Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Contrary to the propaganda of moral upstarts, terrorism pays. It proves rewarding. It establishes states and reconstitutes others. It encourages change, for ill or otherwise. The stance taken, righteously pitiful,...
Image Source: Ђидо – CC BY-SA 4.0 A few years ago, I reliably established that Saint Vukašin Mandrapa — the Jasenovac and Herzegovinian martyr — is in fact a fictional, or more precisely, a constructed figure. This is a saintly figure known to nearly every Orthodox...
Photograph Source: Lindy Li – The Daily Mail, Fox News, Lindy Li’s social media across all her platforms – CC BY-SA 4.0 Nine months ago, Lindi Li, a member of Kamala’ Harris’ National Finance Committee, was the darling of the liberal cable TV news set. One day she was...
The top tax rate wealthy Americans pay on their investment gains today runs barely half the top rate the rest of us pay on our wages. But that only begins to tell the story of how lightly taxed our richest have become compared to the rest of us. On the surface, the...
Logo of the NED – CC BY-SA 4.0 The brief freeze and rapid partial reinstatement of National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funding in early 2025 helped expose it as a US regime-change tool. Created to rebrand CIA covert operations as “democracy promotion,” the NED...
Photograph Source: Molly Adams – CC BY 2.0 I have long been a fan of universal Medicare. While some time back I thought we could get there fairly quickly, I became a fan of incrementalist approaches as I watched even much smaller changes like the ACA get bogged down...
Image by Unseen Histories. Malcolm X (born: Malcolm Little) would have been 100 years old on May 19 2025, a century on from his birth and 60 years after his martyrdom it’s interesting to reflect on what consistent principles he advocated and organised around, and how...
Photograph Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection – CC BY-SA 2.0 “In the past four months, the Pentagon has sent thousands of active-duty combat troops and armored Stryker combat vehicles to the southwestern border to confront what President Trump declared was an...
Photo by History in HD After the end of World War II, the U.S. employer class—the capitalists—faced overlapping threats, both domestic and foreign. On the domestic side, a coalition of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), two socialist parties, and a...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The shared experience of genocide should unite, not divide, Jews and Palestinians, say two activists “Do you hate all Jews?” It’s something the 25-year old UK-based Palestinian journalist Yara Eid gets asked not infrequently. She...
Simony, properly defined by the Catholic Church as the selling of ecclesiastical offices and positions, has been designated as a grave sin since approximately 300 C.E. and can merit excommunication for the parties involved. So what is to be made of recent reports that...
Image by Rob Walsh. Dictator Donald Trump’s ego has gone global and dominates the news cycle. His domestic opponents are left with too little too late rebuttals and, again, are victims of his genius in diverting and distracting them and the media. Take his...