(4 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 26, 2019
Israel Lobby AIPAC slams Bernie Sanders for branding Netanyahu's Gov't "right-wing, racist" There really is no other way to characterize Netanyahu's government than as racist. And, no one is sabotaging peace more than Netanyahu, who gleefully destroyed the Oslo agreement and then gloated about it, and who has pledged that the Palestinians will get nothing politically as long as he is PM, and who has also pledged to steal most of their land.

SHARE        Thursday, July 5, 2018
Three Grievances America's Founders Would Have Had Against Trump One grievance had to do with the independence of the judiciary, which they believed the king had undermined. Trump, in his attacks on the Mueller investigation, on the Department of Justice, and on judges who cross him, is guilty of the same sort of interference in the judiciary.

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, February 26, 2021
Why the US needs to get out of Syria: Biden orders Bombing that kills 17 in Proxy dance with Iran At least 17 fighters were killed in U.S. air strikes on Thursday night on small bases on the Syrian border with Iraq. The US may have vital interests in Iraq, but there is too much bad blood for that relationship to go smoothly. We should get out of there, as well, and leave it to NATO.

(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Sleepwalking into our Constitutional Crisis in the Age of Trump Congress will attempt to over-rule Trump. Some 16 states are already suing over the so-called emergency, and the House of Representatives may also sue. Congress may also attempt to stop Trump with legislation, and if he tries to veto it, they will attempt to over-ride the veto in both houses of Congress.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Biden to have Feds buy 650K Electric Vehicles, Promising rapid Fall in EV Prices President Joe Biden plans to create a million auto-worker jobs by replacing the enormous fleet of some 650,000 vehicles owned by the federal government with electric cars.

SHARE        Monday, March 29, 2021
University of Michigan Women Deans Decry Regent Weiser's urging that "witch" Gov. Whitmer be "burned at stake" Ron Weiser, a real estate billionaire, is the head of the Michigan Republican Party. He referred to Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer and two other top state women leaders (Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel [D] and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson [D]) as the "three witches" and spoke of burning them at the stake.

SHARE        Friday, March 19, 2021
Attacks on Asian Americans are Rooted in over a Century of Racist Exclusion The spine-chilling attacks on Asian-Americans around the country, in San Francisco, New York, and now most bloodily in Atlanta, are manifestations of a white supremacism that has deep roots in American history.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, March 11, 2021
At Last, the End of Austerity: Joe Biden's Really, Really Big COVID Stimulus aims to Jumpstart America Joe Biden has redeemed the sins of the Obama administration, which did not enact a big enough stimulus truly to dig the U.S. economy out of the hole created by the 2008-09 economic crash.

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, June 21, 2018
Not only Is Trump's Refugee Policy Morally Wrong, it is Illegal in US and Int'l Law The Family Separation Policy that Trump has "temporarily" set aside (in favor of indefinite detention of entire families) has in some ways obscured what is really going on in Trump's refugee policy overall. In essence, the Trump administration is attempting gradually to abolish the acceptance by the US of asylees, in stark contravention to US treaty obligations (and hence to domestic US law).

SHARE        Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Biden's Green Energy Plans are just Market Wisdom: Norway's Investment Fund just Dumped $6 Bn. in Oil Stocks Some have questioned how realistic Biden's plans are to move the US rapidly off fossil fuels. In fact, it is the fossil fuels that are unrealistic. Burning petroleum and coal are bad for everyone's health and destined to make earth swelteringly hot.

(4 comments) SHARE        Thursday, October 8, 2020
Kamala Harris's best Zingers and Pence's worst Lies The Pence-Harris debate was what disagreements among normal people might look like, as opposed to the weird behavior of Trump in the first presidential debate. While pundits are saying that it lacked fireworks, that is not true if you define fireworks as policy disagreement as opposed to mud wrestling.

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, February 23, 2021
President Biden Honors 500K Dead. He didn't say so, but they didn't have to Die President Biden on Monday honored the deaths of 500,000 Americans from COVID-19. It is a very large number, and commentator Sanjay Gupta at CNN had tears in his eyes because, he said, "they didn't have to die."

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 6, 2019
Warmongers Bolton And Pompeo send Aircraft Carrier to Menace Iran, still Hoping for Confrontation Bolton is a sadistic bully who wants to dominate people. He never got to be more than temporary UN ambassador under George W. Bush because he had mercilessly tortured his office staff. Bolton likes to hurt people who are weaker than he. He is not after Iran because he is afraid of it. He is after it because it is one of the last countries in the world still bucking the US power.

SHARE        Monday, April 22, 2019
"The Nearest in Love:" On how the Sri Lankan Death Cult Betrayed the Islamic Values of the Qur'an The engine of Islamophobia thus can be revved up and used to radicalize Muslims in the "grey zone" who had earlier rejected radicalism. The tactic only works if the mainstream society and authorities fall for it by persecuting the Muslims that had nothing to do with the attack. Hitting Christians was a way of getting an even bigger effect, since it would attract the attention, they thought, of Christians in Europe and the US.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 2, 2021
The Apartheid Pandemic: As 10% of Israelis get Covid Vaccine, Zero Occupied Palestinians have -- Will wait Months In international law, Israel is responsible for the health and well-being of the people it militarily occupies. Not vaccinating them against a pandemic is a war crime.

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, May 3, 2019
The Democrats can Crush unpopular Trump in 2020, but only if they Run to the Left If the more progressive wing of the party wants to win on it, they have to spend more time working out a progressive foreign policy alternative. But the polling says Trump's foreign policy is low-hanging fruit waiting to be plucked by a knowledgeable politician. The presumption should be that Trump is out of office in January 2021. But this prediction will only come true if Dems run to the left.

SHARE        Friday, September 18, 2020
Trump doesn't Understand History any more than he Understands Epidemics Trump has a long history of proclaiming that he understands things better than the people who are experts in those things. Having crashed the US economy and having polished off tens of thousands of Americans with his irrational policies based on magical thinking, Trump is now coming for American history.

SHARE        Monday, September 7, 2020
On Labor Day, Trump's mismanagement of Pandemic has left 27 mn Unemployed and Turning to Food Banks The anxiety over joblessness has almost doubled. Many are much more worried, as well, about having their wages cut. Workers are more anxious than at any time since the Great Recession began to taper off nine years ago.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, February 14, 2021
Who were the Republican Senators afraid of when they Acquitted their own attempted murderer? The odious Trump once smugly observed that "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters." When it comes to the Republican base, he was clearly correct.

SHARE        Saturday, March 6, 2021
Pope Francis Preaches Tolerance in War Torn Iraq, and Even Militias Welcome Him Pope Francis began his unprecedented trip to Iraq on Friday, his first visit abroad since the beginning of the pandemic.