June 2018

… which, believe it or not, doesn’t have a blessed thing to do with Iran — but everything to do with Saudi Arabia’s regional ambitions. As reported by Whitney Webb at MintPress News, the United Nations now estimates that 18.4 MILLION Yemenis are at risk of starvation by the end of this year: “During a briefing last Friday, the UN warned… Read More »NEWS FLASH: MILLIONS OF HUMAN BEINGS ARE ON THE BRINK OF STARVATION THANKS TO A WAR WE STARTED.

Screw FoxNews’ apologetics and Laura Ingraham with her nonsense about Trump’s “summer camps” for child refugees. THIS IS ABOUT HELPING THE VICTIMS OF AMERICA’S DRACONIAN IMMIGRATION POLICY… IN CASE ANYONE’S INTERESTED. According to Race Forward (The Center for Racial Justice Innovation, founded in 2002) — and reported by McClatchy News Service (the only news organization that treated Bush’s “Iraq WMD”… Read More »THIS ISN’T ABOUT “WHATABOUTISM” OR SCORING CHEAP POLITICAL POINTS.

I recently saw the following Tweet from Stu Cameron (007 fan) on Facebook, spread by a group calling itself the “Teanderthal Party” — because implying that conservatives are less evolved than the rest of us is what the mainstream “left” has been reduced to. My response to Stu (with his misogynistic hero icon) is as follows: In truth, I’ve seen… Read More »How the center-left has moved 2016 Trump voters… further to the right (by refusing to talk to them and treating them like a “basket of deplorables”)

Hugo Chavez helped birth a political revolution in Venezuela that has lifted millions out of extreme poverty and given voice to the voiceless, especially minorities and the indigenous. His party drastically reduced infant mortality in Venezuela and educated millions, making Venezuela one of the most literate nations in the Global South, with over 97% literacy for men and women (with… Read More »MAYBE WE SHOULD START CARING ABOUT MIGRANT REFUGEES AS OUR GOVERNMENT CREATES THEM…

After the 2016 election result, Noam Chomsky called Trump’s conciliatory posture toward Russia “the one ray of light in this gloom.” America’s preeminent intellectual also noted that the Democrats and corporate media aren’t having any of Trump’s “fairly reasonable” talk of rapprochement with Russia. And he excoriated the Dems for aggressively demanding that Trump adopt a more warlike posture toward… Read More »The one ray of light in this gloom…

Here’s a little corrective for you: President Obama, as monstrous as his immigration policies were, did not go as far as Donald Trump’s current policy. From the CNN article — which also debunks liberals’ histrionic claims that Donald Trump has effectively disappeared some 1,500 children: “…while children have historically been separated from family members at the border under certain circumstances, it… Read More »To the MAGA crowd…