We are seeing organized and armed and equipped police violence that newly treats its own actions like war and speaks about what it is doing as war
This demonization of a foreign leader should frighten us more than that leader himself
The 2016 Republican presidential primary was rigged. It wasn’t rigged by the Republicans, the Democrats, Russians, space aliens, or voters. It was…
Just a geography question. Or maybe it’s a different sort of question. Do a web search for “USS Mason” and you will…
It is my job as an older person to step up and put my body on the line to protect my children and all children
At first glance, Hillary Clinton’s speeches to Goldman Sachs, which she refused to show us but WikiLeaks claims to have now produced…
“People always think something’s all true.” —Holden Caulfield When a wonderful program like Democracy Now does a story on the White Helmets…
Samantha Nutt has spent decades working on humanitarian aid in war zones. Her book, Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies, and Aid, is…
I think it is terribly important to have the endpoint of a national campaign spelled out clearly and in enough detail to give it credibility
The United States government recently gave more than a million dollars to the family of one victim it had killed in one of its wars. The victim happened to be Italian. If you were to find all the Iraqi families…
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