Lee Camp

Lee Camp is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and activist. Camp is the host of Behind The Headlines' new series: The Most Censored News With Lee Camp. He is a former comedy writer for the Onion and the Huffington Post and has been a touring stand-up comic for 20 years.

Lee Camp: 18 Ways Julian Assange Changed the World

Julian Assange and WikiLeaks revealed the American military’s war crimes, the American government’s corruption and the American corporate media’s pathetic servile flattery to the power elite.

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Britain WikiLeaks | Julian Assange

Julian Assange is a dick. It’s important you understand that. Assange and WikiLeaks revealed the American military’s war crimes, the American government’s corruption and the American corporate media’s pathetic servile flattery to the power elite. So, if you’re a member of our ruling class, you would view those as textbook examples of

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Nearly 100,000 Pentagon Whistleblower Complaints Have Been Silenced

You would think, in this topsy-turvy world, if there were one organization we could trust with a trillion dollars a year of our taxpayer money, it would be the Department of Unauthorized Highly Secretive Mass Human Murder.

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By Lee Camp
Top Image: Jared Rodriguez/ Truthout/Flickr)

I don’t know if I’d have the nerve to be a whistleblower. I’d like to think I would. We all like to think we would, just like we all like to think we could catch the game-winning touchdown, triumph on “America’s Got Talent,” and fold a fitted sheet quickly and without cursing. But to blow the whistle on a huge organization with a lot of power,

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Lee Camp: We Are Being Lied Into War Again

This is not the first time our government and our media have conspired to drag the American people into war with another country—or helped create a coup that will inevitably have disastrous results.

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Venezuela Hugo Chavez Death Anniversary

I was 23 when we invaded Iraq, and I wasn’t sure it was based on lies, but something deep down in me—just behind the spleen—told me it was based on lies. Kinda like if your blind date shows up and you notice he has a 2004 flip phone. It seems vaguely worrisome, and no explanation he can haltingly supply will put you at ease. Plus, anyone else who

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Everyone Has Fallen for the Lies About Venezuela

It turns out sociopathy is addictive. Our American empire knows no bounds to its nation-building (after nation-destroying).

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By Lee Camp
Donald Trump | Venezuela

There are three things I know for sure in this fanciful, sometimes inglorious experience we call life: You will never have a safety pin when you need one, and you will have thousands when you don’t need one. Wild animals are breathtakingly majestic until they’re crawling up your pant leg. A U.S. presidential administration will never

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One Man Could End World Hunger — But He Won’t

This column is not about Jeff Bezos. It’s about the system that created Jeff Bezos.

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By Lee Camp

This article originally appeared on Truth Dig. I do not want to talk about Jeff Bezos. But in order to not talk about Jeff Bezos, I have to talk about Jeff Bezos. We all know the Lex Luthor-looking head of Amazon is the richest human in the world. He’s achieved a net worth of more than $150 billion by selling everything that has ever

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Wall Street Is the Definition of a Ponzi Scheme (Literally)

The market economy in general is designed to exploit billions of us while a tiny number get ridiculously rich. It doesn’t care about the health or sustainability of our society as it facilitates the extraction of all the wealth and resources by sociopaths.

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By Lee Camp
Wall Street Banksy

Maybe it makes me unsophisticated, but I don’t think about the stock market that much. I know that many say it’s the central nervous system of our economy. I know its estimated worth is around $30 trillion. And I know that when it tanks, the lives of millions of Americans are wrecked, ruined and upended. I know that when that happens, the powerful

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How to Create a US-Backed Government Coup in Five Easy Steps

Nicaragua just defeated a US-backed violent coup attempt… but how did the US even set up a coup in the first place?

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By Lee Camp

This article originally appeared on Truth Dig. Nicaragua just defeated a U.S.-backed violent coup attempt, and no one cares. Well, let me revise that: Very few care. English teachers may care because they may find it fascinating the phrase “violent coup” is one of the only English phrases often introduced with the prefix “U.S.-backed.” But

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