Impeachment Advocates Beware: Trump Holds a Trump Card: The Power to Pardon
Whatever the truth regarding Deep State and Democratic Party charges of alleged Russian “meddling” in last year’s election (and I’m definitely in the camp that says there has been no hard evidence...
View ArticleLeft Forum Bans Four Panels Under Zionist Pressure
Beginning today, June 2, the Left Form (formerly the Socialist Scholars’ Conference), will conduct a three-day event featuring panel discussions on all manner of topics. As the organization states on...
View ArticleOn That Huge Upset in UK Special Election
The British Labour Party and its party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, didn’t win yesterday’s snap election called last April 18 by Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, but it was still a historic victory...
View ArticleWe Need a Mass Movement to Demand Radical Progressive Change
The failure of Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff to capture the vacant House seat left in a suburban Atlanta district by the Trump nomination of Republican Rep. Tom Price as Secretary of Health and Human...
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Sy Hersh, Exposer of My Lai and Abu Ghraib, Strikes Again, Exposing US Lies...
Photo by -JvL- | CC BY 2.0 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, the journalist who exposed the My Lai massacre of Vietnamese women, children and old people by US troops, the Abu...
View ArticleCanada Apologizes for Not Aiding Its Captive Citizen
The story of Omar Khadr has always been one of the ugliest chapters of the ugly story of the US War on Terror initiated with the Congressional passage of the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military...
View ArticleWhoa! It’s Really Crazy Here in America!
Just got back from an event-filled two-plus weeks in the UK and I though I should share a few thoughts and impressions. We visited briefly in Edinburgh, Scotland, London, Exeter and Oxford, the ancient...
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A Sobering National Climate Change Report
Photo by Global Landscapes Forum | CC BY 2.0 Embattled climate scientists working in 13 various US government agencies threw down the gauntlet before the Trump administration by releasing an over...
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Discovering Racism and Then Discovering It Anew
Photo by Pug50 | CC BY 2.0 I grew up in Storrs, Connecticut, a faculty brat in a university town where minority people were few and far between. There were a few black kids in our high school — the...
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The Virtues of Tearing Down Statues Depends on Where They are Standing
Photo by Eli Christman | CC BY 2.0 I was a Fulbright professor of journalism in 1991, posted for a year in the Graduate School of Journalism at China’s prestigious Fudan University in Shanghai. Over...
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President Trump’s ‘Arms for Cops’ Program is Just More Militarization of the...
President Trump’s pandering executive order reversing an Obama decision to scale back the dumping of surplus military equipment on the nation’s already over-armed police departments includes word that...
View ArticleTrump Dumps DACA as Well as Child-Maiming Cluster Weapons
When Donald Trump says he “loves children” as he did in trying to make the case that his termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was not a case of child abuse, it’s...
View ArticleHack of 143 Million Social Security Numbers is Really About Our Insecurity...
The epic breach of data, including 143 million Americans’ Social Security numbers, at Equifax, a private credit company that answers to nobody and that gathers information about anybody who spends...
View ArticleWhy Don’t We Demand 1st Amendment Rights on the Job?
Football players are a special class of workers. Even the lowliest of them make six-figure salaries, at least for the short time they stay healthy enough to play, but they are, nonetheless workers, and...
View ArticleBuying Homeland Insecurity
Thank god for the US Department of Homeland Security! Thanks to its $40-billion annual budget, and Homeland Security laws like the PATRIOT Act that Congress passed quickly after the horrific attacks on...
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Our Culture of Violence is a Result of Americans (So Far) Not Having to Face...
Photo by Beverly & Pack | CC BY 2.0 On Monday, while much of white America honored the genocidal killer Cristobal Colon who, as Ward Churchill has aptly said, “Got lost and was discovered by the...
View ArticleTwo Soviet Spies Who Deserve a Posthumous Nobel Peace Prize
It becomes increasingly clear that two Soviet spies, Klaus Fuchs and Theodore Hall, should receive posthumous Nobel Peace Prizes for actions that almost certainly saved millions of innocent lives. Had...
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General Kelly Should Just Shut Up
Photo by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff | CC by 2.0 This past weekend, my wife and I drove up to Connecticut to attend my 50th high school reunion (which was a great event). But on the way...
View ArticleA Contemporary Account of the 1967 March on the Pentagon
Note 50 years after the March on the Pentagon This month marks the 50th anniversary of a historic event: the 1967 MOBE rally and march on the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam War. Hundreds of thousands...
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Trump’s Finger on the Button: Why No President Should Have the Authority to...
Photo by The Official CTBTO Photo | CC BY 2.0 Maybe having a president in the White House who acts like an impulsive child is a good thing — at least if it convinces the Senate, a body that has for...
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