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The warmongers in the Trump administration have been exploring ways to blow up the Iran nuclear deal, which Trump has repeatedly castigated as “a very bad deal”
Instead of serious political advice, the West, especially the US and their proxy Arab allies in the Gulf, then poured weapons into Syria – enough arms to destroy Syria but not enough to overthrow the regime
It should have never been difficult to grasp the basic yet vital distinction between defending the right of ideas to be expressed and celebrating those ideas
The move to take down Confederate statues across the southern States reignites the age-old conflicts between white supremacists and anti-racism activists determined not to allow the American Right to command public space in the name of “free speech”
Google’s actions make it more important than ever that we stand up to fight monopolies. At the end of the day, this is about freedom
Photographs by David Bacon Relying on the photographs, reporting and video in the mainstream media can give you a false idea about the marches and demonstrations against white supremacists and Nazi sympathizers in San Francisco and Berkeley last weekend. The newsroom adage says, “if it bleeds it leads.” But screaming headlines about violence, and stories Read more…
In another desperate numbers battle against the Palestinians, Israel is preparing to create new categories of “Jews” so they can be recruited to the fray
This is a manmade climate-related disaster. To ignore this ensures our greatest challenge goes unanswered and helps push the world towards catastrophe
Here in Charlottesville, Virginia, I like to point out that the rallies of racists are mostly imported from out of state. It’s tempting to relax comfortably on that assertion, and to reflect on how our great lord and master Thomas Jefferson owned people with more reluctance and inner turmoil than Barack Obama bombing a foreign Read more…
On Friday, less than two weeks after refusing to unequivocally condemn the white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Donald Trump granted former Arizona Sheriff Joseph Arpaio a rare presidential pardon, calling the notorious racist an “American patriot.” The pardon is noteworthy for many reasons. First, it demonstrates Trump’s utter disdain for the rule of law. Read more…
Perspective. How to look at the world. How to interpret it. How to understand why things are the way they are. That’s the real value of history
In Europe, Hate Speech Laws are Often Used to Suppress and Punish Left-Wing Viewpoints
When the neo-fascist National Front is more willing to condemn neo-Nazis than Trump, we have a problem
Trump and his advisers may see Venezuela as less risky than some of the alternatives, such as North Korea, Iran, or Syria
Trump’s plan would mean ‘a huge increase in the budget deficit primarily to give tax cuts to the richest people in the country’
The whole Trump administration should resign in shame, since they have lied to the American people about the disaster of burning fossil fuels
On Monday, August 21, President Donald Trump delivered a prime-time speech almost shocking in its ordinariness. It was such an address as either of his immediate predecessors, George W. Bush or Barack Obama, could easily have given over the previous decade and a half. While hinting at nebulous new strategies and ill-defined new metrics to Read more…
LIBOR is probably both manipulated and made up. The basis for a substantial portion of the world’s borrowing is a bent fairy tale
The US will learn what other empires have learned, “Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires”
The jury is out on whether much hotter oceans will produce more hurricanes or not. What is certain is that the ones that are produced will be much more intense
Bannon’s anti-globalist, “American First,” nationalistic and even isolationist positions guaranteed his exit