In the section of the Declaration of Independence on grievances, there are a number of paragraphs that resonate with today’s politics. The whole authoritarian thrust […]
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Trump’s Family Separation Continues: “I Just Want to Tell My Son I Love Him”
By Kavitha Surana | – – LOS FRESNOS, Texas (ProPublica) — Calling from an unreliable phone at the Port Isabel Detention Center, her voice sounds […]
The only Infrastructure Rebuilding Trump is doing is $700 Bn for the Pentagon
By William D. Hartung | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Other than shouting about building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, one of Donald Trump’s most frequently […]
Leftist Wave sweeps Mexico: Can Lopez Obrador take on Corruption, Poverty… & Trump?
When I was writing an article about street vendors in Mexico City, I saw firsthand how the country’s ruling party operated. Vendors eke out a […]
Burning Fossil fuels Even Causes Diabetes! Air Pollution and Blood Glucose
Paris (AFP) – Air pollution caused one in seven new cases of diabetes in 2016, according to a US study, which found even low levels […]
Regime reclaims more ground in south Syria: monitor
Daraa (Syria) (AFP) – A string of rebel-held locations in southern Syria passed into regime control Sunday as the government regained more ground under Russian-brokered […]
Trump Luminaries at Iranian Jihadi Cult Conference in Paris while Excluding Nice Iranians from Immigration
Many Trump stalwarts have a peculiar, paid position as lobbyists for the People’s Jihadi Organization (Mojahedin-e Khalq), the Iranian expatriate group aiming to overthrow the […]
Not Extreme: Sanders’ and Ocasio-Cortez’s Leftism has been core to the Democratic Party
One of the most widely stated and often unquestioned pearls of wisdom from the Beltway pundits is the earnest complaint that our politics has become […]
As Assad Advances on South, Israel Warns Syrian Army away from Occupied Golan
Israel beefed up its tank and artillery deployment on the Golan Heights frontier with Syria on Sunday, reports Reuters, cautioning Damascus’ forces to keep a […]
Why the Supreme Court’s Gutting of Unions dooms US to Deeper Poverty, Inequality
(Inequality.org) – Any court ruling that limits how effectively unions can bargain on behalf of workers, even mainstream economists now recognize, concentrates wealth at our […]