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Trump appoints racist Leo Brent Bozell III as U.S. Ambassador to South Africa
Appointing Bozell as the U.S. ambassador is a strategic push to further advance a racist and white-supremacist narrative that white South Africans and Afrikaners are […]
Trump Is His Own Katrina
This hasn’t much gotten into the news, what with everything else going on. But in what may have been one of Pal Bondi’s last initiatives, […]
Why does the right hate the pope so much?
My adult children and I amused ourselves recently with an absurd fictional scenario in which we reach Karl Marx by spectral telephone in the afterlife […]
A year later, Trump doubles down on tariffs
Thursday marked an important anniversary: It was one year since Donald Trump summoned the press corps to the White House Rose Garden — before its […]
Trump throws F-bomb in frenzied threat to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure
President Donald Trump issued a curse-laden threat to Iran on Sunday, warning its leaders that unless they cave to his demand to re-open a critical […]
‘Whiff of 2008’: Nobel laureate pinpoints overlooked economic problem brewing
An economic issue which has so far gone unnoticed could be the makings of a 2008-level crisis, a Nobel Prize winner has warned. Paul Krugman […]
Faith Leaders Confront Christian Nationalism With Theological Resistance
As federal agents and their state and local supporters began terrorizing communities on Jan. 20, 2025 with renewed vigor granted them by the Trump administration, […]
ICE Presence Persists in Chicago as Raids Shift to Quieter Tactics
When Border Patrol agents who took part in Operation Midway Blitz left Chicagoland last November, then-Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin asserted “we aren’t leaving […]
The flame that illuminates a path for Africa: Burkina Faso’s Progressive Popular Revolution and President Ibrahim Traoré’s new “Revolution Manifesto”
Let everyone in the administration, in all spheres, be revolutionary like our fighting forces. In your daily ways of doing things, you must bring new […]
GOP strategist in disbelief as America’s government falls to ‘midnight conspiracy radio’
Republican strategist Steve Schmidt couldn’t hide his disbelief Saturday after learning that a senior FEMA official claimed he was transported to a Waffle House in […]
‘Deranged!’ White House melts down over speculation Trump hospitalized
The White House was forced onto the defensive Saturday after social media speculation that President Donald Trump had been hospitalized at Walter Reed Medical Center […]
‘I’m sorry, what?’ White House faith advisor stuns with gaffe about Trump at Sunday school
White House Faith Advisor Paula White-Cain’s attempt to rehabilitate the president’s religious image during a Fox News appearance backfired spectacularly Saturday night, triggering a wave […]
Trump may have just bribed the military to help him stage a coup: historian
Renowned historian Timothy Snyder leveled two explosive accusations against President Donald Trump: that his proposed 50% defense budget increase could be a bribe to secure […]
Global Populism Is Rising, Not Waning
Democrats are cautiously optimistic about November’s midterms as President Trump’s poor job approval numbers and continued success in flipping GOP seats in special elections suggest […]
With family support and a camper, local man running 8,000 km across Canada for mental health
After biking solo across Canada at 18, Myles Dininio is returning 22 years later for a cross-country run to raise $50,000 for CAMH…See More
Trump summons dead prophet to boost Iran war
On March 9, Donald Trump posted a nine-year old video on Truth Social that seemed to reveal his worsening political desperation. The video is a […]
Maybe it’s time to give Elon Musk control of the sun
The world of finance is creaming its pants over the imminent public offering for SpaceX, Elon Musk‘s space-flight operation. It might be the largest such […]
The war comes home: How working-class communities in the South are pulled into endless U.S. wars
Working-class communities provide the labor & the sacrifice. A political & economic elite decides the wars and who to send to die.
Birth-Right Citizenship as a Second-Best Policy
NA For a variety of reasons, I oppose Donald Trump’s efforts to end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants and those in the US […]