Mumia Abu-Jamal, Now in His 40th Year as an Incarcerated Prisoner, Has Covid-19
Internationally known US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has reported to friends and family on the outside that he has contracted Covid-19 in the Pennsylvania prison where he is incarcerated, and...
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Let’s Stop Pretending Russia and China are Military Threats
Photograph Source: lilivanili – CC BY 2.0 Someone needs to say this, and it looks like it’s gotta be me: China and Russia are not our enemies. Somehow, the opinion-makers in the media, the bloated...
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Biden’s and America’s Mental Illness is on Full Display
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It was just three weeks ago that our new “transformative” President Joe Biden joined that long almost unbroken list of war criminal presidents stretching back to...
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US Has No Moral Standing to Criticize Russia or China
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken are worried about Russian Putin critic and presidential aspirant, currently in a Russian prison after...
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No More Police Killings of Children!
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Kids of color appear to be fair game for too many cops: No More Police Killings of Children! By Dave Lindorff The latest police murder — and that’s what it was...
View ArticleTrump Launches Attack on Social Security and Medicare
Watch out! Uncle Donald is coming for your and all your relatives’ Social Security and your Medicare! The all-out attack on Social Security and Medicare, those two remaining standing edifices of the...
View ArticleGassing Immigrants with a Highly Toxic Industrial Disinfectant in Detention
According to a report in the Independent, a UK newspaper, the powerful toxic ammonia-based chemical made by Spartan Chemical Co. is being sprayed in the occupied detention facility despite company...
View ArticleSave the US Postal Service and Defend the Vote!
Fishs Eddy, 13774 –Over the last 15 or so years, I’ve had two post offices vanish from towns I live in. The first was in Maple Glen, PA, a small town we moved to when we left Hong Kong in 1997. The...
View ArticleBang-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang!
One of the most shocking things I learned talking with a Los Angeles Police Officer I became friends with while working as a reporter on my first job in L.A. was that LAPD cops were trained to “empty...
View ArticleOlder Voters, Especially Republicans, Need to Think Before They Vote
In 2016, exit polls show that Donald Trump won the over-50 vote by a big margin. With voters over the age of 50 accounting for 45% of voters that year, Trump, according to a study by AARP was the...
View ArticleTrump Disses Troops but Correctly Labels 2 of America’s Costliest Wars...
Let’s be honest about America’s wars and the men (overwhelmingly) and women who have fought them. Most of the wars that the US has launched or fought in, dating back to at least the War of 1812, were...
View ArticleScrewing with the Unemployment Statistics
Something is screwy about unemployment numbers out of Washington. In late July, just before the end of the supplemental $600 weekly checks for people collecting unemployment benefits, the New York...
View ArticleMe, My Congresswoman and the Terrorism Watch List
I voted enthusiastically two years ago for Democrat Madeleine Dean to represent the newly un-gerrymandered Congressional district in which I live here in Pennsylvania. An attorney who moved into...
View ArticlePennsylvania’s Played-Out Coal Country and NY’s Rural Catskills Show Why...
I’m going to make a bold prediction based (admittedly on a small sampling): Trump has lost support among his non-college educated white base — or at least enough of it that he’s toast in a blue-collar...
View ArticleCould the Coronavirus be a Truth Serum?
In a shocking turn of events, Donald Trump’s latest media fabulist, Kayleigh McEnany, who kicked off her new job by telling a whopper to assembled reporters in the White House Press Room, “I will never...
View ArticleNuclear Weapons Will Soon Be Illegal Under International Law
Flash! Nuclear bombs and warheads have just joined landmines, germ and chemical bombs and fragmentation bombs as illegal weapons under international law, as on Oct. 24 a 50th nation, the Central...
View ArticleTrump and Giuliani Go Full IS in Attack on Biden and Democrats
It’s often been noted that countries that go to war tend to adopt the behaviors of their enemies in fighting them, and then bring that war and the techniques they have appropriated home where they...
View ArticleCovid Under Biden: What Can be Done?
As the US confronts both a political crisis of presidential succession and a worsening pandemic, it might be instructive, though perhaps not comforting, to learn that we’ve been here before. In the...
View ArticleFor the US in Afghanistan’s Endless War, Surrender is Apparently Not an Option
The US War in —or on—Afghanistan has rightly been called the “Forever War.” Launched on October 7, 2001, while the ruins of the World Trade Center were still smoldering from the 9/11 attacks five weeks...
View ArticleRed State Secession from the US of A is a Great Idea
Texas Republican Party Chair Allen West has joined blow-hard right-wing radio whackjob Rush Limbaugh in suggesting that Republican-governed states (like Texas, Wyoming, Nebraska, Utah, Montana,...
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