NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance
Reading US reports on the deadly Russian rocket attack on the so-called International Peacekeeping and Security Center in western Ukraine, one could be excused for thinking that the Russians might have...
View ArticleRadical Elders to Organizational Meeting Next Saturday, March 26
Are you a veteran activist or a veteran organizer of progressive organizations and are over age 55? If so, here’s some exciting news. We all know American is moving into a dangerous period of...
View ArticleWhy Hasn’t the US Been Kicked Off of the UN Human Rights Council?
The United Nations General Assembly voted 93-24 with 58 abstentions to drop the Russian Federation from membership on the UN Human Rights Council, based on allegations and grisly videos and photos...
View ArticleDefending Ukraine’s Draft Dodgers
Back in 2015, when I was driving from Kuopio Finland up to the country’s far north to write an article on global warming and how it was affecting the Sami indigenous people of Lappland, I found myself...
View ArticleThe Bias in the Ukraine War Coverage
As Russian forces were closing in on a bunker on April 21 in the heavily bombed and surrounded Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, preparing on an assault on the “fortress-like” underground bunker where...
View ArticleWar Secretary Austin Wants a Long War in Ukraine, Not a Quick Peace
We’ve moved into crazy town, with President Biden, who cannot get Congress or even his own Democratic Congressional caucus to back continued aid to families with children through the expanded child tax...
View Article‘Brave’ SWAT Squad Races to School, Then Waits 40 Minutes as Parents Scream...
In the Uvalde Elementary School mass shooting of 19 children we had on display the true nature of SWAT units, those Special Weapons and Tactics cops trained to take on the most dangerous of criminals...
View ArticleHard-Fought Freedoms on the Line
The 6-3 ruling last week by the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade is both the culmination of a decades-long strategy by the Republican Party and the religious right to which it long ago tied its...
View ArticleWhat Would a Real Opposition Party of the People Do?
We are currently at the mercy of a cabal of self-righteous Christian zealots with a 6-3 grip on the US Supreme Court and on Congress, thanks to an arcane structure designed by slave-owning wealthy men...
View ArticleLet’s Rename the Misnamed GOP the BLP
We need to start calling the Republican Party by a new nickname that more accurately reflects what it has degenerated into. For well over a century the party of Abraham Lincoln has been referred to as...
View ArticleAugust 6 and 9, 1945: Two Days that Shook the World…and the Earth
Back in March 1976, while working as a young journalist for the Evening Outlook, a conservative family-owned daily paper published until 1998 in Santa Monica, California, I wrote an article about...
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