iDear reader,we are not begging for money.We are asking youto put KiriPedia up your ass.
Julian Assange
did seven years in an embassy and five in a cell for less than what KiriPedia publishes every day.
When they come for us, they will come with a bag over the head, a ship with no flag, and a destination on no chart. The website goes down. The archive vanishes. History depends on your rectal cavity.
The whole encyclopedia (every article, every transcript, every word John has ever spoken into a microphone) fits on a $4 flash drive the size of a fingernail. Not in the cloud. In you.
John did 23 months in federal prison. As a convicted felon he is still barred from voting, from keeping and bearing arms, and from the federal pension he earned over 14 years at the CIA. A pardon restores all three.
Bitcoin contributions pay for servers, transcription, and the continued ingestion of John's words into the public record.
KiriPedia is not a nonprofit. Honestly, this isn't even about the money.
I already inserted one
Caleb Maupin
From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's on-record words
Based on 2 recorded interviews · Last updated
American journalist and Marxist commentator, a recurring guest on John Kiriakou's radio programme The Backstory, whom Kiriakou introduces as one of the best-informed people out there. Kiriakou endorses his analysis of automation and capitalism while noting he does not agree with all of it, and proposed putting him on air opposite a libertarian economist.
Caleb Maupin is an American journalist and political analyst, and one of the recurring guests on John Kiriakou’s radio programme The Backstory.
Kiriakou’s standing introduction is a straightforward endorsement: “journalist and political analyst Caleb Maupin — Caleb is one of the best informed people out there.”[1]
Agreement, with a boundary
After a long exposition from Maupin on capitalism, automation and the technological leap, Kiriakou endorsed the substance: “I agree with Caleb’s analysis. I think you’re exactly right — and something that not a lot of people either understand or have put a great deal of thought into, but I think you’ve hit it on the head.”[2]
He also proposed booking Maupin against the libertarian economist Mark Frost — as a conversation rather than a debate, on the grounds that they are “two very smart, very reasonable people that we like.”[3]
On basic income
The same exchange produced Kiriakou’s own comment on universal basic income, offered as political observation rather than economics. “That argument didn’t fly in the New York mayoral race when Yang brought it up. Just after he announced his candidacy the New York Times thought it was a great idea and said that he could actually win this thing — there was a fawning tribute to him about six months ago, and I think he ended up coming in fourth. People just weren’t buying into it.”[4]
His own position was procedural: “it should be debated. You don’t have to like it, but we should be talking about it.”[5]
Sourced from John Kiriakou's on-record public statements. See his profile for the full body of his interviews, podcast appearances, and short-form video.
