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February 2019

Thursday, February 28:

France's Macron leads the way as western leaders malevolently confuse anti-Zionism with antisemitism (8 comments)

Notes From the Streets of Venezuela -- The People Are Resilient in the Face of Foreign Intervention

Top Six Pieces of Dirt Cohen Dished on Trump in his Opening Statement (1 comments)

Push, Push, Push: How Movements Succeed (3 comments)

Venezuela: The High Noon of Empire (3 comments)

America's Power Elite and Their Evildoing (56 comments)

The Siege of Venezuela and The Travails of Empire (16 comments)

NATO Is an Appendage of the U.S. Empire (9 comments)

What's a "Gardungle"? (3 comments)

How Politics Trump Intel in the US-Russia Nuke Treaty Pullout (1 comments)

We're Asking Charlottesville to Divest from Weapons and Fossil Fuels

Summit collapse squarely on Trump and US failure to negotiate with Kim (2 comments)

Sucking up to Boss Bezos: Columnist Thiessen Calling AOC 'Economically Illiterate,' Instead Shows Own Economic Ignorance (47 comments)

Wednesday, February 27:

Recent Reports Signal a Climate Crisis -- When Will Government Act? (4 comments)

It's the economic inequality, stupid! (4 comments)

Is Israel's Tax Grab a Prelude to Further Hollowing Out the Palestinian Authority? (1 comments)

Bernie Sanders Is Making a National Issue of This Strike

Pakistan : Manifestation Of Brazenness

Relations between Europe and the US on the brink

The LAUSD's Revolving Door Continues

Ditch Mitch's Big News: House votes to overturn Donald Trump's national emergency declaration (1 comments)

Journey of the Hermit Kings

In Washington, Regime Change Is Truly And Urgently Needed! (3 comments)

Goodfellas (8 comments)

Michael Cohen Congressional Testimony Reveals and Open Thread (3 comments)

More VIP heads to roll in Chinese massage parlor sting

Bernie Needs to Address America's Criminal Foreign Policies (4 comments)

Trump and Kim in Hanoi, to discuss what?

The insulin story, a perfect example of corporations stealing the wealth of most of us

Tuesday, February 26:

Draft Registration Will Be Either Ended or Imposed on Women

Time For Socialist History Month?

Why Tulsi for President? She explains it well in this short video. (8 comments)

Hillary Campaign Manager To Run House Majority PAC (4 comments)

Disagreement between various terrorist groups provokes mass human losses in Idlib

Sentencing Memo

City of Xi'an and Why The New Chinese Silk Road Terrifies The West (3 comments)

Congress's Cowardly "Emergency" Rebuke (6 comments)

NYC Billboard Targeting AOC Is Emblematic Of Big Money In Politics (6 comments)

How Can We Minimize Climate Disruption? (2 comments)

10 Indigenous Holistic Healing Practices (2 comments)

Monday, February 25:

No Mr. Omar Abdullah, nation would back Tathagata Roy on Kashmir (1 comments)

Will No One Stop American Gangsterism?

War Isn't in Your Genes or Your Jeans

If Every Debate About US Interventionism Was About Godzilla Instead (7 comments)

It's time to complete the revolution we started (16 comments)

Trump Threatens a Second Embargo of Cuba (3 comments)

Not Trump's America: On How the Oscars looked Like the Real America this Year (1 comments)

Tulsi Gabbard: The Best Hope for the Future of the U.S. and most likely You. (22 comments)

The denial of taxes to the PA is an ominous sign of Netanyahu's grand plan (2 comments)

Dumbing down the broadcast news consumer

Mueller Report: Secrecy Shouldn't be an Option (1 comments)

Beto O'Rourke's Eloquence on the History of Defeating Racism: "Courage Makes Victory Possible" (1 comments)

Extinction Rebellion (17 comments)

Sunday, February 24:

Monkeys

Stunning Moments Changed my Mind, September 11, 2001, Among them.

Can AIPAC sell Netanyahu's Kahanist Terrorists to Middle America?

The Hard Lessons of Dianne Feinstein's encounter with the Young Green New Deal Activists

"You're fired!" America has already terminated Trump (3 comments)

Wildlife Corridors not High-Speed Rail coming to California (1 comments)

If Truth is Politicized, IS All Else Lost? Is PCR off his rocker? You decide... (11 comments)

The Western Media Lying Machine in Action on Venezuela (3 comments)

Defending Reason, Logic, and Tempered Judgement: Reply to Bernie Sanders Critics Tearing up His Venezuela Position (16 comments)

If Truth Is Politicized, All Is Lost

Fake narrative on Kashmiri students: A bid to replace nation's anger with guilt (1 comments)

We Need A New and Just Story to Replace Capitalism (3 comments)

Healing is different from cure, conveys Pirates Of Chemotherapy

Venezuela: It's Not About The People--It's About Oil & Trump's Re-Election (Videos) (6 comments)

Saturday, February 23:

U.S. Exports More and More Bullets (4 comments)

U.S. Sale of War Planes to New Zealand Faces Popular Resistance in U.S. and New Zealand

No One Trusts the US Government, Not Even the American People

The LAUSD Says: "No Voice For You!"

Venezuela MUST Sue US in Int'l. Court for Creating Famine by Sanctioning All Oil Sales & Seizing $ (50 comments)

Russia flouts Nuke Strength vs US provocations (12 comments)

Bernie Sanders' Foreign Policy Advantage is Clear and Substantial (21 comments)

Animal Crackers (7 comments)

2020 Vision: The Electoral Necessity of Lean Progressivism

Ditch Mitch Releases Startling Credible Poll Results on the 2020 Kentucky Senate Race (12 comments)

New Republic Gives Green Party Credit For The Green New Deal (3 comments)

QE Forever: The Fed's Dramatic About-face (28 comments)

Russia, Saudi Arabia and Trump Silenced America - New Axis of Evil? (3 comments)

Friday, February 22:

How to be a Roman Catholic Priest: Rape Nuns, Break Canon Laws and Molest Children (22 comments)

The war on Venezuela is built on lies (6 comments)

Israeli PM Netanyahu partners with Kahanist Terrorist Elements, seeking another Term

Cable TV news: a mere shadow of what it could and should be (1 comments)

Congressman Ro Khanna of Silicon Valley Gives An Eloquent, Incisive Endorsement for Bernie Sanders (5 comments)

L.A. Schools' Superintendent Attempts a Coup

Mandatory National Service: "Strengthening American Democracy" by Ignoring Americans' Rights (14 comments)

To Fight Ignorance, Tell the Right Story (6 comments)

The New York Times Is Scared of Peace (2 comments)

Costing the Green New Deal

Trump's Contra War Redux in Latin America (6 comments)

Thursday, February 21:

Turkey's Dangerous Games Causing Idlib Catastrophe

Trump wants to irradiate you (11 comments)

Top Obama Adviser: "I've Never Seen Anything Like Bernie Sanders in American History"

The Problem with Bernie (7 comments)

Article 370 must go: BJP can't pussyfoot any longer (1 comments)

It's Not About the Wall (5 comments)

Washington Newspeak

Who Will Be The Next President? (2 comments)

Anti-semitism is cover for a much deeper divide in Britain's Labour party (3 comments)

Rubicon (2 comments)

The Bernie Can't Get the Black Vote Nonsense Continues

You Personally Could Help Bernie by Asking YOUR Democratic Officials to Endorse Him for 2020 (60 comments)

Ted Millar: Whistleblowers: The Trump Admin Behind Saudi Nuclear Plants (2 comments)

Despite international outcry, Field Marshal el-Sisi of Egypt executes 9 political prisoners

The US doesn't "care two hoots about what the world thinks". (4 comments)

Wednesday, February 20:

NYC Public Advocate Race: Jumaane Williams, Activist Political Leader

American Coups (2 comments)

Why Nation Owes Bernie Sanders Our Enduring Gratitude (1 comments)

Self-Hating Whites

It's Back to the Iran-Contra Days Under Trump (4 comments)

Another government but the same problem in Latvia

Look Who's Perpetuating Specious Anti-Russian Provocations (3 comments)

Yves Bouvier sinks the EU's fight against tax avoidance

Vital Strategic and Tactical Considerations to Ensure that Bernie Wins the Nomination and the Presidency (35 comments)

Beating War Drums -- Pence in Munich, Modi in India

Celebrating Black History 2019: Analyzing Bob Marley (1 comments)

Celebrating Black History Month: The African Antecedent, South Africa Then And Now

Tuesday, February 19:

Establishment Democrats malign Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and millennials at their peril (4 comments)

The "Toxic Mythology" of 9/11 is Destroying Humanity (79 comments)

The Real Emergency Isn't About the Wall. It's About the Separation of Powers. (2 comments)

Direct Democracy at Each Municipality (2 comments)

Black History Month: Why African Americans Are Leading Fight for Environmental Justice (1 comments)

Can Bernie Sanders repeat his surprising success this time around? (7 comments)

Sleepwalking into our Constitutional Crisis in the Age of Trump (3 comments)

Daily Inspiration — A way to organize human activity that is beyond our imagination (3 comments)

German defence minister: We will stay in Lithuania as long as WE want (4 comments)

Great Again (6 comments)

Frayed Colonial Media Propaganda Transmission Lines. Fake Atrocities Used to Justify "Humanitarian War Crimes" (13 comments)

Journalists Had Better Hope I Win My Case Against the Billionaire-Owned L.A. Times (1 comments)

What the Bernie Sanders 2020 Campaign Means for Progressives (18 comments)

Monday, February 18:

Venezuela Under Washington's Gun

Thomas Farrell: Are Homophobic Vatican Clerics Secretly Homosexual? (3 comments)

Why is the media showering Howard Schultz with free airtime? (5 comments)

The President Came to El Paso~~~By Beto O'Rourke (3 comments)

Worshipping the Electronic Image (12 comments)

Sins of the Father are then visited upon the Sons: The Saga of the Aspartame-Rumsfeld Plague (2 comments)

In Countries Destroyed By The West, People Should Stop Admiring The U.S. and Europe (3 comments)

All We Need Do (8 comments)

Sunday, February 17:

Ted Millar: Seven Million Americans are 90 Days' Delinquent on Car Payments (2 comments)

Pulwama Attack: India can't resort to "water war" (1 comments)

Hating Neocons Is Becoming Mainstream Again, And It Is Excellent (12 comments)

Smollett is Another Cautionary Warning About Screaming Racism-For Any and Everything

Cruel but Not Unusual, Freezing to Death in Federal Detention

Disunited America

Princeton Professor Eddie Glaude, Jr. points out the real problem with capitalism (1 comments)

Sacrificing Greatness For Personal Ambition

Bill McKibben: Climate Change Is Scary -- Not the Green New Deal (2 comments)

The Mueller Report Will Badly Disappoint on Trump (9 comments)

On Bolton's Orders, US Ambassadors Chastise Governments (3 comments)

Year Of The Pig Is Here! Literally

Saturday, February 16:

Venezuelan Coup Democrats Vomit on Green New Deal (40 comments)

Ilhan Omar speaks Truth to Empire (29 comments)

Sometimes It Is All About the Benjamins (3 comments)

The Need for International Law in a World Made for Destruction (2 comments)

The First Rule of AIPAC Is: You Do Not Talk about AIPAC (4 comments)

You Really Need to Know Who Bernie Sanders Was In The 1960s! ~~~ Shaun King Introduces Bernie in Los Angeles (21 comments)

Dictator Trump (8 comments)

Pence and the Benjamins: An Eternity of Anti-Semitism (4 comments)

You'll Pay for This (4 comments)

Friday, February 15:

A New Day, A New War (13 comments)

Daily Inspiration — What single change in governance structure would produce most benefit? (10 comments)

Phasing Out Coal Is a First Step to the Green New Deal

Why Baluchis Are Fretting and Fuming In Pakistan

Abortion Rights and Religious Authoritarianism (1 comments)

Donald Trump: A Dark Triad? (1 comments)

Trump's Emergency/Leon Panetta plus David Frum at The Atlantic: A State of Unreality (1 comments)

BREAKING NEWS: Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) CFO to Leave Her Position

Trump: sowing the seeds of anti-government across America (1 comments)

Next Steps

Thursday, February 14:

Open Thread: Trump Declaration of Emergency (87 comments)

How the rule of the rabbis is fuelling a holy war in Israel (1 comments)

Weaponized Journalism (1 comments)

US Thugs Warned Russia and Venezuela - They Have To Be Stopped! (10 comments)

Amazon Pulls Out Of NY-- Gives Hope We Can Beat the MegaPlatforms (13 comments)

Europe has changed its mask

Pelosi Sabotages Medicare for All, But Corporate Media Pretend Not to Notice (9 comments)

Please" More Kitty Photos

Who Does Government Serve?

Wednesday, February 13:

Ted Millar: One Year Of The GOP Tax Scam Leaves Millions Feeling Trumped (1 comments)

In Support Of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (11 comments)

Will the U.S. Senate Let the People of Yemen Live? (2 comments)

The Real Motive Behind the FBI Plan to Investigate Trump as a Russian Agent - Consortiumnews (2 comments)

One Minute to Midnight (2 comments)

Why did Ecumenical Patriarchate grant autocephaly to Ukrainian Church so hastily? (1 comments)

What's the American Muslim Agenda?

Lobbying 101: Tips for Increased Political Engagement in 2019

The President and the Speaker - Foreign policy twins separated at birth? (1 comments)

Can We Do Something about Trump's Climate Change La-La-Land? (4 comments)

Judicial Secrecy: Where Justice Goes to Die (3 comments)

Former UN special rapporteur, "US Economic Warfare Is Hurting the Economy and KILLING Venezuelans" (8 comments)

Using Students, Teachers, Journalists and other Professionals as Spies Puts Everyone in Jeopardy (1 comments)

The observer mission in Hebron acted as a restraint on the settlers' worst excesses. Now that has come to an end

Hands Off Venezuela, Canada and US Go Home! (14 comments)

Tuesday, February 12:

Peter Jackson's Cartoon War (13 comments)

Resisting the Weaponization of Ignorance in the Age of Trump

Congress and Left now wouldn't remember the summer of '59 (1 comments)

Ted Millar: Yes, Trump Is Temporary, But His Judicial Appointments Are For Life (2 comments)

"The Trump Holy Trinity: Power, Hate, and Greed"

"Ageism" Wrong Against Old or Young in Politics and Workplace, from Clyburn to Ocasio-Cortez (1 comments)

Mexican Pollution is Pouring Under Border Wall (2 comments)

Failing Charter Schools and a School Board's Choice

Another Blistering Rational Rebuttal of Trump's Wall Against Mexico From New Mexico's US Senator Heinrich (1 comments)

"Second Shutdown" Theatrics: Heads Trump Wins, Tails America Loses

President Starts a War? Congress Yawns. Threatens to End One? Condemnation! (5 comments)

London and Paris Hypocritical on Private Military Firms

Tomgram: James Carroll, How Many Minutes to Midnight?

Monday, February 11:

On the Beach (7 comments)

February: Month of Heart Health, Black History and Valentine's Day (1 comments)

Sunday, February 10:

The Worst and the Best of Humanity: 1937 and 1969 (1 comments)

Ted Millar: Sandusky Trades Columbus Day for Election Day as a Paid Holiday

Paying for the Green New Deal (3 comments)

N. Ram has to come out clean on the "cropped page" scandal (1 comments)

Field Marshall el-Sisi of Egypt plans to stay in power until 2034

Bill Maher: "New Rule: The Republicans Are the Problem" (14 comments)

Saturday, February 9:

The Case for Testosterone-Induced Stupidity: A Tale of Three Virginia Officials (13 comments)

The Venezuela Myth Keeping Us From Transforming Our Economy (39 comments)

Thomas Farrell: Our Political Polarization (BOOK REVIEW)

Capitalism vs. Socialism Is a False Choice (6 comments)

Years of the Pigs (1 comments)

A Billionaire's SOTU and Wealth Inequality

Coverage of the LAUSD by the L.A. Daily News: News or Propaganda?

A Preference for Peace: Not the Same Thing as Support for the Bogeyman of the Week (3 comments)

Trump Quotes + Blackface Dolts = State of Our Union? (1 comments)

Friday, February 8:

A Response to Sen. Markey and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - Nuclear power has a large carbon footprint (39 comments)

Tulsi Gabbard is Driving the TV Pundits Batsh*t Crazy (30 comments)

Thursday, February 7:

Voting Is a Privilege? No, a "Power Grab": McConnell vs. HR 1

Rachel Maddow's Craziest Russia Video Ever! (17 comments)

Dear Humanity, I Think We Should Just Be Friends (5 comments)

Trump buys Lithuania, EU cannot stop it (1 comments)

What's the right way to end the Afghanistan War? Leave. (8 comments)

Fidem Servate (17 comments)

Wanna See Me Moonwalk? (12 comments)

Wednesday, February 6:

Nancy Pelosi's Clap of Genius (6 comments)

The Stories People Tell About Abortion (14 comments)

VA Sen. Warner Introduces Stop STUPIDITY Act in Response to Shutdown (6 comments)

Politics Done Right to skeptical caller: This is how we pay for Medicare for All (3 comments)

Curing the cancer of the body politic

US media trying to drum up a new 'Cold War': Beware the New Venezuelan 'Missile Crisis' (14 comments)

Pope Francis acknowledges sexual abuse of nuns including sexual slavery of nuns by priests

Making War on Climate Change (14 comments)

Sex Terror During the War In Bosnia-Hercegovina (15 comments)

A Pinocchio Theory (22 comments)

State of the Union 2019: Two Visions (3 comments)

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez slams Trump's State of the Union Address in the most effective manner (17 comments)

Tuesday, February 5:

Ted Millar: Mother Nature Is Mad As Hell And Not Going To Take Much More

First Step to Debillionairize the Planet (22 comments)

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Matters and What Doesn't

Police-State Nebraska (4 comments)

The LAUSD Superintendent's Web of Deceit

"No-Knock Raid" is Just Another Term for "Violent Home Invasion" (4 comments)

Trump's SOTU or State of Lies and Deceptions (1 comments)

Run-in With A Professional Warmonger

Zimbabwe and Tanzania's Baby Elephant Slaughter by Trophy Hunter Safaris Could Be Stopped, Using This Petition (3 comments)

Monday, February 4:

A Rose is a Rose is a ... (4 comments)

The Circle Over the Triangle - A Collectivism and Cyclic-Belief Change Comes Around (3 comments)

Royal Decrees Must Yield to Village Norms

Rove's campaign of lies continues: The Right-Wing Attack on Medicare-for-All (8 comments)

"Choosing Greatness" Or Choosing Fantasy? What Will Trump's SOTU Speech Tell Us? (1 comments)

Plutocratic Policy, Not Truth, Comes With a Bodyguard of Lies (1 comments)

Ignoring Bengal now would be promoting secession (1 comments)

An LAUSD Star is Born

Goodbye to the Dollar (33 comments)

Trump's vision of a single cultish political party (8 comments)

Starbuck's and Modern Mercantilism: No Different Than the British East India Company (3 comments)

Book Review: The Brothers who Set Postwar America on its Disastrous Course (8 comments)

Dr. Northam and East Virginia Medical School: An opportunity to discuss racial bias and racial disparities in healthcare (5 comments)

Sunday, February 3:

America is White, Isn't It? (9 comments)

Ted Millar: A Message To Democrats: Do Not Engage In The Circular Firing Squad (4 comments)

China Creates, Macau Burns and Robs (3 comments)

Crowdsourcing a Great Reply for Dem Pres Candidates on Medicare for All Questions (28 comments)

Washington Resurrected the Arms Race

Saturday, February 2:

Los Angeles Asks For a Charter School Pause

The State of the World Address (3 comments)

Right-Wing Populism and Law and Order (1 comments)

Friday, February 1:

Desperate to Disappear (1 comments)

America's Political Horror Show (4 comments)

How Rani of Jhansi escaped the Nehruvian hammer of oblivion (2 comments)

Exactly What is the U.S. doing in Venezuela?

Ann Coulter's Wall and Trump's Continuing Drive towards Fascism (4 comments)

A Liberal Elite Still Luring Us Towards the Abyss (2 comments)

The Russian Peace Threat (2 comments)

Mueller, the irresistible force faces off against Trump, the immovable object (163 comments)

Imagine that Trump is a Russian Asset (6 comments)

Lipstick on a Pig -- Hot Warheads and a Cold Freeze ... Hot Oceans too

Billionaires Need Not Apply

Pompeo's 'Pandora's Box' (6 comments)

Rahul Gandhi's Minimum Income Guarantee is a scary bluster (1 comments)

The CIA Then and Now: Old Wine in New Bottles (1 comments)

Is Making Election Day a Federal Holiday a "Democratic Power Grab?" Yes, But ... (11 comments)

International Criminal Court Judge Quits After US Threats

Amid The Chaos, Hope from Washington: Election Reform First Up in House (6 comments)

In a World of Corporate-Backed Politicians, Beware the Sounds of Sirens (4 comments)

A Retrospective on the American Empire, at a Most Unusual Museum (3 comments)

Lexington (KY) Bishop Brutally Vilified For Questioning Catholic Support of Donald Trump (1 comments)

 

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