I’ll never forget my first exposure to American political scientist Michael Parenti. I was in my late teens, and my education up to that point had been fairly neutral in terms of the United States’ position in the geopolitical world. …
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This is from former director of the United States Office of Government Ethics Walter Shaub. One has to like the optimism, i.e., the assertion that Trumpism will one day have run its course, and American politics will regain some level of …
American history features centuries of slavery followed by 170 years of segregation, Jim Crow laws, and systematic exclusion of blacks from the affairs of the wealthy white society. In 2019 the median white household held $188,200 in wealth—7.8 times that of …
The caption to the photo here is: Definition VILE – late 13c., morally repugnant; morally flawed, corrupt, wicked; of no value; of inferior quality; disgusting, foul, ugly; degrading, humiliating; without worldly honor or esteem, shameful, dishonorable, deplorable Nailed it. Certain …
Yes, sedition / the attempted coup is deadly serious business, but that doesn’t preclude certain clever people from having a laugh. Hat’s off to whoever thought of “inside sedition.”
It’s possible that the United States is unique in all the world for the way some of the scummiest people imaginable dominate its political news. Here we have convicted felon Roger Stone and master of hateful misinformation Alex Jones. We’d …
To be honest, I had completely forgotten about this. There were so many elements of the Trump administration that came straight out of the Mafia that it really is hard to remember them all. Is justice coming? Thankfully, it looks …
One America News Network (OAN) makes absolutely no attempt to any semblance of fairness or honesty as a “news” outlet. They happily present total ultra-right-wing hog**** that even the editors at Fox News would toss in the trash.
Last January, somewhere in Michigan, a bunch of Republicans decided, “Let’s create some documents to the effect that we, not those who represent the true winner, are the legitimate voices on which the outcome of the presidential election is to …
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A spokesmen for the Kremlin was on Sunday morning television today, explaining that the Russian aggression, which became a threat to world peace only within the past few months, actually began with the re-unification of Germany more than 30 years …
