obama administration who had helped to set up the Iran nuclear deal. Mark Townsend and Julian Borger write that, “People in the Trump camp contacted private investigators in May last…

By Michael Jay Tucker Okay, so, apologies to H.G. Wells. Food of the Gods was one of his novels, you see. But “Clods,” as in lumps, globs, dullards, twits, and idiots is a bit more fitting for this particular tale. That’s because it involves Alex Jones, the belligerent boss of Infowars. And to explain why…

So, here’s news of interest. We now all know that Michael Cohen, Trump’s expensive lawyer and buck-passer, is going to take the fifth in the lawsuit brought by “adult entertainer” Stormy Daniels. At least that’s what the Washington Post is saying in a recent article (Michael Cohen to invoke Fifth Amendment right in…

Trump has been saying that he didn’t stay overnight in Moscow in 2013, which was during the Miss Universe pageant. That’s important because it relates to the infamous reports of a “pee tape,” and/or other less than savory activities in which he may have engaged with Russian sex workers during that time. But, Bloomberg’s “Bloomberg…

Posts by Michael Jay Tucker

Blundering Our Way To Hell

Libby Watson Smacks Shelly Adelson Upside The Head

Tom Wolfe, you will be missed

Once More, Anastasia Vashukevich

Space Cadets Away!

Israel, and the Broken Trust

Trumpsters Hired Israeli Firm To Spy On Democrats

Food of the Clods

Notes From The Editor’s Desk: Cohen Takes The Fifth

Trump WAS in Moscow!